Daily globe., 1883-07-14

stores and small dwellings were injured.
At Burlington Junctio the storm appear
ed about o'clock. This is small place
and it is said not single house escaped
injury. 1t is reported that the people
there are in need of help, but it is impos-
sible at this hour to learn definitely the
situation. 1t is also reported that the
storm was very severe at Maryville and
that about twenty five houses were blown
down. Owing to the rupture of the wires
nothing definite is received from there.
CYCLONE AND HAIL IN IOWA.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia, July ia spec
ial from McPhaul, Plum Hollow, Percival
and Hamburg on the Kansas City road in
Fremont, give particulars of frightful
cyclone and a terrific hail storm that Wis
tied that section at II o'clock to-day. Ow-
ing to the damage to telegraph, the par
tlculars are meager tonight. At McPhaul
great damage was done to buildings and
cropss A large two story brick school
house was demolished and several houses
were blown down. One occupied by fam
lily of five, in which was woman and new
born babe, was blown to pieces, but the
occupants escaped serious injury.
Another house near by was also destroyed
and no one hurt. The front part of Paul
Bros store was blown in. Wheat IN the
surrounding country was completely
beaten to the ground. Corn, grass and
trees were leveled ana cut to pieces by the
hail, which fell as large as hens eggs. The
depot of the Kansas City railroad, at Nc
Phaul is almost total wreck,
while there is not
house in town with whole window in it.
1t is reported that ten persons were more
or less injured there and in the vicinity,
but no one was killed. The storm seems
to have started at the new Pacific juno
ton, took a northerly course, growing in
ferceness and power as it reached Per-
cival, McPhaul and Plum Hollow. At all
these points great damage was done by the
wind and hail. 1t is reported that Ham
burg was also visited and considerable
damage done there.
THE HAIL PLoUGHs UP THE GRASS.
! LARNED, Kas., July 13 3.-Particulars of a
tornado on the Pawnee are arriving. The
Rows & Butler mills are blown and the
Fitzgeralds' sheep sheds are gone with the
wind. Large hail stones killed young
calves and lambs. Corn is cut so that it
will not hide a jack rabbit. The hill north
west of Browns grove looks as black as if
burned. The large hail cut the grass as if
it was ploughed, and the heavy rain fol-
| lowing washed it away. The extent of
damage is not known.
BURNED AT SEA.
HAVANA, July 13.-An English steamer
has arrived here with the intelligence that
the steamer Niagara of the New York &
Cuba mail steamship company, and which
left New York on the 7th for this port, has
been burned off the coast of Florida. The
passengers were all saved and brought
here by the aforementioned English
steamer.
The following particulars are received
At in the morning the twelve passengers
of the Niagara were reused because fire
had been discovered in the second hold
forward. The steamer was then between
Fowey rocks and Carey's Fort reef, off
the southern coast of Florida. Strenuous
efforts were made to extinguish the. fire,
but they proved of no avail. Smoke con-
tinued to pour from the ventilators. At
$50 brigantine hove in sight. The
Niagara hoisted the signal of distress and
made for the vessel. Captain Baker, of
the Niagara, soon deserted a steamer to-
ward the south. He then made for the
mander, Captain Newton, from Liver
pool to Vera Cruz. At 7 the Niagara's
passengers and mails were put aboard the
Commander. Both steamers remained to-
gether. and the Niagara went ahead until
about p. M, when she stopped to send
the purses, stewardess and safe aboard the
Commander. Capt. Baker then turned the
Niagara toward the Florida coast and ran
har och in civ of
Alligator reef light house, off Indian Key.
The purser was instructed to charter at
Havana a number of steam tugs with
pumps to assist in raising the steamer.
When raised she will proceed to Havana.
The Niagara had twenty-five passengers,
one of whom was lady. There was no
panic when the fire was announced.
The passengers highly praise the be-
havior of Captain Baker and the crew of
the Niagara and the kindness of Captain
Newton of the Commander. The fire, it is
supposed, was caused by the ignition of
petrolina, creoZine or some other acid
stored near the engine rooms. Some pas
sengers had noticed the smell of smoke at
> a. N q, but thought it came from material
| burning on shore.
The burned steamer Niagara carried
miscellaneous cargo of provisions, in
Guiding, flour, meal, oats, grain, hams, etc.
The Niagara is an iron screw steamer built
in 1877. Her dimensions are: Length, 294
| feet; depth of hold, %; breadth of beam,
3S; tonnage, 1926. The vessel cost $780,
600, and is fully insured.
POWDER EXPLOSION.
WILMINGTON, July 13. - Twenty-fv
hundred pounds of powder exploded in
the press-room of Dupont's powder works
this morning. Thomas Pearl, foreman of
the press-room, and Patrick Haley, la
borer, were killed. Alexander Billinzst-
creek, another laborer, was slightly in
jured.
| THE DEADLY DERRICK.
LAMONT, Ill, July 13.-The Eureka stone
quarry, four miles south of this city, was
the scene of another tragedy yesterday
afternoon, caused by the falling of heavy
derrick. While raising a block of stone
weighing three tons, one of the supporting
wire guy ropes snapped, causing the der
rick to fall among crowd of fifty work
men, four of whom were caught directly
under the heavy timbers and instantly
killed, This is the second occurrence of
the kind within a week.