The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-06-13
Tornado in Iowa Disastrous
Floods in Illinois.

Iowa City, June IA tornado
passed south of Iowa City last night,
unroofing and tearing down houses
and barns, and killing stock. No per-
son was injured. Orchards and crops
are destroyed.
CANTON, ILL.,, June 1.-THE most de-
structive rain storm of many years
passed over this vicinity last night.
All the low lands in every direction
are flooded. and, great destruction to
crops is reported. All along the Illi-
nois River bottoms everything is
washed away = houses, barns and
stock. To the northeast of this city
several houses were washed away,
the inmates barely escaping with theil.
lives. a large number of hogs and
other stock were drowned. One
farmer reports 200 fat hogs and shoats
gone. South cas-, fences, bridges,
culverts, small buildings, railroad
tracks, and everything movable, has
been swept away. Several narrow
escapes from drowning are reported,
and one invalid, who was compelled
to move out in the storm died of ex-
posure.
This morning ali the coal mines are
flooded east and south of this point.
South west of Canton, on Spoon Riv-
er, the damage is reported us still
greater. but no particulars can be OBJ
tained,eas all communication is sever
ed. The L. z. and w. X. II. is badly
washed away each side of Canton
bridges gone and telegraph down.
The C. B. & Q. r. II. track is also bad
ly washed. Several bridges between
this point and Rushville are gone.
The damage 10 crops cannot now be
ascertained with any certainty, but it
is beyond doubt that all the grain on
low lands is washed out. The higher
prairie farms have not suffered so
much. but have not escaped entirely.
1t will be several days before the real
extent of the damage is ascertained.
Later reports make the damage much
worse than at first reported. 1t will
take several days to repair the rail-
roads. In all, ten miles of track and
bridges are gone. All communication
is cut off for several days. Two more
deaths by drowning are reported.
SEVERAL LIVES LOST AT TOLEDO
GREAT DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.
TOLEDO, O., June IA furious
storm of wind and rain passed over
this city as five O'Clock this evening,
lasting about twenty minutes, caus-
ing much damage to property and the
loss of several lives. The walls of
Reno s. Espy's drugstore, which was
partially destroyed by fire afew weeks
since, were blown down, burying
three men, G. H. Eddy, VIM. Steele |
and Jos. Merrell, in the ruins. Mr..
RFaprolI xuao ooriouo1v inirra1 o,5 /
fears are entertained that he cannot
recover.
The others were severely but not
hurt. A frame building
occupied as the canal coz |
lector's Office, was crushed by the fall
ing walls, and young man named I
Lewis Cooper, who was in the office
at the time was almost instantly kill |
ed. He was boWsman on the canal I
boat George r. Rickets, and resided /
at Delphos, O.. A sail boat contain
ing two young men, Ira Curtis and
James Williams, was capsized on thed
river and both drowned. They resi- I
ded at Adaian. Mich. Various small t
crafts anchored in the stream abreast
of the city were capsized, and more
DR. less damaged. The Wabash eleva-
Tors, NUMBERS one anu TWO, were par
tally unroofed, the engine house con-
nected with them, demolished, and
engineer, David K. Stebbfns, proba-
bly, fatally injured. Another engine
house belonging to the Wabash Rail-
way Company, was unroofed and 9TH
srWise badly damaged. The roof of (
he Union Passenger Depot also was
damaged. The amount
IF loss cannot now be stated, bat will +
be large.