The Portland daily press., 1877-06-27
THE WESTERN HURRICANE.
Great Destruction in Illinois and
Iowa.
Buildings Blown Down and Crops
Destroyed.

OMAHA, June 26.-The storm was very gen.
eral throughout the West. 1t was first heard
OF at Cheyenne Sunday afternoon and consist
ed Of heavy hail and rain with wind. 1t ex-
tended north of Sioux City, south of Kansas
City and over Iowa. No particulars of the
damage have been heard of west, but there
were several washouts on railroads south, In
Iowa the rain fall exceeded two inches. The
Chicago q Northwestern Railroad had bridge
washed out near Logan. AT Bear Grove sew
eral dwellings were blown down and the town
almost destroyed. The rain fall here exceeded
one and half inches.
CHICAGO June 26-The damage here will
not exceed $4,000, chiefly broken glass, un-
rooted houses, broken fences and signs and ov-
erturned vehicles. A carpenter named Fred
Kassner was thrown out of a second story win
dow by the wind and is dying
DIXON, ILL.,, June 26-The storm Yesterday
did great damage. The fair ground with build
lngs, fences, &c, are a complete wreck. the
Chicago q Northwestern railroad, wind mill,
engine house and freight house partially des-
troyeo, many buildings in town unroofed and
few demolished. No lives lost.
LINCOLN, Iowa, June 26.-The storm yester-
day damaged all grains Nearly nearly every
cornfield in the vicinity was flooded.
DANyILLE, ILL.,, June 26.-The damage to
grain, &C., Is very great in this section,
MOLINE, ILL.,, June 26.-Hail stones as large
as hens eggs fell near here yesterday, Great
damage to crops.
SPRINGFIELD, June 26.-The storm left grain
lying Hat and did considerable minor damage.
JACKSONVILLE, June 26-The damage to
wheat in this county by yesterdays storm was
100000. Low lands flooded.
CHAMPAIGN, June 26-The surrounding
country suffered severely by the storm. Prob
aged here.
AT Urbana trees were uprooted BY the acre.
AT Fairbury the storm destroyed the upfin-
lshed Methodist church here. Loss $1,000.
Other buildings were unroofed and moved from
their foundations.
At Dwight, ILL.,, the wind carried Jno. Longs
house, lSx26 feet in size, about 20 feet, but
noEe OF the inmates were injured
AT Brooksville fourteen buildings were un-
rooted.
AT Galesburg, ILL.,, crops are reported heavily
damaged. '-'"'N'
At Des Moines, Iowa, the rain fall was verv
heavy and the outlook for crops is gloomy. bnt
nospecial damage was done.
Az lndlanola, Iowa, number of Cattle were
Killed and families for time were compelled
to vacate easements.
AT Muscatine, Iowa, hundreds of trees were
destroyed and thousands of panes of glass
broken by hail stones.
At Cincinnati no material damage was done
at Springfield, O., the child of David Wild.
denham was killed by the falling of barn and
wv 1890 r.. "Olo seIlouely Injured. The
residence of Mr.. Chick was leyeIled to the
ground. Mrs. Chick had an arm and lee
broken. Two students of Wittenberg College
we're knocked senseless by falling bricks. a
dozen large buildings, including the ST. James
Hotel and the sewing machine factory. lost
their roots. The damage to the crops is in
calculable along the whole pathway of the
storm.
AT Reading, O., the stable of Henry Reisen-
berg was blown down. killing the proprietor.
Lon ~
unroofed aud the steeple of the Catholic church
was blown down.