Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-07-21
A Terrible storm near 0nsha.

Dulneu, u tue loss 10 iuiuhouso'
A Terrible storm near Omaha.
The. Omaha Herald gives the follow
ing particulars of the recent terrific
storm near that place:
A procession following the corpse Of
Lewis p. Thompson was overtaken by
the tempest about four miles west of
this city. Mr.. Ireland was one OF the
irst to see 1t coming, and, being a
strong man, he jumped out, hoping to
be able to hold the. carriage to the
ground. But his efforts were fruitless,
che vehicle being twisted out Of his
grasp, and overturned. Nearly every
team was lifted bodily from the ground.
A carriage, In which Mrs. Thompson,
Mrs. Ireland Mrs. Scott, and other
near relatives of tho deceased, were
riding, was capsizsd. The hearse ran
down into a hollow where shelter was
afforded. One lady was taken up from
the ground and carried a distance OF ~
feet In the air before she could regain
her feet. The men could not stand up,
but were thrown about at the mercy OF
the wind.
The afternoon train OH the Fremont
and Elkhorn Valley Railroad was
struck by the storm, between Scribner
and Crowell, and the three coaches
were lifted from the track, thrown
down the embankment, and turned up.
side down In the ditch. One side OF
the engine was lifted eight inches from
the track, but the coupling broke, and
It fell back again. Nearly every pas
senger was more or less injured. John
McClary, Of Norfolk, received a frac-
tured skull ; his wife was bruised be-
yond recognition their son, johnnie,
had his skull fractured. Robert =. Far
ley's shoulder was d~islocated. The LETT
arm Of DR.. A. G. Beebe, Of Blair, was
broken above the elbow. Conductor
McLeod's shoulder vas broken. Lew
Reed of this city was OIL the train but
escaped with slight bruises. But one
mile from the wreck Of the train, the
house of Nathan Austin was picked up
by the wind, carried about 100 feet and
torn completely into pieces. MIR. Aus
| tin was crushed to death In the wreck
by falling timbers. His daughter es-
| caped with her life, though she wa
| severely Injured. The Union Pacific
| Railroad express train which had
drawn up to the water tank at Lone
| Tree, was backed away from the build
ing when the approach Of the storm
was noticed, and not a moment too
| soon, for the windmill and building
fell immediately afterwards with a
fearful crash. As the storm swept
about the train. shaking 1t tremen-
dously, the employees Of the company
hurried through toward the sleeping
ears, which were considered the safest
from being the heaviest, and they SAID
that the passengers were nearly all on
their knees praying for mercy, for not
one expected to escape alive. Immense
hailstones fell at this point, and a dos
patch received from there said that
| none were smaller than coffee cups.
| One was found that actually measured
II inches In circumference. IN the CITY,
u houses were blown down and des-
troyed. The roof was torn from the
back side Of the depot the kitchen oil
| the hotel was blown down; the tele-
graph poles were torn from theground;
a box freight car, standing on a side
track, was demolished the frame was
| thrown down the embankment, and
the truck was taken up by an opposite
| current of wind and thrown on the
main track; piles of lumber were
whirled In every direction. The opera
tor telegraphed that "a woman was
picked up by the wind and carried a
quarter of a mile ut the rate Of a thou
sand miles a minute" A gentleman
named f. Phelps, living near Lone
Tree, was killed, his daughter fatally
injured, and every member Of his fam
ily more or less bruised. The storm
there continued about ten minutes, and
its track was about ten miles In width
within that limit, every field of grain
was entirely destroyed. At Blair, the
Sioux City aud Pacific round.house
was blown down, and the watchman,
with his son, narrowly escaped from
the ruins with their lives. Mr.. Boston's
house, about IL mile from the town,
was torn to pieces, but fortunately nc
person was Injured. The loss In build
ings ard crops, which is immense, can
not now be estimated, and 1t Is prooa,
BILE that further loss of human life VII
be reported.