The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1882-06-27
THE GREAT STORM.
IMMENSE DAMAGE TO PROPERTY
AND LOSS OF LIFE.

METROPOLIS, LIS, June 19.-A ter
rible cyclone struck this city Yesterday
evening, blowing down several houses,
killing Dick Turner, capsizing and sink
ing the steamer Jennie Walker and scat
tering the harvested wheat. In this vi.
cinity the damage is heavy:
At Atchison, Ks, "a
AToHIsoN, KS, June l9.-The mail
and travellers bring more accurate re-
ports OF the effects OF Friday night q
storm, showing it extended southwark
and westssrd Of Kansas City, and doing
g.eatet ssgregate damage than-drst sups,
posed Many small towns and hamlets
were visited. and all are in mourning
over the loss of life and property. A.
family OF three are reported rowned on
fiat boat, twelve miles below here.
At Iowa City.
Iowa CiTY, June 19%-The loss of life
at I,ish Ridge is ten or twelve!
At Boone. s-.r,s sas. 8
Boone. Iowa, June l9-The tornado
struck the southeastern part, of, Boone
county on Saturday evening at eight
o'clock. 1t was plainly seen here, and
seemed 10 he 20 miles away. Reports
are just coming in of great distress in
that section. All the buildings on the
several farms are completely demolish
ed. The church, four miles south. of
Ogden, was DESTROYED. Many persons
have been seriously injured and one
man was killed
Information is difficult to obtain, ON
account of heavy road. Women and
children are reported missing.
Springfield. Ills.
>SpRINeFIELD, June 10 The heavy
rains in this vicinity have done great
damage to the corn fields, lately. Wheat
and oats are also effected. FSf;
| At Burlington.
BURLINGTON, Ia, June l9 Saturday
night. at ii o'clock, terrific storm
assed in a sou,hwesterly direction over
Des Moines ard Henry counties. In
Burlington only rain and hail fell, but
one mile south of the city the hurricane
blew down barns. houses, orchards and
destroyed vest amount Of property,
but no one is reported killed.
At MT. Pleasant. e
Twenty-eight miles west. the hurricane
was very destructive. Two storms met
over town at 80, and, accompanied
by rain and hail, broke in fearful fury
demolishing entirely the Baptist church.
which cost $25, 900, flung the spire from
the Presbyterian church high III he air.
and inverting it, the point struck the
sidewalk in front of the church and was
driven into the ground many feet. The
towers and roofs Of all the chnrcnes in
the place were torn of and otherwise
damaged. Nearly every business house
in the city was unrocfed and damaged,
and the park in the public square was
filled with tin roofs rolled into buBches
like wads of paper. The rain damaged
much merchandise and lasted but forty
minutes.
Three hundred dwellings, are unroofed
and damaged Not single chimney is
left standing and thousands of trees are
twisted off. Three large brick school
house are in ruins, but the college bniId,
ing escaped, being protected by fine
grove of trees in the campus, which are
all down. Only two persons reported
killed. mother and son named Scott,
who live near the city. None are seri
ously Injured in town. The insane hos
pital with six hundred inmates, was in
the track of the storm. and is not dam,
aged. The loss in Mt. Pleasant is above
Sl50,000. - ~.
At Bradford.
BRADFORD Pa, June ia severe
thunderstorm passed over the northern
oil fields, this morning Two tanks. one
10000, and the other 35 600 barrels ca
paclty, were struck, near Olean, and are
now burning. Some sixty five other
large tanks are in danger. Some thirty
rigs and small tanks were struck in
various parts of the field. with the loss
of several thousand barrels Of oil.
In Story County.
DEs MoINEs, Iowa, June 19.-Mail
reports from Story county represents the
damage there by the cyclone of Satur-
day night as very serious Several build
ings were swept away at Kelly, and all
buildings on farms of J. A. Mcfarland
and VIM. Templeton we're obliterated
Further east, all the buildings on sixteen
arms were swept away, Two school
houses in Nevada we're demolished. S
Great Loss of Lite at Grinnell,
Iowa, and Neighboripg Villages.
DEs MoINEs, June l8.-A terrible cy-
clone swept over Grinnell, Saturday
night, but wires were prostrated and de-
tails could not be sent out.
From numerous and contradictory
stories of startled citizens, there is the
old story of the deep, roaring sound;
proceeded by Iunnel-shaped cloud IT
was first seen coming from the south
west, sweeping up to the northwest cor
ner of town, leveling huge trees in the
pathway and taking A. A. Fosters
house and barn, leveling both to the
ground, and carrying Mr.. and Mrs. Eos
ter and their two children thirty yards,
precipitating them amidst the debris
All were somewhat injured
From here the storm pursued zigEag
direction to the north of the city, when,
after wiping out the finest residence por-
ton of the city it turned toward the col
lege. The W est building was dumped
into heap of lath and plaster and bro
ken timber, burying beneath it eight
students, who roomed therein, all Of
whom were afterwards extricsted more
or less injured, and one died. The East
College, ive-story building, was un-
rooted, and FIRE followed
After completing its work of demoli-
tion at the College, the whirling fend
struck straight across the Iowa Central
Railroad, and directly in it's path lav
! loaded cars. The Great Mogul engine
, was lifted completely off the track and
the train toppled on either side at the
I whim of the wind. Blocks we're demol-
, ished ON all sides, and people persisted
e. by families or had miraculous escapes.
} Frank Carroll, sterling ride from
t Davenport, was on the Rock Island
s. freight, train that was carried of the
8 track, and lies at the Chaplin House with
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