Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1890-06-12
WEEKS GENERAL NEWS.
STORMS WEST AND EAST.
Extensive Damages to Property, and
many Lives Lost.

TIOIl Ill ulICCblOuS COME IGDOrUS or
death and destruction by the storms of
last week, which extended over four DAYS.
A terrific storm visited Western Iowa
Monday night. Rain fell in great guam
titles and in places the wind reached the
force of a tornado. The electric display
was brilliant. At Glenwood, Mills
county, the storm was very severe. The
chimney of the institute for feeble
minded children blew down and crashed
through the roof, killing two and iniur-
ing six others of the inmates. The val
ley of Mosquito creek received a deluoe
and the little city of Underwood, which
lies ON fiat, was all engulfed by it.
Scores of dwellings were totally wrecked,
while others were twisted from their
foundations. At noon, Tuesday, the
waters of Mosquito creek registered %
feet above high water mark. Farmers
will in many instances lose their entire
crops. The damage to the Milwaukee
and Rock Island roads has been enor-
nous. All the tracks of both between
Weston and Underwood are washed out,
and it will take week to repair them.
The Rock Island is using the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy track from Coun-
Gil Bluffs to Red Oak.
Bradshaw is town of 500 people stu
ated on the Nebraska Railway, about 60
miles west of Lincoln. The storm struck
the town at s 80 Tuesday evening, COM
ing from the southwest. The roar of the
whirlwind was the first notice that the
terrified people heard. 1t struck the
town fairly, and not a building escaped.
In the extreme western part of the vii
lage few houses are left with a SEM
blance of their former appearance, but
they are without windows and doors,
and their contents were scattered broad
cast over the prairies. The railroad sta
ton was smashed into kindling-wood,
and every car standing there was wrecked
except one that was loaded with stock,
and which was blown, without leaving the
track, to York, distance of nine miles.
The telegraph lines were Frustrated, and
when the car arrived at York it was
feared that some disaster had occurred.
A messenger went up the track and at
midnight returned with the news of the
disaster. The fire bells were rung, and
in a short time large number of people
were on their way to give assistance. At
the same time special train left Lincoln
with physicians and other relief. 1t was
found that Russian settlement near the
town was struck and the report Is that
nine persons were killed there. The ply
sicians say that in all II are dead, eight
mortally wounded, and perhaps 81 hurt
more or less seriously.
| A tornado struck the western portion
OF Harding county, Iowa, near Hubbard,
at 3 O'Clock Wednesday afternoon. The
house of a man named Weatherby was
torn to pieces, but the family escaped by
seeking refuge in cave. Proceeding
northeastWard, the storm struck G.. A.
Whittaker's place, leveling two large
barns, unroofing a dwelling and demol-
ishing the kitchen. G. Kissey's residence
was also struck and totally destroyed,
with all the household goods, but the
family escaped. Considerable live stock
was killed.
Five miles southwest of Angus, a
school-house was wrecked, and Miss
Heater, the teacher, and 25 pupils were
all more or less hurt, one pupil fatally.
The next place visited was large dairy
farm. Trees, fences, outhouse-aIl were
carried away. About the same hour a
cyclone formed half mile south of
Adair, knocked two houses off their foun-
dations, and then whirled through the
east part of the town, tearing down
houses.
At Z o'clock last Tuesday evening four
farmers were struck by lightning near
Cairo, Mich. E. M. Taggett, Edward
Goodchild, William Holmes and Matt
Ringle were performing an operation
upon a young horse. A thunderstorm
came up suddenly and the first bolt of
lightning struck in the midst of the men.
saw the forms of the seemingly lifeless
men on the ground. Goodchild and
Holmes were dead when assistance
arrived, although no marks or traces of
the current could be found upon their
persons. Goodchild was 81 years old
and leaves a wife and five children
Holmes was 81 years of age and unmar-
rled. Ringle and Taggett are recover
ing. 1t was one of the worst electrical
storms ever experienced in the section.
New England and the Eastern States
came in fora share of the trouble, Wednes-
day night and Thursday, Massachu-
sets and New York suffering most.
Several houses in Danvers, Peabody
and other places in Massachusetts were
struck by lightning. The Universalist
church in Peabody was considerably
damaged. The storm skipped Boston
aud Lynn. The pranks which the light
ming played in Marblehead were most
remarkable. A bolt struck John p.
Broughton's house, passed through the
roof to the kitchen, scattering things in
every direction. A parrot was in his
cage on stool near the door. The cage
was thrown into another chair, right side
up, and the stool turned upside down.
The parrot has not spoken word since.
The Browning mill near Arcadia, r. l.,
run by Col. Thomas Hoxie, was struck
by lightning and burned to the ground.
Nothing was saved.
A car on the Pittsfield street railway,
near Pontoosuc, was struck by light
ming. One of the horses was instantly
killed and the other badly shocked. The
driver was rendered unconscious. All
the passengers were thrown from their
seats and more or less stunned, but none
| injured seriously. Several houses were
struck by bolts without serious results,
and many places flooded by heavy rain.
The car-stables in Pittsfield village were
also struck. and two horses injured.
A house and two barns were struck by
| lightning, and many shade-trees wrecked
by wind, at Williamsville.
Several storehouses at Salem were
struck and fired at Salem; damage about