Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-04-07

cyclone. Almost every house in the
north and west part of the town is
more or less damaged, and almost every
store in the business portion sustained
some injury. The damages are 500, 600
and probably more. There was not
any tornado insurance.
IN ILLINOIS.
ROCKFORD. H., April 2.-This city
was visited by terrific cyclone Friday
afternoon, the results of which have
been most disastrous In the city signs,
awnings, show cases and large num-
Der of plate glass windows in the
stores were demolished. In the coun-
try adjacent the destruction seems to
have been even more widespread
FAIRFIELD. H., April 5.-Barnhill, q
small village miles south of here, was
visited by disastrous cyclone Monday
afternoon at 4:S0 o'clock. Every house
in the place was wrecked and only four
or five were left on their foundations.
About ten houses were totally destroyed
and one woman, Mrs Harry, was
seriously injured. The heaviest rain in
years fell here during the afternoon
CHICAGO, April 5.-Dispatches from
many points in the state announce
furious transforms and great damage
resulting therefrom. Streams are
swollen to such an extent that the low
lands are flooded.
IN WISCONSIN.
BELoIT, Wis, April "A fierce wind
storm swept over the city about 4
o'clock Friday afternoon, doing great
damage. Several houses were torn
down. A barn was blown to pieces and
sheds were wrecked and chimneys and
smokestacks were demolished.
IN IOWA.
Dies MONIES, Ia, April 1.-The wind
storm, which is subsiding, has been one
of the worst for many years. The ag-
gregate damage done to buildings in
this city will be more than 500, 900.
Scores of buildings were partially and
some wholly unroofed. The roof on
one de of the federal building was
ripped off.
At the state house large section of
slate roofing was torn up and scattered
in the street. Seven residences, so far
as reported, were blown down entirely.
Several persons were blown down in
the streets, and buggies and wagons,
unless very heavy, were swept before
the wind like so much straw.
Reports received here from different
parts of central Iowa say that the dam.
age throughout the country is large.
Thousands of tons of hay still in the
- l.,
been broken down or damaged and
barns and houses unroofed.
IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO. April "A fury of rain and
wind swept across Chicago Friday
evening. At IA and 16 Pearce street, on
the west side and close to the river, a
tall brick building stood in the open
with little cottages clustered all about it.
The seven-story giant, rising in the
midst of the squatty frame buildings
was battered by the full force of the
hurricane that ught the falling sheets
of water and tore them into shreds. 1t
was an unfinished structure, and the
terrific gusts of wind pushed into the
open windows and actually tore the
fresh walls apart, The building fell.
Great masses of brick crashed upon the
houses all about and ground them to
pieces, bringing death and ruin to a
half dozen families. At least ten peo-
pie are known to have been killed
Eighteen were injured, eight of them
fatally. All night busy workers toiled
at the heaps of debris, clearing away
wreckage and recovering the victims.
Those known to have been killed are:
Mrs. Eliza Allen. Samuel Eirsdale, OF
Joliet, H.; Mrs. j. L. Gowan, William
Gowan, 8 years of age; Mary Gowan
4 years of age; Alic Hulett, years OF
age; David Hulett, Edward Mott, 9
years of age; Horace Mott. years
of age, and Miss Mary Walsh, of Jo
let, Ill.
In other parts of the city the wind
blew to pieces several houses and barns
A number of persons were in
jured, but no further loss of life is re-
ported. -Four men in an unfinished
house at Grand Crossing, which the
wind de- oiished, were er'ously hurt
In Woodlawn frame building in course
of construction was blown down.
Three men were injured, one fatally,
having his back broken.