The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-06
SWEEP OF THE STORM.
THE DEATH LIST AT BRADSHAW
RUNS UP TO FIFTEEN.

The People OF York Supplying the
Sufferers With Provisions Great
Need for Money and Lumber.
Great Damage to Railroad Prop
erty in Iowa-Cattle Killed in Q
Wreck.
ST. LOUIS, June 5.-A special to the Re-
public from York, Neb., says the fatalities
at Bradshaw now reach fifteen. Gov.
Thayer, Attorney General Leese and other
state officials arrived at the cyclone-stricken
village at IL o'clock this morning. The
wounded have been removed to other towns
| or into the country. York people are sup
| plying provisions. The great need is for
money and lumber. At meeting'last night
| the people of York raised 81, 800 for the
| sufferers. 1t is estimated that the loss will
reach $3.50, 600 OF 200 stricken households
1t is estimated that not ten persons will be
able to erect roofs over their heads.
GENERAL IN THE NORTHWEST.
Reports of damage by the storm of
Wednesday are coming from various parts
| of the northwest. The general rain was a
| benefit, but the wind that accompanied it
| in some places and the washouts and food
that resulted from ID, In others have caused
great loss to the railroads, farms and towns.
Chippewa Falls, Wis, reports bad sand
slides, the Wisconsin Central track being
under twelve feet Of sand, while there are
| four feet of sand over the Omaha tracks
| There was much damage done to property
| In that city.
Black River Falls, in Wisconsin, has had
a steady rain for two weeks.
In Minnesota Red Wing and Zumbrota
report great damage. At the latter place,
after most extraordinary rainfalls, the
stream rose suddenly, running families
from their homes and washing through the
deserted dwellings. number Of buildings
were washed away and the damage is in the
thousands
Around Red Wing the roads are washed
out, and no mails have been received since
yesterday.
RUSHING TORRENT.
Down through Belle creek valley to the
Cannon valley bottoms came a stream of
| water over five feet deep and mile and a
half or two miles wide. tearing away the
tracks of the Minneapolis and st. Louis and
of the Cannon valley division Of the Mil
waukee railways. Boats were brought
| into use to get away from Belle creek depot.
Cattle on the bottom are reported drowned.
In some places the tracks are buried fifteen
feet under the earth. The Duluth, Red
| wing and Southern Pacific railroads tracks
between here and Zumbrota were washed
away in many places. The wires are down
and no definite news is known. 1t is esti-
mated that the damage around Redwing
will reach fully $4,000.
MILL DAMS BURST.
| At Hay creek two mill dams bursted,
sweeping away large portion of the track
and station house. A Burlington train
from Chicago had a narrow escape from a
| washout this side Of Savannah Tuesday
night. A presentiment of something wron
ahead made the engineer stop and make an
investigation This resulted In the dis.
covery of bad washout into which the
train would have plunged had it not been
| for the presentiment of the engineer.
| Around Leroy, Mimi, the storm is said
to have been like unto cyclone. The dam
| age was great.
| Chester, Ia, suffered from this so-called
| cyclone, which formed near the southeast
corner of Oakdale township, Howard
county, and took northeasterly course. 1t
demolished school house, injuring the
teacher and several children, one of them
being fatally hurt.
HEAVY RAINS IN THE DAKoTAs.
| Since Monday morning ca inches of rain
have fallen at Mill Bank, 8. d., and the
| rainfall Is nearly as heavy throughout the
two Dakotas A report was received at
Sioux Falls that during yesterdays storm
| lightning struck the Blissman school house.
twelve miles southeast of Flandrau, killing
| sixteen children 1t was also reported that
| three of the children were blown out of
windows. Physicians and others went
out at once to the scene, where thew
found matters not so bad as reported. No
| one was killed, but fifteen or sixteen pupils
were rendered unconscious for few
moments by the force of the lightning bolt.
A bolt struck the chimney and entered the
school room with the result stated. For an
hour the heavens were ablaze with light
ming. The electrical storm was the worst
ever known in that vicinity.
CATTLE KILLED.
DES MONIES, IA, June 5.-Reports re-
celved at the railroad offices in this city say
that the Milwaukee and Rock Island rail
road sustained severe losses at Weston,
Underwood and Persia, and all trains are
suspended on both roads.
A fast stock train on the Illinois Central
road plunged into washout at Ackley yes
terday with seven cars of cattle. over 100
being killed.
The storm about Adair was the worst
ever known there. Heavy clouds rolled up
from the northwest in the evening, and by
10 o'clock the wind was blowing a hurri-
cane and the rain fell in binding sheets.
Corn is badly washed out and orchards
and gardens are ruined in many places.
HIGH WATER AT MOUNT CARROLL.
MOUNT CARROLL, ILL, June 5.-This
city has been practically shut Off from the
world since Tuesday. Plum river has been
swollen by the rains till it has reached the
highest point il has been at for twenty eight
years. Crops are flooded and the damage
will amount to 81 900.