The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1882-07-01
WESTERN CYCLONE.
Leaves Gathered From the Late
Sform..A Great Number of
Lives Lost.-SOO Dwellings In.
rooted at Nlt.lPleasant, Iowa.

St0rm..A Great Number Of
Lives LOst..3OO Dwellings In.
rooted at N1t.lPleasant, low q.
CHICAGO, June ia Metropolis,
Ills, special says: A terrible cy-
clone struck this city yesterday even
ing, blowing down several houses,
killing Dick Turner, capsizing and
sinking the steamer Jennie Walker,
and scattering harvested wheat in
the vicinity. The damage is heavy.
An Atchison Kansas, special says:
The mail and travellers bring more
accurate reports of the effects of
Friday nights storm, showing that it
extended Southwark and Westward
of Kansas City, and doing greater
aggregate damage than was at first
supposed. Many small towns and
hamlets were visited, and all are in
mourning over loss of life and prop
erty. A family of five are reported
to have been drowned on a fatboat
twelve miles from here.
LARGE Loss OF LIFE.
An Iowa City special reports the
loss of life at Irish Ridge at ten to
twelve. A Boone, Iowa, special says:
The tornado struck the Southwest
ern part of Boone county on Satur-
day evening at 8 o'clock. 1t was
plainly seen here, and seemed to be
twenty miles away. Reports are
just coming in of great destruction
in that section; all the buildings on
several farms being completely de-
molished. A church four miles south
OF Ogden was completely destroyed,
and many persons were seriously
injured. One man was killed. In
formation is difficult to obtain on
account of the heavy roads. A wo-
man and child are reported missing.
FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE IOWA STORM.
BURLINGTON, Iowa, June 19.-Sat-
urday night terrible storm passed
in southwesterly direction over Des
Moines and Henry counties. In
Burlington only rain and hail fell,
but one mile South of the city hur-
ricane blew down barns, houses and
orchards, and destroyed vast
amount of property, but none are
reported killed. The electrical dis
play was remarkable. The sky was
aglow constantly for two hours At
Mt. Pleasant, twenty-eight miles
west, the hurricane was very destruc-
tive. Two storms met over the town
at 1l:30, and accompanied by rain
and hail, broke in fearful fury, de-
molishing the Baptist Church, which
cost $25, 900; flung the spire from
the Presbyterian Church high in the
air, and inverting it, the point struck
the pavement in front of the church
and was driven into the ground
many feet.
The towers and roofs of all the
churches in the place were blown off
and otherwise damaged. Nearly
every business house in the city was
unroofed and damaged, and the
park in public square was filled with
tin roofing, rolled into punches like
wads of paper. The rain damaged
much merchandise, and lasted but
forty minutes.
THREE HUNDRED DWELLINGS UNROOFED
Three hundred dwellings are un-
rooted and damaged. Not single
chimney is left standing and thou
sands Of trees are twisted off, Three
large brick school houses are in ruins,
but the college building escaped, be-
ing protected by a fine grove of trees
in the campus, which are all down.
Only two persons are reported killed,
a mother and son named Scott, who
lived near the city. None were
seriously injured in town.
The insane hospital, with six hun
dred inmates, in the track of the
storm, is not damaged. The loss in
Mt. Pleasant is above $4,000. Fif-
ty freight cars standing on the side
track, one mile east of Mt. Pleasant,
were blown upon the main line, and
the A. C. B. & @. freight collided
with and completely wrecked them.
The engineer, A. NJ. Parmcnter, was
slightly injured.
DAMAGE IN STORY COUNTY.
Dies MONIES, a., June 19.-Mail
reports from Storey county represent
the damage there by the cyclone of
Saturday night as very serious.
Several buildings were swept away.
At Kelly all the buildings on the
farms of j. A. Mcfarland and VIM.
Templeton were obliterated. Far
Their East all the buildings on six
teen farms were swept away.
Two school houses in Nevada were
demolished. The Story county far
mers lost everything in goods, furni-
ture, stock and horses.