The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-06-13


twenty five wounded. Mrs. jackson,
one leg broken and the other badly
bruised. The name of the persons killed
is not yet known.
The house of J. G. White, two miles
south of the lake, was blown to atoms
as one man says, mot a single being
left" The family ali escaped without
injury,w the exception of Il boy about
Is years old, who is so badly injured
that he is not expected 10 live. He was
carried about quarter Of mile by the
wind, and every stitch of clothing had
Leen stripped off him when found.
Many persons are reported with legs or
arms broken. but at this writing We can
not learn the names Of the un.ortunates.
II was reported this morning that Mr..
Syatou and son, living on the Stetson
farm, were seriously injured, but the
rumor was later coutradicted. Reports
from that section are So conflicting that
we do not know which story to believe.
Geo. Faell, who has this season built
two houses ~ his 1000 acre farm, lost
both, and escaped with slight injury to
himself and family. Harrison's mouse is
reported TO be the finest kindliug wood
vet found. 1t is rumOred that four
houses on the Stetson place and ore
house of Foster Gritfith's are blown away.
\ school house near J. G. Whites was
completely demolished, and piece of
panel door belonging to it was found
his morning on the north shore of the
axe, more than four miles from the site
of The school house. The loss of stock,
trees, OutbuildingS. etc, is large.
At cve:y station rum rs are flying Of
destruction far and wide. Reiiable news
is hard to tiud Two miles south Of
Fonda station the dwelling Of Mr.. Dukin
Was Gunihi!atcd and Ave of the family
injured, but none fatally, it is hoped. At
Wall Lake Station, on the Maple Valley
Railroad, Nr. Jones, the stage driver,
reports half a dozen buildings dem3!-
ieheG. bu: nobody killed. A woman and
child were cIrried many rods and strip
ped of ;heir clothing, bat not much in
iured. 4 mule team WAS lifted fully
900 feet into the air and carried quite
di,taLce. Heavy ,imbers were twisted
ike reeds AID spliDtered. Clothing,
wagons, furniture, hogs, and chickens
are found on the surrounding prairies
with nobody able 20 identify them. They
have evidently been carried many miles.
Chickens are stripped clean If every feath-
Grand are still alive and squalling. In the
vicinity of Pomeroy, Charles Pierce was
killed and his house demolished. Mrs.
Wallace and two children, Mrs. Samuel
Gill and two children, John Murphy aud
Henry Tenary were injured and their
dwellings wholly or partially destroyed.
Murphy had a leg broken. The Gill fam
lily are seriously hurt. Rumor comes that
that the storm struck Dennison, fifty miles
south of here, but you will doubtless learn
the facts from there. Hail fell at Sac
City as large as your double fists, and
death flew ali around US, but thus far cnn
only CLEAN the above facts in time for
this mail.
Additional reports of the storm last
Sunday now in show the damage in the
districts visited by the storm more severe
than at first supposed. In the vicinity
OF Wall Lake hardly q house or fence
e.care3 injury. The Catholic Church
being bui.t q, Carroll was blown down
ana completely demolished. The house
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