Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-10
THURSDAY NIGHTS STORM.
Great Damage pone in Various seo-
tions iaf Nebraska.
cAss COUNTY DEVASTATED.
Charles Bradley, an otoe County Farm
Hand. surrepders himself For
Murder. Committed
in New York.
Did Lots OF Damage.

LOUISVILLE, Neb., August 9.-tSpecial
Telegram to THE BEE. 1-One Of the severest
rain storms that has ever visited Cass county
occurred last night. Thousands Of dollars
worth of damage has been done in this pre-
cinct. Bridges are washed away, roads
turned into ditcnes, houses flooded, and
fences and outhouses washed away. MIR. A.
G. Cline, who lives on the bottom west Of
town. was driven out OF his house and had to
take to the hills with his family, wading
through water waist Deep He lost every
thing he had-his household furniture,
clothes, live stock, fences and garden. His
loss will. amount to $1,000. Fifteen
to twenty families Of quarrymen, who
were living IN tents and wagons
close to Rowlands quarries, lost everything
besides having to remain on the hills during
the storm without shelter.
REPORTS come in from the country Of
bridges being washed away and roads, badly
damaged. The stone abutment under the
first culvert on the B. & M. road west Of
town was washed out, otherwise their road
bed seems to be all right in this section. The
Missouri Pacific had several bad washouts,
and has freight train in the ditch just across
the river. Their north-bound passenger
started from Omaha VIA the B. & M. track.
The side tracks on the b. Il M. to the Omaha
Sand and Stone Company's quarries were
washed out and damaged badly, and it will
stone.
PLATTsMoUTH, Neb., August Especial
to THE BEE. "A very heavy rain visited
this section of the country last night. More
than two inches Of water on the level fell
during the night. and reports from the couu-
try state that great many bridges were
swept away that were heretofore thought to
be above high water mark. County Com
missioner Dixon estimates that the damage
done to bridges throughout the county will
reach $1,000. The Missouri river at this
point has raised four feet since yesterday.
1t is supposed to be due to the swollen tribu-
taries of the Platte river, which empties into
the Missouri about one mile above town.
Two extensive washouts occurred on the b.
& M. road between Ashland and Louisville
and the Schuyler train, due here al 10 o'clock
a. m, was caught between these points and
has not yet arrived. The Weeping Water
creek was higher this morning than it has
been for twenty years.
KEARSEY, Neb., August 9.-lSpecial
Telegram to THE, BEE. THE most disas-
trous storm ever Experienced here swept over
this city about O'clock last night. A
thunder storm came up from the north
west and soon after rain commenced to fall
in torrents, The rain, turned into hail, and
the wind into hurricane. Two buildings
were blown down in West Kearney. Hail
stones five and six Inches in circumference
were driven through windows, and hundreds
OF O0llarS WOrGQ lOl damage was done. u.
H. Woods photograph gallery is complete
wreck. The Masonic temple has nearly
every window in it qbroken. Cellars are
filled with wateei ind trees are knocked
down. The storm was only local and COW
cred the city principally, Only few farms
were devastated. The work Of destruction
was complete at Camp Brooke, 700 tents of
the state reunion being blown down. A
force of fifty men is at work and all will be
in readiness for the soldiers Monday.
WEEPING WATER, Neb., August o. Special
Telegram to THEsBEE. 1.-The heaviest rain
that ever visited this sebtlon fell last night,
the actual water fall in three hours being
five and one-fourth inches. The Weeping
Water creek raised twenty feet in a remark.
ably short time. Families on the lowlands
were compelled to move, the water standing
from two to three feet deep in the houses.
The large iron bridge, the only one that stood
the freshet of 1888, was swept away. The
Fowler bridge, two miles west is gone.
Great loss to the community and county is
.he result
GRANT, Neb., August 9.-[Special Tele
to The BEE. IA terrific wind storm, a hall
mile wide swept across the north part o1
this county yesterday. Barns and houses
were unroofed and demolished and crops
damaged. No loss of life is yet reported.
HARRISBURG, Neb., August 81 Special tt
THE BEE. Hail did great damage last even
ing IN strip of country two miles wild @ anG
ten miles long, passing through Harrisburg
Crops are ruined in its path and lao window
lights were smashed IN town.
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