The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-02
The Town of Durango, Texas,
Almost Blown Away.
EIGHT PERSONS KILLEDAToNcE.
The Wretched People of Wellington,
Kan, Appeal for Charity.
Mississippi River Rising Once More
Alexandria, NO., Cedar Rapids and
Kansas City Partly Under Water

TEMPLE Tex, June 1.-The storm YES
terday evening proved more serious than
supposed, reports Of damage coming from
as Tar east as Durango. at which place
many houses were wrecked and the town
almost wiped away. Tom Weathers,
wife and six children, were killed out
right, the only surviving member of
the family being the youngest child. Mr..
Reeves had leg and collar-bone broken,
and Mrs. Reeves was severely hurt. Huge
houses were carried 200 yards. In one
place wagon-axle thimble was broken
like pipestem. Some parts of houses
were blown distance of five miles, The
The track of the cyclone was quarter of
mile wide. The dead and wounded were
found in some cases fifty yards from where
they were struck.
Troy, Tex, June IA cyclone last
night destroyed much property. Four
children of w. II. Dunton were badly in
jured.
BELcHERvILLE. Tex, June This place
was visited by disastrous cyclone last
night. A number of houses were de-
stroyed and several people injured.
WELLINGTON, Kan, June 1.-The COM
mlttee appointed to procure relief for the
sued an appeal to the people of the United
States. reciting the details of the cyclone.
The appeal adds that an almost equal
amount of loss has been caused by the
heavy rain storm of the past three days,
which caused much money loss and
threatens to breed sickness and disease.
Prompt aid would save the homes and
business of many and rekindle their cour-
age and hope.
kEoKUK, Ia, June 1.-THE Mississippi
rose sixteen inches today and the Des
Moines three feet. Water is again pour
ing through the break in the Egyptian
levee, so Alexandria is submerged and
Rock Island trains have been abandoned.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, June 1.-There has
been heavy rain for the past forty-eight
hours. The river is rising. On the west
side water is three to four feet deep in the
streets and running over the first floors of
houses. The people are moving.
DUBUQUE, Ia. June 1.-Continuous rains
have caused rise of nearly four feet In the
Mississippi since Sunday. All the low
lands are flooded. 1t Is still raining to-
night.
KANSAS CITY, June 1.-The Missouri and
kaw rivers are again raising Harlem is
flooded out. The east bottoms on this
side are covered with water, but no dam
age has been done.
INDIANAPOLIS, June 1.-The foods con-
tinue to increase. White river and Fall
creek are overdowing all the contiguous
territory. Many bridges have been
washed away. This city is threatened
with the worst flood in its history.
Reports from points throughout the
state tell of great havoc wrought by the
waters. The Wabash river is out of its
banks. Andrews county resembles an i'm
mense lake. No corn has been planted
and the farmers are growing desperate
Railroads have been washed out and traffic
is delayed or suspended.
CHICAGO, June 1.-Advices to the Asso-
ciated Press from many points show that
heavy transforms prevailed yesterday and
last night throughout a large section
of the Mississippi valley, adding
to the soggy condition of the
ground, causing further delay in plantin g
and drowning out of grain already in the
ground. Advices so far received cover the
states of Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas.
Texas andOklahoma and Indian territories
At New Hope. Ky, the rain pour was
accompanied by a destructive hailstorm,
doing great damage to grains, fruit and
vegetables. The fields are under water
and the situation is so alarming that the
price of corn advanced ten cents per bushel
At Fort Smith, Ark. the rain was accom-
panied by windstorm, which did consid-
| cradle damage to buildings, etc. At Green
vile, Tex, an electrical storm killed sew
eral hundred acres of grain and cotton,
giving them the appearance of being
burned.
GUTHRIE, o. t., June 1.-Reports have
reached here that family, consisting of a
man, his wife and three children, were
drowned while trying to ford the Canadian
river. Further disastrous floods, it is be-
lieved, must result, with probable loss of
life and property. in addition to the
damage already inflicted.
Two Hundred Miners Killed