Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-07-09

two miles from this town. The barn of
r. Leonard was struck and two horses
killed The school house was badly
damaged, and the Brown school house
was carried away and is total loss
Rogers mill near Quinley was washed
away. No trains have arrived here since
Tuesday evening. To add to the terror
of the people two gasoline explosions
occurred yesterday, one of them at r.
Grossokruger's and one at O. 81.
Schnesslath's. The latter was fatal.
The scene is indeed one of desolation
and ruin. Hogs, cattle and horses in
large numbers are seen floating down
the river.
BOONE, Ia, June 26.-At the Chicago
& Northwestern headquarters in this
city was received today the first direct
news from the scene of the floods on the
Maple River branch of the road. The
dispatch is from the operator at Neville,
and says the town is almost wiped out.
Water run in at the dept windows, and
is up to the ceilings of all buildings
All houses in the fiat portion of the
town have been swept away, and the
railroad turntable has been washed from
its place. Three miles of track are
gone between Neville and Kingsley,
and most all of the small bridges, and
the bridge over the Sioux River. This
destruction is now being supplemented
by another storm raging at present in
the same vicinity, and extending south
to the main line of the Northwestern.
It is raining very hard and the storm is
travelling east.
OMAHA is FLOODED.
OMAHA, June 26.-Oonsiderable dam
age Yves done by the storm at Omaha
which ragged all day, and did not cease
until evening. East Omaha was badly
flooded, and thickly populated section
of the northern part of the CITY was in
undated. From CLARK Street north on
Twenty fourth Street water is from two
to six feet deep in the street, and street
car traffic is abandoned. The police and
fire department sent force Of men to
the inundated district, to rescue the
distressed people and their effects. No
lives were lost, but there were several
narrow escapes from drowning, and an
old lady vino was confined to her bed,
was with difficulty removed from her
house, which was filed with water five
feet deep. Several washouts are re-
ported on the branch lines of the Bur-
lington & Elkhorn, causing abandon
ment of trains The break on the Uuion
Pacific at Central City has been re-
paired, and the overland trains which
had been delayed since Thursday morn
ing, reached Omaha tonight.
LIGHTNING AT GALVESTON.
GALVESTON, June 29.-About II a.
m. today, during the prevalence of an
electrical storm which passed over the
city, bolt of lightning decended, strik-
ing and exploding the powder house of
the American Powder Co., containing
5000 kegs of powder. The conoussion
caused the Hazard & Dupont and LAT
lin & Rand powder houses to explode,
and also the fire works magazine Of Vic
tor Cortinas. Although these powder
magazines were located near Angle
Grove, four miles west of this city, the
shock of the explosion caused hous.s to
rock and sway in the city, as if in the
throes of an earthquake. Glass was
broken, doors flung open and plaster
fell from the wall, goods came tumbling
down from shelves, caused by the sway
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aghast as they knew not what.
A telephone message from the scene
of disaster, told the cause of the pertur
baton, and dispelled the fears that had
seized upon the people. Chaos and
ruin marked the line of the disaster.
Where the powder houses had stood,
there is not vestige of building left,
and the site of the American Powder
Magazine is marked by hole in the
ground 1870 feet in circumference, and
from Is to 80 in depth Scantlings
4x4 were hurled through the air half
mile, with the terrific force of the ex-
plosion, and brick and other debris is
scattered over large area of territory.
Buildings in the immediate neighbor-
hood and for three-quarters of mile
distant are badly wrecked, and a num-
Der of persons hurt, one man fatally.
CYCLONE IN PENNSYLVANIA.
MUoNr CARMEL, Pa, June 26.-The
Patterson Goal Co. IS breaker, located at
Natal village, two miles north of this
city, was destroyed by a cyclone this
afternoon, and the following persons
were killed: J. N. Blossom, Hawley,
Pasi, J. Bentley, and Dodson, of Shick-
shiny, Pa; Richard Roberts and Will
liam Lodge, Luzerne. An Italian, I'M
known, and another stranger are still
under the debris. The breaker WAS
located on the summit of big noun
tain, about 1, 900 feet above the sea
level. It ran almost due east and west
The structure was 300 feet in length,
and the highest point was 165 feet
Lodge, Roberts and two unknown men
were engaged in roofing the breaker at
the time of the accident. The other
men killed were carpenters, and a num-
Der met death while employed at work
on the interior of the breaker.
Shortly after neon the sky in the
north became block, and the darkness
grew intense. The men perched on
their high tower. gazed on the advanc-
ing storm expecting to come in in time
to avoid the rain. A flash of lightning
Illuminated the sky, q hoarse poal Of
thunder shaking the ground, followed
the next minute by a terrible wind gust
which gathered up the mighty structure