St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-16
TERRIFIC CYCLONE.
Sioux City, lie Mars and Other Iowa Towns
Struck by q Terrible Storm
Sunday Night.
Buildings Demolished, Several People In
iured and Great Destruction
Reported.
Several People in Pittsburg Badly
Hurt by Flying Stone From
Blast.
Terrible Accident to n Factory Girl
The Dorrance Mine Still
Burning.
wrecked by the Storm.

section Yesterday. One residence III OlnaLd
was struck by lightning, but the occupants
escaped injury. 4 brakeman named Sui
liyan was killed near Columbus. Immense
damage was done in the country to mills,
sheds and barns By the wind. The storm
along the Union Pacific was particularly
severe and at Millard, twenty miles west,
two lumber yards were entirely blown
away. At ElkhOm two houses and Darn
were blown down. For distance OF SIX
miles west of Grand Island telegraph poles
are laid flat. The same storm struck the
North Platte depot and was blowing IL tC
pieces when telegraph communication was
shut off. The depot at Phelps station, OF
the Burlington & Missouri River railway,
was partially wrecked. A great deal OF
damage was done for distance OF h1t!
miles along the Nebraska railway, a great
many buildings being wrecked. Reports
are meagre so far. owing to the interruption
to telegraphic communications
PERSONS INJURED.
Special to the Globe.
MASON CITY, Ia, June 15.|One OF The
most terrific wind storms and cyclones eVel
witnessed in this part Of the state passed
over portion of this county last night
about midnight. between this place and
Farm houses, barns and school houses were
blown and scattered in every direction.
Trees were torn up by the roots and crops
badly DESTROYED. As far as can be learned
no lives have been lost, yet several persons
have been injured II. F. Lincoln had his
barn and dwelling house blown down. Rob
ert Parker's house and stables and Mr.. Red
dy's new house were totally destroyed, the
latter's wife and sister being badly injured.
Mrs. Reddy is not, according to late re-
pOrts. expected to live. Mr. Samuel Carr
house was blown some thirty feet OH Its
foundation. and Mr.. Carr was somewhat III
iured. Others have suffered, but not Serl-
Ously. The storm seemed to take south
easterly course. and with the wind was a
heavy fall of rain and hail.
GREAT DESTRUCTION.
SIBLEY, Ia, June 15.-Whiting, small
village on the Sioux City q Pacific railroad,
twenty miles south of Sioux City, was
struck by a cyclone from the southwest and
totally destroyed. The storm reached
Sioux CITY at about II last night and un-
rooted the Pierce block, fve-story build
ing. and the debris was blown into the third
story of the Hubbard house. 1t unroofed
the postoffice, tore out the rear OF the jail,
blew down Lunday's store, a three-story
block. and blew G.. c. Reeds barn OFF the
foundation. Mr. Shreeve's brick house is
unroofed. Mr.. Huges' house was blown
down and a son of Mrs. Reed is danger
ously hurt. Nearly all the chimneys are
blown off, together with all the sheds and
OutbuildingS.
ATIE MARS.
AtLeMars. twenty-five miles northeast,
the storm came at u o'clock, blowing the
tower off the new brick German Catholic
church through the roof into the basement.
The Irish Catholic Church is in ruins. The
skating rink, gas house, freight house and
coal houses are total wrecks. The mill and
opera house are unroofed, as are nearly all
the tin roofs in the city. Many of the plate
glass fronts are broken. One man in the
country is reported killed. and boy had
his arm broken. Seven barns are lying
fat. In one there was a number Oh horses
belonging to drayman. all OF which are
more OF less injured. The reason no more
were reported killed is because they were il
cellars. Later reports will no doubt bring
accounts of loss of life, as the length OF
the destruction is over thirty-f1ve miles. The
loss will exceed $500, 900.
TWO KILLED.
GRANITE FALLS, Mimi, June 15.-The
the severe rain storm on Friday afternoon,
the house of farmer in the town of Omro,
thirty miles west of here. was torn to Splin-
ters. two children killed and woman in
iured so that she is not expected to live.
Yesterday another storm was noticed raging
both south and north of Granite Falls, and
report of damage is expected.
GENERALLY WRECKED.
Sioux CITY, Ia, June ia severe
wind storm struck this city at 1915 O'Clock
last night. The postoffice was unroofed
the wholesale dry goods store of Tootle
Livingston & Co. unroofed and the enc
wall blown in; Schenckborg, wholesale
grocery, portion of side wall blown in; Nc
Davis large barn and residence and J. D
Farr & Co.'s butter and egg ware
house were unroofed; the STANDARD
Oil company's warehouse, roof and
partition wall blown down; the ST. Paul
Omaha railroad had a pair of large boilers
and new engine blown off a car; the ferry
boat Bennett lost its smokestack and pilo
house; Alex Mair, dwelling demolished
StroOgh & Nickesill, store unroofed; Meth
odist and Baptist churches, blown down
At Jackson, Neb., Dovey & Barry's store
was blown down. At Elk Point, Oak,
the railroad coal house and wind mill de
molished but no one hurt. At COleridge
Neb., sixteen buildings are down. At Hud
son the general store was
BLOWN TO PIECES,
and two children killed and three people
were seriously injured in the country neal
town. At Harrington. Neb.. the rink anC
anumber of small buildings are down. A
Wakefield, Neb., Anderson & Co.'s store il
unroofed. In all the country within {
radius of twenty-five miles there is mucl
damage to trees, fences, windmills ant
buildings, and number of farmhouSeS art
demolished. At this writing, 1:30 p. M.
only one wire is working out of town
T. Il. Peck of this city had his resi-
dence demolished, and j. K. Rivers house
is down. Rivers had three ribs broken
The small house of P. Jennings was blowI
into the creek. The man got out. Al
over the city smaller buildings. trees anC
wind mills are down, glass broken anC
numerous residences unroofed. At Panca
Neb., Davis store was demolished and the
flour mill unroofed. The wind was frs
straight from the south and then from the
southwest The total damage to property
so far as known is over 100000
A later dispatch says that at present it il
impossible to compute the total losses sus
tanned or give the number of buildings dam
aged. but at a rough guess more than 20(
buildings have suffered more or less injury
and the total loss will reach $500, 900.
injured by q Blast.
Pr-rTSBURG. Pa, June 15.-COntractOl