Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-07-25
A DESTRUCTIVE STORM.
The Black Hills Visited by Hurricane and
Water spOut.

The Black Hills Visited by Hurricane and
Water spout.
Deadwood Times, 10th
Friday night the Hills were visited by
one of the most terrific storms of the
season. In the higher portions of the
country there was a deluge of rain, &C.
companied by wind. that increased in
violence az the low lands were reached.
The greatest damage was done COM
mencing at point about fsur miles from
Spearfish, near Joe Cooks ranch on the
Spear6sh, where the hail came down in
torrents. in many places lying on the
ground to depth of eighteen inches, and
literally wipinR from the face of the earth
everything in its course. On Joe Cooke
ranch about one-half of the crops we're
destroyed, but from there on for four or
five miles everything was DESTROYED,
The ranches of the following persona,
we learn by telephone, were in the track
of the storm, and all of them annihilated: /:
Pete Rily, Short. Kemper, Dorsi, DIR.
Rolf, Johnny Flaherty, B. F. Walter,
John Burns, j. @. Ryan. George Reed, j.
Cowgirl, Dan Toomey, Rosenbaum, Pet
tigrew, Baker, Mclaughlin, Shultey,
Dunn and others.
To add to the horror there was water.
spout or cloud-burst in the hills above,
and yesterday morning q volume OF
water, carrying with it thousands of cords
of drift wood, submerged the entire
valley, reaching from hill to hill, destroy.
ing what little was left by the hail storm
Never before since the settlement oi
the Hills was there such. q prospect of q
bounteous harvest as at the present time
and the portion of the country devasta
ted was the first part located and cult
vated, and the fairest portion reclaimed
In an hour the hopes of all these brave
people, the men and women who went
there to make homes, when it was worth
q mans life to be caught away from
home; when the hills and valleys wer.
filled with the hostile Sioux. They 10
Gated there to stay, and after overcoming
all these difficulties, supposed they would
have plain sailing, with none to moles,
or make afraid, and had brought theil
farms up to high state of cultivation
and supposed this years crop woult
place them on the high road to fortun,
and ease.
But the end has come, and such q,
end. In one night, the result of thei
labor for years has been swept away ant
destroyed, and they are this morning
worse off than when they made their 10
cations.
Pete Riley, who came in from his rancl
yesterday morning, says there is no
enough left to buy a sack Of -four.
l In Falsebotton and Centennial Prairi
there was violent wind storm accom-
panied by torrents of rain, but there wa
no hail, and the only damage done wa
the blowing down Of the grain, whicl
will rise again.
Tom Hardwick came in from hi
ranch on the Belle Fourche, at th
mouth of the Grow creek, and report
violent wind with heavy rain, but n
| damage other than to the growing corr
which will suffer some.
Jacob Shoudy reports from his ranc
, about the same condition of affairs.
. These first accounts may be exaggers
8 ted-and we hope they are-but the in
formation we give is derived from relif
;, BILE parties who were on the ground an
telephoned the result Of their inquire
9 to the Times.