The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-27
STORM STILL RAGING.
Wind and Rains Ravages From
New York to Nebraska.
IOWA SUFFERERS BEG CHARITY.
Coal Breaker Overturned by . Cyclone.
killing Six Men-Lightning Touches
on Galveston Powder-Houses.

NEW YORK, June 26-This afternoon q cloud
burst occurred in that portion Of the city which
takes In the upper part OF Amsterdam avenue
High bridge. Manhattan bridge and Port George
lain fell In immense drops for five minutes,
and q gale followed that lasted half an hour.
Considerable damage was done 70 property, anu
enc man was seriously injured
OMAHA, June 26-There was considerable
damage in Omaha by storm that ragged all Gay
and did not cease until evening. East Omaha
was badly flooded, and the thickly populated
section OF the northern part of the city was IN
undated. From Clark street north, On twenty
fourth street, the water Ia from two to six feet
deep In the street. and street car trafic Is aoan-
doned- The police and IRE departments sent
force OF men to the inundated district to rescue
distressed people and effects No Lives were lost,
but there were several narrow escaped from
drowning.
Several washouts are reported on branch lines
OF the Burlington Il Eikhorn, causing abandon
mcnt of trains. Reports from all over the state
bring news OF additional damage by rain and
wind Three cyclones passed over Palmer but
fortunately did little damage to the town.
SIOUX CITY, Ia, June GA man went over
from Correctionville 20 Kinsley this evening
and telephoned here the frat particulars about
the food at the irst-named point It came down
the valley with terrible force and carried out
the dam Just about town. The houses in the
lower part of town were carried away, and many
people had a narrow escape. Two children were
drowned. The number of houses DESTROYED is
not known Five bridges were carried away.
business houses flooded and great damage done.
CHEROKEE, Ia, June 26.-FiEe hundred people
were rendered homeless and destitute by Tues.
days floods. and the resources of Cherokee's
citizens have been taxed TO the utmost to meet
the present requirements OF these people. Out
side aid must be given TO avert hardship. and
Mayor Bloom has issued an appeal for aid, and
telegraphed the governor for tents for shelter.
Contributions sent 10 Mayor Bloom will be
placed in the hands Of q responsible executive
committee.
FORT DODGE, Ia, juno 26.-An eyewitness of
Tuesdays food, who has just arrived from
Cherokee. states that it is necessary for
one to see to have tho least idea of
the great amount OF damage done.
"why.' he exclaimed, sit wss fearful the way
the immense body of water swep. houses and
things before it Houses were seen TO tremble,
swing half around, and then were taken along
by the torrents. Trees were bent and broken.
The most remarkable feature OF the disaster is
that any OF the people in the track of the flood
escaped with their lives. Az far as / could learn
no lives were lost at Cherokee and the immedi-
ate vicinity. The storm rendered between 300
and 400 families homeless in and about Chero-
kee. The amount OF damages will reach $780,
oo0." The receding water leaves hundreds OF
head of drowned stock.
NEBRASKA CITY, Neb, June pa terrific
rainstorm prevailed here this afternoon. Gel
lars and houses were flooded. Small grain was
beaten down and damaged badly.
BOONE, Ia, June 26-The first direct news
from the scene OF the floods on the Maple river
branch of the Chicago & Northwestern road was
received at the company's headquarters in this
city today. The dispatch is from the operator at
Neville, and says that the town is almost wiped
out Water runs in at the depot
windows and is up to the ceilings
OF all the buildings. All the houses in
the fat portion OF the town have been
swept away, and the railroad turntable ia
washed from its place. Three miles of track is
gone between Neville and Kinsley, az well as
the most of the small bridges over the Sioux
river. This destruction is now being supple
mented by another storm raging at present, and
extending south 70 the main line OF the North
western. 1t is raining very hard, and the storm
Is travelling east