The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-06-26
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4 Wsndsrs Of Destruction are Performed


track has been lain across Northern Iowa
and Southern Minnesota, beginning as usual
a little west OF the Missouri and losing them.
selves in the pine woods east Of the Missis.
sippi.
reported from many Minnesota towns. but
not mpch damage, save ut saltwater. The
damage caused by the watelspout, as it
may well be called, foots up to near
ly 5000 in that city. The rain WIS
strong and constant until 10 q clock, the
18th inst, when the clouds seemed to burst
and the water came down in solid
body for forty minutes. The roaring Of the
water aroused nearly every one from their
slumbers, and all rushed to their windows
and doors to Bee what had happened. DIR.
Pratt and family, living on the lower tiat,
between Main and Second streets, saw the
water rushing down Myrtle street as high as
the top Of u wagon. Those residing higher
up on Myrtle say the water, as It roaretl
down the steep hill leading to thelower fiat,
resembled Niagara Falls. Boulders weigh.
ing 800 pounds were washed from the hills
above and carried to the fiat and into the
lake. The sand was four feet deep in the
streets.
A severe wind storm struck Sioux City,
Iowa, ut 1O:15 clock the night Of the 14til
inst. The following cases are reported:
Wholesale dry goods store o. Iootls, l.iy;
ingston 4 Co., unroofeti and tbs end wall
blownin.
Schenekborg's wholesale grocery had :,
portion 0f the side wall blown in.
McDavis largs barn and residence and j
ID. Farr T. Co.'S butter and eggs warehouse
were uIroOfed.
Standard Oh company warehouse, roo
and partition wall.
st. Paul & Omaha railroad, large boilers
and new engine blown overheard.
pilot house.
Alexander MAR, dwelling demolished.
stroogh & Nickesill, store unroOfetl.
Methodist and Baptist churches unrOofr'l
A Sioux City dispatch says: At present
it is impossible to compute the total storm
losses sustained give the number OF build
ings damaged, but ut II cough guess more than
POD buildings suffered moro or less Injury
Ale Mars dispatch says tbs lOss in that
equal amount in the county. No hives
were lost in town, but two men and two
children were killed IL the country, whic
six or eight were wounded, several danger
ously. The storm took in II grc:tt ".n!rt "f
Plymouth county.
Al Paoca, Neb., Darts store WAS drn"l-
islled, -four mill unroote.l. The wind was
first from the south, then fr0in the south
west. The total damage TO proyctts; so
IL small village on the Sioux City Y Pacific
railroad. twenty miles soutl. ii SDuS lily,
was struck by cyclone from the south
west and totally destroyed it.
At Lemar, Iowa, almost every, residence
and business house was more or less dam
aged, some buildings being completely
wrecked. Thenew nCatholic CHURCH.
which has recently been completed ut IL
cost Of $780, 900 was struck by the full
was l6O feet high, was thrown to the
ground. The damage to the cl,urci, IL csti-
mated at over 81 900. The St.JumcsC Gath
Ollie church, which was built Il short time
age by the Irish Catholics, was demolished,
not post being left standing. Thecity gas
works, Il brick building WIS isyGlel to the
ground. Giitasrt's elevators were very hin"h
damaged, and tito st. Paul u Omaha freight
depot is almost a total wreck. 1t is inn
possible to estimate the damage done in
the city, but the amount cannot iaii s!,ort
of 100000, half OF which il insured.
At Mason City the cyclone sounded like
freight train running over trestle bridge.
1t did it's fearful work in n moment, but the
rain, hail and lightning continued Tor rY4
hours. 1t would take q column to en!lIner-
ats al the losses. A brick r0undbouse
OF the Burlington, Cedar Kap,ls A.
Northern railroad ut burlington WAS blown
down; also, M iron bridge over Lime creek.
A bridge over this Gnlamus river, which was
the wind and lodged by the bank oil the
stream. AL along the line oi tha storm
windmills, fences, groves and crib" ~sts
torn to atoms, crops OF all descriptions cut
by hail and beaten Ny rain INTO the soft
earth. The damage ID placedEy gooaJndges
at S2O.O0o.
In odeboit Sac county, little damage was
done i'll the town, but " very heavy IN the
surrounding country. Houses we're shat
Tered. barns DESTROYED ami stock injured.
At Ida Grove seven houses were destroyed,
sax persons injured, and the damage ~ :6,
ooo. At panbury the Cathoiic ch'lrch was
moved several ieei and several houses were
destroyed. Al Mhpietol, TIE Advocate ONCE
was moved from it, t"pndatl9B. ana the
windmill d the rilirond company vas ae,
stroyed. Inc town OF smaller WIS damase4
81 600. Tie Darn ni fhliip Weitzel' near
Odebolt, was dea'9llshed, and seven head
of stock killed. ~
a dispatch from Iowa, aaTs: All the
atmospheric elements ot ti1seI:hance
seemed to vie Will, each other "a
producing fright md damage, the
whole eliminating in "a fgflohe, which
struck this r0unty in Mt. Vernon township
about 1910 O'CLOCK Sunday night the f&sl
inst. Fragments Of the debris were carried
and strung along ina n"!'tl'c''-:.riy direction
Tor mile ar more, III many INSTANCES
driving thinkers int" the earth tw" yet
~ depth; siding and shingles were sown ia
the iour winds; household furniture was
scattered IN every direction; farm ,nachin
ceieaoie shape' ~heeis were yahkeo osi Has
the axle. Trees were unrooted, the barb
broken oil and some driven deep intG
~ h eaf. .i in a aha,. ao' ,,a. Wet,
81 900 stallion remained in the lurr
after the roof and aides and floor had
aisappenred, standing unfiu't across some
and held I to the srnnnJ nv t;mhers ,Mnnyi
apparently pothu six other horses were
found out in tbs yard, with halters hanging
A mile farther on the house and barn 0
Matthew Iseddy were wicked out OF exist
enee. There are hardly boards enough left
to build fire. No furniture nor a stitch OF
clothing can be found. On looking around
Mr.. ReGdy saw by q fusf. Of lightning his
brother stretched out az though dead some
yards away. He picked him up and ca .rll
him into an underground miikl,ouse. liz
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