Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-09-28
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Harvest of Death.

100 People Killed by Cyclone which
LeveIed Farm Buildings and Small
villages In Northern Iowa and South
ern Minnesota.
A terrible cyclone swept over the north
ern tier of counties in Iowa and the eastern
part of Minnesota Friday night, entailing a
heavy loss of life and great destruction of
property.
There were abont 100 fatalities, and
many other people were injured by falling
timbers. The country devastated was
largely farming section, but several small
Villages were partially wrecked. Twenty
six persons were killed and 80 injured in
Kossuth county, Iowa. A large part of
the town of Cylinder, Ia, was damaged,
and the four members of the family of A.
Goulden were killed. The house of George
Holman in Plum Creek township was car
ried 80 rods and dropped with such force
that it was completely wrecked. In the
house was Mr.. Holman and wife and six
children. One of the children was killed
outright and four injured. Many ruined
houses and several deaths tell the story at
Emmettsburg, la. Three persons were
killed and seven badly injured at Lowther,
Ia, six at Usage, Ia, four near Mason
City, la, The greatest harvest of death
was in the vicinity of Algona, Ia, where
20 funerals were held Sunday.
The storm in Minnesota was severest at
Spring Valley and Leroy. At the former
place seven dead bodies were taken from
the wrecks of buildings, and 2Opeople were
injured. All of the buildings in the central
and eastern part of Leroy, were leveled,
four people killed and several injured.
Reports from central Iowa show that the
heavy rain and hail storm Friday did great
damage. The hailstones were of phenome-
nal size and smashed many windows
Nurseries and greenhouses in the course of
the storm were nearly all ruined.
The fact that the storm tore through
part of Spring Valley and the greater part
of the residents were not aware of its work
of destruction until the fire bells were rung,
shows what a narrow strip of country was
swept. Conservative estimates placed the
total property damage at not less than
$1,000,000.
S2,OOO,OOO Fire at Portland, Or.
Fire at Portland, Or, Sunday destroyed
property to the value of over $4,000, 900.
The fire originated in the Pacific coast
company's elevator. The elevator was
completely destroyed; loss S1,5O0,OOO.
Three men are supposed to have lost their
lives. The coal bunkers of the Northern
Pacific terminal company and the Oregon
railway and navigation cOmpany's wharf,
400 feet long, and the steamboat Willamette
Chief were also burned
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartors has returned
to Washington and rented a house there
with the intention of making that city her
future home.
The Oklahoma story of wife-seling is
put in the shade by one from Mount Pleas
ant, Mich, where a man sold his wife for
$40. She came back after few days and
was sold again to another man for SIS.
The Hudson river palisades are being
destroyed by contractors who are blasting
away the magnificent and historic cliffs to
get material for paving stones and macad-
am roads.
A suit for $1,000 damages has Just
been brought by a Tennessee man against
neghbor who, by means of sun glass,
burned all the hair off the complainants
head while he was asleep.
According to Warsaw despatch sixty
houses in the city of Blaszeki, in the dis
trct of Halise, Russian Poland, where the
cholera is making fearful ravages, were set
on fire Monday night and completely de-
stroyed. A number of the inmates of the
houses, who were suffering from the dis
ease, burned to death.
The largest vessel ever built in America
will be launched at the famous Cramp
shipyard in October. The giant merchant
man, the sX-decker st. Louis of the Amer
lean line, will receive its initial baptism in
the waters of the Delaware, and new era
in the history of the American merchant
marine will be inaugurated. While not as
large as the Lucania and her twin sister,
the Campania, nor endowed with their
horse power, the st. Louis will be greater
and swifter than the Paris or New York
and will make at least 20 knots an hour on
her transatlantic voyages. The new YES
sci is more than one-tenth of a mile long,
being j54 feet over all, with an extreme
beam of G3 feet and & tonnage of II, 900
tons. Her chief glory will be that she has
been constructed from keelson to truck of
American steel in an American shipyard
and represents American skill and uscle
in model, design, material and building.