The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-25
WIND AND RAIN In IOWA.
EIaHTPERsoNs DROWNED GREAT
DAMAGE DONE.

the storm District FORTY houses
and Barns Carried Away In the Bot
toms at Cherokee.
J WATERLOO, IA, Juno pa terrible
wind ard rainstorm prevailed last night
from Storm Lake to LamaF's. a distance of
fifty-six miles. All towns are considerably
damaged.
Four persons were drowned at Cherokee,
and four at Correctionville.
The railroad depot at Calumet was blown
down and much damage to town property
is reported.
Sutherland, O'Brien county, a small sta
tion on the Chicago aud Northwestern rail-
road. fifty-five miles from Calumet. Is
reported to have been wiped out, over
forty buildings being blown down.
THE WIRES DOWN.
The wires are all down, aud II is impossI-
BILE to obtain accurate information except
through reports transmitted to the railroad
officials.
Twelve inches of water is reported to
have fallen last night In Cherokee valley.
Illinois Central's train No. 2, a passenger,
which left here last night is still at Storm
Lake, and the trainmaster here says there
is no prospect of moving 1t In the next
twenty-four hours.
A RIVER MILE WIDE.
LEMARs, IA. June 24.-One Of the most
fearful transforms in the history OF North
western Iowa visited this section last night.
THIS morning Floyd river is a mile
wide. There is great loss to stock
in the country. . Bridges are out
ON the railroads. All trains are
abandoned. The Omaha pay car here
has the only engine available for work. At
2nfharlaOH IN IL ranOrfad that fftAan hnVsaaa
are swept away, sidewalks are gone, cellars
are flooded. The races are postponed. To-
morrow, probably, the streams will be
higher. 1t is raining now.
DELUGE IN MINNESOTA.
PARAMOUNT, MINI, June 24-The heav-
lest rain known in the history of this city
| fell to-day. The lowlands are flooded and
the damage to crops is considerable.
DEVASTATION AT SIOUX CITY.
Sioux CITY, IA, June 2a-The terrible
rain of last night and this morning has al
most devasted this portion of Iowa. No
railroads are running trains from tnis city
| east
Flood river valley is inundated for thirty
| five miles north of this city.
Many houses In Lemars are flooded over
the first floors, while the towns of Merrill,
Hinton and James are completely sub
merged.
| Thirty-five miles Of track on the Illinois
| Central, Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis
and Omaha, aud Sioux City and Northern
railroads are flooded north of this city with
| bad washouts at Lemars.
| The Little Sioux river bottom at Cher
okee is entirely inundated and thousands of
| acres Of crops are under water The water
| at Cherokee carried away forty houses and
barns in the bottoms
| RAILROAD BRIDGES GONE.
At the same place the approaches to
| the Illinois Central bridge over the
Sioux are gone. On the Central Iowa
branch 900 feet Of track was carried
out. On the Sioux falls branch seven
bridges were washed out. The Chicago
and Northwestern tracks In this Sioux
valley are out for over half a mile al
Sutherland. The .same road is also
washed out at Carroll. At Merrill, eight
miles west Of this city. Floyd river rose
over fifteen feet in three hours to-day, and
at o'clock tonight the food is sweeping
through the Floyd river valley toward thiI
city and devastating hundreds of acres OF
crops.
MANUFACTURING TOWNS SUBMERGED.
The manufacturing towns Of Leeds, Lynn
and Lewiston are In its course. and will bs
submerged by morning.
Tonight hundreds of families on the
out of their houses to higher ground. The
railroad companies have abandoned theil
yards and shops, and engines, cars and al
kind Of material have been removed Il
higher ground. The stock In the union and
Central stock yards has been removed
The wires east and north of here are al
down.
Reports from South Dakota are that Yer
| million river is out of its banks and flood
| nd Of Of r.,
A cyclone at Sutherland last night at
o'clock destroyed fifteen dwellings, foul
warehouses, several barns and the Chicago
and Northwestern railroad freight houses
People took Co the caves, and no one wa
injured. All the county and railroad
bridges were washed out.
JoHNsTowN ON SMALL sCALE.
CHEROKEE, Ia, June 24.-The terrors o
the johnston food was ln part repeated il
this place to-day. Seventy-five houses hav
been carried out of sight in the Niagara
like torrent. How many lives have heel
lost is yet a matter Of uncertainty. A ter
rifo cloud-burst thrice repeated and win
amounting to almost a hurricane is wha
contaminated the dread work. The storm
which began last night, appears to hav
swept In a vast circle over North
! western Iowa fully 200 miles in diameter
| with Cherokee as the center. Up to 1913
O'Clock Tonight, owing 20 the destruction &
the wires and railroads, only the vagues
reports have reached here from the dey
astated territory to the west. north an
south. The damage here, taking into &C
count the relatively small size Of the town
is enormous.
RISE OF THE RIVER.
Most OF the destruction In Cherokee wa
} wrought by tho extraordinary rise in th
} Sioux river, resulting from the tremendou
; downpour of water from the sky. Som
: idea Of the immensity and suddenness of th
; food can be inferred from the fact that
carried off, apparently without a
} effort, the big truss bridge o
which the Illinois Central rairoa
crossed the river, and with the bridge wen
400 feet of trestle on which the company
tracks approached the river. Tonight th
| Little Sioux is at the highest stage eve
: known. The best information indicate
that the Illinois Central rails are unde
. water continuously for many miles on tn
, Onawa branch, and that the havoc, both t
!. roadway and bridges, is something seldoI
, | paralleled in railway history.
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