Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-05-25
FURY OF THE STORM KING
Destructive DOwnp0ur at Chicago
Suburbs Flooded --I-nprecedent-
cd Precipitation.
TERRIBLE WORK OF CYCLONES IN IOWA
Many Persons Killed and Many More
Injured Judge Seeds Home Visit
ed-Cloud-b burst at McGregor-
Tornado in Illinois.

Chicago, May 25.-A storm of unusual
severity struck Chicago at 1926 a. m. The
Easements of the down town district were
flooded and considerable damage was
done. Ia ten minutes nearly an inch of
water fell. The storm was accompanied
by terrific thunder ana lightning.
CHICAGO SUBURBS FLOODED.
Chicago.-Tn the suburbs of Edison
park, Norwood park, Irving park and
Evanswood, nearly a score of buildings,
two of them churches, we're demolished
and hundreds of shade trees uprooted by
the storm last night. The precipitation,
according to the weather bureau, was
LAG inches in ten minutes, breaking all
previous local records.
HOUSE PICKED UP BODILY.
Chicago.-A cottage on North Ashland
avenue was lifted from it's foundations
and carried thirty feet into vacant lot.
The building held together and it's occu-
pants, James Deuster, wife and three
children, escaped, though Mrs. Deuster
received severe scalp wound.
CYCLONES IN IOWA.
lage about fifteen miles west of Newton,
was nearly wiped out of existence by a
cyclone last night. Fourteen people are
reported killed.
Des Moines, Iowa.--A cyclone struck
afteen miles north of this city. 1t is re-
ported that twenty -four persons were
killed there.
BUILDINGS uNRooFED AND TREES uPRooTED.
St. Paul, Minn.--A. special dispatch
from Elma, Iowa, says: A terrific storm,
cyclonic in form, occurred here last night.
Many buildings were unroofed and trees
uprooted. Telegraph and telephone poles
and wires were demolished and numer-
ons business fronts smash in. The town
is almost lake. The people took re-
fuge in their cellars. No one was hurt.
At Alta Vista man was killed and two
children were badly hurt.
AT JUDGE SEEDS HOME.
Manchester, Iowa.-A cyclone struck
Manchester about l o'clock last night,
leaving track six of eight miles long in
ruins. Mrs. Ira Rowland and William
Murray were seriously injured.
rwENTY-rHREE REPORTED DEAD.
Des Moines, Iowa.1fWenty-th three peo-
pie are reported dead as a result OF the
Cyclone which swept the northern part of
Polk county last night at IL o'clock.
The towns afflicted are Bondurant, Val
eria, Santiago and Ira. No telephone
or telegraphic comulnn;cat;on has been
established except with Bondurant,
which reports four deaths there in the
D,s1 r, rx,sk nf fov,
lily seriously injured.
Three members of the Phelan family
and Mrs. Schill were killed at Valeria.
At Santiago the list sjs three killed in
the Bolenbaugh family.
Between Valeria and Ira the death list
is nine.
A special train has been started from
Des Moines with physicians on board
The storm is said to have swept along
the line of the Great Western from Bon
durant to Marshalltown.
TORNADO IN ILLINOIS.
Elgin, Ill.--A tornado visited this Sec
tion this morning. John Heogh, engineer
of the state insane asylum, was killed by
falling chimney. the Elgin sewing
machine and bicycle factory was blown
down.
MANY KILLED AND INJURED.
Marshalltown, Iowa.-The cyclone last
night along the Chicago & Great Western
railway in Jasper county killed probably
twenty-five persons. 1t injured more
than that number. The property loss is
over 100000 Several miles of railroad
track were practically destroyed.
oLoUD-BuRsT AT M'GREGoR.
Milwaukee.-A cloud-burst at North
McGregor, Iowa, resulted in great de-
struction of property and the probable
loss of several lives. One body has been
recovered. Miles of the track of the st.
Paul railroad are under water.
Bloody Run overhowed so quickly that
the people living in the ravine could not
remove their property. One body has
been found. Several persons are reported
missing.
FLOOD FATALITIES.
Prescott, Kas.-Miss Georgia Rickett
and Bertha Cassaday, well known
young society ladies of Lacygene