Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-05-20
CALAMITY AT xESIA, ONO.


soma Thirty Persons Known to be Dead,
While Many Others Remain Unsceount.
ed For-The Storm Elsewhere.
Dispatches from Xenia, Ohio, OF the 18th
say: About o'clock terrible clouds we're
seen gathering, with terrific lightning. fol-
lowed by peals OF thunder. This lasted
tall o'clock, when an extraordinary clap
Of thunder seemed to open the gates,
and the rain fell In torrents.
IL appeared ike a cloud burst. Water
backed up at the east end OF the town 70 "a
lake against the Panhandle railroad. The
bank gave way suddenly and the food
came dasning through town along Shawnee
creek in waves fifteen or twenty feet high,
swept twenty or thirty hou SEES away and
did 500, 600 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 and sister. Lydia
Casey (colored), both widows past 6oyears
OF age, lived in Barr's bottom; Mrs. Sam
uel Corcoran and two sons, aged about IL
and 25 years, widow and sons OF the late
Samuel Corcoran; Mat Evans (coloredl,
day laborer. wife and child, the child miss.
ing; Orrin Morris twhite), laborer, wife and
five children, three girls and two boys, the
oldest girl OF L. years OF age and the
Youngest a babe OF 10 months; Stephen
denton (eolorcd), 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,) Anderson
missing. Mrs. Ed. Lindsay Mr.. Powell
and two children.
In addition to the above, two more bod
les were found this evening, being children,
and they are not identified. The complete
number OF dead, whose bodies have been
found. is twenty-five with eleven still miss
ing. The loss of property is great.
The city engineer places the city loss at
$4,000. The Little Miami road has shout
sixteen miles swept away. ...
Cincinnati May 13.-The storm which
did such frightful work at Xenia, 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
Mon day night there was almost uninter-
rupted lightning from l pm. until g am.
Tuesday night 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,
HOWeNeE, was iuS
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, Spring
field, Hamilton Lebanon and Xenia. 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
"a -. 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 Deventer,
James Idle.
Seriously Injured-Nlrs. Kirby and son,
Reed Brady, Bob Paris, Mrs. Moore,
Courtney Morehead.
The last-named is a son OF Mrs. More
head The loss viii exceed 100000.
The heaviest losses by the cyclone are: