Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-07
AN IOWA CYCLONE.
Many Houses Demsiished-CrepI are
Raiaed-StyerAi Veins spend the
Hight on Cakes Of Ice.
The water Higher rs Rock Falls Than
Ever Before Kaowa-A Fine Iron
Bridge Carried AWsy.
AT SIOUX CITY.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, April 6-Durlng q
violent electr storm yesterday cyclone
passed over the city from southwest to
| northeast. The funnel cloud WAS seen
| by mary and was accompanied by roar
ing noise. It struck but one place, In the
extreme north part of the city, and then
reboupded in the air, passing "a pldly over
the western suburbs. At the place where
the cloud struck, IL picked up the resi-
deIce of Mark Modlin and hurled it to the
ground In the resr of the .ot. Mrs. Mod
lin was severely Injured The house OF
| Mr.. Richmond was wrecked, and barn
| near BY WAS split to kiDdling. ModIlu
says he saw two clouds form and meet,
and in a moment the house Was hurled
| from its foundation.
At Slbley tornado swept over the
country doing muc1 damage to property.
Without moments wsrnlng the wind
| rose from slight breeze to hurricane
and in short time cbimneys, fences,
lumber and other property were torn
from their places and hurled through the
sir. A large chimney on pubic school
building crashed through the roof iuto
the midst of teachers institute, but
aside from few slight bruises no one
was hurt. The agricultural warehouse Of
Grant C Hanua WAS moved from It's
found ition and now STANDS al an angle
t50.
ports from the rural districts bring
intelligence of damage to stock. The
house of Jscob Brooks WAS lifted from
its foanda ion ant torn into fragments.
MANY NARROW ESCAPES.
MASON CITY, Iowa, April e-The
greatest freshet ever known in this county
WAS experienced last night. The town Of
Rock Falls, en- the banks of Shell Rock
river, experiencing II most disastrously
An iron bridge los feet lorg and dam
are both gone. Tue damage to property
there will not fall short Of $4,000. tn
Ice gorge csme down the river
wi b such force that everything
Ia Its course was swep. awsy. The
village If Rock Falls WAS completely ia
undated, and houses and barns were
crushed and swept away. The house Of
M. Crulkshank, where he lived with his
wife aud three children, WAS crushed like
an egg shell. The husband hearing he
roar Of the torrent got out of oed and be
fore he could light lamp the water
in his chamber w.s up to his waist. He
pushed two CT his children through q
trsp- door, following them, his wife With
her babe refusing TO leave. The womaD
rushed with her child to the upper story
of the Louise, just as 1t wss yielding to
the force ofthe Fl BOD, and escaped through
the roof by jumping on foa,ipg ice, where
they rem aimed for Two hours, until day
light, when the neighbors rescued them
house in which Mrs. Anderson lived,
with i've children, was
SwEPT FROM JTS RnITNnATI0E
and fosted against some Trees where II
LOGGED, the women s,d children escaping
on 4 Eating ice wnere they remained bare
footed and in their night clothes until
daylight when the water receded and they
were rescued. The large bridge went
out when the ice gorge gave way and
portions Of the trusses snd stfiDeers are
now on the farm Of Joseph Herret where
they were borne by the food two miles
below the dam, ssd the tubing copsid-
ere 1;the best In the state is gone. Miles
of fences were torn from land where
water was never known to rtnch be-
fore. When the water receded 1t
eft immense piles Of ice in the streets
Hugh cakes three feet thick are piled en-
one another ten TO fifteen feet high, and
It will be therefore weeks before theg
melt a. d make the streets p,s.able. 1t
looks Ike al immense arctic scene with
tie root Ct houses protrudisg through.
All Gay yesterday the ice was running,
and the river was clogged with timoers
and drift wood from the dRmige afflicted
above which must have been great.
COPELAND Smith, who has iusf returned
from the scene says he hiss lived in Ger
70 Gordo county nearly flty yesrs, but
never saw the wster so hign or 80 mucn
devastation q ne before. A large relief
party left here for Rock Falls to-day pre-
pared 10 attend to the wants Of the sui
ferers.
AT DELPHI.
DELPHI, IND, April ga terrific wind
and ram storm passed over tals place last
evening. At Sleetbs, Eve miles north, It
psrtook of the nature of q cyclone. Sew
eral houses were blown down and
freight train on the Monon line WAS lifted
from the track. No one wss injured.