, 1888-06-12
A TERRIBLE TEMPEST.
Heavy Wind and Rain Storms
in Dakota.
A 13-Year-0ld Girl Blown Into
a River and Drowned.
Great Destruction of Property
in Michigan.
Heavy Wind Storms.

Fort YATES, Oak, June 10.-The
greatest tempest ever known in this part
of Dakota passed over this point early
yesterday morning. Houses were blown
down. fences were lifted up and hurled
through space for miles, trees were torn
up by their roots and borne along for sew
eral rods and Indian tepees were picked
up and demolished. The wind came up
while the people at the fort and in its vi
cinity were sleeping and the first intima-
ton they had was the removal of their
roofs from over their heads. With the
wind came heavy thunder and vivid light
ming.
Ten minutes after the storm it began to
rain in torrents, keeping it up for more
than an hour, and causing immense dam
age by washouts IN the new made gardens
and wheat and corn fields. Several per-
sons were killed by lightning and falling
debris, and those so far identified are
Shell King, the celebrated Indian chief,
and his son. A farmer living two miles
south of here was found dead in his field
half a mile from the point at which his
house was located. The building had been
completely wrecked.
Matte Damroski, a girl I3 years old,
living at the settlement six miles south,
has not been seen since the storm struck
that point, and it is believed that she was
blown into the river and drowned. Search
is being made for her body, and it is fear
ed hat others have been killed.
The loss in this vicinity will amount to
many thousands; that among the Indians
is especially severe, as hundreds of them
had everything they had swept away by
the storm.
AT Grand Forks it has been raining in
cessantly for forty. eight hours, flooding
the business portion Of the city and max
ing the streets impossible. To add to the
general Generalization a sewer burst on
Demers avenue, flooding easements to the
depth of five feet and destroying furniture
and perishable goods.
EAU CLAIRE, Wis, June lO.-A wind
storDl. apparently originating in the cen
ter of the Chippewa pinery, yesterday
afternoon moved to the northwest and
struck the line of the Chicago, st. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha road near Chetek
village, forty miles north of Eau Claire.
Chetek lies on the margin of Lake Che
tex, and where the tornado struck the
lake a funnel shaped spout of immense
proportions formed and swept over the
lake with great rapidity, taking up the
water with a noise like the escape of an
immense volume OF steam. 1t passed near
Chetek and into the country beyond, up
roofing trees and scattering all before it.
MARQUETTE, Mich, June lore
ports received from thirteen places in the
Upper Michigan Peninsula agree that
last nights storm was unprecedented in
severity and the amount of rainfall. No
approximation of the damage is yet posi-
BILE. Houses were undermined and in
some cases swept away. Culverts and
bridges we're destroyed and miles of side
walks and fences were swept away. Al
though several railroad c~ulverts were de-
stroYed no accidents occurred, but travel
is generally delayed on all OF the peninsu-
lar roads.
CRooKsToN, Mimi, June I.-Red
Lake river is raging at this point. Resi-
dents of East Crookston have been forced
to leave their homes for safety. The
damages to property is already large.
MARQUETTE, Mich, June Ire
ports from the peninsula giving accounts
of the great storm Saturday, show that
than elsewhere, although the country for
The storm burst like a w~aterspout at Cal
uhiSbi anu aldlSS ludutlpy VI MdtSI pOuIcu
into the Calumet and Hecla mine before
the miners could be protected.
At Portage entry the quarries are
stopped, being full of water. The dam
age at Lake Linden is estimated at $780,
600. Easements are flooded and railroad
communication is cut off by washouts.
The people of Norway, Mich, have reason
to be thankful for the rain, however, as
the fire of Saturday otherwise would not
have left a house standing. AS it was
forty-seven buildings were destroyed.
There are but two stores left in the city,
and the town has scarcely any provisions
whatever.
VINTTA. |. T., June ll.-Yesterday a
waterspout burst over the district of Arm
tiz, flooding the entire section. All bridges
the Big and Little Cabin rivers were
washed away. The Missouri, Kansas &
Texas road loses their wooden bridges and
one iron bridge; also several miles of track
neal Blue jacket station.
CRooKsToN, Mimi, June H. Red
Lake river is eighteen feet above low
water mark. Some sixty-fve families
have had to leave their homes, some los
ing all their effects. At Clouuette the St.
Louis river is still rising. The bridge be-
tween Junction and Thanson was swept
away this morning and a big log boom is
in great danger.