Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-06-22
Western Cyclone.
Heavy Rain Storms in the West and
Northwest.
Loss of Life and Destruction Of
Property.

night about II o'clock terrific storm
passed in sOuthweSterly direc-
tion over Des Moines and Henry coun-
ties. In Burlington only rain fell, but
one mile south of the city hurricane
blew down barns, houses and orchards,
and destroyed vast amount of proper
ty, but none are reported killed. The
electrical display was remarkable, the
sky being aglOw constantly for two
hours. At Mt. Pleasant, 2S miles west,
the hurricane was very destructive.
Two storms met over the town at IL 80,
and accompanied by rain and hail, broke
in fearful fury, demOlisning entirely the
Baptist church, which cost $4,000, flung
the spire from the Presbyterian church
high in air, and inverting it the point
struck the sidewalk in front of the
church and was driven into the ground
many feet. Towers and roofs of all the
churches in the place were blown of
and otherwise damaged. Nearly every
business house in the city was unroof-
ed and damaged, and the park in the
public square filed with tin roofs, roll
ed into lunches like wads of paper. The
rain damaged much merchandise, and
lasted but forty minutes. Three hun
dred dwellings are unroofed and dam
aged. Not a single chimney is left
standing, and thousands of trees are
twisted off. Three large brick school
houses are in ruins, but the college
buildings escaped, being protected by a
large grove of trees in the campus, which
are all down. Only two persons are
reported Killed. mother and son, NAM
ed Scott. who lived near the city, None
ore seriously injured in the town. The
insane hospital, with 900 inmates, in the
track of the storm is not damaged. The
loss in Mt. Pleasant is above $4,000.
Fifty freight cars standing on the
side track one mile east of Mt. Pleasant,
were careened upon the main line, and
the A. c., B. & @. freight cOllided there,
wrecking them completely. Engineer
A. NJ. Parmeter was slightly injured.
THE CALAMITY AT GRINNKLL.
DIS MoINKs, June l9-Few new develope-
ments to-day from the destruction by the cy-
clone at Grinnell. No further deaths are re-
ported to-day, but up to ii O'Clock tonight
forty-one deaths had occurred at GriInell, and
twenty three outside points, seventeen of them
at Malcom and in that vicinity, and five in the
country northwest of Grinnell. The doctors
say that six or seven and even more of the
wounded at Grinnell won't live twenty-four
hours, and some of the physicians put the final
death roll at Grinnell alone at more than fifty,
while some fear it will yet reach as high as IS.
OF the wounded in that city there are now over
120 known cases, and some 80 more or less
serious. In the country are also several seri-
Gus cases of injury. The best posted men at
Grinnell yesterday estimated tine death roll
IL Il 4
as we have it. There were six deaths yester-
day and last night. Among the rest that of
conductor Degnen, of the Rock Island road
One hundred and forty-three is now estima-
ted as the number of dwelling houses destroyed
by the tornado in Grinnell. AS estimated, this
entails loss of half million now, which is
nearly the total loss, as hardly any of them are
insured against tornadoes or anything but fire.
Mr.. j. B. Grinnell states that fiftey of the
people in losing their homes lose all they have
in this world. Outside Grinnell and in NAL
com and the country there is also immense loss.
DUBUQUE, IA, June l9.-The wind
storm which WAS so disastrous in Cen
trail Iowa on Saturday night struck this
city at 80 o'clock Sunday morning.
Though an unusually severe wind, no
damage was done in this vicinity. The
cloud at the time presented a ragged and
peculiar appearance, indicating great at
mospheric distur bance. Out here the
results we're in no wise SO severe and
disastrous as experienced from the hail
storm of Fridry afternoon.
CHICAGO, June 1S.-A Metropolis, H.,
spacial says: A terrible cyclone struck
this city yesterday evening, blowing
down several houses, killing Dick Tur
ner, capsizing and sinking the steamer
Jennie Walker, and scattering harvested
wheat in the vicinity. The damage is
heavy.
An Atchison. Kan, special says: The
mail and travellers bring more accurate
reports of the effects of Friday nights
storm, showing that it extended south
ward and westward of Kansas City, and
doing greater aggregate damage that
was at lirst supposed. Many small towns
and hamlets were visited, and all are in
mourning over loss of life and property.
A family of five are reported to have
been drowned on fiat boat twelve miles
from here. hs