The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-17
DELUGE OF DESTRUCTION.
DESCENDS ON THE EASTERN WATER
SHED THEROCKIEs.
From Nebraska to Texas Seas of Rain De-
Scend-Forty Three Lives Lost and Mil
hons Of Dollars in Property Destroyed.


hons of Dollars in Property Destroyed.
ST. LOUIS, July7.-Thursday morn
ing last, telegraphic reports began to
arrive in this city of rains at Western
points. These reports grew in num-
bers Friday and covered a large terri
tory, indicating that the entire eastern
water sheds of the Rocky Mountains of
the Nebraska and Iowa lines to Texas
was swept by storm. Friday night
the severest blow came. Reports OF
loss of life and destruction of property
came with every telegram and the
downpour, which was at first regarded
as blessing. grew into a wave of de-
vastation. Fields Of grain that prom,
isued the most bountiful yield in many
years are today swept bare of vegeta-
ton. In several instances the seas of
rains were absetted in their work of de-
struction by tornadoes. It is too early
yet to sum up the loss, but the total
must be appalling, and those to whom
the angry elements spared life have
little left to sustain it. The stories of
storm are so similar that statistical
summary is all there is left to tell
The storms focus embraced an area
of 200 square miles, with the south
western corner of Missouri as the cen
tire. The greatest loss Of life is re-
ported from Winona. Mo-, where
eleven corpses have been found with
as many more missing. At Baxter
Springs, III southern Kansas, five were
killed and eleven seriously injured By
cyclone that accompanied the storm.
One was drowned at Columbus and
two at Ottawa, Kansas. At Eanburen,
Arkansas, woman and her child were
drowned. \ family of five were
camped on the banks of Fish Creek,
in the Indian Territory Yesterday
nothing of them or their belongings
was found, except part OF their
wagon on pile of drift-wood. AT
Thomasville, Mo-, where the rainfall
was four inches in one hour, five lives
were lost. Unconfrmed reports are
received of loss fife as follows: Three
at Fayetteville, Ark. one at Paoi.
Kans. one at Richards, kans.; and
six of hunting party in the 1ncian
Territory. This gives known and
probable loss of fortythree lives.
This total will be increased when the
receding water permits a thorough
search. The loss in property can be
placed in the millions. Dwellings,
fences and farm buildings were carried
off and wagon and railroad bridges
swept away Thirty of the eighty
buildings in Winona succumbed. Five
residences, church and warehouse
went down at Baxter Springs. Six
bridges went out in Russell county,
Kansas. About Jefferson City, Mo-,
many square miles of growing grain
were covered with debris. Traffic on
the Fort Scott and Memphis railway is
temporarily suspended. Reports OF
damage to property other than above
noted come from five points in Kansas,
nine in Missouri, six in Arkansas and
two in the Indian Territory The
storm spent itself in Illinois, but hav,
ing lost its force, proved a blessing tc
crops. The above summaries give only
a fraction Of loss in property. The
greatest burden falls upon the farmers
is the season is too far spent to plant
new crops and suffering must surely
follow in the storms wake. Details
Of individuals suffering and expert
ences recall the horrors of the Johns.
town disaster.
DEATH on THE LAKES.
CHICAGO, July There was terri,
bic storm in and around Chicago late
this afternoon. 1t is reported that a
number of small boats were capsized
on Lake Michigan and their occupants
drowned. Three bodies have been
washed ashore on the lake near the
Auditorium.
At the outbreak Of the storm the
eyes of anxious thousands were turned
lakeward for sail boats and other
small crafts which might be outside
the breakwaters. Off twenty-second
street several persons, including police
officers and Illinois Central railroad
employees, noticed sail boat contain
ing three men, whose fate was to be
the victims of the hurricane. An ef.
fort had been made to turn the boat to-
wards the shore, but the men We're
poor sailors and the waves tossed the
boat like a toy for minute and then
it was seen to capsize, carrying all oc'
cupants to their death. Nothing more
was seen of either boat or the men and
the shore is being watched for the re-
covery of their bodies.
People on the lake shore off the
north piers perceived a row boat with
one man in it as far out as the two
mile crib. He was pulling for shore
and made vain effort to keep his frail
craft from the trough of the white
capped waves. After few minutes OF
struggling the boat capsized and the
occupant was unable to grasp it. He
was lost to view and his body has not
been recovered.
The damage to property throughout
the city was great. and especially IN
the business portion. Thousands OF
QOIIiiS "ottu VI pidlC SistSo HihStc" ,
were broken and many buildings were
flooded by the breaking Of pipes, roof:
and other parts Of the buildings
4 CYCLONE IN GEORGIA.
ATLANTA. July 1.-Two persons
were killed by acyclone in Putnam
county, Ga, late this afternoon and
probably twenty were seriously III
iured. The list Of fatalities may run
up to ten y special to the Constitu,
ton from Eatonton says that a con,
ductor on the Middle Georgia and
Atlantic Railroad reports that at Will
ard Station everything in the storm S
path was blown down. The conduc,
tors train had a race with the cyclone,
which barely missed it. Henry Adams,
white, and Bob Hardy, colored, were
killed. Henry Penick and his young
wife were caught in the debris of their
house. Penick was injured internally
and is probably fatally injured. jim
Collier, cclored, escaped himself but