The Portland daily press., 1896-05-26
FLOODS IN ILLINOIS.
FLOOOS lin lELlNOlSs
Great Amount of Damage Done in Chicago
and Galena.

and Galena.
Chicago, May 25-The work of the
storm in the suburban towns was
disastrous. Edison park, Norwood park,
Irving park, and Ravenswood came in
for the greatest damage. Several persons
were hurt. some seriously Nearly q
score of buildings, two of them churches,
were damaged.
Galena, Ills, May 25.-A flood de-
vastatcd Galena last night, as the result
of cloud burst. Danger signals called
the people from their beds and the night
WAS spent in efforts to save life and
property. TIE water rushing in torrents
from the bluffs to the low ground, to-
gether with the sudden rise of the Galena
river turned the down town streets into
running rivers Two boats did service
en- Main and Commerce streets. Franklin
street is soene OF devastation. The solid
macadamizing of the street was Quilted
out to the depth OF ten feet in many
places. Several bridges were WRshed
away. The cellars on Main street were
inundated and places of business in some
portions OF the town abandoned. Walls
OF solid masonry were torn out and build
iDgs carried from their foundations and
horses swept from floating barns down
the deluged streets. Several homes were
Strickland, whose wife was drowned in
the food. Telegraph and telephone SER
vice is much impaired and considerable
damage was done by lightning.
Elgins, ILL.,, May 25-ThisEeity was
visited by tornado early this morning.
great brick smoke stack, 1875 feet high
at the insane asylum, was wrecked.
jack Kehoe was killed and buried be-
meath the debris. The asylum buildings
VIZ ly ~ n a
Elgin bicycle and sewing machine works
was torn off and the building ruined.
Mt. Carroll, Ills, May 25.--The severest
storm ever experience in this section
broke at 11.30 last night and lasted until
three this morning. Carroll oreek ose
twenty feet in half an hour. j. NJ. Shirk
Co. IS mill dam broke, flooding the
factory Mt. Carroll tannery, and all the
buildings along Galena avenue and Mill
streets. The fire alarm was rung and
people were rescued on RATS. The damage
In Carroll county is estimated at 500, 600.
Rockford, Ills, May 25-Several peop le
were killed and many thousand dollars
damage done by last nights storm. At
midnight the cyclone struck mile south
of Egan city, Wreoking the residence Of
Mrs. Isora Bird and killing her Instantly.
Her two girls and two boys were badly
hurt, Trees were torn from the earth,
crops levelled and outhouses destroyed by
the storm. DIR. H1idebran, his wife and
daughter were killed near Monroe Centre,
tho wife being beheaded by a flying
peam. Davis Junction suffered from the
storm to @ serious extent.
At Clintonville. Illinois, the storm
wrecked fonr mill.
Cyclone in Michigan.
Pontiac, Mic, May 25.-Reports from
Cakvnod, Oxford and 95omasyille, Is
10 % 14ass nos i d, nel 2 >1+' SO oy-caans'
swept these s5otions this AFTERNOON.
Ortonville and Thomasvile were nearly
wiped out. 1t is expected that fully a
dozen people lost their lives at Ortonville
while at Thomasville four were killed
Ortonville Mich, May 25.-A Cyclone
swept over the northern portion of Oak
land county this afternoon. The pa tn Of
the cyclone was half mile widea
| Every farm house in the path Of dis
tanco OF 10 miles were destroyed. and
between 90 and 25 persons killed. Near
| ly 80 were injured, some of whom will
die Oakwood is reported to have been
completely wiped out.
AZ Thomas it is said that five persons
lost their lives. IN Metamora. town
q few miles south of Thomas, several
pers OBS were killed.