The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-19
DEATH IN THE TEMPEST.
Ruin Left in the Trail of Tornado Which
Sweeps Through Iowa and Nebraska->A
Number of Lives Lost and Thousands of
Dollars Worth of Property Destroyed
Minnesota and Wisconsin Also Visited.

Sweeps Through Iowa and Nebraska--A
Number of Lives Lost and Thousands of
Dollars Worth of Property Destroyed
Minnesota and Wisconsin Also Visited.
Dies MONIES, Ia, June 15.-As the par
ticulars continue to be received it becomes
apparent that the wind-storm which swept
large portion of this State Friday was of
much greater violence and was productive
of greater loss to life and property than was
at first supposed. AT Pulaski Mrs. Myers
and her child were killed. as also was Ella
Hoffman, a domestic in the employ of
John Steveck. The houses occupied by the
people named were wrecked, with many
others, and number of cattle and horses
were killed. AT Sloan, a village twenty
miles south of Sioux City, half dozen
houses We're wrecked, and number of
persons more or less seriously in
jured. G. Ladsden's baby was car
ried some distance from the de-
moliShed house, but was found uninjured.
Mrs. Crossley, whose house was blown
over, was about to be confined, and is now
very low. A short distance north of New
ell Mrs. Bowers was killed by lightning.
Near Eagle Grove house occupied by Mrs.
Hanson and three children was demolished.
but all escaped unhurt. In this city and
vicinity a great deal of damage was
done. Burr Robins circus tent
was blown to ribbons and sew
era. persons sustained slight in
juries. man named Helgson was killed
and his wife hurt by the falling of house
near Ruthven. Their baby was found
some distance from the house and was uuin-
Jured. The roof was torn from the Deaf
and Dumb Institute at Council Bluffs the
roof OF the laundry was badly crushed
and the cupola of the main building was
lifted and hurled through the air sew
eral hundred feet. AT Whitinga child was
blown two hundred yards through the air
and landed unhurt in a field. When
found its clothing had all been stripped off
by the wind. Railroad and other property
suffered severely in all places visited
by the storm. Five bridges on the Rock
Island, between Croton and Bona
parte, were washed away by the river,
which was swollen far beyond its usual
proportions by the torrents of rain which
fell Nearly all the culverts and some of
the tracks of the Burlington & Kansas City,
between Franklin and Mount Sterling, were
also washed away. Farm buildings and
crops were also much damaged.
DEs MONIES, Ia, June 15.-In addition to
the damage heretofore known by Friday
nights storm, five houses and other build
1ngs were wrecked at and near Ruthven.
Helgson, SWede, was fatally hurt. His
child was blown distance, but not hurt.
The fatalities so far known number four,
with at least twenty more or less hurt. The
loss to property may reach 800, 1000, with
some insurance.
KEoKUK, Ia, June 15.-This section was
visited at late hour Friday night by one
OF the most violent rain-storms experienced
for years. Reports received to-day show
that it was extended and the damage
done severe. The Chicago, Burling-
ton q Kansas City and the Chicago,
Rock Island q Pacific Railroads were
the worst sufferers hereabouts. The Des
Moines River rose rapidly and broke away
the Egyptian levee south of the city, and
the water flooded the Missouri bottom, COW
ering an area six miles wide and three
miles long. Crops are all destroyed on that
tract and also on the Iowa shore bottoms.
The storm was wide, extending at least
from Council Bluffs to Fort Dodge, a dis
lance of two hundred miles. The strongest
wind was from the northwest, and the gem
eral character q succession of sweeping
in places In but two instances-near
Sloan and again where the Milwaukee pas
senger train was wrecked-was there any
thing approaching a cyclone. At other
places. there was straight wind from the
northwest. In some places single farm
would be swept and the balance of town
ship escape.
MINNEAPOLIS. MIMI, June 15.-Reports
from Lynn and Yellow Medicine Counties
tell Of serious damage done by hail and
wind-Storms Saturday morning. A section
of country about four miles wide and fif-
teen long, seven miles north of Minnesota,
was swept over, many buildings be-
ing leveled and crops destroyed. The
most serious result was suffered by Mrs.
G. w. Gilbert, widow. Her house was
entirely demolished, and when found about
one o'clock in the morning by neighbor
who heard their cries the woman was hold
ing the dead body of her eldest boy, aged
ten years, in her lap, the other three chill
dren clinging to her. They were all more
or less bruised and cut up with the hail
stones and flying timbers. The Youngest
child, aged two years, is not expected to
live.
EAU CLAIRE, Wis, June 15.-The worst
wind and rain-storm of the season occurred
in this section after midnight Saturday;
the ground was for once thoroughly
drenched. In some of the corn-felds the
copiOus showers washed out corn by the
root, much of which will have to be re-
planted.
OMAHA, Neb, June 15.-Another severe
rain and wind-storm visited this section be-
tween three and four O'clock this morning
One residence in Omaha was struck by
lightning, but che occupant escaped injury
A brakeman named Sullivan, on Robinson's
circus train, was killed by lightning near
Columbus. Immense damage was done in
the country to wind-mills, sheds and barns
by the wind. The storm along the Union
Pacific was particularly severe.
At six o'clock last evening the same
storm had worked west as far as North
Platte, three hundred miles from Omaha.
1t struck the North Platte depot and was
blowing it to pieces when telegraph COM
munication was cut off, and the result of
the storm in thai vicinity is unknown. The
depot at Phelps Station, on the Burlington
q Missouri Railroad, was partly wrecked.
A great deal of damage was done for dis
lance of fifty miles along the Nebraska
Railroad, in the south part of the State,
great many buildings being wrecked and
wind-mlls blown down. Reports are
uleager so far, owing to the interruption to
Geographic communication.
MARsHALLTowN, Ia, June 15.-Reports
of Friday nights storm indicate much dam
age Considerable hail fell. The Christian
Institute at LIE Grand was unroofed; dam
age $1,000. The bridge across the Iowa
River at LIE Grand was blown into the
river. -Four cars were blown off the track
out of freight-train five miles west of
here.
MACKINAw Cry, Mich, June Is. Dur
ing heavy thunderstorm about noon Sat
urday lightning struck fish shanty about
ten miles above here in W hich were four
shermen-Henry and Ben Vincent (broth-
ers), Cahal and Kelley. The two former
were instantly killed and Cahal was badly
injured. The two Vincents were single.
Their parents live at Callam's Mill, six
miles above here.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, June 15-Informa-
ton has been received from Salinas, Mex
leo, to the effect that a terrible cyclone re-
Gently visited that section, doing great
damage to crops. About forty-five houses
in the immediate track of the cyclone were
demolished, leaving many families entirely
destitute.
The Locust Plague.
WASHINGTON. June I5.-The Govern