The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-06-24
A TRRIBLE CLoUDDCKsTdN IOWA.

=. Waucoma, Iowa. juno 1e.-Northeastern
Iowa was visited by cloudburst last oven
ing The water fell in a deluge for four
hours. The streets were converted into
rivers and many bridges were washed away
a big washout occurred on the Milwauka
Road between Fort Atkinson and Kaluar
Railway train service is at a standstil
The country is completely flooded.
Later reports of the storm give Tic wash
ing out of over mile Of the Burlington.
Cedar Rapids and Northern Rnlroad track,
near West Union, and long strip between
O.sian and Jecorah. 1t will require at
least week TO get in q shape for trains.
AT LEAST FIFTY rERso Ns KILLED AND SEVERAL
HUNDRED woUNDRD.
Minneapolis. June i7.-News Of the tornado
which devastated Southern MiDnosota We'd
nesday evening is very hari to get. Tele-
graph wires are down for miles, AMI the
railroads which penetrate the stricken sec.
tion are practically at q standstill. All the
information OBJ ainable comes from isolated
survivors O.ithe storm, and the facts have to
be gathered from widely separated points.
From all the reports a, hand So far, the
loss of life will probably reach fifty, and
the list of the in jured will run into the
hundreds. No estimate of The Iroperty
loss can be made, and all that can be said
OF ii is that il will undoubtedly run into
seven hgures. The town of Wells in Fari-
bault county, seems to have suffered mpet
severely from the storm. 1t is reported
that fifty persons were killed in that village
alone, but these reports are probably exag-
geratcd. The storm is described by an
eyewitness as q cloud OF midnight blackness
"a boiling, scething mass, going in an east
erly direction.
1t was IN Faribault county that the loss
Of life principally occurred. The afternoon
h'd been sutry and dense ovcrhanging
clouds seemed aim ost to touch The ground.
while not breath of air stirred. Later n
heavy downpour of rain set 10, and at
about $50 o clock, preceded by wind from,
the northwest, n huge funnoI-shaped cloud
was noticed b. people living west of VOLS.
1t advanced rapidly, with loud, roaring,
grinding sound, and first touched the earth
near jackson, two miles west of Sherburne
The Silvcrthorn school, four miles north of
Sherhurne, was torn to pieces by the cyclone
Mis- Magic o Hare, tho teacher and all tho
pupils, sixteen in number, were seriously
and some six thought fatally injured.
Wherever o building was destroyed it was
so totally and utterly demolished that not a
vestige Of it was left Trees and telegraph
poles were broken off or twisted out of
fhape. Al one place whcre the cyclone
struck, eight houses in succession were
destroyed, and at Anchor tho place was
completely wiped off the face of The earth
that no trace Of it or it's occupants could
be found, though search was made.
The psth Of the storm was strewn with
machinery, clothes, pieces Of furniture,
wagon wheels, ears Of corn, and every
imaginable thins ss---ss---.as-,sssssr-., a,'-75-
This is only sample Of the storm, as it
was probably fory miles io extent. IL was
followed Immediately by heavy rains.
Ten men are reported killed in the neigh
borhood of Mapleton AMI twenty injured.