Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-04-08

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Pacific yards was blown into the river
Hundreds or chimneys were blown down
and a great deal of minor damage was
done. Fruit suffered badly in the country.
No one was IL jured.
At Leavenworth the Great Western
Stove works were partially unroofed aud
work was suspended for the day.
At st. Joseph nearly every telegraph
and telephone wire In the city has been
torn down, numerous small houses
demolished and many large ones
unroofed. Thousands of dollars of
damage we're caused by the breaking of
plate glass In store windows In the
eastern part of the city a brick house was
blown down, seriously iniuring a child
At the factory of Iootle, Hosea & Co.
there was a stampede of several hundred
girls when the wind tore a portion of the
roof off. No one was seriously irjmed.
A dispatch from Lawrence, Kas, says:
The wind has been blowing a gale here
since midnight Many buildings were un-
rooted and out houses demolished. The
roof of the Haskell hospital was blown
away and it was necessary to anchor the
building with cables to prevent its blow
ing over.
In Kansas City the damage consisted
principally of roofs blown away and plate
glass windows broken. The roof OF the
high school at Locust and Twelfth streets
was blown off. There was no panic but
the school was DIS missed. Signs were
blown down all over the city, some Of them
crashing through costly plate glass win
dows III the center of the business portion
There has been no loss of life The great
est damage was suffered by the telegraph
companies. The Western Union re-
ports no communication whatever with
points west of the center of
Kansas and has but few workable wires
east. Mess ages are being received sub
ject to indefinite delay, telegraph polas
along all railroads west of here are pro 90
trated, causing a woeful tangle of wires
with which the wiremen had to struggle
today, apparently with little success.
At l0:30 the Western Union report that
of their hundreds of wires they have not
one upon which to transmit Associated
press dispatches. Minneapolis and St.
Pan. and intermediate points are cut off,
Pacific coast inaccessible and beyond Kan
sas City havoc reigns supreme.
At Oanthe, Kas., buildings were un.
rooted and considerable damage done, but
no one was injured. Marshall, Mo, also
reports considerable damage. At Saline,
Kas., M. A. Brather's residence was
wrecked and the members of the family all
more or less injured, two fatally. Mr.
S9immerman 5 house was demolished and
she was fatally injured.
At Ottawa the water works tower was
blown over, roofs carried away and trees
uIrOOted.
Methodist churches at Warreusburg
and ChillcJtle, Mo, were unroofe'.
Specials from Hiawatha, Sececa. Oneids,
Horton, Lawrence, Boul1llow and Mary
vile, Mo, report great loss as well do
Caldwell.
At Other Points.
ST. PAUL, April line storm In Nil.
nesota was not SO severe IT'S further south,
Out considerable damage is reported Ivy
lightning Many farmers in Minnesota
and the Dlkotas complain Of too mucn
rain; shocked grain j. completely de-
stroved and that in stack badly damaged.
STUART, Iowa, April "A terribly d.
structive wind st ,rm has been raging for
this city and Deighboring towns are BADLY
damaged.
MAKsUALLTowN, April 1.-The SGorm
is undated in violence tonight, after rag
ing early this morning. Many buildings
are unroofed and other damage done.
GALE: BURG, Ills, April IA violent
wind aud rain storm prevailed here this
afternoon, having nearly the force of a
off, small buildings wrecked and tele-
Nv
mixed.
OMAHA, April I.-Toiegrapn wires a
over the state are prostrated and 1t II
difficult to obtain news of any extent OF
lest nights storm. The Western Union
Telegraph company has but one wire IN
operation in Nebraska, that being alone
the EIkhorn road. A dispatch to the Bee
from Norfolk, on that line, In
the northern part of the state
says the cyclone struck there
just before midnight last nigh.
and did much damage. If it should prove
to be tue same storm which devastated
Nelson, the destruction throughout tn"
state must be great. The storm traversed
$50 miles of the richest farming secti0r
dotted with small cities and villages. In
Omaha, the gale is still blowing tonight
dreds OF telephone wires are still down as
the result of last Saturdays storm.
BOONE, Iowa, April IA perfect hur
ricane blew here several hours today dom Q
great damage. The pump house at the
! water works was blown down, d hotel and
elevator unroofed, and many houses badly
damaged
Dies MONIES, April 1.-The wind storm
which is subsiding tonight was one Of the
worst for many years. The aggregate
damage to buildings in this city will be
more than 100000. Scores of buildings
were partially and some wholly
unroofed. One side of the federal build
ing was ripped off, and large sections Of
the slate roofing OF the stale house were
torn up. Many plate glass windows
were shattered and scores of buildings
seriously damaged.
ST. LOUIS, April High winds pre-
vailed here today. The only accident was
the blowing over of partially erected
brick wall, ipjuring 4 men, one fatally.
A portion of the fourth district police sta
ton was demolished but no one was hurt.
Much minor damage is reported.