The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-06-26
STORM WRECKED.
The Usual Storm Franks Repeated, and
Wonders of Destruction are Performed

OF Destruction are Performed.
Within n few days there has been
o succession OF cyclones and storms
OF various kinds, somewhat disastrous
to property but not OF life. Their
track has been lain across Northern Iowa
, and Southern Minnesota, beginning as usual
u little west OF the Missouri and losing them.
selves in the pine woods east OF the Missis.
sippi.
Furious winds and tremendous rains are
reported from many Minnesota towns, but
not much damage, save at Saltwater. The
damage caused by the waterspout, as f.
may well be called, foots up to near
ly $4,000 in that city. The rain was
strong andconstant until 1890 o'clock, the
10Th inst, when the clouds seemed to burst
and the water came down in n solid
body for forty minutes. The roaring OF the
water aroused nearly every one IRON their
slumbers, and all rushed to their windows
and doors to see what had happened. DR..
Pratt and family, living on the lower fat.
between Main and Second streets, saw the
water rushing downMyrtle street as high as
the top OF a wagon. Those residing higher
up on Myrtle say the water, as it roared
down the steep hill. leading to the lower fiat,
resembled Niagara Falls. Boulders weigh.
ing 500 pounds were washed from the hills
above and carried to the flat and into the
lake. The sane was four feet deep in the
streets.
A severe wind storm struck Sioux CITY.
Iowa, at1O:15o'clock the night of the 14th
inst. The following cases are reported:
Wholesale dry goods store of Tootle, Liv-
i%ngston d Co, unroofed and the end wall
blownin.
Schenckborg's wholesale grocery had n
portion Of the sid wall blown in.
McDavis large Darn and residence and j,
ID. Farr Il Co.'s butter and eggs warehouse
were unroofcd.
Standard Oil company warehouse, roof
and partition wall.
st. Pau a Omaha railroad, large boilers
and new engine blown overheard.
Ferry boat Bennett, smokc-stack and
pilot house.
Alexander Mair, dwelling demolished.
Stroogh & NickesilL, store unroofcd
Methodist and Baptist churches unroofed.
Sioux City dispatch says: AT present
it is impossible to compute the total storm
losses sustained q rgivc the number of build
ings damaged but atarough giess more than
200 buildings suffered more or less injury.
a lie Mars dispatch says the loss in that
city is estimated at 100000, with an
equal amount in the county. No lives
were lost in town, but two men and two
children were killed in the country, while
six or eight were wounded, several danger
ously. The storm took in II great part OF
plymouth county.
AT Paoca, Neb., Darts store was demol.
ished. tlour mill unroofcd. The wind was
first from the south, then from the south
west. The total damage to property, so
far as known, is over 500, 900. Whiting,
asnlall village on the Sioux City Il Pacific
railroad, twenty miles south OF Sioux City
vas struck by a cyclone from the south
west and totally destroyed it.
AT Lemar, Iowa, Utmost every residence
and business house was more or less dam.
aged, some buildings being completely
wrecked. Thenew German at!iplicchurch
which has recently been completed at Il
cost OF 100000 was struck by the full
force OF the wind, and the stccple, which
was 6 feet high, was thrown to the
ground. The damage to the church it esti
mated at over 81, 900. The St. James Cath.
Ole church, which was built a short time
ago by the Irish Catholics, was demolished
not a post being left standing. The city gas
works, II brick building, was levcled to tbs
ground. Gilbert's elevators were very mucl
damaged, and the st. Paul &Omahafreigh,
depot is almost a total wreck. 1t is i'm
possible to estimate the damage ont il
the city, but the amount cannot fall short
OF 100000, hall OF which is insured.
At Mason City the cyclone sounded like &
freight train running over Il trestle bridge
1t did it's fearful work in alnomcnt, but til,
rain, hail and lightning continued for tw,
hours. 1t would take 81 column to enuiner
ate all the losses. A brick roundhous'
OF the Darlington, Cedar Rapids 4
Northern railroad at Burlington was blown
down; also, an iron bridge over Lime creek
A bridge over the Calamus river, which wa
bolted into the solid rock, was hoisted b.,
the wind and lodged by the bank of tn,
c4ran, ', All H11p, tho limo .pf tha storm
windmills, fences, groves and cribs wer
torn to atoms, crops OF all descriptions Gu
by hail and beaten by rain into the sol
earth. The damagei is placed by good Judge
at S2O,0 600.
In Odebolt, Sac county, littledamage wa
done in the town, but is very heavy III tn
surrounding country. Houses were shat
tered, barns destroyed and stock injured
At Ida Grove seven houses were destroyed
six persons injured, and the damage is Sc,
OO0. At Danbury the Catholic church wa
moved several feet and several houses wer
destroyed. AT Mapleton, the Advocate otiic
WAS moved from it's foundation, and tn
windmill OF the railroad company was de
stroycd. Thu town ofShaller was damage
S 1000. The barn of Philip Weitzel, nea
Odcbolt, was demolished, and seven hea
OF stock killed.
A dispatch from Iowa, says: All til
atmospheric elements OF disturlstnc
seemed TO vie with each other i
producing fright and damage, tn
whole eliminating in a cyclone, whic
struck this county in Mt. Vernon townshi
about 1870 O'Clock Sunday night the lat
inst. Fragments OF the debris were c;rlric
and strun.alongina northeastern dircctio
for /, mile or more. in many inst;'nc,
driving timbrrs into the earth two fe,
in depth; siding and shingles were sown t
the four winds: household furniture wa
scattered in every direction; farm lriachlr
cry wls broken and twisted into every cor
ceivable shape; wheels We're yanked off wal
ons and cultivntors by II square break G
IKE axle. Trees were %unrooted, the bar
broken off and some driven deep int
the earth. Chickens and doves wer
to be seen lying about dead. !
1000 stallion remained in the barr
after the roof and sides and floor ha'
disappeared, standing unhurt across som
joists, while another horse was thrown dow
and held to the ground by timbcrs, thousl
apparently nothurt. Six other horses wer
found out in the yard, with halters hanging
a mile farther on the house and barn o
Matthew Reddy were whisked out OF exist
ence. There are hardly boards enough lei
to build a fire. No furniture nor astitch o
clothing can be found. On looking around
Mr.. Reddy saw by n flash OF lightning HI
brother stretched out as though dead som
YARDS away. he picked MN up H'iu
him into an underground milkiiouse. II
then searched for and found his vile IN he
nightclothes ten rods from the house, i'll
corn field. She was also carried to themilk
house. Holast found his five-year-old DO,
thirty rods from where the house had stood
almost battered into the mud.
A host OF similar incidents are gwen, tn
genera! tenor of which may be imagined b.
those who have read the accounts oil tn
great Rochester cyclone, and Others.
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