Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-05-13

Lives Lost. Buildings Wrecked and
Crops Ruined im Iowa. wisconsin. Hi.
nOis, Indiana and Ohi0-Many Per.
SONS NepOrled Killed at Nenin. Ohm.

SHICAGO, May 1o.-DislalcncS from Mount
| Carroll, Gilesburg, Rockford, Marshall Tuscola
and Streater, Illinois, and other points in west
ern Iowa, southern Wisconsin and northern
Indiana indicate that the storm OF last evening
was general throughout the localities named.
Great damage was done to buildings, crops and
fruit No lives We're lost except such as have
already been reported.
No further particulars are as yet obtainable
owing to Geographic Interruptions Wires were
swept down by the score. In one place in Ili-
nois over hundred poles We're blown down.
There is no communication with St. Louis, Gin
cinnati and other southern points, and Gin
cinnati is completely cut OH in all directions
up to $3.50 a. M.
SEVERAL LIVES LOST AT ATTICA
WILLIAMSBURG, IND, May ia cyclone
struck this place last evening. Several houses
and barns were carried away. At Attica two
miles east, several business buildings, including
a new mill, were destroyed. The Revere house
and the Chicago and Great Southern railway
offices and the wagon bridge over the Wabash
river were torn down. Several persons were ON
the bridge at the time, and all are supposed to
have been killed. Several inmates o. the Re-
we're house We're severely injured. The wires
are all down. and IL Is AS Yet Impossible to get
any definite information from outside. At this
place two brick houses belonging To Henry Butt
were torn down, and Mrs. Butt was badly in
jured. Aside from her. the people OF this place
escaped injury.
GOVERNMENT CRAFT BLOWN AWAY.
CHESTER, ILL.,, May 13.-Tuesday afternoon
this city was visited oy hurricane, which con-
tinued fully an hour and caused great damage
to property, but by almost miracle no serious
injury was done to any person. Houses we're
unroofed and in cases completely demolished.
The government fleet lying up here was blown
from its moOrings and part vi il carried down
the river Small water craft were torn from
their anchorage and carried away.
ATWOOD, ILL, May l3.-Lightning struck the
Methodist church yesterday afternoon, shatter-
ing one end of the structure.
XENIA ISOLATED By wASHoUTS.
CINCINNATI, OHIO, May 13.-The city of
Xenia, Greene county, this state, is reported TO
be inaccessible by rail from any direction. be.
cause OF washouts caused by last nights storm.
Archer creek, which flows from the east through
culvert under the railroad near the depot,
damned the culvert with drift, formed a great
reservoir, which broke the railway embank-
ment, swept through the town, carrying houses
away and, as is reported, causing loss OF life,
besides sweeping away 600 feet OF railroad
track.
TWENTY PERSONS REPORTED KILLED AT XENIA.
CINCINNATI, May 13.-Tncre is no telegraphic
communication with Nenia and Dayton, but
from the railroad officials ii is ascertained that
the water fell SO rapidly that the culvert under
the railroad choked up, creating immense
reservoir which finally broke the emban kment
and rushed through Aenia, tearing down trees
AND: washing away houses. Twenty persons are
reported killed. and large number injured. 4
fearful wind blew down trees and telegraph
poles.
AFLOoD AT DAYTON.
COLUMBUS o., May ia Dayton, o., special
says the storm last night resulted in consider
Miami rivers bank full. The drainage of the
city led the water to Main street, where the
business blocks occupy all the ground. The
thOroughfare became a river and flooded all
the store cellars, destroying goods.
LANARK, ILL.,, May 13.-There was a heavy
rain, hail and wind storm here last evening al
O'Clock. Fences, sheds and barns were blown
down. Six miles south the storm seemed to be
Of cyclonic character. Barns, fences, trees
and wind mills were leveled with the ground
VIM. Hxon drove under shed, which, was
blown down, and one OF the foundation stones
struck Hixon on the head, fracturing his skull.
He died two hours later.