Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-21
ESPECIAL TO THs REooRD-UsIoN.I
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Further DetatIs or the NorlhMesf CYc

Were III camp IN Al orchard WnSn the stOtn
came. Trees were uprooted and hurled
against the tents, injuring more or less all in
them, and killing two. The killed are Z.
Cantwell, sub-contractor and Alva Berry,
aged Ia, son of John Berry, the foreman.
Fatally injured-Florence Berry, daughter of
foreman Berry George Burns Arthur Rob-
inson, aged 4, son of the sutler of the grading
party. Badly injured-Minnie Berry, aged
II, another daughter of foreman Berry /;
William Smith August johnson; Ed. Can't
well, son of the sub contractor Mike Shea,
James Riley, Mike Butler-all members OF
the railroad party. In addition TO these,
Mrs. Livingston, Joseph and Carson Cabine
and james Dugan, farmers, are seriously
wounded. The badly injured are being cared
for by farmers living rear by. The seriously
injured were taken to the hospital at Litch-
field. The storm ragged with great violence
in the territory embraced between line
drawn from Keokuk to Danville, and another
line from st. Louis to Vincennes. There seem
to have been three distinct storms in Illinois,
so many were the towns attacked. Among
the damaged points are Eaton, Edwsrdsville,
Grafton, Springfield, Shipman, Havana,
Hillsboro. Pans, Nokones, Litchfeld.
Bunker Hill and Shelbyville. The loss of
property is much more serious in this district
than on the Missouri eide of the river. In
the neighborhood Of Wentsville the storm did
frightful havoc. About a mile from Vents.
vile the house of Mrs. Richards wss blown
away, and her son Jsmes, Is years old, and
child of 3 years, were fatally injured. A
number of farm houses were wrecked and the
occupants injured.
EFFECTS OF THE STORM IN MISSOURI,
ST. LOUIS, May 20th-Friday nights tor
nado plowed through three counties in Mis-
souri-Mantgomery Warren and ST. Charles.
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srty il killed and wounded over twenty peo-
pie. TIE greatest destruction was wrought
in ST. Charles county, where large number
Of farmhouses and other buildings were lev.
eled. Douglas Luckett, his wife and two
daughters, were all fatally injured. John
Jenkins was killed and his two sons fatally
injured. In the ueighborhood of Floristel,
st. Charles county, end thence for fifteen
| miles into Warren county, the track of the
storm is traced by numerous wrecks, aand
about twenty people were more or less H.
jured. On Dog prairie several large and
costly houses, and barns. loaded with grain,
we're demolished. On Allen prairie dwellings
and outhouses met the same fate. On L1utre
Isiand, in the Missouri river, g number Of
miles southwest of any of the above points,
the storm totally destroyed five dwellings
and all the ouihouses. The losses in the
three counties will run up into hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
In Illinois the storm ragged in about the
same manner it did in Missouri, the chief
damage. however, being to couatry property,
it striking no town of any considerable size.
In the vicinity of Edwardsville three resi-
dences were utterly wrecked. Mrs. Frank
Mexey was instantly killed in the wreck of
her fathers house. III. K. Barnett and all
the other members of his family were injured.
4 well on the place, containing twenty feet
of water, was sucked perfectly dry. VOLTS
store at Hsmel, few miles from Edwards
vile, was blown to pieces, and four persons
killed-names not known. AZ Woodsboro
brick school-house, church and
three residences were blown down.
James Carr and his wife were
seriously injured. The loss at and near
Stauuton, previously reported, is estimated
at $4,000. and in the vicinity of Edwards
vile SS5, 900. In Dewitt county nine houses
we're destroyed near Kinney, several others
in Texas township. and three persons, named
Clifton, killed, and about a dozen badly in
jured. The house of a man named McPher-
son, containing six persons. was lifted into
the air, carried 100 feet, set down again, and
nobody received a scratch.
VESSELS ASHORE.
