Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-03
pEATHaLN The TEMPEsT.

Ruin Left in the Trail of u Tornado Which
Sweeps Through Iowa and NebraskR-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
a 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 StevecS. The houses occupied by the
people named were wrecked, with many
others, and a number of cattle and horses
were killed. At Sloan, a village twenty
miles south of Sioux City, half a dozen
houses were wrecked, and a number of
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 a 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
eral persons sustained slight i'll
iuries. A man named Helgson was killed
and his wife hurt by the falling of a house
near Ruthven. Their baby was found
some distance from the house and was unin-
iuyAl The rOnf wac form from fha noaf
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 Oh 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
between Franklin and Mount Sterling, were
also washed away. Farm buildings and
crops were also much damaged.
DIES MONIES, Ia, June 15.-In additiont to
the damage heretofore known by Friday
nights storm, five houses and other build
ings were wrecked at and near Ruthven.
Helgson, a Swede, was fatally hurt. His
child was blown a distance, but not hurt.
The fatalities so far known number four,
with at least twenty more or less hurS The
loss to property may reach 500, 600, with
some insurance.
KEoKUK, Ia, June 15.-This section was
visited at a 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
ton & Kansas City and the Chicago,
Rock Island d. Pacific Railroads were
the worst sufferers h%ereabouts. The Des
Moines River rose rapidly and broke away
the Egyptian levee south of the city, and
the water flooded the Missouri bottom, GOV.
ering an area six miles wide and three
miles long. Crops are all destroyed on thai
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 gen,
eral character a succession OF sweeping
gusts, striking with destructive force only
in places. In but two instances-nea
" taAiu again NlCAO U4C NIL dltACCD pas
senger train vas Wrecked-was there any
thing approaching a cyclone. At Other
places there vast straight wind from the
northwest. In some places a single farm
would be swept and the balance of a town.
ship escape.
MAHslIALLTowN, 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 81, 1000. The bridge across the Iowa
River at LIE Grand was blown into the
river. -Four cars were. blown off the track
out of a freight-train five miles west Of
here.
MlNSEApoLIs. Mimi, June 15.-Reports
from Lynn and Yellow Medicine Counties
tell of serious damage done by hail ant
wind-storms Saturday morning. A section
of country about four miles wide and 1if
teen long, seven miles north of Minnesota,
was swept over, many buildings be
ing leyeled and crops destroyed. The
most serious result was suffered by Mrs.
C.. w. Gilbert, a widow. Her house was
entirely demolished, and when found about
one o'clock in the morning by a neighbol
who heard their cries the woman was hold
ing the dead body of her eldest boy, agel
ten years, in her lap, the other three chill
dren clinging to her. They were all more
VI leSS DlulSCu allu cuI up Wlun GnG nall
stones and flying timbers. The younges
child, aged W years, is not expected tt
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
drenclled. In some of the corn-tields thu
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 the occupant escaped injury
~ brakeman named Sullivan, on Robinson's
circus train, was killed by lightning neal
Columbus. Immense damage wa done il
the country to wind-mills, sheds and barns
by the wind. The storm along the Uniol
Pacific was particularly severe.
At six o'clock last evening the SANE
storm had worked west as far as Nortf
Platte, three hundred miles from Omaha
Ii. 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 tina: vicinity is unknown. The
depot at Phelps Station, on the Burlington
& Missouri Railroad, was partly wrecked