Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-06-14

Pickh' chickens without scaldin'
She arin sheep by herds an herds.
ort Il see one wen lis frsky,
Reapin wheat close to the ground;
Ort Ia see the barns an houses
Emigratin' east ard bound.
See one now, Ell? | don't tumble,
Don't ketch on to wat yer say'n'-
Wat, my talk-oh, dam it, Mister,
This ar but hurrycane.-N. Y. Clipper.
The above, though somewhat exagger-
ated, narrates in poetic form the exper-
fences Rock Island and her namesake
suburb. South Rock Island, passed
through last night. A genuine cyclone
struck th s section at $50 O'Clock last
night and We may not only be happy but
thankful that we live today to tell the
tales of IT'S queer and alarming exploits
and the marvellous escape of many human
beings living directly in its track. The
storm was huge destruction dealing
freak. II seemed bent on coming as near
doing appalling damage as it could with
out doing it-snd il succeeded. for which
| mercy let us again remark that we are
thankful Many have been unfortunate
- especially in South Rock Island-in the
loss of property-but an ARGUS reporter
found all the losers happy this morning
| that they had not Jared worse and deter
mined to bear the measure of their Ill
luck phiosophicslly.
Eye witnesses to the storms approach
and there were many srsvely apprehen-
sive ones, saw an ominOus cloud rise
rapidly in the northwest. 1t was about
$50 O'clock and after much of the ter
rife electric disturbance earlier had some~
what subsidized. The clouds approach was
heralded by incess4n. lightning and re-
peated responses of thunder. Suddenly
cloud equally as threatening rose in the
northeast. Rapidly they approached
each other, and as they came together
| they whrled and dissolved into an i'm
mense funnel-shsped cloud that seemed
to dart toward the earth with tremen
dous velocity and then to rise again and
rapidly pursue a southeasterly course.
Thus it appeared to those who observed it
in the city. A citizen of South Rock Island
who saw its approach. says the funnel
shaped cloud was whirling from a north
westerly direction. and going southeast
| when he saw it. He was first attracted
by roaring noise that sounded like a
railroad train running full bent over a
hollow oulvert. Others who heard the
storms approach give similar descrip-
| ton of the sound
IN THE CITY.
The damage by the storm in this city
seemed to be confined to limited space.
the most serious losses being on Seventh
and Eighth avenues between Sixth and
Eighth streets. George Eizel had two
new barns and other out buildings demol-
isbed. The other sufferers from the wind
were M. Mates, barn destroyed; M.
Lemburg's residence was picked up from
the foundatio and let down in a position
a few inches from its original place on
the foundation His barn and all out.
houses were leveled. Carl Dabin's barn
| was lifted from the foundation and car
ried to the middle of Eighth street. where
il went to pieces. F. Fude says his barn
and Outh ouses will he used for kindling
wood. Hr. Whitman, next door neigh
hor, cam OF find all the boards of his barn
and other property. Carl Kuloph was
another unfortunate; the wind damaged
his residence and outside buildings. Mr..
Secor's house was moved from its foun-
dalton and the barn destroyed. Geo.
Etzel figures his loss. which was the de-
Istruction OF his barn and Outbuildings. at
over 5000.
The following named were sufferers 10
a more o. less extent. all of whom los,
their barns and out buildings: Ii. Down
ing, VIM Nowack, VIM. Lundust. Chris
Heideman. The barn of MIR. Lundus1
ltoppled over on the barn of Mr.. Heide.
man causing a damage of about 500
CARPENTERS are in demand in that vicinity
Lumher, shingles ana Otuer ueDrts can Oe
found for blocks away. There wal
noticed 8 building in the line of the storm
which had hole in the roof some foul
feet square and strange to say there wal
nothing found in the loft in the way o
timber which could have made the dam
age. Weyerhauser d Denkmann did no
escape from the fury of the storm. lum
Der being scattered about the yard. Tn
stack called "Hell." where they burr
refuse, was thrown out of position ant
one of The guy irons or stays broken
This damage will be repaired at once AM
| did not prevent the firm from startinl
fire in the same. The total loss in In
tcity will reach from So 800 to 81. 600 o.
buildings aside rom the damage to trees
etc.
AS stated before, the storm seemed
confine itself in Rock Island to terri
tory bon nded by Sixth and Eighth street
and Seventh and Ninth avenues. The
IL assembled and leaped to point JUS