The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-07-02

tionv;lle. The dam gaveway and tha
water.s deluged tie city,. Nj any houses
IN the lower portion Of the town were
soon swept from their foundations. In
Que hsuse, large <two-story frame
building, were two children who wers
drowned. The bridges of the Illinois
Central and Chicago g. Northwestern
were destroyed as well as several fine
country roads, Many families are quar-
tered in the schOolhouse and in high
brick buildings. Stocks of goods were
badly damaged. The railroads in all
directions from E Correctionville are
washed. out; but it is impossible to
guess the loss, as the water is still high.
Hundreds of acres of corn above and
/ below thesto,wn are submerged and q
! great many cattle, horses and hogs arc
'l'drownetl.ln Corrtctionvilleth water
rose 25 feet above its normal stage.
From Kingsley it was learned that not
a building in Neville escaped damage
from the flood in West Fork, a. tribu-
tary of the Little Sioux. All were
moved from their foundation and are
now standing In the streets or carried
far away. Not word can be learned
from Otto, Smithland and points down
the Little Sioux river.
IA special from Neville, on West
Fork, which was completely inundated,
says that there are only $50 pounds of
Hour in the town. The town is almost
completely cut off from succor. Hum
dreds of horses and other live stock
out in the fields in the valley were
fearfully lacerated by the barbed wires
carried down by the swollen torrent in
which the beasts became entangled.
A. w. Thesher, the mail clerk who
went east from this city Thursday
night with the Chicago. Milwaukee &
st. Paul passenger, which is now
water bound at Hornicl1 reached hero
Friday and thus relates his experiences:
Our train reached Rodney in the Little
| Sioux valley along in the morning There We
| were told thatSwe could 60 no further on &C.
count of washouts on Maple river and started
| back to Sioux City. When we reached q
point o mile or so this side OF Hornick
| fash Of lightning revealed sea OF water
| over the tracks and further progress was i'm
possible, so we ran back to Hornick The train
Is still there with the crew and twenty-three
passengers and no prospects OF getting out for
| o couple Of days.
'How did you get back here?'
well, got hungry, as did all the passen.
gers. Our rat1ons were rather slim, and so
made up my mind to come to Sioux City.
put my letter mail in pouch together with nv
| clothing and started to wade. l waded through
fully mile and half OF water between Hor-
| nick and Hedges. and in many places it was
up to my neck At Hedges l caught q con-
| struction train and rode into Sioux City.
1.-THE low lands are covered with water as
far Us you can see. Field after field is SUBJ
| merged, and all over the flats the water is
from to feet deep in the first floors OF houses.
The farmers have moved out to the high ground
| In nearly all instances
| Il saw farmers wading in the water up to
| their waists pushing RATS, on which were load
| ed their families and household goods ahead
OF them to the high land. One farmer ut Hnr'
| nick whose house was flooded pushed a big
! hog trough ahea1 OF him in which his wife
holding her baby was seated. He was making
for the high ground near our train.''
SIX MEN KILLED.
MOUNT CARMEL, Pa. June 27.-Tho
Patterson Coal Company's breaker To-
Gated at Natalie, village . miles
north of this city, was destroyed by
cyclone Friday afternoon and the fol.
lowing persons were killed: j. N. Bios
som, Hawley, Pa; J. Bently Doason,
! Shiclxshinny, Pa; Richard Roberts.
Luzerneborough, Pa; William Lodge,
Luzerneborough, Pa; two unknown
! strangers.
Lodge, Roberts and the two unknown
men were skaters and were engaged in
roofing the breaker at the time of the
! accident. The other two killed were
carpenters and met their death while
at work on the interior of the
breaker. Shortly after noon the
sky in the north became black
and the darkness grew in intensity.
The men perched on their high tower
gazed on the advancing storm. expect
| ing to descend in time to avoid the
rain. Suddenly a terrible wind-gust
gathered up the mighty structure as
though it were a feather, and, whirling
it around, dashed it to ruin. The men
were mangled almost beyond recogni-
| ton.
CLoUDBURsTs IN EUROPE.
BERLIN, June 27.-Great destruction
OF life and property by cloudbursts and
thunderstorms is reported from all
/ quarters. At Coblentz on the Upper
Rhine whole districts arc fearfully de-
! vastated..~ At Ehren the lower parts
of the town and of the fortress
were flooded Thursday night The
people were driven to the house.
tops for safety and the garrison was
called out and dispatched to the assist
| ance of the inhabitants of Pfaffendorf
and Horchein, who were in great peril
and distress. All along the Rhine and
| Mosclle the vineyards have suffered Sc
| verely, and great fears are enter
tanned for the future vintage.
Near Wincheringen, on the Moselle,
some peasants, going along the road in
cart, were overwhelmed by a cloud
burst and swept down the embankmcnt
into the river. One of them was
drowned, but the others saved
themselves. All the railways be-
tween Treves and Metz are i'm
passable owing to the floods.
Many local lines are similarly OBJ
structed. Early Friday morning a
clondburst did great damage to the
Soden medicinal springs, and the viii
lagos OF Holzendorff, Wernsdorff and
Murk are reported to have been de-
stroycd. Houses, roads, bridges, walls,
cattle and crops have been swept away,
and the inhabitants of those districts
are terror-stricken and in despair.
LONDON, June 27.-Heavy thunder
storms are reported throughout Eng
land and Ireland. Much damage was
caused by floods, and several houses
were burned or shattered by lightning.
ttlMREp Ap, AYE
Ten Million Feet Destroyed by Fire In
the Nelson Yards at Cloquet.
DULUTH, Mimi, June 37.-Fire
started about o'clock Friday after
noon in one of the bib lumber yards of
the c. N. Nelson Lumber Company at
Cloquet, and at last accounts was still
burning. but was supposed to be under
control. The mill escaped, and it was
thought that the lumber in the other
yards would also be saved The lum-