Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-28
A MERclLess TORRENT.

ton and Springfield Under WHter-lffe
Entire southern Portion of the State
visited-r.r-ible Work of tho Cyclone
in Indiana-Spain Swept by u Hurricane
Seventy Persons Killed in Madrid.
RUIN WROUGHT IN OHIO.
NEy1A, o., May 1A.-Twenty-two bodies
cold in death in an ex%temporized morgue,
and dozens OF grooming sufferers lying
near them Yesterday told of the extent OF
the greatest disaster that has ever alflict-
! ed Xenia-the terrible flood that has mum
dated the city.
About eight O'Clock Wednesday night a
wonderful rain, wind and electrical storm
came up. which continued with unabated
fury for three hours.
In the midst OF the storm-about ten
o'clock-t}e tire-bclls rang out their wild
alarm. but no great number OF people re-
sponded to the call; butdirectly hesecond
alarm came and the streets were filled with
excited people. The night was dark and
the rain was coming down in torrents. 1t
was soon learned thatthe trouble was that
Shawnee creek was out OF its banks and
sweeping every thing before it. AS one
stood upon the banks Of this nnghty
stream in the rain and darkness. the situa-
ton was appalling. The following arc the
killed and missing:
Mrs. Nellie Anderson and sister, Lydia
Casey (coloredl, both widows past sixty
years Of age; Mrs. Samuel Corcoraa and
two sons, aged about twelve and twenty
borei), wife and child, the child missing;
Orrin Morris (white laborer), wife and five
children, three girls and two boys, the old
est a girl fifteen years of age and the
youngest a babe of ten months: Stephen
ell (cart-driver), wife and six or eight chill
dren, one child escaped from the house, as
did Henry BrazeltOn, son-in-law OF Powell,
and two children, who were found yester-
day morning, the rest are missing; Lewis
Anderson and wife (cOlOred); MI. Powell
and two children.
The destruction Of property was heavy.
Correct figures are wanting, but it is safe
to say that to the city and its ~citizens it
vii: reach Z 1000, while the railroads will
suite, US much more.
One OF the causes OF the destruction in
Nenin WIS IL small culvert under the
Columbus & Ncnia railroad Just east OF
the Wilmington pike, it being insufficient
TO let the water through, and it rose to
the top Of the road, forming a great lake,
which snddrnly broke the embankment,
letting the water out with a great rush.
1t came down INTO the doomed part OF the
town in a body ten to fifteen feet high,
carry ing everything before it.
DAYTON, o., May 14.-Dayton and vicin-
ity were visited Wednesday night by the
most violent cyclone that has ever been
known in Ohio.
1t is impossible to detail the damage.
Houses, barns and sheds left their founda-
tions and either tottered and fell or vent
floating down the swollen and raging
stream to destruction. Hundreds OF fami-
lies were driven from their homes and thou
sands of dollars OF damage was done to
merchants throughout the city. Hail
stones as large as walnuts fell and did in
estimable damage to fruit and grain. The
entire loss in the country about here will
foo up in the millions.
SPRINGFIELD, O., May 14.-Tcrrible dam
age was caused in this city by the heavy
rain-storn OF Wednesday night. Rivers OF
streets. Ephraim Williams family were
sleeping in a lower room when the food
entered. All escaped but one child, which
was drowned. No other lives are reported
lost. The damage here will reach $4,000.
CINCINNATI, O., May 14.-The storm Of
last night which did such fearful work at
Xenia was iar-reaching, extending
throughout all OF Southern Ohio. The
counties OF Montgomery, Clarke, Butler.
Warren and Greene lie adjacent in
Ohio and form an elevated plateau
with but shallow valleys and low
hills. In these counties are the towns
OF Dayton, Springfield, Hamilton, Leb.
anon and Xcnia. In the eastern county of
Indiana adjoining this district is Corners
vile. At all these places the rain OF
Wednesday night was of the heaviest vol.
ume ever know. Dayton measured four
and a half inches in about three hours.
Nearly every railroad across the State
was crippled.
IN INDIANA.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, May 14.-The cyclone
which prevailed throughout Indiana, Ohio
and Illinois Wednesday, night did much in
jury in this city and vicinity. In the city
the courthouse and the Roman Catholic
and German Methodist churches were bad
ly damaged, the large carpenter shops
burned to the ground by the light
ming and numbers OF smaller build
ings Demolished. At Attica and
OF Williamsport, southwest OF
here, the storm spent most of its fury. At
the former the buildings OF the Attica
Milling Company, the Revere House, the
Hess Il Harvey carriage factory, the
depot and several hundred dwellings,
and smaller business houses were de-
stroyed. Over seven hundred people
are homeless, four were killed out.
right n two more fatally
injured, while a large number are seriously
hurt. The aggregate losses will be in the
neighborhood OF 100000.
The tornado reached Williamsporta about
seven p. M. and left the town in ruins.
Two persons are reported dead-one a lady
-and many more are badly injured.
Train-master Crimson, OF the Lake Erie
& Western railway, has returned from
Hobbs, a small station fifty miles east of
here. He says the ravages there last night
were terrible. Groves, houses and barns
wer- totally destroyed. Scattered along
the track OF the storm were carrasses Of
horses. cattle, hogs and poultry. while
fragments OF household furniture were
everywhere found. Several persons were
killed and Others fatally hurt.
At Wilkinson, fifteen miles distant from
Greenfield, on the Indianapolis, Blooming
ton d Western railway, the storm blew
down all the buildings in town except
three. Samuel White was killed and his
wife was fatally injured. A boy named
Shaffer was also killed and about twenty
persons seriously hurt, several OF whom
will die. The wires are down at Wilkinson,
and direct communication is cut off.
HURRICANE IN SPAIN.
Madrid, May IA terrible hurricane
has just swept across the middle OF Spain.
In this city seventy persons are known to