The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-05-07
DISASTROUS STORMS.
Great Loss of Life and Property.

Severe storms swept over many of the Wes
tern States on Saturday night and Sunday.
By the washing away of culvert on the Bur-
lington Railroad, near Lincoln, Nebraska, a
passenger train was ditched and three per-
sons killed. Loss of life is reported from
Fairfax, Missouri. Great damage was done
to property in the tier of counties along the
Iowa Missouri border. A cyclone partly de-
stroyed the town of Buros, 10 miles from Ell
dorado, Kansas, killing one person.
Fourteen residences near Kingfsher, Okla
homa, were destroyed by tornado on Mon
day night, F. A. Bidwell, of York, Nebraska,
and his son were killed, Simon Bates was over
taken by the storm and tied his horse by lariat
rope. The horse was lifted from the ground
and carried hundred feet Mr.. Bates's leg
was broken and he was hurt internally. Geo.
Rickert and family went into their storm cave
The roof of the house crushed the cave. All
escaped with bruises.
A heavy electrical storm passed over Pitts
burg, Pa, early Tuesday morning. Light
ming struck the Allegheny County Electric
! Light Company's works and burned out seven
dynamos and injured the plant to the extent
| OF 81 900 Five hundred telephones were
| burned out and numerous buildings were
struck by lightning, but as far as known no
one was killed.
| James Mitchell was killed and John P.
He'll was fatally injured and Mrs. He'll and
| daughter were severely hurt in tornado near
Tevis, ten miles south of Topeka, Kansas, on
| Tuesday. The buildings and fences on the
farms of Mr. He'll, Silas Zeigler and Thomas
Brooks were demolished. Many persons
| were hurt.
| A lively wind storm, accompanied by VIVA
| lightning passed over northern Berks county,
n \ l. 4 nnrf Snln-
! mon Hartman's barn was struck by lightning
and consumed with contents, excepting live
stock Loss So, 500. Many fences were blown
away.
A binding snow storm at Ashland, Wis
| cousin, on Tuesday prevailed. Four inches
/ had fallen at noon. Navigation was badly
retarded and all rafting stopped.
! The increasing rains in the valleys of the
| Illinois. Fox and Kankakee rivers Tor several
DAYS past have produced unprecedented floods
| in that vicinity. The river bottoms for many
miles are under water, and farmers will lose
| heavily. The thriving manufacturing city OF
Marseilles is threatened with inundauon by
the breaking of the levees in the Illinois river.
A cyclone, sweeping over De Kalb county,
| Missouri, on Tuesday, did great damage to
buildings The home of Mr.. Sharp was
wrecked, and Mrs. Sharp and Miss Boyd
killed. Mrs. Alph Daniels and child named
Baird were also killed, while the three Daniels
children were seriously injured.
| Mrs. Ellis Carpenter, living near Tunkhan-
mock, Penna, was killed by lightning on
Tuesday evening,
! The east-bound transcontinental express
| train from the Pacific Coast, on the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe railroad was precipi-
tated into a flooded ravine at Medill, Mo-,
twenty five miles west of the Mississippi river,
| Thursday morning. Seven persons were
killed and many injured. The trestle had
been undermined by high water.
| Dispatches on Thursday night say it has
! been showing and raining continuously for 4S
hours at Rapid City, S. ~, and unless a
| change occurs soon the cattle loss on the
range will be severe. Up to May double
the usual amount of precipitation had Oc-
cured.
! DIR. J. B. Cottner, Joshua Miller and John
Stubbleield, all citizens of Wetaug, ILL.,, on
| Thursday attempted to cross a swollen stream
/ in skiff, when the boat was overturned and
/ Messrs Cottner and Miller drowned.
/ Owing to the continued wet and cold
weather wheat seeding in Iowa, Minnesota
| and North and South Dakota is retarded.
/ That which was sown has rotted and the out
] look is not favorable for a large acreage.