Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-09
another Storm.


MANKATo, MIMI, July Son Sunday
morning about six or half past, heavy
wind and rain storm struck the city.
1t lasted but four hours, and the guam
tity of water that then fell has never been
equaled in this section of the country.
Parties living on Front between Washing
ton and Spring streets, made preparations
for moving to the upper stories.
In the Willow Creek settlement Nathaniel
Stevens had his house unroofed by the storm
and his wife killed and a couple of his sons
considerably I'M ured.
At the Bunker hill and ravine road bridges,
we'll curbs and out houses were swept away.
A house on the creek was crafty supported
on couple of posts, which, had the flood
lasted quarter of an hour longer, would
have gone where the woodbine twineth.
On Elm street great piles of wood and
debris clogged the way and the premises of
Durkee Buckley, and Jenkins and Schickner
flooded with mud and water. Tho railroad
track between this and Vine street was in a
number OF places covered to depth of
eight inches.
Persons attending the Catholic church for
early devotions report it as coming down in
binding sheets, and the work it did substan-
street and going south through the city to
the Bunker hill road found that the visit
was pretty general.
Hcdapp, Kran, Santog, Kahler and Krost,
had their cellars filled for the second time
for tho most of them. Hodapp had his
filled by the breaking of the sewer wall, the
water soaked under and undermined his Gel
lar wall, and the great danger was that there
would be general collapse.
1t cannot with certainty be estimated what
the loss will be to the county by this par
ticular storm. There are some forty farmers
who lose heavily in crops, damage to horses,
granaries, machine sheds, machinery stock
and other property. This is the only in
stance of severity in the county yet brought
in.
The wooden mill on the corner of Front
and Vine had again been filled up, and, if
possible, was in worse condition than be-
fore. Between Second and Third streets, near
Thos. Benefits house, the water split and
tore out Axe box culvert, and twelve feet
of the sidewalk caved in and was carried
into the flood, foot and other bridges swept
away like straws.
J. B. Hubbell had the lower
part of his grounds washed and
his picket fence mingled with already great
IuaSS VI ueDIlS, passing Oh Ill lib ludtl udIlCo
the foaming water and drift caught the barn
of Rev. Mr.. Gleason, containing some 400
bushels of corn, and in the whirling vortex
was borne with crushing force against stone
culvert on the st. Paul & Sioux City road,
tearing the solid stone masonry on the south
side to pieces, leaving the rails and ties with
out support. On the west side from forty to
sixty feet of stone wall was washed away,
and twenty feet of the east END of the Gull
vert across Broad street. This gives ample
testimony of the resistless and terrible force
of water that fell in so short time.
Three times has the storm king waved his
wand over Mankato and vicinity in the brief
space of week. The results of the vista
ton on the night of the I'd are of a serious
nature throughout; the crops were ruined by
the hail and stock killed. The hail storm
was not confined to any particular locality;
it skipped one farm and swept the crop from
the next. The village of Good Thunder
came within the bounds of this warning of
the elements, and suffered pretty severely.
+. N. Flanagan had his lumber and lime
sheds blown down. Mr.. Houck had nearly all
the glass broken out of the windows of the
building he formerly used for hotel. This
same gentleman suffers the loss of the
greater part of a very promising crop. 9th
or parties here also had a nice little sum to
pay for glass.