The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-26
Pacific & Grand Island and St Joseph
roads are Abandoned

Pacific & Grand Island and St Joseph
roads are abandoned.
At Moberly, NO., lightning struck
Governor Frye's house. The members
of the family were stunned, but were
not severely injured.
In the country regions creeks over.
flowed their banks, bridges were swept
away, fences leveled and many small
buildings carried away.
THE FLOOD AT ATCHIsON.
ATCHIsoN, Kan, June 21.-The flood
which visited Atchison Thursday night
was the heaviest and most destructive
in the history of the city. Five of the
largest railroad bridges in the city, six
large wagon bridges, eighteen dwelling
houses, besides innumerable other
things, we're carried down White Clay
creek and hurled against tho
Sixth street viaduct Mayor Wagner
has 200 men at work removing the
debris. The damage to the city is a
great deal heavier than was first
thought, as every business firm
suffered more or less. The water
mains burst during the storm and the
city is now without water and protec-
tion from fire. All the railroad
tracks in the vicinity are badly washed
and trains are abandoned. Crops are
badly washed throughout the country
districts. The damage in tho city and
country is estimated at $50, ,O9O. AS yet
no lives have been reported as lost The
storm was confined to small streak
along the Missouri river.
DAMAGE IN IOWA.
MASON CITY, Ia, June 21. - Heavy
rains visited Northern Iowa Thursday
night The small grain is badly down
and much of the corn washed out.
Many pastures in the low sections are
under water. Trains on the Iowa Cen.
trail and Mason City & Fort Dodge rail-.
roads were badly delayed to-day by
washouts. On their country roads many
bridges are swept away and the streams
run banks full.
g. HAIL TWO FEET DEEP.
WINoNA, Minn., June 21.-A terrific
hail-storm swept over Winona County
Friday, doing great damage to all kinds
of crops and utterly destroying nearly
all the wheat oats, barley, fax,
corn and potatoes, and may perhaps
make half crop. This storm
was Immediately followed by the heav.
lest rainfall in ten years, regis.
istering 2.15 inches in eighteen
minutes Many farms that were al
ready stripped by hail were washed
of every thing movable, including
fences and bridges. Hail fell to the
depth of two feet over strip mile
wide and for miles in length, and the
damage will amount to upward of $lO,.
600.
IN WISCONSIN.
RICHLAND CENTER, Wis, June d.
The heaviest rains of the season
visited this section Friday morning.
dams and saw-mills throughout the
country is very great. In the Mill
Creek valley every bridge was washed
out and a number of dwelling houses
and barns were lifted off their founda.
tions.
BosCOBEI. Wis, June 21.-Storm
after storm has swept this section
during the past week. Floods have
washed out bridges and roads and trou!
streams are ruined, the trout having
been swept out into the meadows,
there to die. Thursday night wind,
hail and rain-storm struck Muscoda,
blowing down two barns, uprooting
shade trees and breaking windows. One
mile south of Muscoda the house OF
Michael Miller was struck by
lightning and completely wrecked.
Michael Miller was knocked sense.
less. John Miller was holding the baby
and the electric flash tore off one of his
boots, and also one of the baby's shoes,
and then killed dog lying at their
feet. Miller and the baby were badly
burned.
THE GREAT FAIR.
Strong Preference Expressed at Chicago
for the Lake Front.
CHICAGO, June 21.-The directors OF
the Columbian Exposi tion formally de-
clared their preference yesterday fol
the lake frontnas the site for the fair,
and authorized the committee on
grounds to at once enter into negotia.
tions with the city of Chicago, the iii.
nois Central Railroad Company
and all other interested parties to
secure an area of not less than
$50 acres. The directors have not yet
voted to recommend to the National
commissioners for approval the lake
front or any other site. They have pro-
vided, however, for another meeting
previous to the organization Of the Ma
tional commission, at which time it is
almost certain some site will be recon.
mended, and it is almost as certain that
the lake front will be that site.
WORK IN NICARAGUA.