The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-12
CYCLONE AND FLOOD.
Terrible Devastation in the
Northwest.
4 FORTY-EIGHT HOURS RAIN.
An Actress Married-Robson and
Crane Quit-The Great Row
A Duchess Robbed.
Wind and Water.

EAU CLAIRE, Wis, June 10.-A wind
storm which appeared to originste in
he centre of tho Chippewa pinery,
yes terday afternoon. moved to the
northwest and struck the line of the
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis 4
Omaha railway near Cbetek, village
forty miles north of Eau Clare. Chetek
lies on the margin of Lake Chetek.
Where the cyclone struck the lake, q
funnel-shape water spout OF immense
proportions formed, and went over the
lake with great rapidity, taking up
water WIN nOlse ike The escape vi al
immense volume of steam. The storm
passed near Chetek, and in the wood
scattering all before it.
FoRr YATES, Dakota, June 10 THE
greatest tempest ever known in this
part of Dakota, passed over this point
early yesterday morning. Houses were
bl ,wn down; fences lifted up anu
hurled through space for miles; trees
torn up by their roots and borne along
for several rods; Indian tepees picked
up and demolished. The wind came up
while the people at the Fort and in the
vicinity were sleeping, and the first in
tlmatiOn they had was the removal OF
their roofs from over their heads. With
The wind came heavy thunders and
vivid lightninPs. Ten minutes after the
storm broke, it began to rain in tor
rents, causing immense damage by
washouts in newly made gardens aad
wheat and corn fields. Several persons
were killed by lightning and falling de-
Dris. Those SO far identified all Shell
King, the celebrated Indian chief, and
UssioD, farmer living two miles south
of here, who was found dead in his
field, half mile from the point where
his house was located. The building
was completely wrecked. Dot Mariskl,
a girl 10 years old living at settlement
SIX miles south, has not been seen since
the storm struck that point, and it is
believed she was blown into the river
anI drowned. Search is being made
for her body. 1t is feared 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 every thing
they had swept away by the wind.
At Grand Forks, it has been raining
incessently for forty-eight hours, food
ing the cellars and business portion of
the city. and making the streets i'm
passaole. To add to the general de-
moralization, sewer burst on Demers
Avenue, flooding easements to the
depth of five feet, and destroying fur
niture and perishable goods.
MILWAUKEE, June marquette.
Mich. advices, say the reports received
from thirteen places in the upper
Michigan peninsula agree that las
nights storm was unprecedented in
severity and the amount of rain fall.
No approximation of the damage is yet
possible. Houses were undermined and
In some cases swept away. Culyerts
and bridges were destroyed, and miles
of fences aid sidewalks were swept
away. Although several railroad cul-
verts were destroyed, no accidents oc-
Cured, but travel is generally delayed
on peni lar roads.
MARQU ETTE, Mich, June 11.-Reports
from the Peninsula giving accounts of
the great storm on Saturday, show that
Linden, than elsewhere, although the
country for a hundred miles each way
was visited. The storm burst like
waterspout at Calumet. A large
quantity of water poured into the
Calumet and Hecla mines before the
miners could be protected. At Portage
the entry to the quarries are stopped,
being full of water. The damage at
Lake Linden Is estimated at $4,000.
Easements are flooded and railway
jmmunication is cut out by washouts.
People of Norway have reason to be
thankful for the rain. however. as the
fire of Saturday would not otherwise
have left a building 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.
UINITA, 1. T., June ia water
spout burst over the district of Armitiz
yesterday morning, flooding the entire
section. All bridges on the Big and
Little Cabin Rivers were washed away.
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Rail-
road loses three wooden bridges and an
iron bridge, also several miles Of track
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