Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-28
THE CYCLONE BELT.
Deluges Continue in Water
Soaked Iowa.
Des MOines Struck by a Heavy
Rain Storm.
A Great Deal of Damage Done by
Wind and Lightning.
Destructive Floods in Eastern Kansas.
A Cyclones Work in Co1orado-A
Terrific Thunder Storm
in Minnesota.
Associated Press Dispatches.

DIES MONIES, Ia, June PA heavy
rainstorm struck this city this alter
noon. The rain fell at the rate OF three
inches an hour, soon flooding the streets.
For while the wind blew seventy miles
an hour. Trees were broken and some
streets are Uttered with branches. Sew
eral buildings were unroofed and other
wise damaged. Reports from the sur
rounning towns show that the storm was
even more severe north and west of Des
Moines. Considerable damage was
done to grain.
IRREPARABLE DAMAGE.
HoLsTEN, Ia, June 27.-Another
most disastrous storm occurred yester-
day. Lightning and hail have done ir-
reparable damage in this section to
crops and cattle. The district stricken
by hail is three miles wide and ten
miles long. Barley is almost totally de-
stroyed. Wheat and oats are damaged.
Cushing and Correctionville were
flooded. Two children were drowned at
Correctionville, and lightning killed
G. Kline. The whole country in this vi
cinity is picture OF desolation and rum.
Hogs, cattle and horses in large num-
bers are seen floating down the river.
A wATERBoUND TRAIN.
Sioux CRY, Iowa, June ga mail
clerk who arrived here tells Of train on
the st. Paul road which is waterbound
at Hornick with the crew and twenty
three passengers aboard. He says there
is no prospect OF getting the train out for
acouple of days. He waded through miles
of water to reach here.
CROPS DAMAGED 81 100000.
DEs MONIES, June 27.-This weeks
bulletin of the Iowa weather and crop
service reports the destructive effects of
the heavy rainstorm of the 23d and
oath, limited to the area of nine or ten
northwestern counties, in which the ag-
gregate damage will exceed 100000.
........ DAMAGING RAINS IN KANSAS.
EMPoRIA, Kan, June 27.-Word has
just been received in this city OF great
damage caused by the heavy rains OF
Thursday in this and adjoining counties.
Many farms have been entirely flooded,
and barns, implements and entire crops
washed away. On the farm of John
Stotter, on Jacobs creek, large orchards
were destroyed. The storm also did
great damage to buildings. At the
Taylor ranch many fat hogs and lots of
poultry were lost. People we're COM
PEELED to flee for their lives to high
land, and property was de-
stroyed. All the farms about this
place are submerged. At Sodin's mill,
just below Emporia, Cottonwood creek
is out of it's banks, and has spread over
the country for miles. In the flood, as
it passes, may be seen all kinds of
wreckage, barns, parts of all kinds OF
farm machinery, wheat in abundance,
and here and there a piece OF drift
wood, wagon bed or a dead animal.
The flood is now subsiding.
A CYCLONE IN COLORADO.
DENVER, June 27.-News has been
received of a destructive cyclone which
passed over the country twenty-five
miles east of this city, Thursday night.
Houses were blown away, trees up
rooted and carried away, and crops for
many miles completely ruined. A dozen
persons were injured, but none seri-
ously. At Clark's ranch hail fell for
twenty minutes, and killed about 250
sheep. Mrs. J. w. Adams. living two
miles northwest OF Deer Tail, says the
hailstones killed innumerable chickens
and ducks.
ST. PAUL DELUGED.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, June PA heavy
rainstorm prevailed in this city and
vicinity this afternoon, causing numer-
GUS washouts. Lightning during the
storm caused havoc among electric
wires.