The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-05-23

stopped, and in one case tree had to be
cut to clear the way. A water-spout was
formed on the lake and burst on shore,
! daluging fields. Roofs were carried many
rods distant, and the scene was one Of
general wreck as the train moved on to-
ward Milwaukee. The Northwestern
depot at Racine was demolished.
Up to the time the train left Racine
only four bodies had been taken from the
ruins. Northwest of Racine it is not
known what damages were wrought,
except that the town gainesville was in
the course of the storm and much dam
age was done there. Reports from
WATERFOWL, Wis, tell of another storm,
doing great damage, but no particulars
can be learned. The widest kind OF
rumors are afloat concerning the damage
done and lives lost along the entire
course of the storm. Racine, however,
has suffered terrible calamity, greater
than ever before known in its history. A
year ago large portion of the business
portion Of the city was wiped out by fi;e,
destroying 100000 worth Of property,
but no lives were lost.
At Grafton, few miles n orth of st
Louis, great damage was done and all the
derricks of the Grafton Stone Quarry
company were destroyed, together with
five engines and several houses. The
loss is very heavy. Three houses in
Shinn alley, near Grafton, were totally
wrecked. Mrs. Garner was killed and
her husband was supposed to have been
killed and his body washed into the
river. Mike Garner has his legs disloca-
ted and daughter of Denny Shey bad a
leg broken. The storm was also severe
at Edwardsville.
Mrs. Will Maley, of Alton, while going
from her fathers near Edwardsville, to a
neighbors, was killed by being blown
against tree. The roofofthe court house
was blown off.
A dispatch from Springfield, ILL.,, says:
The damage caused by the cyclone which
visited this section of the State was more
appalling than at first supposed. Assum-
ing the form of a huge balloon just south
of this city, it swept to the northward
with terrific velocity, followed by the
usual wind and electricity. Itstruck the
ground on Elijah Isles farm, south of the
Junction, and laid in waste three dwell
lings and as many barns and outhouses.
Mr.. Isles house, a large two-story brick,
was entirely demolished. A mile and
quarter to the northeast the house of
Mrs English was literally torn to pieces,
and everything about the place entirely
destroyed. Mrs. English was crushed
and horribly mangled by the falling tim
bers. After demolishing Mrs. English's
home the hurricane seems to have raised
and rushed on over three or four miles,
too high to do much damage. 1t struck
the earth again four miles east of this
city, where the little town Of Round
Prairie is situated and played havoc with
and revolved with great rapidity.
A Galveston, Ga, dispatch says that at
Denison and Mineral Springs a cyclone
demolished the property of General
Greene, and several persons were injur-
ed but no lives lost as far as heard from.
At the same hour fierce storm with
the appearance of a cyclone swept over
Hillsboro and Pilot Point.
Dispatches from Omaha says that
cyclone swept through the eastern por-
ton of the State, wrecking several houses
and two school buildings at Valparaiso.
1t fatally injured a woman and two chill
dren. The wires being down details are
unobtainable. The cyclone touched the
southwest portion of Omaha doing slight
damage to several houses but no injury
to DerSOnS