The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-06-30
THE CYCLONES canNIYAL.
Disaster Following Disaster In Iowa.
Wind TIL They Can't Rest.


Disaster Following Disaster In Iowa.
Wind TIL They Can't Rest.
CHICAGO, June pa Des Moines special
gives the following estimate Of the damage
done by the cyclone: Boone county, $780,
600; Storey, $4,000; Jasper, $4,000; Powe-
shick, $4,000; Keokuk, 500 900; Henry,
$500, 900; Mount Pleasant, $780, 900; Grim
nell, 100000; Malcolm, $4,000; Fonda
and PochoiEluis, $4,000; the Chicago and
Rock Island Railroad, merchandise and
property, $4,000; Iowa College, $4,000
scattering damages, $35, 200. Some estimate
the loss at over 81, OO0, 600.
DIES MONIES, June 23.-Another terrible
rain and wind storm passed over Iowa yes
terday afternoon. The recently desolated
town of Malcolm, Poweshick county, was
exposed to the elements through the DAM
aged and rooHess buildings. They were ex-
posed for three hours to a pitiless storm
which damaged the goods rescued from Sat-
urday's storm to an enormous amount.
DUBUQUE, June %. - Independence Is
entirely cut off from telegraph connections
in all directions. From eight to ten stores
were unroofed and their stocks are total
loss. The Insane Asylum was badly DANA
ged. The depot and windmills were blown
away. Several houses were blown to pieces.
Two men were killed outright. The
damage to property Is very large. Sells
Brothers circus canvas was blown to atoms I;
their loss will be very large. The perform
ance was over. thirty minutes before the
4:30 pm.
INDEPENDENCE, June 24.-The storm Of
Thursday evening was not cyclone, but a
straight hurricane, about twenty miles wide,
doing much damage to buildings not only
here, but at Walker and Rowley. 1t came
from the northwest. The damage here
amounts to $4,000. Two lives were lost |;
ten persons were injured. The killed were
w. Horem, aged Is, and Albert Ripke, aged
IL. About twenty residences were wrecked
aud thirty barns. The Insane Asylum was
damaged $4,000. No patients or employees
were hurt. There was a scene of great
confusion and the streets were filled with
women and children. The horses of Sells
circus stampeded; three employees were
hurt; two young ladies driving along the
road were blown from buggy against barb
wire fence and were seriously lacerated.
DIES MONIES, June PA dispatch just
received by the Register from Fort Dodge,
says: Emmetsburg, Iowa, the county seat
of Polo, was blown to pieces this morning
by tornado and over one hundred people
killed. The Illinois Central, and Chicago &
Northwestern trains were blown from the
track. There is report that three or four
more towns in this locality were blown to
pieces.
Sioux CITY, June PA heavy storm and
rain passed over northern Iowa last night
and much damage is reported, but no loss of
life as yet. At Pattersonville a number of
buildings were moved from their foundations
and some damage to crops from hail. 1t is
reported that freight car was blown from
the track on the Sioux City & St. Paul road.
At Hooper's depot building, the Catholic
Church, two grain warehouses and a num-
Der of other buildings are wrecked, At the
same station eighteen freight cars were
ditched. The violence of the storm caused
a good deal of uneasiness at Lemars, but no
serious damage is reported from there. The
storm struck Spencer on the line of the
Chicago, Milwaukee q St. Paul Railway
about five O'Clock this morning.
LINCOLN, Neb., June 26.-Three or four
violent storms passed over this section al
about the same hour Sunday morning.
There was serious damage done to the crops
over limited area. The air is filled with
q thousand wild rumors. Have ordered
specials from all the points touched; will
send full accounts tomorrow. Four are
reported killed at Wahoo. Loss of life is
reported at other points. Rising City is
damaged SIS 900. Crops are entirely de-
stroyed.in strip five miles wide across But
Ter county. A woman had her leg broken
and four houses were blown to pieces at
Rising, and there Is hardly window left In
the town. One mass of ice crushed through
a house and floor, which weighed twenty
seven pounds.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, June Co. The
Tribune advices show thst the storm on
Friday night extended over Minnesota,
Northern Iowa, and Western Wisconsin.
At all points the rain came down In torrents.
At Ellerton, Dakota, several small houses
we're demolished, and passenger and freight
cars at the depot overturned. Throughout
southern Minnesota the streams rose sudden
ly, overran their banks, and swept away
considerable stock and did other damage.
Growing grain in some places was levelled
to the ground, but not seriously damaged.
There are reports of loss Of life in the inte-
rior points In southeastern Dakota and
southwestern Minnesota, but nothing au-
thentic.