The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-01
WEST.

Columbus, o., reports much valuable
roperty destroyed by the storm of last week.
1t is estimated that not less than forty
|ersons were killed by Lightning in Minnesota
ast week.
Sarnia, in Ontario, reports a terrific
torn in which churches. houses and barus
we're struck by lightning, with great destruc-
ion of property
An Omaha, Neb., dispatch says the
,rasshoprers are still coming eastward, doing
huch damage in the middle and northern coun-
les Wheat and cats are out Of their reach.
Corn and everything else is destroyed even
nth the ground.
In Minnesota the grasshoppers have
Undoubtedly destroyed million and half
ushels of wheat, and are liable to destroy an
ther half million bushels. The wheat crop
of the state may be roughly estimated at from
rr-es-===o twenty -,ser s=il1iorI Esslais7Is
BARLEY, rye and oats promise we'll
Additional reports from all sections
Of Nebraska relative to the grasshoppers are
very discourasing. In Dawson county there
Will not be enough corn raised for seed. The
corn, bean and potato crops Of the Pawnee
Indians are totally destroyed. without aidi-
tional aid from the government they cannot
but suffer severely.
Agents of foreign insurance compa-
MES at Chicago, have received Instructions
by cable The Scottish Commercial has de-
cided to Withdraw, and is agent VIII take no
more risks. The London Assurance, North
British. Commercial Union, Queen, Lanca-
shire and Imperial, all English companies,
have instructed their agents to raise theirrates
to fifty per cent The Liverpool, London and
Globe have not sent any orders
The miners at the Lake Superior,
Cleveland. New York, Lake Angeliue, and
Barnum's mines, at Marquette, have been on
strike since the 2OIh. The miners have thus
far been very orderly, but they guard the
mines and VIII not aIow any workmen to re-
main in the mines. The strikers number
about two thousand men, composed princi-
pally of Swedes NoIwegians and Cornish.
a Fort SUI letter Of the 10Th states,
that en- the 14th the wood camp of Nj Evans,
thirteen miles from the fort, was attacked by
Indians. 4 small detachment Of United
slatesstroops followed, compelling them to
abandon about sixty head of cattle. The
body of a white man was found, full of ar
rows and his head scaIped.
A dispatch from Eureka, Nevada,
says terrible water-spout burst IN the noun
tains on the 25th inst, and swept through the
town, killing twenty persons, and causing
great destruction of property. The water
spout crossed the Central Pacific track be-
tween Humboldt, Weels and Toane, washing
out the track. The vest bound emigrant train
was wrecked and five passengers killed. It
had been raining with great violence from ear
" in the morning till noon, when cloud burst
on the lofty range of mountains to the east.
vast volume of water rushed down the
canon where the town Is 10 ated. The east
ern part of the town was flooded in ten min
gtes by the fearful rush of water constantly
in violence, depth and impetuosity. /
The people of that portion of the place were |
hemmed in every moment. Houses were torn /
from their foundations and swept away with 1
heir oeaS1tlasats R.lpas ~aTa -Eroayzracf aud
inc formed OF brave men, who thus protected.
dashed into the torrent aud saved many lives. |
Only few women and children were lost. /
The body of one. Mrs. Bray, was recovered.
Rodger Robenott, reporter of the Sentinel, is
among the drowned. The Sentinel office was
swept away Bodies are being brought to the
court house as fast as recovered Three Chi
namen lost. Thirty houses swept away. All
parts OF the town were involved. The dance
houses and other places Of amusement are
gone. The food lasted only half an hour.
The total loss OF life IS not yet known. It is
believed it viii reach twenty-five or thirty