MILWAUKEE (Wis.), May 2OEh.-The
schooner Lille E., of Msmistse, laden with
10000 feet OF lumber, went ashore at late
hour tonight, a mile south of the life-saving
station. Her crew of men, and Captain
Charles Brooks, of Chicago, were rescued.
At an early hour this morning another large
unknown vessel went ashore FIVE miles south
of the Lille E.
Flood and Loss OF Life.
DEADwooD ID. T), May 20sb.-A storm
began here yesterday morning with the high
est water ever known. Whitewood stream
runs through the heart of the city. The
channel was cut 100 yards wide and every.
thing went before the f5od. Ali the town up
the guleh is badly damaged. Pennington is
entirely gone. The valley is flooded, and
half of SpeaIfsh washed away. Crook City
is nearly all gone. TIE water is now falling.
though there is much Snow in the mountains
yet. George Chandler end wife and two I'M
Known men are known to be drowned. The
loss ia roughly estimated at 5000, 900. Rope
and basket communication has been esssb.
lished between the two parts OF the city.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
BISMARCK, May 20th.-A Tribune special
gives additional facts as to tbs food at Dead
wood. The heavy snow and flood reported
some days ago in dispstch from Stevenson
was at Deadwood. Rain had fallen almost
every day for month, making the roads i'm
passable and ssturating The ground thorough
ly with water. This was followed by heavy
fall of snow, which disappeared rapidly I'M
der heavy. warm rain Fridsy night and
Saturday. The gulches or valleys in the hills
are from few hundred feet to probably
quarter of mile wide. Deadwood is at the
junction of Wnitewood and Dsadwood gulches.
Numerous gulches in this case emptied their
accumulation OF water from the mountains
into these two main gulches, and gave vel
ume of water that rushed down the White
wood gulch in resistltss force. Central City,
Anchor City and Golden Gate are on Dead
wood gulch, above Deadwood City. The
greater portion of Central City would be
above the food, but for Anchor City and
Golden Gate there was no escape. There,
however, the gulch is not over six hundred
feet wide. Deadwood is a town of 5000
people. The main residence portion of the
city ia from one 20 three hundred feet above
the gulch, and the main business portion was
also above the danger lie. The portion de-
stToyed was occupied by cheap tenement
houses and second-class hotels, laun-
dries, small traders, sporting houses,
livery stables, etc. Some buildings
were built over the stream, which at its ordi-
nary stage YVES but few feet wide. Its
locality was avoided, however, by shrewder
interests, for the danger was recognized. In
this case timely warning was given by means
OF the telephone system existing IN the Hills,
and the most valuable articles were removed.
So far but three bodies have been recovered,
but it Is now believed that the loss of life has
been great. The wild excitement was only
equaled by that If the time of the fire. Horse
men were rushing in every direction, and
hastily loaded vehicles jostled each other.
When the flood came it carried everything,
excepting the most substantial buildings, be-
fore it. The loss in Desdwood will reach
500 900. Golden Gate. Anchor City,
Central City, South Bend and Crook
City are heavy losers. Several of the
mills in Deadwood gulch were destroyed, and
the damage to the mines by the food cannot
be repaired for several weeks. All the roads
are impossible, and trains we're forced to
suspend on the Hills Railroad because it was
impossible TO get wood to the stations. The
Methodist church and public school building
were among those destroyed ct Deadwood;
also Miller's freproof warehouse. One hun
dred houses are known to have been washed
away. Five lives were lost, and three bodies
have been recovered. Among the drowned
were George Chandler and wife and a man
named Briudley. Spesrfsh and Rapid are
broader valleys, the form er from two TO
twelve miles wide. The food was not SO de-
structiye there, but the damage was serious,
nevertheless.
REPORTS BY TELEPHONE.
BISMARCK, May 20th.-All Geographic
communication with Deadwood has been cut
off since the food. The reports to the out
side world have been by telephone to Rapid