The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1895-07-13

furious wind and rain STORMS AHoWn
in this vicinity for years passed over
he 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, it is feared that several
lives were lost. The different life
saving crews are busy tracing umors
of capsized boats. people clinging to
planks, ETC., and have brought in the
occupants of three capslzca boats. all
in Il very exhausted condition. Tile
police at the Cottage Grove 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 seen of it again. during daylight.
The l%ife-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 q 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 to the ground, awnings, 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
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Dispatches from many points in the
nois and Southern Wisconsin tell Of
furious storms, though in no place did
the damage reach so high a point as in
Chicago. The weather all through the
state was ~oppressively hot all 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 cannot be known until
tomorrow. The excursion steamers
oil 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-
ons supposed to have been drowned
by the capsizing of a small unknown
yacht off Twenty-second street.
Six People Drowned.
Lake Geneva. Wis, July ga heavy
storm passed over here about 4:3O,
which unroofed buildings and de-
moralized shade trees. The hail broke
q 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 ana
Miss Hogan of Harvard. Ill, and n
mar thought to be DR.. Franz, assist
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
and all on board were
drowned. The body of Miss Hogan
was found floating near Hayes Park.
Delavan, Wis, July 9.-The most de-
Structiye rain and wind storm that
ever visited this locality came yester-
day afternoon. The wind blew down
houses and barns, uprooted trees and
plowed up cornfields. On the south
shore of Delavan lake the devastation
was greatest. A portion of the roof
of the Metowee hotel al 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.-Wires are down
in nearly every direction out of Mil
waukee, but from meager reports it
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 q bridge near Waukegan end that
the train vas obliged to take the
Harvard branch to Kehosha. North
of Waukegan in Wisconsin,, telegraph
poles and trees were leve]ed along the
line and there were signs of a de-
vastating storm. 1t is reported that
four men who were out in a boat near
Waukegan, were drowned.
1t is a remarkable fact that the Ohio
State Food Commissioner, in his Of
fetal examination of baking ,:o.vd ara