The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-07-30

east aud passing clear across the
State. The damage to the growing
grain is very heavy. and the proper
ty damaged already reported will
amount to $4,000. At Jefferson,
near Watertown, there was a famous
tornado, uprooting many buildings
and doing great damage generally
The track of the storm was through
the eastern part of the city. The
following business houses were
unrcofed and stocks damaged: An
drew Puerner & Co., merchants
Finch & Co, furniture warehouse ;
Muck d Co., grocery store, and Stop
penbach's snokehouse, and the
Methodist Evangelical Church and
Roman Catholic Church were un-
rooted and badly damaged. The
Fair Ground building was totally
demolished and scattered to the
winds. A German by the name OF
Foundre was killed four miles north
west of the city by the blowing over
of "a barn. At Racine II new Metho-
dist church not quite completed was
demolished and many small build
ings were more or less damaged.
At Kewaskum a large saw mill and
dam were wrecked and several barns
destroyed by lightning. The giving
way of the dam overiiowed the town
causing much suffering and destroy
ing the stocks of goods in several
stores. A large new stone Catholic
church was struck by lightning and
demolished near West Bend ; loss
about $1,000.
DEADLY WORK BY LIGHTNING.
AT Whitewater the winds and rain
did great damage to growing crops
and shade trees. Barns were I'M
rooted and chimneys blown down.
Lightning struck one of the churches
and damaged it considerably. The
wind at Fond du Lac was as strong
as gale, and barns and outbuild-
ings were blown to pieces pretty
generally. At Ashland a man was
killed by lightning and considerable
property was destroyed. At Lake
Miles two men were killed by light
ming.
Around Milwaukee the storm was
very severe, but it had spent its fu
ry before reaching the city. Several
houses were struck by lightning, but
there was no loss of life, and the
property destroyed is comparatively
small. The greatest damage is tn
the crop of ripenlng grain. Wheat
has been swept to the ground, and
as the weather is hot and muggy
the grain will spoil before il can ful
| ly ripen. A heavy electrical wave
passed over the northwest last night
and the lightning, like the rain, fair
! ly descended in sheets.
The storm swept over Western,
Central and Southern Dakoto and
Southwestern Minnesota about three
O'Clock Yesterday afternoon and VAL
| ley City suffers 100000 worth OF
wrecked property. A carpenter
was killed and several other people
injured. Workmen are actively en-
gagged in clearing the rubbish of the
demolished buildings. The freight
cars that were ditched at this place
are on the track again. The breadth
OF the storm was from five to seven
miles. Hail stones were as large as
hen eggs and dashed through the
windows on the north side of the
buildings. Woolsey and Carthage
suffered greatly in this respect
KILLED AND WOUNDED.
At Dell Rapids the greatest ruin
was wrought. So far as learned
there were four persons killed-one
woman and three children. The
woman's name was Mrs. John Hale
sixty-four years old, who lived -four
miles east of Dell Rapids. Her hus-
band in the field saw the storm com
ing. 1t carried the house twenty
feet and crushed it. Then the wind
blew it fifty feet further. The wo-
man was dead when her husband
reached her. Had she not been she
might have escaped. Cora Hahn, a
girl twelve years old, who lived
with the family, was badly hurt and
is unconscious 1t is thought that
she will recover. The ten-year-old
daughter of Samuel Duckins, who
lives three and one half miles west
ef the town, was out on the prairie
PLAYING. The wind took her up in
the air and carried her more than a
mile dropping her in slough. The
family soon followed and found her
dead there. Six miles southwest a
boy was killed and another west of
the town. Seven miles southeast a
man named Elverson was blown out
of wagon and had an arm broken
and his team was frightened and ran
away. II. Hendrickson was away
from home. His wife saw the storm
coming ard took her aged mother
and her two children into six foot
hole under the house for safety
After getting in. she thought she
needed quilt over her baby and
went up after it. Just then the
house was blown over and she was
under it and badly injured and has
been unconscious since. A kitchen
stove fell through the floor upon the
old woman aud the two children,
hurting them slightly. Eight miles
west Mr.. Walters was crushed un-
der barn and his shoulder blade
broken. Tom McConnell's house,
to the north, was ruined. The barn
fell on him, inhicting severe Injuries.
He was held there until the railroad
hands helped him out. Loss to
buildings, $500. o. II. Richardson
was badly hurt bv timbers falling
on him.
Five or six houses were razed
there. Mr.. and Mrs. Schefy, Mr.
and Mrs. Tallers and Mrs. Curtiss
and her children were all injured
Mrs. Curtiss had her ribs broken.
Mrs. Richardson. in the same vicini-
ty, had her back badly hurt and is
in dangerous condition. Dexter
Browns wife was hurt by the up
turning of their house in the coun-
try. Storm-cloud was cyclone in
character. During the storm it was