The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-06-27
TELEGRAPHIC
THE STORMY.
An Extended List OF CaIasIrO
Plies IA Several states. -
Loss OF Human Lives.

Des Moines, lows, 25.-The chairman
of the two state campaign committees on
the coming vote to decide the question Of
the prohibition amendment to the state
constitution, have Joined in circular TO
the people. Of Iowa, asking that on that
day each voter deposit with his ballot 3
contribution for the relief of the sufferers
By the recent storms, the sums so col
lected TO be forwarded to Governor Kirk
wood. 1u
AlgoBA special: Tweaiy houses were
demolished. five pert~hs killed and
twenty-five injured in the south part OF
Clay county by hurricane yesterday
In Emmetisburg Eve houses we're blown
down and other damage done. One man
man was thrown on q hot stove and
burned and three were carried off and
badly hurt. A child, carried several
rods, will die. In Fenton township.
Kossuih county, all of VIM. Meyers
family were hurt and the house blown
down. Near Wesley G. w. Adams
and child were injured. .a..-
Chicago, Pa Peterson, Iowa. spe-
cial says Que business house and q dozen
or more dwellings and farm houses we're
destroyed by the storm there and in that
.
child were killed. There are rumors of
further casualties, but no particulars.
Trenton, N. 25.-This city was
visited this evening by terrific wind,
hail ard thunder storm. The Globe
Rubber Co.'s building, Titus wOolen
mill and q number of dwellings were
unroofed.
Omaha, PA severe storm of wind,
I u II IL
the eastern portion OF The state this
morning. 1t floooed cellars, blew down
trees, damaged gardens, and unroofed
one or two houses in this city. The
whole damage is estimated at $50, 600.
Portions of four counties in the path of
the storm report some damage to the
crops from hail. The ouly casualties
reported were the killing of two track
men at Talmsge. sl
Sioux City, Ia, PA heavy storm Of
rsin passed over the northern part of
Iowa last night Much dsmsge is re-
ported bat no loss Of life as yet. At Pat
tersonville number Of buildings were
moved from their foundation, and some
dsmage to crops from hail. 1t is reported
that freight car was bio wn from the
track on the Sioux eity and st. Paul road.
At Hoopers the depot building, Catho-
lie Church, two grain warehouses and g.
numbe of other buildings are wrecked.
At the same station eighteen freight cars
we're ditched. The violence Of the storm
caused good deal of uneasinefs at
Lsmas. No serious damage is reported
from there. The storm stru' K
Spencer on the line of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Railway about o'clock this morning
scattering lumber piles and demoliehiDg
partly enclosed house at En- metsburg.
Further east the result was more serious,
splendid new school house, nearly
finished, was completely demolished.
Other buildings were damaged, and
several persons were injured, some quite
severely. The Union mills were blown
to pieces. In q number OF cases cars
we're blown from the track. Full reports
are difficult to obtain on account Of to e
prostration of the wires. The storm did
not partake of the nature of cyclone.
A cyclonie hurricane struck Hoopers-
Vile. fifty miles northeast Of Sioux City,
at O'Clock this morning, destroying the
| Presby terrain Church, schoolEouse, car
penter shop, and twenty-five residences
and barns in Hoopers' immediate vicin
ity. The hurricane lasted only fifteen
minutes. Henry Gaul, farmer, was
fatally injured. The course Of the hurri-
cane appeared to be from west to east,
and it swept path of about five miles
wide for fifteen miles. Eighteen freight
cars on the Chicago, ST. Paul and Min
neapolis Railroad were turned upside
| down, most Of them being torn from
their trucks, The depot and adjoining
warehouse were lifsed from their tounda-
| ton and carried ten to twentV feet and
badly wrecked. The peculiarly of the
hurricane vas that it com pleteIy demol-
ished some buildings and eBurely passed
others ia its direct pathway. The Pres
! byterisn Church in the village was scat
tered for half mile and no two pieces Of
the building were left together. The
plank being driven through the eide Of q
house, cutting through the siding as II
shot out Of q gun. Wrecklng trains
from Sioux City and Worthington
were sent to the sceSe of the wrecked cars
and hundred men are at work Fighting
the capsized cars. It is impossible tc
estimate the total damage as 1t is sc
widespread. The loss Immediately II
Hoopers is $4,000 to $4,000. Twentv'
FIVE farmhouses, outside, are destroyed,
as far as could be learned this afternoon
This information is brought by JourTad
reporter who has just come in from
HoOpers.
Sioux City, Ia. 25.-Reports came t.
| San Burn station on the st, Paul .anC
Milwaukee road, 20 miles northeast o
Hoopers, that Primgsr was wrecked By
the storm and six people injured. Prim-
gar is inland southeast of Sanburn and
the county seat Of O'Brien county, anC
has about 800 people. Surgeons from
Sanburn have Comet to Primgar. A f-rme
came to Spencer, station 20 miles cas-
! Of Sanburn, with the reports thst in hi
neighborhood six persons Were killed auC
forty injured, Il is believed at Spence
that forty dwellings had been blow
down in that county tClay.)
Davenport, Iowa, 25.-It has beer
raining very heavily for tVenty-fcu
hours. Nealy sll the railroads have sui
fered washouts. The Mississippi rive
has risen nineteen inches.
indianapolis, pa severe wind storm
this morning blew down the steep lie
the Episcopal cathedral and did conside:
able dsmsge to other buildings.