The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-07-04
THE RlEND OF TnE wEsr.
Another Cyclone Spreads Disaster over
The west-wInd, Hail aud RaIn-The
Crops Inlured.

Another Cyclone Spreads Disaster 0veI
the west-WInd, Hail aud Rain-Th'
Crops Injured.
Sr. PAUL, MINI, July S.-A storm last
night was the heaviest ever known In
Minnesota. Five inches Of rain fell in tif
teen hours here, the greatest amount sinct
the Signal Service was established, The
damage in the city was considerable, but
1t was confined to flooded streets and eel.
lars, bursted sewers and one or two build
ings undermined. Trims were delayed
on all railroads by washouts, and none ar
rived or left till tonight.
The most serious damage on the rail.
road was near Red Wing, where the
washout will stop travel for a day or two.
The storm extended all over the State
and Northwestern Wisconsin, consisting
OF q great fall OF hail and rain and light
nirg. The damage is great, but the de-
tails come In slowly.
AT .Nara, Goodhue county, seven per.
sons were killed and thirty injured by the
lightning and fall OF buildings. No par.
ticnlars.
At Winnebago the wife OF Nathaniel
Stevens was killed by lightning; at Noun.
tain. Lake, Lawrence Lawless was killed
by lightning. Red Wing reports a hun
dred thousand dollars damage to property
in that city. Every town in the southern
and eastern sections OF the State suffered
heavily, but details are wanting. The
crops suffered from rain and hail.
AT Marshall the hail stones were US large
as hen eggs and caused great destruction.
AT MenOmanee,; ;Aiinn., a house was car.
ried away by the flood, with two persons,
and has not yet been heard from. The
wires were down east all day.
Sioux Cry, Ia, July "A tornado
struck the southeastern part OF Elkhorn,
d. T., about half.past five o'clock last
evening, blowing down three dwellings,
which are total wrecks. Many barns and
stables were overturned and chimneys
blown down. Sheafs storehouse, adjoin.
ing his residence, was blown over on to
the side track OF the railroad, near by.
The windmill OF the Dakota Southern
Railroad, attached TO water tank, was
blown down and badly wrecked
The only person injured, as far as
known, was Mrs. Wood, whose head aud
limbs were badly bruised by the turning
over oil her house. Mrs. Norton was Sit
ting in her house, and when the cyclone
struck 1t the floor opened under her aud
she fell into the cellar, the house being
carried away several rods. She was not
hurt. \ great number OF trees, some two
feet in diameter, were blown down, and a
number Of buildings were moved from
their foundations.
The cloud came up from the southwest
and went southeast, but its course was
circular. Reports from the surrounding
country show great damage as being done,
houses, barns, fences and crops having
been destroyed. The storm was seen to
gather and to approach the town from the
southeast, and 1t is thought by many that
it had not reached its maximum strength
when it struck here,
A special TO the Journal from Lemars,
Plymouth county, Iowa, says: A terrible
storm passed over the northern part OF
this county last evening, between and
Z o'clock, destroying houses, Darus, &c.
Ten miles northeast Of here two young
men named Kass were killed. They saw
the storm coming and ran into barn for
shelter when the wind struck the building
with terrific force, completely demOlish.
ing it and crushing them to death in the
ruins.
Parties who saw the storm from dis
tance say It was terrific to look at. 1t
could be distinctly seen from Lemars, and
the first storm cloud presented the ap-
pearance Of an hour glass, after which it
assumed the shape Of a straight
column and then seemed to break
into fragments and drift away. 1t seemed
to move slowly and was in sight about
thirty minutes. The wind blew strong at
siog< City, but no damage worth men
tioning was done.