Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-04-11
TWO MILLIONS LOST.
Great Damage Done in Dakota and
Minnesota by Fire and Storm.
MANY Fnrmers pestitute.

Dakota and Minnesota have sustained
heavy losses in the past few days by storm
and prairie fires In Sully and Hughes
counties, Dakota, the loss is over 100000.
The great wind storm near Marshall,
Mimi, was accompanied by fire which con
sumed 10 buildings IN the county. Wesley
Keith lost two farm houses, grain and
stock; Henry F'arnham his house, and
George Foster his household goods, grain
and machinery.
The loss in Jackson county, Mimi, will
exceed $4,000. A great many losses have
not been reported.
Destructive prairie fires occurred north
west of Vermillion. Gillette's saw mill
and 500 cords of wood were entirely des.
troyed. No insurance. Several 9th er
buildings were burned and several narrow
escapes are reported.
The town of Mount Vernon, IL miles
west of Mitchell, Dakota, was almost en-
tirely destroyed by fire. The fire was
driven into the city by tornado-like wind
and the fire brakes around the town We're
of no avail. The entire business portion Of
the town and all the dwellings but two, to-
gether with the depot and two elevators,
were entirely consumed. Scarcely any
property was saved. The buildings burned
so rapidly as to make the approach to them
impossb bic. The loss will be 5000, 900. IL is
estimated that there were 900 bushels Of
wheat in the burned elevators, all of which
il a total loss.
The disasters wrought by prairie fires in
vicinity of Nankton, Dakota, prove to be
greater than thought possible. The village
OF Violin, near Yankton, was entirely des.
troyed except three buildings Seven
buildings were destroyed in Yankton. The
village of Ollvet, Hutchinson county, was
amost totally destroyed. AT Wakonda
three buildings were burned. Serious loss
was sus aimed at Scott and Mitchell, and
the town of Pukwana was nearly entirely
destroyed. The damage is reported at
| 800 900, and 100 families are homeless. In
the vicinity of GAINESVILLE, II miles north of
| Yankton, eight farmers sustained losses
| running from 81, 900 to $1,000. Around
GAINESVILLE the loss will foot up $4,000.
| One man lost s. ,050 in money which he had
! in his coat on a piece Of plowed ground.
| Sixty miles of Western Union wire was
| blown down between Centreville and
| Huron. The records OF the signal service
the hum dity was but seven per cent, a
| conditioned dryness, Sergt. Oswald says,
| never before attained in this region. The
maximum humidity is 100, and the mean
| annual humidity Is 20. This shows that the
| atmosphere there was almost devoid of
moisture. The velocity of the wind was
46 miles an hour The loss in South Dakota
will foot up 81 600, 900, at low calculation.
In many places the crops are covered by
the loose sand and dust, and will have 10
be replanted. Travel was suspended on
some lines of road, so great was the force
of the wind. The clouds of dust prevented
engineers from seeing the track. A report
from Gary says the sun was almost totally
obscured and the superstitious thought the
| end OF the world had come. Farm houses
and barns were swept away, and horses
and cattle were burned 10 death by scores
Near Millbank 20 head of live stock are re
ported burned and the fire has swept ovel
20 miles Of the country causing immens'
loss.