The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-05-28
CALAMITY AT xEN1A, OHIO.
Somn Thirty Persons Known to be Dead,
While Many Others Remain U~naccount-
ed For-The Storm Elsewhere.

Some Thirty Persons Known to be Dead,
While Many Others Remain Unaccount-
% For-The Storm Else
Dispatches from Xcnia, Ohio, OF the 18th
say: About Z O'Clock terrible clouds were
seen gathering. with terrific lightning, fol-
lowed by peals OF thunder. This Lasted
till 8 O'Clock, when nm extraordinary Clap
OF thunder seemed to open the gates,
and the rain fell in torrents.
1t appeared like n cloud burst. Water
backed up at the east end OF the town toa
lake against the Panhandle railroad. The
bank gave way suddenly and the food
came dusning through town alongShawnce
creek in waves fifteen or twenty feet high.
swept twenty or thirty hou ses away and
did 500, 900 worth OF damage. The gas
works are flooded and the town is in dark
ness and terror. The cries OF the people
in the flooded district were awful to hear.
THE VICTIMS.
The following are the killed and missing:
Mrs. Nellie Anderson n sister. Lydia
Casey (coloredl, both widows past GO years
of age, lived in Barr's bottom; Mrs. sam
uel Corcoran and two sons, aged about II
and 20 years, widow and sons OF the late
Samuel Corcoran; Nat Evans (colorcd),
day laborer, wife and child, the child miss
ing; Orrin Morris (whitel, laborer, wife and
five children, three girls and two boys, the
Oldest a girl OF 10 years of age and the
youngest Il babe OF 10 months; stephen
Denton (eolored), laborer; William
Powell. cart driver, wife and six
or eight children, who were found
this morning, the rest being missing; Lewis
Anderson and wife (colored,D Anderson
missing; Mrs. Ed. Lindsay; Mr.. Powell
and two children.
In addition to the above, two moro bod
les were found this evening, being children,
and they are not identified. The complete
number OF dead, whose bodies awe been
found, is twenty-five, with eleven still miss
ing. The loss OF property is great.
Tho city engineer places the city loss at
$4,000. TheLittle Miamiroud has about
/ sixteen miles swept away:
Cincinnati, May lathe storm which
did such frishtfnl work Mt Nenia, was far
reaching. 1t is heard ofin Illinois, through
Indiana and Ohio, and at Winchester, Va.
Here there has been an unusual electrical
disturbance for the past three nights. On
Monday night there was almost unintcr-
rupted lightning from IL pm. until 6 am.
Tuesday night a similar condition existed,
accompanied by heavy rains and hail, the
latter OF very narrow range. Last night
there was another electrical storm, with
heavy rain and hail. The Xenia storm,
h'"tNcl Was HluCu more furious. ne
counties OF Montgomery, Clarke, Butler,
Warren end 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, Spring
field, Hamilton, Lebanon and Nenia. In
the eastern county of Indiana, adjoining
this district, is Connersville. At all these
places the rain OF last night was of the
heaviest volume ever known. AT Dayton
it mao c ~ ral Trt,r a Nd n holt irnla -, j., 4 l,n.
hours.
The following is the list OF dead and in
iured at Attica, Ind, from the recent
storm:
killed-Mrs. Joe Davis, Mrs, Morehead,
Mrs. Abe Nathan, William Van Devcnter,
James Idle.
Seriously Injurcd-Mrs. Kirby and son,
Reed Brady, BOT Paris, Mrs. Moore,
Courtney Morehead.
The last-named is a son OF Mrs. More
head. The loss will exceed $500, 600.
The heaviest losses by the cyclone are: