Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-06-01
THE RECENT CYCLONE.
Great Damage at Racine, Wis. Loss
of Life-EfFecIs In Other Places.

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Great Damage at Racine, Wis. Loss
of Life-E6ecrs In Other Places.
Friday 18th. inst, was a cyclonish day
and various parts of the northwest suffered
severely, particularly Racine, Wis. The cy-
clone struck Racine at Z o'clock passing |
through the extreme northwestern portion
Of the city, demolishins $50 houses and
barns, and causing q loss of life OF sheat !
twenty beside 100 more or less severely In
iured. Tbs air was opprssavsiy warm. The
cyclone was announced by the breaking of ,
the clouds, which took on a whirling mo- |
ton and struck the earth with q noise which |
might be compared with the roar and rum
bling of 1000 railroad trains laundering
over q bridge. The path OF the storm was
q little over q mile long and perhaps o quar-
ter of a mile wide. In this territory here
and there a building is left standing. Brick
and frame houses alike were destroyed, and
their sites are marked only by heaps of de-
bris.
Many occupants of houses escaped by
seeking cellars and other places of com para
tive safetv: but the cyclone came with such
lightning quickneSs that many were killed
before reaching shelter. In only a few
cases were houses moved from their toun-
dations. Those in the center of the storm
center simply exploded and fell in ruins
where they stood. The cyclone, as it
moved from the city cut upon the waters of
Lake Michigan, presented a grand spacta-
Gle, such as is seen but once in q lifetime.
The revolving columns of air
seemed monster wreaths of
SNAKE, and ttey whirled over the
watery expanse. bearing with them spiral
columns Of water. Noship that encountered
this monster of the air could by any posi-.
bility escape destruction. The list OF cas-
r~alities, so far as they can be learned, is as
follows:
Fatally injured-Mr. Kurtz. Herman
Kurl, Mrs. Mccarthy, August Kisner and
wife, Simon Geise, son and daughter, and
Killes-Paul Kuhl, Albert Kuhl, daugh.
ter of Barney yelling, infant son o fAugust
Kisner.
Dangerously injured-Matt Levy, two
| children Of Mrs. Barry, Mrs. Mary Witter,
Mrs. Flanagan and three children.
Watertown, Wis. was also visited by a ter
rife hurricane which has wrought devas-
tation III that city. Houses were torn
down and trees uprooted by this cyclones
awful strength every window in the south
side of every house in town was broken.
Hail stones as big as walnuts. In many
panes OF glass there were perfectly oun
holes as though made by a rifle ball. The
roof of the Northwestern Lutheran univer-
sity was blown of.
Shortly before six o'clock a dark cloud
was seen hanging over Chefnung, a small
village near Harvard, Ill. Roaring was
heard and suddenly a funnel-shaped cy-
clone formed and swooped down upon the
place with fearful rapidity. Houses were
torn to pieces like cardboard. and whirled
thus in the air. Large buildings were lev
elea in an instant. There are no definite
| HIofos11 hr{ - &c ,,pIoret~NJ ALo4o -,-~LL-
Of persons were killed and at least twenty
wounded. Passing to the east
the storm struck Belvidere, doing consider
able damage. Here the wind chaLged to
the northeast and xidened to a mile. Law
renee, a small station SIX miles north ofHar-
yard, was badly damaged and the surround
ing country desolate.-
the northwest came in for q visitation. At
Duluth q burst of wind blew down build
ings, and among them one under construc-
ton was entirely destroyed at q loss OF &c.
600.
at Springfield. ILL.,, a large number of
houses were demolished and many persons
injured. The hurricane struck the earth
again four miles east of the city, where the
little settlement OF Round Prairie is situated
and played havoc with the lives and property
of the farmers of that vicinity. The houses
of Wi liam Nosrand, Mr.. McVeagh, Henry
Hughitt, Samuel Ashton, James Trotter,
George Ray, Henry Turlly, Henry Farbec,,
and Samuel A. Grub were torn down and
greas damage done their other property.
The killed and injured are:
Mr.. Booker and child. Mrs. English and
two children, injured seriously. Mrs. For
beg, killed. Mrs. Jane Van. Nostrand, prob
ably fatally injured. Misses Maggie and
Annie Van Nostrand, badly hurt.
From Round Prairie the storm swept on
IN nou,coo nipo r,ilaS uorthaost h1,t 6oipo
no serious damage until that point was
reached. Here q number of houses were
torn down and Mrs. Ferris killed. At
Buffalo, q little hamlet, Mrs. Thomas
Chandler was killed by the falling timbers
of her house.
farm houses of Porter Story, Alex Gum,
William Brakeman, Thomas hester, Jesse
C%oyington, and A. Warsup were destroyed.
One niar, O boy, and two children were
killed, and others injured. Near Franklin
the storm was tearfully destructive. At
Pisga, the house, barn and orchard FLAMES
O1ley were swept away and his wife and
where there was a fatal tornado three years
ago, the railroad depot was destroyed.
at Leitenburg, some nine miles north Of
here on the Peoria branch Of The Wabash
railway, the storm was in the shape Of a
column and struck the south part Of the
tOWn at The southern euSe, gong northeast,
completely. across the business residence
portion of the place, leveling -four stores,
two churches: depot, repair shop, machine
shop and thirteen dwellings, besides injur-
ing others and destroying much other prop
erty. Five were killed and fifteen injured.
The dead at Greasy Prairie now number
four, a man named English, a twenty-year-
old boy named Brakeman, and two children
in the Westroat family, making ten dead.
At Clinton, Dewitt county the names of
the dead are: George p. Clifton, Mrs. Cliff
ton, his wife, and Ollie Clifton. aged seven.
At Grafton, Ill, Mrs. Garner was killed,
and her husband is supposed to nave been
thrown into the ravine and killed and the
body washed into the river. A daughter of
Garner has a hip dislocated, and a daugh-
ter of Denny shey a leg broken. The storm
was also severe at Edwardsville. Mrs. Will
Maxey of Alton was killed near Edwards
vile by being blown against a tree. The
roof OF the court house was blown eff.
To Serve Another Term.
a short time since the residence of Daniel
Hentleman of Sheriblis Mount, in this
county, was broken open during the CD
spnp. of tho family ord 60 1S0 ~ ~o11 ora