Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-02
FATAL WATERS.

A Deluge In Nebraska Attended BY De-
struction of Property and Loss of LIE
Sad Accident ut Cincfnnati-Other Storm
Fatalities
OMAHA, Neb.. June 26-Specials from
various parts of Nebraska indicate that
At Wahoo it took the form of an
electrical disturbance and for nearly
an hour the heavens were ablaze with
lightning. A house in the northwest
part of town. occupied by Peter Gum
derson and family, was struck by q holt
of lightning and literally torn to pieces.
The windows were torn out and all the
glass broken. The doors We're torn
from their hangings and the frame OF
the house so damaged that it viii be
impossible to repair it The family
were in bed at 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 Harrison the sixteen-year-old
daughter of John Peterson left home
about o'clock in the evening on a
short GRAND Yesterday morning her
dead body was found in a ravine. She
missed her way and fell into the ditch,
drowning in the terrible swirl of water.
At Kearney a considerable electrical
display accompanied the rain Many
buildings were struck by lightning, but
no one was seriously hurt
At Grand Island four inches of rain
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 few miles south of Grand Island,
was struck by lightning during the
storm and killed
IowA's GREAT FLOOD.
AURELIA, Ia, June 26-This region
Is entirely cut off from telegraphic
communication. the wires working only
to Aurelia and by courier from there.
All the bridges across the Little Sioux
at 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 as everything
! is in the widest confusion The num-
Der of people driven from their homes
was between 1, 200 and /, 500.
The destruction of property alone in
Cherokee is about 5000. 600. Besides al
most all of the stock pastured along
the Sioux were carried away by the
flood, only a few animals being saved
as they came down the river. All pas
senger trains were stopped at Storm
lake.
1t is known that six persons met their
deaths around about Correctionville,
and the number is reported increased
to eight
FATAL CLoUDBURsT.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, June 25.-A re-
port comes from Cherokee county,
North Carolina, of terrible cloudburst
there. Two illicit distillers named
Harvey Agnew and Jacob Newton, who
happened to be near by, were instantly
killed A number of farms for miles be-
low were inundated and growing crops
| suffered loss of several thousand
| dollars.
SAD ACCIDENT AT CINCINNATI
CINCINNATI, June 26.-Last evening
Thomas Thurman, member of the Ban
ner Tobacco Co., of this city, aged 81;
| George Zeins, bookkeeper of the same
| firm, aged %; Miss Edith Zeins, his sister,
aged 20; Miss Catherine Cox, a niece of
Mrs. Lord, of Riverside, aged %, and
Miss Kate Ridelle, of Burlington, KY,
aged Is, a cousin of the Zeins brother
and sister. went up the river in a yawl,
and had just passed a steamer going up
! stream and were floating down on
its waves when they met the tow boat,
Frank Gilmore, going up stream with a
large tow of empty barges and no lights
out on the barges- They steered clear
| Of the steamer, but were run down by
its barges, and all five were thrown in
| to the water.
People on the shore heard the screams,
OWNED the result and put out to the
rescue. The empty yawl. a mans hat,
a girls hat, a couple of handkerchiefs
| was all they found