The Wilmington daily Republican., 1891-06-30
BY WIND AND RAIN.
A Destructive Cyclone Visits Por-
tions Of Colorado.
SHEEP KILLED BY HAIL STONES

Houses Blown Away and Trees Up
rooted-The Missouri River Rap
idly Rising and Forming a New
ChanneI-Great Damage to Wheat
and Crops of All Kinds.
DENVER, June 3o.-News has just
been received of a destructive cyclone
which passed over this county twenty
Eve miles east Of the city. Houses were
blown away, trees uprooted and carried
away, and the crops for many miles
around are completely ruined. A dozen
persons were injured. none seriously.
G. 8. Clark was in from his ranch, three
miles west Of Deer Trail, and reports
that hail fell for twenty minutes and
killed about $50 sheep, the eyes Of many
OF them being put out. A. ]. Adams,
living two miles northwest of Deer
Trail, says hailstones as large as hens
eggs fell, killing chickens and ducks. r.
u. Beatty, OF North Low, reports crops
badly damaged.
CENTRALIA, nls., June 80.-A terrific
wind and hail storm visited this city,
doing much damage. Buildings were
unroofed and chimneys blown over. The
front of Charles Zweigs' sesidence was
blown in and his daughter was badly
hurt.
The Rising Missouri.
ATcHISoN, Kan, June 30.-The Mis-
souri, river has cut through Doniphan
Point, six miles north of Atchison, and
converted several Missouri farms into
vast island. The newly found channel
is getting wider every hour, and it Is
feared that the entire current will change
in less than forty eight hours. This
will leave lake eight miles in length in
the old bed. The river has been rising
rapidly for twenty-four hours, and an
overflow is looked for in the bottom
land affected by the cut.
ST. JOSEPH, No., june 30-The river
has risen steadily since Saturday, and is
within sixteen inches of the highest point
reached in ten years. Residents of the
French bottoms, north of the city, are in
q state of alarm and many are preparing
to move. The river Is still rising and
reports received from Sioux City and
Omaha show gain Of six inches. If the
river should overflow the French bot
toms, it is expected that new channel
will be cut through leaving many farms
on an island and diverging the stream
from the Kansas shore two miles. II
the present rate of rise continues twenty
-FOUR hours the Stockyard5 and hundreds
of houses in South st. Joe will be mum
dated The situation is serious to the
packing interests as well as hundreds of
small farms in the low lands.
Driven from Their Homes.
KANSAS CITY, June 30.-The Missouri
river at this point is at dangerously
high stage. AT o'clock lust evening
the water registered three feet even
above high water mark, or twenty-three
feet above standard low water mark.
The water is rising steadily, and will
probably rise two or three feet more in
the next day or two. Parts of Harlem,
q hamlet just across the river, have al
ready been submerged, and about
twenty five families have left their
homes and are canning on high ground
All the farms along the river are sub
merged, and the crops are ruined. On
this side of the river the high water has
caused no flood, excepting as it has
backed up the waters of the Kaw,
which eanpties into the Missouri at this
place. The back waters have sub
merged much of the low lands, and the
hundred or more squatters living there
have been obliged to abandon their
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