The record-union., 1896-06-07
Some of the Stones Being Seven Inches
in Circumference.
The Depot Unroofed and surrounded
by Ten Feet of Water-Bridges All
Over the Valley Either Blown
Away or Washed Out-A Little
Girl Drowned-DestruCt Storms
In Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota.

LINCOLN CNeb.), June 6-South-
western Nebraska was visited by the
most disastrous storm for many years
last night. Loup City, in Sherman
County, suffered the most severely,
many buildings being demolished ana
one or two fatalities occurring. The
whole Loup Valley, according to reports
received at railroad headquarters IN
Lincoln. was flooded for miles. One re-
port is to the effect that a foot OF ram
fell at Loup City. The seven-year-old
daughter of Section Foreman Mccoy
Of the Burlington road was drowned
The railroad suffered heavily, over 2,OOo
feet being washed out on the BurWell
end Arcadia branches of the Burning
ton.
The hail and rain came down In such
quantities that the fruit and crops are
seriously damaged in many places. 1t
hailed at Loup City for forty-five min
utes. some of the icy stones being seven
inches in circumference.
The agent of the Burlington at Wool
back. on the Burwell branch, running
from Palmer to Greeley Center, drove
from that place to Cushing to report
his troubles to headquarters. He stated
that his depot had been unroofed by the
storm, and was surrounded by about
ten feet of water. Five cars were
wrecked and washed away. The wind
mill and tank escaped damage. The
stock yards, Toulouse and side track
are only memories. There was SO much
water around that he could not tell how
much more track had been damaged.
Bridges all over the valley were either
blown away or washed out by the cloud
burst which followed the wind.
At ST. Paul the Loup River rose fifteen
feet in a few minutes, flooding some
houses but doing no great damage
otherwise The country districts suf-
fered the worst, may families in the low
lande being forced to flee to higher
ground to save their lives.
Much live stock was drowned near
Ord, and a dispatch from that place
says there are fears of loss of human
life between that place and Loup City,
but the roads are impossible and it is
impossible to investigate.
WORST STORM EXPERIENCED.
LOUP CITY (Neb), June 6.-The
worst hail and wind storm and cloud
burst ever experienced in Sherman
County struck this place at 7:45 last
evening. The family of Joseph Mccoy
went into the cyclone cellar, and when it
began to fill with water they all got out
except the little girl, Nellie, years old.
She was drowned in the flood. The
house of James Bradley began to float
away, but caught in a slight elevation,
and the family was resued by a party
with a hotel bus. The same party also
took the Winkleman and Hale families
to a place of safety
The Catholic Church was blown to
pieces, and the Baptist Church was
moved three feet off the foundations.
The schoolhouse roof was taken off. A
sixty foot bridge across Dead Horse
Creek was carried bodily over 1000
feet, and is lodged near water tank
Both the Burlington and Union Pa
cific Railroad bridges are washed out,
and it is reported that a half mile of
the Burlington track is gone between
here and Adcadia
HIGH WIND IN IOWA.
SIOUX CITY, June 6-Residents here
We're driven to their cyclone caves by a
high wind from the southeast about Z
O'Clock this evening. Shade trees and
awnings all over the city were blown
down, and a few small frame buildings
suffered. The local telephone companies
were also heavy losers. There are
rumors of severe storm to the north,