The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-26
DELUGED WITH DEATH
Wild Cyclones Again SWOOp
Down on the West.
GORPSES ALMOST COUNTLESS.
Human Bodies Hurled About Amid
Flying Houses.
FOUR STATES FEEL THE FURY.
ClOudbuTStS Companions Of the
Cyclones.

Iowa, Michigan, Illinois and Mime
sofa the Scenes of the Most Ap-
DaiIing Part of the Death and De-
structiOn-NO Accurate Estimate
of the Number of Lives Lost Possi-
BILE as Yet-News From Many Sec
tiOns UnObtainabIe on Account of
the blowing Down of the wires.
McGregor Ia. May 25.-A fatal cloud
burst devasted this city and county last
nisAt. For ten miles everything is in
ruins. All the afternoon the clouds were
gathering and about ] O'Clock the storm
burst in its fury, soon deluging the valley.
1t swept everything before it.
Six bodies have been found and nine peo-
pie are missing. A small stream called
Bloody Run passes through the town.
Some of the unfortunate victims are sup
posed to have been carried out into the
Mississippi river, into which the Bloody
Run empties at North McGregor.
About ten miles of the track of the Chi
cagO, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway
was washed away. A large number of
freight cars were standing on the tracks
in the yards. They are piled in shapeless
masses along the valley some Of them be-
ing carried down into the river. The loss
TO the railroad company will reach 800, 200.
The sight was most appalling as the wall
of water washed down the creek.
The valley for twelve miles is one vast
wreck, and the damage to mills, houses
and farms cannot be estimated.
Oelwein, Ia, May 25.-A cyclone, half
a mile in width. passed through Mingo,
Ia, about 1890 o'clock this morning, kill
ing Mrs. Martha Dickey, Mrs. L. w.
Hiney, Mrs. Schell and young child of
ID. Aiken.
S. Dickey and one child, D. Aiken ana
wife and one child were badly injured.
The Aiken and Dickey houses and out
buildings We're totally destroyed. J. NJ.
Osborne, wife and child were badly In
jured and their house and outbuildings
and stock were all blown away. F: Leav-
lers house was blown down and himself
injured. Alex TrammePs house ard out
buildings were entirely destroyed and
The cyclone tore up trees and destroyed
everything in its path. Considerable dam
age was done TO the Great Western rail-
way, which lost five of its bridges and
miles of its telegraph wires and poles.
Washington May 25.-Among the places
where great damage to property was
done by the cyclone, but where little or
no loss of life occurred, are Burlington,
Manchester, Marshalltown, Dubuque and
Eima in Iowa; Elgin, Rockford, Galena
and Mount Carroll, Ill, and Duluth,
Mimi.
AT Galena, H., the damage was very
great chiefly from a flood, caused appar-
emily by a cloudburst Water rushing into
the streets from the bluffs to the low
ground, together with the rise of the Ga
lena river, turned the downtown streets
into rivers ToWbOats did service on Main
and Commerce streets. Franklin street IS
a scene of devastation. The solid macad-
amizing of the street has been gutted
out to the depth of ten feet in many
places. Several bridges are washed away.
Cellars on Main street are inundated and
places of business in some portions of
the town are abandoned Walls of solid
masonry were torn out, buildings carried
from their foundations and horses swept
from floating barns down the deluged
streets. Several homes Were wrecked,
among them that of ]. +. Strickland,
whose wife was drowned in the flood.
At Durango, Ia, in the midst OF the
storm, Mrs. Clark, station agent OF the
Chicago and Great Western rallrOad, was
called from her residence to the depot
nearby to get orders for traln, Wnleh
had just arrived. She took her four chill
dren with her and was at work, when
the flood, sweeping down the Maquoketa
valley, carried away her resldence ana
finally the depot, which was borne down
stream a mile and hat. Ihe Iour chll-
dren were drowned, but Mrs. Clark cIung
To the roof and was saved by the train
men Her bereavement has dethroned her
reason.
Mount Clemens Mich. May pa cy-
clone passed over this city this evening.
wreclzing about 50 houses and killing
Il or s persons and injuring several others.
Pontiac, Mich, May 25-Reports from
4 Ortonvllle, Oal1wood oxford and Thomas,
which are located in Oakland county, Is
Il 20 % miles north of here, say that cy-
clone swept these sections this afternoon.
Ortonville and Thomas were nearly wip-
a dozen people lost their lives at OrtOn-
Vile while at Thomas four were killed.
Lake View, Mich, May 25.-A small cy-
clone struck this nlace this afternoon at
5 O'clock, destroying crops. trees and
Il everything in it's path.
A large barn, owned by George Roberts,
81 j as demolished, and one owned by Fred
Edgar, was moved from lis foundation and
crushed. Heavy oak rails were carried
e'iQ-5 ten acre lot and splintered. A
C'tacn-Ig rain followed
Natrago May pa storm Of wind, rain,
Adnder and lightning, struck Chicago at
= O'Clock this morning. The wind at times
stained the velocity of a hurricane and
u s uSatnlng was inccssant. over an inch
e vA+ water fell in less than ten minutes,
'.-A amounted to a cloudburst. The
sri ri7-a We're unable to carry OF the water
- as result Easements all over the
'' we're hooded. The press rooms Of the