Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-06-27
MORE OF IT.
DEVASTATION SEEMS TO SWEEP
OVER THE LAND.
Nebraska Receives Visitation Of the
Elements.
Truly the Tempest just Sat Up and
HOwled.

OMAHA, June 23.-The town OF Sweet
wader, Neb., 800 inhabitants, was swept
away by tornado yesterday, and num-
Der of people were injured. Pleasanton, a
town of about 200 inhabitants, situated on
the Union Pacific about 20 miles west of
Kearney, was struck by a cyclone yester-
day afternoon. Nearly every house in the
place was destroyed or badly damaged. but
no one was killed. The landlady of hotel
was badly hurt, and druggist from Bert
rand was struck on the head by flying
board and seriously wounded. Last night
a severe electrical, storm accompanied by
wind and rain. swept over Omaha. Gel
lars were flooded in various parts
of the town. Lightning killed a
team of horses attached to u street car.
The residence of A. jacobson was struck.
jacobson was killed and his wife and chill
dren badly hurt. At South Omaha the
roof was blown off the Grand Central hotel
and the interior flooded. A two-story
house occupied by r. L. Kuhn was struck
and burned. Mrs. Kuhn and two children
were rendered unconscious by the shock
and were rescued from the burning build
ing by the firemen, who discovered them
through the merest chance.
BELvIDERR, ILL.,, June 23.-Another
storm of unusual severity visited this vi
cinity yesterday. Rain fell in torrents and
the lightning was terrific. The Chicago *
Northwestern tracks west of here were
washed out for the second time in two
weeks and trains are all delayed. A nina
ture tornado, accompanied by heavy hail
storm, did considerable damage a fow
miles north Of this city. Trees were torn
up by the roots.
The terrible cloudburst and cyclone
which devastated the country near Earl
vile. ILL.,, Friday resulted in terrible loss
of life and property, no less than fifteen
persons being killed and number of barns
and houses entirely demolished. The
storm came from the southwest in
the vicinity of Sublette, and had apparent
ly spent its fury when it reached the vicin-
ity of the Fields school house, a new build
ing standing at the southwest of the four
corners. The fury of the storm was
awful. In second the whirlirg tempest
had struck the little school house and in an
instant the building was torn to pieces. At
the time there were but eight persons in
the school room and as the storm was heard
coming up they attempted to rush outside
to seek safety in the open air. II was too
pest was upon them and not one escaped TO
tell the fearful experience of that moment
The teacher, Miss Maggie Mcbride, and
her seven pupils were instantly killed and
their bodies carried some distance. All
were fearfully bruised and some were
crushed and bruised almost beyond recog-
milton. Several of the bodies were hurled
into little creek that flows near, which
IT,. "a.
swept the country clear of everything.
Huge trees were torn up by the roots,
fences were swept out of existence, orchards
obliterated and everything in the path of
the storm destroyed. The width of the
storm was about so rods. Leaving the
school house the storm swept onward in a
direction almost straight north, destroying
everything in its path. Occasionally it
lifted, but the whole country from Earlville
TO Paw Paw in Lee county is marked with
ruin. At least so farm houses and other
buildings were wrecked and eight more
persons killed. All buildings, fences,
orchards and crops were ruined, and
the damage done was very great Even
the forests were unable 70 resist the terri
BILE force of the wind and huge trees were
torn up bodily or broken down as if they
had been but reeds. The cyclone continued
increasing in violence until it reached the
village of South Paw Paw, where the
greatest destruction of life and property
was caused. This thriving village was
struck by the storm and left in ruins. The
loss of life was here very large, and it is
reported that II persons were killed and
many seriously injured. Twenty houses
were torn to pieces, and the eastern portion
of the town was wiped out. After the
storm had passed the work of rescue began.
The bodies of the victims had been carried
hundred of yards and some of them were
mangled almost beyond recognition. Not
a thing was left standing in the path of the
cyclone, and where once stood a score OF
comfortable homes, there are now but
scattered ruins.