The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-06-24
FOrEIGN BORN
A DAY OF TEMPESTs.


account of the terrible ravsges of the cyclone
in Iowa on Saturday of last week. The day
seemed TO be one Of tempest and thunder all
around the sky. While central Iowa seemed
to have the worst of 1t, dozen at least of simi.
lar bowling tempests were let loose on the
same day in different parts of the country. all
attended with more or less destruction. One
OF the most noteworthy OF these passed over
Leavenworth and st. Joseph about midnight,
raging onward from thence to s.. LOUIS and
into southern Illinois. At Leavenworth ST..
Mary's academy was blown down, and the
bodies of four pupils buried In tho ruins, the
loss of property being estimated at $25O,0O0
The lower story and three upper floors Of
the Kansas City elevator were also blown away,
the second story settling down within fourteen
feet of the original base.
AT st. Joseph after the storm, there was not
Q square IN which the wind had not done its
work. The streets and sidewalks were strewn
with signs, awnings, limbs of trees, panes of
glass, cornices, roofs, and miscellaneous col
lection OF debris. In different quarters of the
town large and imposing buildings were In
RUNS, and, indeed, the storm seemed to have
LEVIED its tributes with strict impartislity up.
on all sections Of the city.
In st. Louis the steamer Blue Lodge was
sunk, the Champion No. 8 was wrecked, the
City of Helena lost her smokestacks, and
great damage was done to the Asnie p. Silver.
Hundreds OF houses were uuroofed and thous.
ands of trees Frustrated. The loss is placed at
100000.
Another storm on the same day at about 3
o'clock in the afternoon struck Cairo, IN this
state, dong considerable damage to roofs and
trees and overtuTning about 20 box cars In the
Illinois Central yards. No damage was done
TO the shipping in the harbor except to the
V,ncennes wharf.boat, which was unroofed
AT the Beach Ridge colOred man was killed
and his wife "a white woman) had her arm
broken by their house falling In on them, The
wheat crop along the Narrow Guage railroad
was badly damaged. At Metropolis City the
storm was very heavy. 1t blew wharf:boat
loose, sank the steamer Jennie Walker, blew
down the chlmneys OF the steamer Paris
Brown, sank coal barge and blew the roofs
off a Sour mill and several other buildings
1t was possibly the tail end of the Iowa
storm that the same night struck Geneseo and
other localities IN this state, dong serious
iamage in spots AT Geneseo the wind blew
| tornado for fifteen minutes, demolishlng
fancac ont n n Inn nd otbar |
The stecplc of the German Methodist chnrch
vas blown down and the church completely
demolished. The German Lutheran church,
me of the finest edltices in the city, had ITS
teeple blown off and roof badly damaged.
Ihimneys were blown off houses and over
me hundred trees were destroyed in the city,
,ut no lives were lost.
Indiana, OHIO, Pennsylvania and New York
we're not exempt from similar vistations on
he same day. AT Frankfort, Ind, while Coles
ircus was exhibiting, the tent was entirely de.
POLISHED by terrible wind and RAIN storm,
INVOLVING loss of $4,000 Strange to say, but
ew were hurt, none seriously.
At New Philadelphia, OHIO terrific wind
ia Al AoNoSSN WV III
heat fields were leveled to the groand and
,nces and trees scattered in every direction.
lain fell in torrents, and corn on the low land
as badly damaged e
A cyclone on the same day struck the VII
.ge of Amsterdam, New York. Many build.
lgs were unroofed, and some were moved ;
om their foundations. The cyclone lasted =.
ut two minutes, aud was not more than six
undred feet wide. Dansss, $4,000 O
Aud at PetrOlia, Pa, O waterspout passed A
YER the town, submergiag all the land from a
arms City to the river. The Buffalo, Pitts
urgh and Western railroad was completely s
locked. Several houses were struck by !
gh,ning and many cattle KILLED. The storm :.
as without parallel IN that section
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