Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-06-04
STORMY TIMES.
Widespread Region of Soaking
Rains and Disastrous Winds.
THREE LIVES LOST IN SOUTH DAKOTA
Fatal Effects of Lightning in Ohio-Three
Persons Injured In Reconsideration
Hail in WIsconsin-No Lives
Lost.

WATERFOWL, S. D., June 3.-A small
cyclone formed at the edge of town
yesterday and demolished six barns.
The path of the storm was only about
100 feet wide and not a single house
within the city limits was In its way
Horses were lifted from the ground,
hurled into the air and sent sprawling
to the earth. Wagons were taken up
bodily and hurled to atoms.
Five miles northeast of here two
houses and three barns were literally
carried away. The debris from the
storm as it left this city spread along
its line for nearly mile.
At Waverly, twelve miles northeast,
two coal sheds were ruined and brick
smoke stack of the roller mills fat
tened to the ground. o. P. Chandler
and his son were in one of the barns
when the storm struck it and were
pinned under the boards, but were only
slightly injured.
Three people were killed at Hazel,
sixteen miles southwest of here, and
the storm is said to have been very Sc
we're in that vicinity. No other fatal
AIACo nave CT OoCA LCdIu VI.
A heavy rain and hail followed the
cyclone, but did no damage.
HAZEL, S. D., June ga cyclone
passed three miles southeast of town
yesterday afternoon, taking a north
westerly course demolishing many
houses and barns, including H. Kru-
gers house containing six persons,
three of whom were killed and one
slightly wounded The killed are: NJ.
Hoag, Kruger and his son.
A WIDESPREAD STORM.
CHICAGO, June 3.-Over half of the
United States was simultaneously
covered with water last night and the
edge of the great wet spot was laid
ragged with cyclone. The condition
of telegraph wires north, south, east
and west from this city showed a state
of affairs seldom if ever equalled.
Soaking rains were in progress, &C
companied with driving winds, to New
York on one side, to New Orleans on
the other, beyond ST Paul and Mime
apolis on the north and in the west for
an indefinite distance. Milwaukee re-
ported the worst electrical disturbance
on record, making telegraph or tele-
phone communication practically i'm
possible except at short intervals.
Further northwest in the Dakotas
many towns are wholly cut off and the
fact that a cyclone had ravaged the
country about Watertown raised the
question if there had not been serious
loss of life and property in the district
temporarily isolated
LIGHTNING IN OHIO.
CINCINNATI, June 3.-Specials report
numerous casualties from lightning in
the storms
John Osborn, of Elkhart, Ind, fell
dead upon the appearance of a vivid
flash of lightning. The coroner says
he died from fright not from an cleo
trio shock.
At Columbus, Ind, Peter Mcqueen |
and Fred Pancake were rendered in |
sensible by stroke of lightning and |
the horse they were driving was killed.
Near Frankfort, Ind, last night six |
cattle and four horses were killed by
lightning. They were all found lying /
near barbed wire fence
DISASIhOUh HAIL AND RAIN.
DARLINGTON Wis, June S.-One of
the most disastrous storms ever known
in this section visited this city last even
ing at Z o'clock The storm came from
the north-an unusual quarter. The
wind blew hurricane and the rain fell
IN torrents and hailstones as large as
hens-eggs crashed against houses and
through the foliage. Many windows
we're broken. Several outhouses were
blown down and incalculable damage
70 crops resulted. The river rose four
ieet in an hour and bids fair to be the
highest ever known. No loss of life is
reported
SEVERE WIND, ETC.
YATES CENTER, Kan, June 3-Mon-
lay night at 10 o'clock a severe wind,
ain and haiIstorm passed over this
county from the south and was so
evere ten miles south of this city as to
utterly demolish the residence of J.
Clayton and scatter and ruin the
contents. Mr.. Clayton and his wife
md nine-year-old son were all severely
INJURED, Clayton so badly that his re- '
,overy is doubtful. Growing crops
we're also considerably damaged in this !
ocality.
LIGHTNING CUTS A sTEEPLE IN TWO. !
KEoKUK, Ia, June 3.-During a phe- q
Iominal storm here last evening light
ing struck the Holy Cross Episcopal