The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-07-11
WIND AND RAIN STORM
Many Lives Were Lost and
Much Property Destroyed.
ENTIRE MIDDLE WEST VISITED
At Chicago the Storm Was the Most
Furious That City II as Known
in q Great MANY Years.

in a Great Many Years.
Chicago, July Gone of the most
furious wind and rain storms known
in this vicinity for years passed over
the city about o'clock this 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 up very
suddenly it is feared that several lives
have been lost. The life saving crew
have been busy all the evening tracing
rumors of capsized boats. Up to 10
o'clock they had rescued the occupants
of three capsized boats, all in very
exhausted condition. No trace of any
others has been found up to this hour,
and it is hoped that no more are out.
The police at Cottage Grove, on the
South Side, claim they distinctly saw
a small boat with three occupants dis
appear, and nothing was seen OF it
again during daylight. The hfesavers
from the South Side eruised around
that locality for some time, but found
no evidence of wreck. 1t is probable
that more missing people will be re.
ported from the various suburbs at a
later hour.
Up to twenty minutes of the descent
of the storm upon the city, the sky had
been clear and the sun was shining
brightly. Suddenly heavy black clouds
began to gather in the northwest, and
in few minutes a terrible gale, ac.
companied by a perfect flood OF rain
and furious thunder and lightning, was
sweeping over the city. Shade trees
were broken off close to the ground;
awnings and signs torn away, and
much minor damage was done In the
city. The wind subsided after about
half an hour, but a furious rain con.
tinned for fully two hours.
The parks had been crowded all day
with people seeking relief from the
heat, and when the storm began there
was stampede for the elevated and
cable cars. The surface lines were all
equipped with open cars, and as a re-
suit the occupants of every train made
a sorry looking sight before they had
gone block, and most of them after
they had got thorough soaking, de-
serted the cars and sought the shelter
of convenient stairways and stores
along the streets, and there had to re-
main until after 1880 P. M, or take
ch ances of another wetting by again
taking the cars.
At lip. M, the police think the
fatalities will not exceed half dozen.
Charles Klein, John Ross and Charles
L. Shook are believed to have been
drowned. They were blown out into
the lake in rowboat and no trace has
been found. The yawl boat belonging
to the yacht Hattie B. has been picked
up off Twenty sixth street, but 1t IS
thought the yacht has weathered the
gale and made for this port. The
small craft which were blown into the
lake report thrilling experiences.
There were several narrow escapes
from drowning. The telegraph and
telephone service was completely de-
moralized. 1t was 10 o'clock before
communication could be had from Mil
waukee.
A cyclone swept across Crawford and
Morgan counties about this evening.
But meager accounts have been re-
ceived. It is known that two lives
were lost and number of persons bad
ly injured, several fatally. At Will
ards station, on the Middle Georgia q
Atlantic railroad, every house was
torn to pieces. Henry Adams and B.
Harding, colored, were killed. Build
ings, fences, crops. etc., on the Martin
Plantation, were carried away, The
parties who started in to follow the
path of the cyclone have not returned.
In Morgan county Henry Perry &
house and farm buildings were blown
down. Perry and his family were
buried in the falling timbers. Perry
is injured internally and will die. His
wife's condition is critical. The home
of John Collier was demolished and
two of his children were mangled IN
the wreck. Robertson's 3 plantation was
swept out of every thing standing. The
Robertsons fed to the cellar and es
capped. Fuller reports cannot be OBJ
tanned until daylight. Twenty persons
are known to have been badly injured
and the list of fatalities will not bt
less than ten.