The herald., 1896-06-08
FLOOD AND STORM DAMAGE
Reported by Various States Beyond the
Rocky Mountains
Kansas Crops Badly Damaged and Some Lives
Lost-Severe Floods In Nebraska.
A Broken Reservoir
Associated Press Special Wire.

| Broken Reservoir
| Associated Press Special Wire.
| CHICAGO, June 7.-Severe storms pre-
! vailed throughoutWiscon Iowa, Kan
sas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Illinois
and Michigan today with heavy rain and
| in several sections with cyclonic mani
festations. Three heat storms passed
| over this city accompanied with heavy
rains and hail. Hail stones fell in some
| places in this vicinity so thick they could
be taken up by the shovelful. After the
rain in Hyde park nearly peck of shells
| and gravel were picked up. In one place
in this suburb small fish and turtles
were found in large numbers. OF this
| remarkable occurrence, Observer Cox
| states that the transplanting of fish and
shells and water gravel from their ORR
ginal resting place to points miles away
was due to vacuums whirlwinds and
| straight winds which have prevailed
| throughout the west for week past
| A sailboat was capsized on the lake
| this afternoon by the high wind and it's
| four companions barely escaped drow-
| ming. Up to a late hour tonight no fa
| talities had been reported.
At Peoria a heavy rain did consider
able damage.
At the Union Stock yards the storm
played havoc. Easements and first
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! house firms were heavy losers. Hun
dreds of windows were blown in, and the
rain entering spoiled tons of beef which
had been prepared for canning.
At Virgil, s. D., cyclone leveled a
| number of houses. Irwin DAILY was SER
iously injured. From this point the fun
| nel-shaped cloud took q northeasterly
| direction, devastating everything with
which it came in contact. Four persons
| were drowned and 1t is reported much
damage was done to property at Leav-
enworth, Kas. Springfield, ILL.,, was Wis
tied by one Of the most violent rain
storms known there for years.
Chadron, Neb., was visited by ter
rifle storm. Trains on all lines are de-
layed by washouts.
At Baraboo, Wis, heavy washouts oc-
CURED and train service is demoralized.
Dispatches received here from the
northwestern part of Wisconsin say all
the damage done to railroads Satur-
| day night has been repaired.
/ At Glenwood the dam gave way and
| the territory for miles around is flooded.
! 1t is reported that bridges for twenty
miles around Glenwood have been
| washed away, but no loss Of life in that
| part of the state is reported.
LOSS BY FLOODS.
OMAHA, Neb., June T. A special to
| the Bee from st. Paul, Nebraska, esti-
| mates the losses resulting from the Sc
! we're floods of yesterday at 100000 in
Howard county alone. Two large
| bridges over the North Loop river were
| swept away, besides many smaller ones.
| A great number of horses, cattle and
| hogs were drowned. Many farmers lost
| all their buildings. In some places from
| twelve TO fourteen inches of rain fell.
Near Columbus the Union Pacific mail
| line was washed out for several miles.
| A report comes from ONeil, Neb, that
hn faxt Of ,o1,
wiped out by tornado yesterday. No
| lives lost.
A RESERVOIR BURSTS.
SALT LAKE, Utah. June IA special
to the Tribune from Brigham City,
Utah, says: Early this morning a big
| reservoir in Three Mile canyon, south of
solid wall of water sixteen feet high
Hyrum City, burst it's banks and a
solid wall of water sixteen feet high
rushed down the canyon into the val
ley, carrying destruction before it, for a
distance of thirty miles. Boulders weigh
ing tons were carried along like feathers
and deposited in the fields of the farm
ers, who today find their fertile acres
covered from one to four feet deep with
sand, trees and boulders. The entire
valley presents desolate appearance.
A KANSAS CLOUDBURST.
LEAVENWORTH,K Kan, June T.
Four persons were drowned and consid-
cradle damage to property was done by a
cloudburst which visited this section
this afternoon. Water fell in torrents,
smashing windows, tearing off signs,
etc, and flooding cellars and bottom
lands. Dennis and Michael Desmond
and Dennis and Eugene Cummings, all
under eleven years of age, were drowned
by going into stone culvert to escape
the storm. The water washed their
bodies into the Missouri river and they
had not been recovered this evening
IN THE CORN STATES.
WICHITA, Kan, June "A terrific
hail storm at an early hour this morning
destroyed thousands of acres Of fine
growing corn in Southern Kansas. The
hail stones cut the stalks off like NOW
ing machine. The storm was so severe
that the roadsides are strewn with dead
rabbits and birds. The storm was an
parently general over Southern Kansas
and extended over a part of Oklahoma
ACTORS SYMPATHY.
NEW YORK, June IA benefit per-
formance tonight netted $4,000 for the ST.
Louis cyclone sufferers. Some of the
artists who participated were Marion
Mason, Virginia Earle. Verona Jarbeau.
Lottie ellison, Albert Chevalier and De-
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