The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28

CHICAGO, June 24.-The Des Moines Agent of
not able yet to get any news of the reported
disaster at Emmettsburg. as the wires are so
badly down, and Emmettsburg is naturally some
what isolated, but I have telegraphed every
point near the place to give full details"
ROCKFORD, H., June PA terrible hail storm
and tornado visited this place to-day, doing great
damage TO crops and fruits A 81, coo cherry crop
are entirely ruined. Hail stones fell as large as
hens eggs. Windows were broken from nearly
every building in the vicinity. No lives lost.
Reports of Destructive Storms in the
Northwest and East.
MINNEAPOLIS, June 24.-The rain storm
last night was the heaviest ever known at
Owattoma and other points along the line
of the Winona aud ST. Pierre Road. A
Tribune special shows great damage 20
crops, destruction of buildings and wash
ing away farm machinery. An accommO-
dation train bound west on the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul Railway, struck a
washout culvert near Owattoma, Mimi, at
o'clock a. m. The engine and three
freight cars were wrecked. The engineer,
named Musser, was smashed to jelly un.
der the locomotive. The fireman was serl-
ously injured. No passengers were hurt.
The river rose twelve inches in five hours at
0wattoma. At Hooper's on the c., st. P,
NJ. and o. Railroad, eighteen frei ht cars
were wrecked by the storm. The depot was
blown down. The telegraph lines are down
for mile.
miles from Dakota across Southern Min
nesOta.
DUBUQUE. June 24-Reports of the cy-
clone at Emmettsburg. Iowa, telegraphed to
Fort Dodge this afternoon prove to be
greatly exaggerated. 1t was a severe storm,
and four or five buildings blown down, but
no one killed.
Sioux CITY. June PA cyclone hurri-
cane struck Hoopersville. fifty miles North
east of Sioux City, at 6o'clock this morning,
and destroyed the Presbyterian Church,
school house, a carpenter shop and twenty
five residences and barns in Hoopersville
and immediate vicinity. The hurricane
lasted only fifteen minutes. Henry Gault,
farmer, was fatally injured The course
of the hurricane appeared to be from West to
East, and it swept path from about five to
fifteen miles wide.
A report came to Sanborn Station on the
st. Paul and Milwaukee Road, twenty miles
northeast of Hooper's, that Primgar was
wrecked by a storm and six people injured.
| Primgar is eight miles south of Sanborn and
the County-sest of O'Brien County. 1t las
about 500 people. Surgeons, from Sanborn
have gone to Prlmgar. A farmer came TO
Spencer, station twenty miles east OF San
| born, with report that in his neigh borhood
SIX were killed and forty injured. 1t is be-
| lieved at Spencer that forty dwellings had
been blown down in that County CLAY.
These points come by the courtesy of train
dispatcher Every effort has been made to
get something definite. but the wires along
that road were down early in the day and
were working badly.
TRENToN, n. j., June 25.-This city was
visited this evening by terrible wind, hail
and thunder storm. The Globe Rubber
Company's building, Titus Woolen Mill and
number of dwellings were unroofed.
In the Northwest of a Very Damaging Char
acter, Resulting in Great Loss of Prop
erty.
MINNEAPoLIs Mimi, June 26.--The Trib-
une's advices show the storm of Friday
night extended over Minnesota, Northern
Iowa and Western Wisconsin. AT all points
the rain came down in torrents. At Ellen
ton, Dakota Territory, several small houses
were demolished, and passengers and freight
cars q t the depot overturned. Throughout
Southern Minnesota streams rose suddenly
overrun their banks, swept away cOnsidera.
BILE stock, and did other damage. Growing
grain in some places was leveled to the
ground but not seriously damaged. There
are reports of losses of life in interior points
in Southeastern Dakota and Southwest Min
nesota, but nothing reliable.
CHICAGO, June 26.--The cyclonic storms,
which have for the past two days traversed
and desolated this section, seemed TO have
followed no particular course, but to have
dipped down here and there at points as
widely separated as cities in Nebraska and
Michigan, and as Dakota Territory and
Southern Indiana, while the ravages in
Iowa have been the most serious to life and
property. The aggregate losses in other
parts of the territory are very heavy.
Among the casualties which have not been
already mentioned the following may be
given as indicating the general character
and violence of the elements: At Osceola,
Iowa, yesterday, Adam Miller and VIM.
LONE were killed by lightning. A severe
rain and wind storm visited Abba yesterday
evening, with accompanying hard thunder
and lightning. Trees snapped of like pipe
stems and many pranks were played by the
wind, but no loss of life resulted. The
storm appeared like cyclone.
Trains are detained in the region of Nc
Gregor, Iowa, by disasters to the tracks and
| bridges. Much damage was done Saturday
| in the neghborhood of Sioux Rapids and
Matiorn, in the northwestern part of Iowa.
between Morrison and Round Grove, Ill.
Two thousand six hundred feet of the Chi
cago and Northwestern track was washed
away. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
suffered even worse west of Mendoza.
In Nebraska yesterday morning a terrific
storm gathered in Butler County, swept
southwest through Saunders Lancaster, Cas-
saloe and Nekama Counties, doing the great
est damage in belt twenty-five miles wide
between Wahoo and Weston. Corn
was badly beaten down in
the southern part of Saunders
County and small grain utterly ruined. Two
houses were blown down in Wahoo; two
story barn was carried fifty feet though the
air. A herd of 125 ponies were swept by the
storm eight miles southwark over hills and
| through wire fences. Not pane of g:ass
was left in the windows facing the west. The
school house at Clear Creek was completely
wrecked. One man was killed and five in
jured near Talmadge on the Missouri Pacific
while seeking shelter npder freight car
which was hurled agairiN them. Corn will
be put back two or three weeks
A number of cattle were carried dowr
stream and drowned. Near Lanesboro