The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-06-20
Storms in the Northwest.
Grent Damage in Nebraska. Iowa and
Minnesota.


OMAHA, Neb.. June 15-The second Sc
we're rain and wind storm, within halt week,
visited this section yesterday. One house in
Omaha was struck by lightning, but the occu-
pants ESCAPED injury A brakeman, named
Sullivan, was killed by lightning near Column
bus. Immense damage was done IN the coun-
try to wind mills, sheds and barns by the
wind.
The storm along the Union Pacific road was
particularly severe At Willard, twetny miles
west. two lumber yards were entirely blown
way. At Elkhorn two houses and barn were
blown down. For distance of six miles
west of Grand Island telegraph poles are all
laid fat.
The same storm struck the North Platte
depot and was blowing it to pieces when tel
egraphic communication was cut oil. The
depot at Phelps station, on the Burlington
and Missouri railroad, was partly wrecked.
A great deal of damage was done Tor dis
lance of fifty miles along the Nebraska Rail
road in the south part of the State, great
many buildings being wrecked.
Sioux Cry. Iowa. June ia severe wind
storm struck the city at 1915 o'clock last
night. Many buildings were unroofed, and
the Methodist and Baptist churches are down.
At jackson, Neb., Dewey & Barris' store
was blown down.
At Elk Point, Oak, number of buildings
were blown down, and the railroad coal house
and windmill were demolished. No one was
hurt
At Coleridge, Neb., sixteen buildings were
levelled A. Hudson's general store was
blown to pieces. Two children were killed
and three people seriously injured in the
country.
At Harrington, Neb., the skating rink and
number of small buildings were destroyed.
At Wakefield, Neb., Anderson x Co. S
a radius of twenty-five miles of Sioux City
much damage was done to trees, fences, wind
mills and buildings. A number of farm
houses were demolished. L. X. Peck, of
this city, had his residence partly demolished.
j. III. Rivers house was damaged $500, and
Rivers had three ribs broken. The small
house of Phil. Jennings was blown into the
creek, but the man got out.
All over the city the smaller buildings,
trees and windmills are down and numerous
residences are unroofed. Word has been re-
ceived from Lemars that the ST. James Cath
Ole Church was torn down and the steeple of
another church demolished. The Plymouth
Mills were unroofed and the smokestack
blown away. The gas works were leveled,
the opera house unroofed, the St. Paul and
Omaha Depot wrecked, the new school house
unroofed and several residences blown down.
AT Ponca, Neb., Davis store was demol-
ished and the flour mill unroofed. The wind
was first straight from the south and then
from the southwest.
Seven miles north of Sioux City the house
of S. B. Hunniford was blown to pieces and
its contents scattered, Mr.. Hunniford being
slightly injured. The family had to take re-
fuge in the cyclone cellar. j. B. Washington
lost valuable barn and sixty acres OF corn.
His house was blown off its foundation and
badly twisted The school house near there
was wrecked. Peter Garvey's barn was
wrecked, and William Brill grove, the finest
in the county, utterly ruined. Thomas Leary,
Jas. Herst, Wm. Drake, Thomas Flaming,
Peter Peterson, Jake Shendeler, Albert Cord
well and VIM. Nesbitt, all farmers, lost their
barns, crops, machinery, &c. VIM. Lorch's
natural grove at James station, five miles
distant, was almost ruined, large trees being
broken off and torn up by the roots. No one
was killed as far as known in the country
north, as the people had ample warning and
fled to cellars, which were prepared for such
occurrences.
Ia Nebraska the indications are that the
storm of Sunday night was the most severe
ever experienced in that section since its set
Element. The rain fell in torrents and the
gale was Simply Cerrluc. nv LA tinStol Uhoi9
is scarcely house that does not bear some
trace of the storm. No lives have been re-
ported lost Two miles west of Coleridge, a
new settler named Loener, whose house and
barn had been but recently completed suffered
the loss of two children. His wife and re-
naming child are not expected to recover and
he is badly injured in the spine. At Elk
Point, Oak, in addition to numbers OF houses
being unroofed the Episcopal Church. ,was
moved from its foundation, causing consider
able damage. Great damage was done to
crops in the vicinity of Highmore, Dakota.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, June 15.-The DiSpatch's
Saltwater Mimi special says A furious
rain and wind storm struck this city about
midnight last night, lasting about two hours.
Public and private property was damaged to
the extent Of $40, 900. Myrtle street was torn
into ruts twenty feet deep, and the water main
was torn out for several rods.