Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25

the overtiowlng OF the sewers. Base.
ments were filled with mud and water,
lawns were torn up and sidewalks
flooded and caved in
HEAVY LOSSES At ST. JOSEPH.
ST. JOSEPH, NO., June 2l.-The dam
age done by Thursday nights storm is
not easily estimated. Every railroad
paralleling the river was damaged, and
not train reached this city from Omaha
or Kansas City until late yesterday
afternoon. The estimated loss to rail-
roads alone is placed at $4,000. No
trains left the city Thursday night, and
through trains on the Kansas City, St.
Joseph II Council Bluffs, the Missouri
Pacific & Grand Island and st. Joseph
roads are abandoned.
At Moberly, Mo-, 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 ATCHISOS.
ATCUIsON, Kan, June 21.-The food
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, were carried down White Clay
creek and hurled against the
Sixth street viaduct. Mayor Wagner
has 200 men at work removing the
debris. The damage to the city is
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-
ton 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 the city and
country is estimated at $3.50, 900. As yet
no lives have been reported as lost The
storm was confined to small streak
along the Missouri river.
DANA"E lONA
MASON CITY, Ia, June 81. - 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.
HAIL TWO FEET DEEP.
WISoSA, Mimi, 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 a strip mile
wide and for miles in length. and the
damage will amount to upward of Slo,-
600.
IN WISCONSIN,.
R1CHLAND CENTER, Wis, June o.
The heaviest rain storm of the season
visited this section Friday morning.
The damage to crops, bridges. mill
dams and saw-mills throughout the
country is very great. In the Mill
Creek valley every bridge was washed
out and number of dwelling houses
and barns were lifted off their founda-
tons.
BoscoBEI. Wis, June 2l.-Storm
after storm has swept this section
during the past week. Floods have
washed out bridges and roads and trout
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, uproo1ing
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 mis-
boots, and also one of the baby's shoes,
and then killed dog lying at their
feet Miller and the baby were badly