The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-07-08

chimneys. At the fair grounds every
 thing was swept away. George Bak- CT. who owns string of trotters was seriously injured. Brown Bonnie and Rustler, two trotters, owned by M. T. Stanley, were so badly hurt that they will have to be killed. For three days the heat has been awful. The thermo-
 meter has not been below 9S at mid-
 night and has reached as high 109,
 During the storm this afternoon 1t was
 dark as midnight.
 Waukesha, Wis, July 7.-The report
 reached here in a roundabout way to-
 night that score of people had been
 drowned during the progress of a ter rife storm at Lake Geneva late this af- ternoon, All efforts to reach that point are unavailing, as all wires are down. Lake Geneva is well known summer resort and is frequented an-
 nually by thousands of Chicago and eastern people,
 Peoria, H., July 17.--One of the worst storms in the history of Peoria swept over this city this afternoon. Great l damage was done to buildings. It was the hottest day of the year.
 Chicago, July IA special from De laven, Wis, says the storm this af- | ternoon was terrific. Roofs were blown from houses, trees felled, windows bro- ken and thee rops badly damaged. Reports that this was the hottest day 1 of the year come in from numerous quarters. At Oshkosh the most severe hail storm in years occurred this af- ternoon breaking skylights and doing damage to crops. In ten minutes the temperature dropped from 90 to 65 de- grees.
 St. Louis, July 7.-Reports indicate that the. entire eastern watershed of the Rocky mountains, from the Ne braska and Iowa lines to Texas was swept by the storm. The storms focus embraced an area of 200 square miles with the southwestern corner of Mis- souri as the center. The greatest loss of life is reported from Winona, Mo-, where Il corpses were found. At Bax- ter Springs, Kans., five were killed: one person was drowned at Columbus and two at Ottawa, Kans. At Van Buren, Ark. a woman and her child were drowned. A family of five who were encamped on the banks of Fish Creek, Indian Territory, are believed to have been drowned.
 At Thomasville, Mo-, where the rain- fall was four inches in one hour, five lives were lost. Unconfrmed reports are received of loss of life as follows: Three at LafayetIteville, Ark; one at Paoli, Kans.; one at Richards, Kans., and six of a hunting party. This gives a known and probable loss of forty-three lives.
 This total will be increased when the lreceding waters permit a thorough search. The loss in property can be placed in the millions. Dwellings, fences and farm buildings were carried off, wagon and railroad bridges were swept away and crops were badly dam aged. Details of individual suffering and experiences recall the horrors of the Johnstown disasters.
 Atlanta, Ga, July 1.-Two persons were killed by a cyclone in Putnam county this afternoon and perhaps twen- ty were seriously injured. The list of fatalities may run up to ten. A special reports that at Willard s Station everything in the storms path was blown down. A train had race with a cyclone, which barely missed 1t.
 Henry Adams and Bob Harris were kill ! ed Henry ePnnick and his wife were caught in the debris of their house. Several plantations were devastated. Fargo, N. D., July TIA storm Friday night extending from Anselrn, fifteen miles west, and from one to two miles miles wide, damaged thirty to forty thousand acres of grain, threw build- ings from their foundations and deluged the country. -Four inches of rain fell In a few hours.
 London, July 1.-The Right Hon. Ar thur J. Balfour, first lord of the treas- ury, has issued an address to the elec- tors of East Manchester, which district returns him to the house. Tn the course of the address he says he approves the items in Mir. Chamberlain's program. Lake Geneva, Wis, July Hive per- sons were drowned at Lake Geneva this afternoon by the swamping of the launch Despatch in the tornado which swept over this section about o'clock The drowned are: Mrs. France and child; Father Hogan, Catholic priest from Harvard, H.; Mrs. Hogan; John Preston, engineer of the launch. The engineer saw the storm coming up and wished to remain in port at Elgln, Ill, but the passengers insisted on crossing over to Kaye's park. Half ! way across the storm struck the boat and itm ust have gone down like a shot.
 Another steamer coming along picked 1In five hats and the body of Mrs Hp- gan, who had been kept afioat by her large sleeves. She had been beaten by the storm, however, until life was ex- tinct The Dispatch was one of the worlds fair launches and was owned by W. N. Johnson. She was worth 5000.
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