Los Cerrillos rustler. (Cerrillos, N.M.) 188?-1891, 1891-07-03
The Delage In Nebraska Accom-
panied BY Much Lightning.
/, SEVERAL LIVES REPORTED LOST.
Almost Complete Destruction sf Railway
nridEes Ia Northwest Isxs-Nsvfns,
Ia. said Go nas. bees Destroyed
People se~k Hlgh Lzad.

electrical disturbance and for nearly
an hour the heavens were ablaze with
lightning A house In the northwest
part Of town. occupied by Peter Gun
derson and family. wa struck by a bolt
of lightning and literally torn t. pieces
The windows were torn out and all the
glass broken The doors were torn
from their hangings and the frame Of
the house 50 damaged that Il will be
impossible 10 repair IT, The family
were In bed az the time and the springs
of the bed on which they were sleeping
were melted No one was hurt aside
from being badly shaken up except one
child that was cut by falling glass
At Fremont the rain fell In torrents
for hours and the streets were rivers Of
water. There was no damage lone by
wind, but the incessant lightning
played havoc with the electric lights
Trains on the Fremont Elkhorn 4
Missouri Valley road nave been run
ming irregularly on account of wash
outs About 700 feet OF track was taken
out near West Point and transfers had
60 be made over the break. Three
washouts between Fremont and Lin
coin shut off all communication be-
tween these cities until late last even
ing. The heaviest washout is on the
approach 10 the big bridge ovcr the
Platte. seven miles west of the city.
At York the storm began about o
o'clock and kept up until 8 o'clock next
morning. The Burlington & Missouri
road had "A disastrous wreck neat there
on account Of a washout- The North
western trains are afraid TO cross their
bridge west Of town and the Kansas
City and Omaha train turned back u
mile from town, afraid 10 come in over
their shalSy and undermined tracks.
At Harrison the sixteen-year-old
daughter Of John Peterson left home
about 0 o'clock in the evening on u
short errand. Yesterday morning her
dead body was found In n %ravine. She
missed her way and fell into the ditch,
drowning In the terrible swirl of water.
At kearney IA considerable electrical
display accompanied the rain. Many
buildings were struck by lightning, but
no one was seriously hurt
At Grand Island four inches OF rniu
fell during the night. Much small dam
age was done in town. Movements Of
Union Pacific trains were interfered
with, but no serious washouts are re-
ported. Mrs. Louise Westphal, who
lived a few miles south of Grand Island,
wac struck by lightning during the
storm and killed.
IowA's GREAT FLooD.
SIoUX City, la June 2G.-The flood
In the Floyd river, which passed Lumars
and Merrill, doing great damage in the
country, reached here early yesterday
morning and the river rose about twelve
feet One hundred and fifty houses in
the valley were partially submerged
and The families moved out TO the hills
The large stove works. shoe factory.
-four mill and foundry in the suburbs
of the towns are closed.
A man in from Neville. eighteen miles
east of here, reports that the whole
town was swept away and only one
house was untouched, about fifty hav-
ing been carried off.
LAMARs, Ia, June %. "A heavy Hood
came down Willow creek yesterday
about a mile above Lamars. The bot
tom land along the river at once became
a raging torrent nearly a mile wide.
The food washed AWAY over n mile of
embankment twenty feet high on the
Illinois Central track n mile east of
here, where Willow creek runs under
the railroad. The crops on the bottoms
were entirely destroyed. Hundreds OF
head Of cattle and horses were found
ap.tvn, tnr In tlafr Nuut,trau unI ,sa~,
rescued by men in boats. No lives were
lost Lamars is on high ground and
sustained no damage.
The flood was the highest ever known.
The water came down from the storm,
the larger part of the deluge. however.
going on the other side of the divide to
Cherokee. Mails were delayed thirty
six hours. The track between here and
Sioux City has been repaired.
AUREIIA, Ia, June . 6-This region
is entirely cut off from telegraphic
communication, the wires working only
20 Aurelia and by courier from there.
All the bridges across the Little Sioux
Mt Cherokee are gone, together with the
railroad and telegraph wires.
A courier who has just arrived from
Cherokee states that 100 houses have
been washed away. but no further loss
of life has been reported. 1t is impossi-
BILE to learn the names Of the four un-
fortunates of yesterday us everything
is in the widest confusion. The num-
Der of people driven from their homes
was between 200 and 800. The river
continued TO rise until 3 o'clock, ut
that time being about ten feet higher
than ever known. Every bridge
across the Sioux river. both
wagon and railroad. is gone
between Cherokee and onawa and