The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-06-24
WILD WORK OF THE WIND.


canning I'm 4, more serious than the preced
ing one Al le ST forty or 6ty lives have
been lost. TIE extent Of the county swept
Is greater than ever known In the history OF
the State. Star ting near Jackson, on the
Southern Minnesota Road, a fuDneishnped
cloud swept eastward and pass"" - ,"'~.
,vu,i, cI minnesota Lake. then iook broai
circle 10 the sou Ii and p ssci away south
Of Wells.
Cons .derabls rain had fallen during the
afternoop. and about 6 o'clock the atmos-
phcre became sImest sufocating Curisus
shaped clouds began gathering over the
southwest aud many people gizsd In WONDER
Mt the sight. AT $50 tho winl sprang ur,
.nd of to The west cjrcing back eioua
wos seen rapidly advancing and tearing
nsuudsr every thing in It's course. lt passed
two miles northwest Of ShcrburnP, nni IL -
reported that it then strucS 'he s'ric,
schoo house, in which were the teacher anu
eighteen scholars. The building was DC
m ,i.hed and tho teacher and fifteen s'h1i-
ars were killed
Al Easton three buildings were destroyed
and several .reoplc injured. Lindon was
visited aud many houses were torn iiom
their foundations one hmi y, composer o,
n man, his wife and child, were killed ana
others injured a largo group OF trees was
comp eely uproored. The storm passed on
eastward destroying farm houses, ln'ns, and
III IlCt over ." ''' P'''''
sidewalks were overturned store ho"'s
blown out, and other damage done.
Four miles south of Minnesota Like hv'
farm houses AMI their outbuldinSs wore
caught in tho storm anl utterly dcmoiish'd'
-Four peoi le were killed. Tho body oi opo
of tbese Johu Brown, was taken 10 Niuhe-
sofa Lake tbs morning. His wife, 'he'r
hired nan and q school t. acher were also
injured The railro,d section men suffered
severe inniiCs. Much damage was d"he
south tf Wells and it Is reported that ior'y
to fifty people were kili,d south nnd west
Of that vilirgc.
As smo.t of tho damage wns d,nc in the
country rel OF Is are slow coming IN, b"t
what has been he ird ~ enough to insure
tho belief that il was The worst storm ever
rcporlc ci in South Minnesota. II IL expect
ed that later rcI oris Will increase rather
than diminish the extent Il the damage n'
well n. the loss of life aud pcrs nal injuries
Navy htnrirending scenc' occurret
The house of II Is ,hsmian f,m ly at Bowen
Mills, near Minnesota Lake was b'""n On
tirvly away not one log .rcmaining
brakeman who saw the storm Al thnt p'nte,
said hc plainly rot,cCd Tunnc! shalcd
cloud approaching from The wcs', and ns IL
passcd north Of tho village he was cast u
the ground hy The terrific pressure OF ar
which was so hot thnt it almo-t stiied him.
The air seemed like gas and everything was
filed with white hnzc.
All along the Milwaukee read f,om Jack
son to Minnesota Lake the scene is enc .
devastation. Not every house is destroyed
but 30 many Rro demolished that tho seen
is piiiu' The wind had full swo"r, an
the wiz cs have been down ali the forenoon
Tne milwaukee, train 10 Wells YIt 4" firthc
than Maplcrun last night, owing 10 I'll
debris Tn the track The morning trn'
from Wells was four hours late. Tslcgrap
polps and trees were everywhere blow
over.
Owing 10 the wcshout ct Blnkey, "n Il
Omaha X, al last nights passenger tra
from the Twin & ties has rot yet arrive
This mornings train from Sioux City W
held nt Kasoa TO wnit repairs OH the trac
Tho washout at Rochester on tho Northcn'
ern Road delayed tho morning Passeng
train from tho cast. In this city heavy rn
fell throughout the afternoon, nigh and for
noon. but no damage is reported
ANOTHER STORM IN CHICAGO
s--s.sz-.ss-, u'seD. arso or Chicago. ri
en'asiroPhc was the rpsnn of Iinbtniu
"ncn struck the monument IN the corriJo'
" m"ich nearly fifty persons had soupl
TRRihLE CLOUDBuKsr IN low.
"nucoma, Iowa. Juno 1G.-North,o,,or
Iowa was visited by n cloudburst los, ovcr
ing The water ie!l in dclgc ,,r r,m
hourS. The streets wcro cony,r,,I ;,
rivers an' many hriipcs were washed awoy
~ o'S wash"nt occurred on tho Milw,ut
n'n' between Fort Atkinson and Kahn,
Ma'l"ay train service ~ At a s,anJ>,;I,
me country is completely flooded
Later reports of the storm rive ,lc ,,,,h
lnS out of over II mile Of IN, Eurlira,o,
cedar Rapids and Northern Eailr.oJ 20,
near west Union, and long strip bc,ws.,
oSslhh ana Jccorah. IL will rcnu;r, -,
least week to get in shape Tor trains,
AT LEAST FIFTY PERSONS EuLrn Az,
HUNDRED wouypRp.
minneapolis. June i7.-News Of the tornod,,
whieh devastated Southern Mian..a., -,,rrf
-ha1nv oreninS Is very harl - get Telc.
graph wires are down for ,nnos .,, w,
railroads which penetrate the s,ricken , '
!ioh are practically at a standStill An ~.
Information ob aihablc come, from iS,,,,,i
survivors, oiithe storm, and the facts bov, =,
DC g"thcrel from widely separated noin,,
FROM all The reports ~ hand Sd far ,Lo
ip ipss OF NE Will probably reach fifty. and
nv ',St oi The injured will run INTO ,L.
hundreds. No estimate of Tho ,,,,'.
loss can be made, and nil ,h,, ,,,, '"f''y
oil II is that it viii undoubtedly ,nr ;,,
seven hglreS. The town If Wells in r,,;
o""i' county, seems to have suffered moo.
eo'ei'IS from tho Sio.i. il is rsrnr,cJ
t""' my persons were killed in that yirl,r.
"",u aaoue' "u' ,h'Se reports are probably exar
s."'"' Inc storm Is described bv nn
eyewitness as cloud OF midnich, lI,ct ,,a..
"a boiling, sceihing mass, gong in nm oa.,
erly direction - '" o"S'
~ was IN faribanlt county that the loss
OF iiie principally occurred. Tho ,t,.r,,'.
h'd been sultry and dense: oycrb,nn;n
rH!' ToS S'eme' almost TO touch The ground
""''o NOT breath of air stirred Later
heavy downpour of rain So, :, ,I'
about 80 clock preceded bv w;,J r "'
Tue horihwes;, huge funnc..shau,J c'n"I
was ho'lccd b. people living west of Wall
IL nu'"hccd rapidly, with n loud. roa,irr
H''h",hS sound, aud first touched the csrtr
aS near jackson, two miles west of Sherburn,