Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-11

Chicago. July 9.-One of the most
furious wind and rain storms known
In this vicinity for years passed over
The city about 6 o'clock last evening,
coming from the northwest. The day
had been intensely hot and there were
many people out on the lake In sail
boats, and as the storm came very
suddenly. IL is feared that several
lives were lost. The different life
saving crews are busy tracing rumors
of capsized boats, people clinging to
planks, etc, and have brought in the
occupants of three capSIzed boats, all
in a very exhausted condition. The
police at the Cottage GroTe avenue
station on the South side claim that
they distinctly saw a sail boat with
three occupants disappear during the
height of the gale, and that nothing
was seer Of it again during daylight.
The ~life-savers from the South side
Cruised about that locality for some
time but found no evidences of a
wreck.
Up to within twenty minutes of the
descent of the storm upon the city the
sky had been clear and the sun shin
ing brightly. Suddenly heavy black
clouds began to gather in the north
| west, and a few minutes later a ;er-
rifle gale of wind, accompanied by a
perfect flood of rain and furious thun-
der and lightning was sweeping over
the city. Shade trees we're broken
off close 70 the ground, aw nings, signs,
| etc, torn away and much minor dam
| age done in the city proper. The wind
| moderated after about half an hour,
but the furious rain continued for
fully two hours, during which time the
streets were running with water.
Dispatches from many points in h
central and northern portions of I'LL
nois and Southern Wisconsin tel! Of
furious storms, though in no place did
| the damage reach so high a point as in
Chicago. The weather Ill through the
/ state was ~oppressively hot a" day, and
| the storm came with remarkable sud-
denness toward evening. Along the
| Lake Shore north of here there was
much minor damage done, and it is
feared that when the returns are all in
it will be found that there was great
loss of life.
Some lumber craft, Chicago-bound,
were caught by the storm, but whether
| they suffered canuOt be known until
tomorrow. The excursion steamers
all came in safely. Long after mid
night Searchers were patroling the
waters seeking overturned boats and
some token of the presence Of the
dead. At the last writing the known
drowned are John Ross, capsized near
outer breakwater; three unknown per-
sons. supposed TO have becn drowned
by the capsizing of n small unknown
yacht off Twenty-second street.
Six People Dravned.
Lake Geneva. Wis, July "a heavy
storm passed over here about 4:30,
which unroofed buildings and de-
moralized shade trees. The hail broke
a large amount OF glass and ruined
corn, oats and what little fruit there
was, The steam launch Dispatch was
chartered just before the Storm by a
party consisting Of Father Hogan and
Miss Hogan Of Harvard, Ill, and a
! man thought to be DR.. Franz, sssist-
ant superintendent of the Elgin, Ill,
insane asylum, wife and child. The
boat was in charge of John Preston, a
reliable young man. They were caught
by the storm and the boat was
swamned end Al OH iyari were
, drowped. The body of Miss Hogan
was found floating near Hayes Park,
Deiavan, Wis, July 9.-The most de-
%Structive rain and wind storm that
ever visited this locality came yester-
day afternoon. The wind blew down
houses and barns, upro0tei trees and
plowed up cornfelds. On the south
shore Of ne!aG aH lake the devastation
was greatest. A portion of the roof
of the Metowee hotel y as blown off
and great trees were broken like pipe
stems. The wind was accompanied
by a deluge Of rain and great hail
stones that broke windows and leveled
the fields of grain. The roads and
fields are strewn with debris of trees,
Milwaukee, July 9.-MiTes are down
In nearly every direction out Of Mil
waukee, but from meager reports 1t
seems that a.severe storm. approach
Ing a cyclone, has passed over the
southwestern part Of the state, prob
ably doing serious damage. Passen-
gers arriving on a late train from the
south on the Chicago & Northwestern
railroad report that the storm washed
out a bridge near Waukegan snd that
the train was obliged to take the
Harvard branch TO Kenosha. North
of W~aukegan in Wisconsin. telegraph
poles and trees were leveled along the
lire and there were signs of a de-
vcstating storm. 1t is reported that
four mel who were out in a boat near