Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-06-14
4 DAKOTA STORM.
Ecavy Wind and Rain Storm at
Fort Yetes-Several Lives
Lost.
The Upper Michigan Peninsula Also
Eaveged-Incessant Rains-SOl-
dierS Wrecked.
Serious Fires-Three Killed and Two
Fatally Injured by Tenement House
Burning at Lowell.

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Fort YATES, Oak, June 1.-THE great
est tempest ever known in this part OF
Dakot. passed over this point at two
o'clock Saturday morning. Houses were
b ow n down, fences lifted up and buried
thrcu- h space Tor niles, trees torn up by
their roots and borne along for sew
eral rods and Indian tepees picked Up aud
landed no one knows where. The wind
came up while people q: the Fort and in
| vicinity we've sleeping, and he first in:ima-
| ton they had WAS the removal CT theiI
roofs from over their heads by the storm
king. With the wind came he heaviest
| thunder and the most vivid lightning ever
seen here. Ten minutes af.er the storm
| brok. 1t hogan To raln III torrents,
keeping i; up for more than an
hoar and causing immense damage by
wasLouts in newmade gardens and wheat
! and corn fields. Several person, were
killed by the lightning and falling debris.
ThOs, 50 ia" identified are Shell King, the
chlehra' e / In han chief, and his son. A
farm CIR living two miles south or here
| who's. name could not be learned, was
found dead IN his field, half q mile from
the point at which his house was located.
The building had been completely wrecked,
and it is supposed the man had been car
ried to the point where he was found by
the tempest. One side Of his head was
crashed. Matte Dambrow- XII, girl OF
thirteen, living at u settlement six miles
| south, has not been seen siuce the storm
struck that point. and it is lie ieved sac
was blown into the river and drowned.
Seal ch Is being made for the body.
the loss in this vicinity will amount &c
many thousands. That among the Indians
is especially severe, as hundreds of tuem
had every thing they had swept away by
the winds. At Grand Forks it has been
raining necessarily for forty-eight hours,
flooding cellars in the business portion Of
the city, and rendering the streets i'm.
passablc. To add to the general democrat
| ization, a sewer burst On Demers avenue,
| flooding easements to the depth of five
feet and destroying furniture and perish
| able goods.
! AT ST. Thomas lightning tore away the
side of G. b. Walkers residence and struck
| the Christian elevator. The latter was
burned TO the ground, together with about
1909 bushels OF wheat. The St. Thomas
Lumber Company saved portion OF Its
property. The loss on the elevator is about
| s10.0GO.
CROOPSHIP WRECKED.
OMAHA, Neb., June 1.-THE steamboat
| General Terry, from Bismarck. Dax.,
with five hundred men of the Fifth regiu. ent
bound for Texas. struck An old pier above the
Union Pacific bird and sank in shallow
water near shore, about a half mile below
| this city last evening. All the passengers
went ashore On the gang plank, but the
ri md IF tho off
| and men aud their wives went down. The
loss is estimated at sa5,OJO. The Helena.
| of Omaha, which con- aiaud the rest OF
the regiment will continue down the river
while the General Terry's pass engers VIII
| continue their Journey by rail.
THE STORM IN MICHIGAN.
MARQUETTE, Mich, June 11.-R sports re-
ceived from thirteen places in the upper
Mlchig IN peninsula agree that Saturday
nights storm was unrr ,cedented IN sever
ity and amount OF rainfall. Noapproxima-
ton Of the damage is yet possible Houses
were undermined and III some cases swept
away, culverts aud bridges destroyed, aud
miles Of fences and sidewalks swept away.
Although several railroad culverts were
destroyed, no accidents occurred, but
! travel is generally delayed on all the
peninsula roads.
FLAMES AT FRESNO.
FRESNO, Cal, June 1L-Firc broke ont
last night IN Hughes restaurant, in a
row Of wooden buildings, south of the
Masonic temple, aud swept through the
block and CT, ssed the street, the Dexter
stables, Robnson's machine shops and
John Muller's beer bottling depot being
among the buildings consumed. Charles
Rogers was burned TO death while en-.
deavoring TO save some property from the
stables. The losses amount to SIS. 90.
BUSINESS HOUSES BURNED.
TRINIDAD, Col, June 1l.-One Of the most
disastrous fires that ever visited this city
started last night. After hard fight the
fire department succeeded in getting con-
troll Of il, but not until the Commerce.
Hotel, with seven or eight business houses,
had been consumed. The fire also cut
off teIe-raphic communication, making it
Impossible to give further p ,rticulars.
DEATH TRAP
LOWELL, Mass, June 1I.-By the burning
Of tenement house here last night, Eu-
genia Vallerand, aged eighteen. Peter Val
lerand, aged eight, and Della Valierand.
aged five, persisted. Another of the fam-
" and another occupant named Boisvert
were fatally hurt. The house was death
trap.
CANADIAN sCORCH.
CHEsLEY, Ont, June 1l.-Fire broke out
early Saturday morning in ThompsoR's
furniture store and in a short time tho
whole business portion Of the town, with
the exception Of two stores, was entirely
destroyed. Tue loss Is estimated at $780,
O00, while the insurance does not exceed
~, 900. No lives were lost.
THIRTY BUILDINGS BURNED.
IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich. June 1.-THE
town Of Norway was almost de ,troyed BY
fire yesterday. thirty buildings being
burned including the main business section.
Among the structures destroyed were the
town and Masonic halls, the p,st-otice and
principal hotel
INCEssANT RAINS.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, June 11-Incessant
rain for fOrty-eight hours at Grand Forks,
Oak. has fcode1 cellars and burst sewer,
destroying much property.
On an upper floor OF bull ling on
Broadway is an emporium for pipes. The
young man in charge said to New York