The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-04
WIND, FLOOD, SNOW.
Unpleasant Weather From Min
nesOta to Oklahoma.
coRPsEs IN AcYcLoNE's PATH.
The Fox and Illinois Rivers Bullying
Snow in Wisconsin, Dakota and
Other Parts Of Northwest.

PArToysBuRe, No., May 3.-A tornado
passed through Dekalb county last even
ing IN northwesterly direction, sweeping
everything before it. 1t wrecked the home
OF Mr.. Sharp, seriously injuring him and
killing his wife. 1t also killed Miss
Boyd. Crossing the Grand river at
Williamsford, it damaged much
property but injured no one.
little further it cut swath 100 yards
wide through a thickly-settled farming
district, wrecking buildings, ETC., for dis
lance OF ten or twelve miles. mangling
many horses. At the home of Alfred
Daniel his wife was fatally hurt, while he
and his baby were badly injured. At
jams Daniels three young people were
badly hurt.
OTTAWA, ILL.,, May Sat noon today the
Fox and Illinois rivers began to rise
rapidly, nearly two feet of water being
made between II 80 and 2 O'Clock. From
that hour tile O'Clock the rise was from
four to six inches per hour, and reached a
stage higher than ever before in the his
tory of the city. The entire llli-
nois valley from the junction of
the Kankakee and Illinois to
Laselle. is inundated. Many thousand
dollars worth of property was destroyed.
In Ottawa several manufacturing estab-
llshments were obliged to shut down, and
an electric railway, some two miles in
length, is under water from two to seven
feet deep. People on the bottom lands are
obliged to vacate their farms, and the wa
ter at 8 o'clock in many instances was
within but a few feet of the houses.
A rise of but q few feet more
will necessitate the vacation of
many homes. A Swede named johnson
was drowned last evening while helping to
remove stock from an island in the Illi-
nois. The river is over mile wide here,
and at Utica it is nearly up to the city.
No serious damage is anticipated to any of
the cities, as the water has not risen over
an inch since O'Clock.
ST. PAUL, May 3-Dispaiches from sew
eral points in Wisconsin, Minnesota and
the Dakotas report that yesterdays rain
was followed last night and today by
heavy snow, which in some sections COW
cred the ground two or three inches deep.
KINGFIsHER, o. T., May "a cyclone
touched the outskirts of town last even
ing, overturning small outbuildings and
unrooting two residences. The cyclone
did great damage to growing crops, over
turning houses in its path, killing con-
siderable young stock and finally spend
ing its force about fifteen miles distant.
Fourteen residences outside the city were
destroyed. F. A. Bidwell, of York, Neb.,
and son, were killed.
TOPEKA, Kan, May IA disastrous cy-
clone last night struck the farming coun-
try ten miles southeast of here, near Tevis.
Nearly everything was demolished over a
space two miles square. A number of
farm houses and barns were de-
molished. One person is known to
have been killed ana many were injured.
Physicians left here at noon in
response to calls from that neighborhood.
Hail fell in great quantities, destroying
fruit and breaking the limbs of trees.
James Mitchell. farmer, was killed and
a man named He'll fatally wounded, while
his wife and child were seriously hurt.
ASHLAND, Wis, May IA binding
snowstorm prevails here. -Four inches
had fallen at noon.