The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-18
WESTERN STORMS.
Terrific Winds and ClOudbursts
in Iowa and Wisconsin.
Loveland, 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: Millie Prather, of Wayne County;
Henrf SNYDER of Benton County; John
Swaliae. of Dubuque; Eddie Sweet, of Lee
County. Fred Wright of Fort Dodge.
Several Of the injured are not expected to
recover.
Several other buildings were wrecked: The
storm was the most severe that ever vlsieea
that region. Dispatches from Creston, At
lantic 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 or the
CITY. At Council Bluffs, Iowa, cellars were
flooded and culverts washed out. The con.
tiguous country was inundated, and crops III
general were badly damaged, and in some
cases destroyed.
Missouri Valley, Iowa, was almost destroyed
during the same night by cloudburst. The
town is OIL tho Boyer River, and to the
east is q gully which gradually. in
creases in width as it continues
westward. The cloudburst occurred q
mile ON two up this gully As it made its
way toward the village it swept everything
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 sou, the latter
house near the river by the incoming flood.
Finding their escape cut of in front,
they left the house hand in hand by the
back door, In the back yard there is
O downward slope from front to back,
and the current was so swift that all three
were swept from their feet and lost their
hold upon one another. The old man and
his son caught hold of a clump OF bushe.
past which they were carried by the current
Sayles, however, was swept down into the
Boyer to her death.
A 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, bu!
the second, heavy mogul, went down, drag
ging after it fourteen cars The engineer
had q narrow escape, and his fireman, Z. 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.
A 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 prostrated in all dlrec-
tionS. The storm was very severe In the
southwestern part OF tue State, telegraph
lines prostrated 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
graphic reports from Indianapolis, Ind, say.
A heavy wind storm swept over Southwest
ern Indiana during the night, destroying
great deal Of property and lsveling telegraph
and telephone poles in many localities. The
inability to get communication with Jasper
and Huntingburg, 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 is no foundation for the report that
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