New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-06-04
A SEVERE STORM IN IOWA.
NEARLY EVERY BUILDING IN ONE VILLAGE
SWEPT AWAY BY A CLOUDBURST.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT A STATE HoME-HEAvY
LOSSES BY FLOODS IN WISCONSIN.

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LOSSES BY FLOODS IN WISCONSIN.
Missouri Valley. Iowa, June 3.-The village Of
Loveland, eight miles from here was almost de-
stroyed Saturday night by cloudburst. The
town is on the Boyer River, and to the east is a
gully which gradually increases in width as it
continues westward Tie cloudburst occurred a
mile or two up this gully. As it made it's way
toward the village it swept everything before
it, leaving hardly bcilling in the town. The
water which was suddenly poured ont upon the
village was from three to ten feet, according TO
the locaiity
Luke Sayles, his wife and his son, the latteI
age twenty-five, were driven out of their house
near the river by the incoming food. Finding
their escape cut off in front, they left the house
hand in hand by the back door. In the back yard
there is a downward slope from 'front.' to back,
and the current swift that all three were
swept from their feet and lost their hold upon
one another The old man and his son caught
hold Of a clump of bushes past which they were
carried by the current and managed to save them
selves Mrs. Sayles, however, was swept down
into the Boyer t. her death. So far as known no
other lives were lost.
Council Bluffs, Iowa, June "a dispatch to
The Nonpareil,' from Genwood, fifteen miles
southeast OF here, gives news of the disaster
wrought in that city by the storm early
this morning. The dispatch says: A terrific
storm passed over this city last night. Shortly
after midnight "a heavy black cloud advanced upon
the city from the west, and the low rumble that
preceded it suggestive of danger About l
o'clock IL reached ths place. The rain fell in
torrents and was lashed about by strong
wind The Kissing of the lightning was followed
by a dealening clap Of Thunder. The first
building to feel the fury Of the storm
was at the State Institute for the Fcebe- Minded.
The storm struck the institution al right angles,
and the large smokestack above the en2ine-room
tottered and fell tearing its way through the
roof and crushing to death Willie Cline, of
Clark County, and Wesley Emery, of Monroe
County. Six others Were or less injured
by the falling Of the chimney. The injured
.re John Swallow, OF Dubuque, bruised about
the body and slightly cut; Sam Aslns, Council
Bluffs, bruised about the body; Willie Prather,
Wayne County, badly bruised and cut, may die;
Fred Wright, Fort Dodge, body bruised; Edward
Street, of Lee County, bruised about the head
and body; Henry Snyder. of Benton County.
bruised about the head and body. and arm crushed.
Several other buildings were wrecked. The
storm was the most severe that ever visited this
region. Dispatches from Creston Atlantic amt
other points show that the storm was equally
severe there.
Arcadia, Wis, June 3.-As the waters about
this submerged village recede, they show traces
OF much larger damage than was at first re-
ported. Many foundations are badly undermined
which at first were thought unlnIured. lhe liil-
Der yarus reporJ the loss UI many thousand ieeO OK
lumber ana the Green Bay Railroad Company
now estimates It's loss at $4,000. No trains can
reach here for at least three days. one hundred
thousand dollars is low estimate OF the loss oc-
casioned by the foods, and il Will take many weeks
TO place the village in tie condition 1t presented
Thursday morning. r.,
Milwaukee, June "a dispatch TO The Even
ing Wisconsin from Prairie du Chen, Wis. says:
News reached here this morning that washon6
occurred last night near Hay, sIXty miles souti,
an tho Chicago BURLINGTON and Northern, which
caused the ditching OF an engine and twenty cars
of a Kansas City and ST. Paul train. a treman
and a brakemen were killed.