The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-25
AN IOWA STORM.

WATERLOO, Ia, June M.-Reports were
received this morning by the Illinois
Central officials in this city of a terrible
wind and rain storm which prevailed last
night along that company's lines from
Storm lake TO Lemars, distance of fifty
six miles. All the towns are considerably
damaged. Four persons were drowned at
Cherokee and four at Correctionville. The
railroad depot at Calumet was blown
down and much damage to town property
is reported. Sutherland, O'Brien county,
small station on the Chicago and North
Calumet. is reported to have been wiped
out, over forty buildings being blown
down. The wires are all down and it is
impossible TO obtain accurate information
except through the reports transmitted TO
the railroad officials.
WATERLOO, Ia, June A.-Reports con-
tinue to arrive confirmatorv of disastrous
storm and food along the Illinois Central.
Cherokee was visited by a terrific storm
this morning. The Illinois central rail
road bridge, 250 feet long, across the Lit
tie Sioux at Cherokee went down under
the rush of the flood, togetherwit several
houses in the lower part of the town.
The report of the.drowning offour persons
at Cherokee and four at Correctionville
are confirmed by dispatches to railway
headquarters. Aurelia and Cherokee
both report another storm, breaking at
4:3Op. m.
AT CHEROKEE.
CHEROKEE, Ia, June 24-The terrors of
the Johnstown food were in part repeated
here today Seventy houses have been
carried out Of sight in a Niagra like tor
rent. How many lives are lost is yet
matter of uncertainty. a terrific cloud
burst, twice repeated, with the wind al
most a hurricane, consumated the dread
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swept in a vast circle over northwestern
Iowa, with Cherokee as the center. Owing
to the destruction of wires and railroads
only the vaguest reports have reached here
from the devasted territory. The damage
here is enormous. The destruction here
was wrought by an extraordinary rise in
the Sioux river, resulting from the tremen-
dous rainfall. The flood carried of big
truss of the Illinois Central railroad, and
with the bridge went four hundred feet of
trestle The Little Sioux is at the highest
stage ever known.
The Illinois Central is under water for
several miles on the Onawa branch, and
terrible hovoc has been wrought to the
roadway and bridges Many days will
probably elapse before traffic can be re-
stored. Every effort in that direction is
now being made On the Central's Sioux
Falls branch seven bridges were washed
out. The Chicago and Northwestern
tracks IN the Sioux valley were washed out
for over half mile. At Sutherland the
Chicago and Northwestern and the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul also suffer
from destroyed tracks. The storm falls
little short Of a great tri-state affection,
affecting huge stretch of country i'll
Iowa, and large portions of Minnesota and
Nebraska.
At Merrill the Floyd river rose fifteen
feet The manufacturing sowns of Leeds,
Lynn and Lewiston will be submerged by
morning, causing thousands of dollars
damage. Tonight hundreds of families on
the Floyd river are moving to higher
grounds.
LEMAts, Ia, June 24-There was
cloud burst north of this city this morn
ing. The Floyd river rose ten feet in
twenty minutes Some stock was washed
away on the river bottoms and much
damage done to crops. Railroads and
bridges are washed out and no trains are
running
MINNEAPoLIs, Mimi, June 24-Reports
from South Dakota are that the Vermil-
lion river is out of its banks and flooding
thousands of acres of growing grain. A
cyclone at Sutherland last night at Z
o'clock destroyed fifteen dwellings, four
warehouses, several barns and the North
western depot. The people took to caves
and no one was injured. All the country
and railroad bridges are washed out.