Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-06-13
WESTERN STORMS.
Terrific Winds and ClOudburstS
in Iowa and Wisconsin.
Lo7eland, Iowa, Nearly Swept
Out of Existence.

A terrific storm visited Western Iowa
Rain fell in great quantities and in places the
wind reached the force of tornado. The
electric display was brilliant.
At Glenwood, Mills County, Iowa, the
storm was very severe. The chimney of the
Institute for Feeble Minded Children blew
down and crashed through the roof, killing
two and injuring six others OF the inmates.
The killed were: Tillie Cline, Of Clarke
County; Wesley Emery, of Monroe County.
The injured were: Sam Askins, OF Council
Bluffs: Mile Prather, of Wayne County,
Henry Snyder of Benton County; John
SwaIiae Of Dubuque. Eddie Sweet, of Lee
County Fred Wright. Of Fort Dodge.
Several of the blurred are not expected to
recover
Several other buildings were wrecked. The
storm was the most severe that ever visited
that region Dispatches from Creston, At
antic and other points show that the storm
was equally severe there
The flour mill at Glenwood. Iowa, was
wrecked and the canning factory demolished.
1t was the worst storm in the history of the
citv At Council Bluffs, Iowa, cellars were
flooded and culverts washed out. The con-
tiguous country was inundated, and crops IN
general were badly damaged, and in some
cases destroyed.
The village of Loveand, eight miles from
during the same night by a cloudburst The
town is on the Boyer River, and to the
east is a gully which gradually in
creases III width as it continues
westward. The cloudburst occurred
mile two up this gully AS it made its
before it, leaving hardly building in the
town. The water which was so suddenly
poured out upon the village was from three
to ten feet, according to the locality.
Luke Sayles his wife and son, the latter
age twenty-five, were driven out of their
house near the river by the incoming flood.
Finding their escape cut off IN front,
they left the house hand i'll hand by the
back door In the back yard there is
a downward slope from front to back
and the current was 50 swift that all three
were swept from their feet and lost their
hold upon one another. The old man and
his sou caught hold of clump of bushes
past which they were carried by the current
and managed to save themselves. Mrs.
Sayles however, was swept down into the
Boyer to her death.
4 dispatch from Dubuque, Iowa. says:
About two O'Clock a Kansas City freight
train to which two engines were attached,
consisting OF forty empty cars was coming
west 1t was passing over the Chicago, Bur-
lington and Northern track, between Me-
nominee and Dubuque, and when about two
miles north of the first place it ran into
washOut
The first engine passed over in safety, but
the second a heavy mogul, went down, drag
ging after it fourteen cars. The engineer
had a narrow escape, and his fireman, E. h.
Dole, was so badly injured that he died in
fifteen minutes after being taken from the
wreck, while Brakeman McWilliams was
also fatally injured.
\ terrific storm of wind, rain and light
ming also passed over Madison, Wis A per-
feet deluge of rain fell, and telegraph and
telephone wires were Frustrated in all direc-
tons. The storm was very severe in the
southwestern part Of the State, telegraph
lines Frustrated, corn washed out Of the
ground and many landslides reported. The
storm was very heavy east of there also.
No casualties were reported except the kill
ing Of one man near Oregon. Wis. Tele
graphic reports from Indianapolis, Ind, say
a heavy wind storm swept over Southwest
ern Indiana during the night destroying a
great deal Of property and leveling telegraph
and telephone poles i'll many localities. The
inability to get communication with Jasper
and Hmtingburg two important towns on
the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis Rail
way, gave rise to report that both towns
had been almost wiped out and many lives
lost. Officials Of the railroad company say
there has been any loss Of life.
Dispatches from Evansville Jeffersonville,
Bonneville and ROckport deny that any lives
have been lost. The only persons WHO seem
to have suffered severely by the storm were
the farmers, who lost some buildings and
stock and whose crops were badly damaged