Telegram-herald., 1891-08-11
DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONE
Ruin IN Al b and and Washhurn.
Twe Wisco asin Towns.
MANY BUILDINGS ARE DEMOLISHED
A tsapis Of Lives Lost and Many Fer
soas Hurt BY the Biosins DS"a
eg q eiseas Tsat-Iornaas az
Ottawa Other StoFns.

ASHLAND. Wis. Aug TO Ashland
and Hashburn were struck By a terri
bic tornado Saturday afternoon about
$3.50 o'clock Houses were blown down.
buildings unroofed and many vessels
driven ashore. A. Washbarn . circus
tent wss wrecked Two people were
killed and fifty injured The cyclone
came from the northwest. and WAS
sudden Rain poured in torrents. The
main business street was like a river.
The storm drove through the large
hotel. tho Chequanegon, like . mill
race. Twenty yachts on the bay were
wrecked. Four men were picked up
on y eapsized sailboat after the storm.
The Swedish Lutheran church, the
Genery block, the Daily Press Office,
the Ashland theater and Franklin
house were nnroofed.
At Wsshburn. across the bay, Will
liams' circus was in full blast when the
storm struck. Prof. Williams was GO
ing through an act with trained horses
when the tent fell. The horses, wild
with fright. burst on. through the fran
tic MAS of people. Twolittle children
of George La Bells and An unknown
boy were taken out dead. They were
blown 500 feet MIS- Wilson's right
leg was broken. The depot was turned
into hospital and the dead and
wounded carried there. II was q ter
rible scene. Mothers were frantically
looking for children and children
wandering about wounded and bleed
ing. The injured number at least
fifty. several Of whom will die.
The wires are all down. Whole
blocks of business houses were torn
from their foundations and blown
down, injuring many people. The
Feustad building, just completed. was
totally demolished. Seven persons
were in the top story, but all except
one escaped without injury. The AMI
mails of Williams circus escaped from
their cages An anaconda Is still ut large
and several other animals have not been
captured. The roof was torn of the
large Omaha elevator and considerable
grain spoiled by water. The damage
in washburn is estimated OF $780,
Tramways on the coal docks were de-
molished The storm was similar to
that at Superior several weeks ago.
OrTuMwA. la, Aug 1o.-The terrible
heat Of Sunday morning, which Reached
80 degrees in the shade, was broken by
q tornado which struck this city about
= o'clock in the afternoon. The storm
in its full fury covered . some.
what limited area. Its course was
from the southwest toward tho north
east. The first damage done by It
was at Humeston, where the wind was
most furious. Cars standing on the
Keokulx & Western track were blown
of and the roof of the roundhouse was
lifted. At Corydon the Methodist
church and courthouse were damaged.
In this city the wind blew with great
violence, taking off the roof of A. D.
Moss dry goods store, the roof Of Har-
per s. Mcintyre Co.'S Wholesale hard
ware house, the roof of A. p. Peterson's
grocery store. damaging the Chicago,
Burlington q Quincy round house,
overturning the scaffoldiny about
the coal palace and precipitat-
ing 1t ON lot of telegraph and
telephone wires; uprooting great trees
all over the city, and demolishing barns
and other fragile outbuildings. The
path OF the storm through the country
has been marked by the destruction of
corn ard the demolition of grain in
stack. There was very little rain, and
the damage was wholly by wind
BLOOMFIELD, Ia, Aug. 10.--One of
the most destructive wind and rain
storms ever known in this section of
Iowa passed over Davis county Sunday
afternoon. Houses were unroofed.
fences blown down, besides much dam
age done to the fruit crop. An Ad-
ventist cnmp-meetiDg tent was blown
away, the telegraph, telephone and the
electric light wires arc tangled and
broken, and no lives were lost SO far as
known. The damage to crops cannot
be estimated at this time.
Dies MONIES, Ia, Aug. 1o.-A terrific
tornado, accompanied BY rain and
hail. passed through Decatur county
Sunday ABOUT IL o'clock, doing much
damage. 1t was the worst storm
known in that section. Crops are
practically destroyed over large Sec
ton Of the country. Trees were blown
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