The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-26

morning papers were flooded by water
backing up from the sewers, and fire en-
gines had TO be called 10 pump out the
water before the second edition could be
sent TO press. Much minor damage from
wind and lightning is reported from all
over the city, but no fatalities resulted
so far as heard from.
Rockford. Ill, May 25.-Several people
were killed and many thousand dollars
worth Of property destroyed by a storm
Of wind, hail and rain, which swept upon
this region last night. Four persons were
injured, some fatally. The storm was
most severe southeast of the city.
At midnight cyclone struck one mile
south Of Egan City, wrecking the resi-
dence of Mrs Isora Bird and killing her
instantly. Her two girls and two boys were
badly hurt The older girls arm was
fractured, and she was internally injured.
II is not believed the younger girl VIII
live. Big trees were torn from the earth,
crops leveled and Outhouses destroyed.
DR.. Hilderbrandt, his wife and daughter
We're killed near Monroe Centre, the wife
being beheaded by a flying beam, and Miss
Rhinehart lost her life at Lakeview.
Davis Junction was also the victim Of
the storm 10 a serious extent.
In this city the storm ragged for more
than an hour, filling the air with balls. Of
electric fire, and flashes of lightning fol-
lowing with frightful rapidity. The city,
however, escaped the destructive force Of
the storm, the chief damage being 10
Easements flooded, and telephone wires
broken. The railroads into the city are
Instructed by washouts. The tracks are
strewn for miles with the wreckage of the
storm.
Mount Clemens, Mich, May 25.-The cy-
clone which struck here this evening was
not as disastrous as was at first reported
About twenty-five houses were demolish-
ed, but so far as can be learned no per-
son was killed. Mrs. Pohl and three sons
were seriously and perhaps fatally in
jured. The cyclone did a great deal of
damage to the surrounding country, many
farm houses being demolished. and it IS
feared later reports VIII SHOW that many
lives have been lost in this section of Nc
Comb county.
Ortonville, Mich, May 25-A cyclone
swept over the northern portion of Oak
land county this afternoon. The storm
passed about half a mile north of this
village. 1t came from the west The
path of the cyclone was half a mile wide.
Every farm house in its path, from dis
tance of twelve miles, was destroyed, ana
between twenty and twenty-five persons
killed, and nearly thirty injured some of
whom will die. The names of some of
the killed follow:
Daniel Thompson and son.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Mitchell and two
Mr. and Mrs. Abram Quick and three
children.
Mrs. Henry Quick.
John Porrit.
Mrs. Joseph Porrit.
Mrs. T. j. Heaton.
Two children of Mr. Howe.
Oakwood, the next village north of
here, is reported to have been completely
wiped out and many persons killed and IN
jured
east of here, many buildings were destroy
ed, and it is said five persons were killed.
Metamora, a town few miles north OF
Thomas on the line of the Michigan Cen
eral persons were killed.
Des- Moines, Ia, May 25-Most alarming.
reports were received here this morn
ing respecting cyclone which
swept over Polk. Story and Jasper
counties shortly after midnight. Most of
those killed were in the depot of the Chi
cagO and Great Western road some OF
them having just ahghted from train
and others having taken refuge there from
the rain. The depot was literally blown to
pieces. Had it remained at the station five
minutes longer the list of killed would un-
doubtedly have numbered scores.
A dispatch from Santiago in this county,
says the storm was unprecedented in its
fury in that section. Three miles west of
the town a house was lifted bodily, car
ried some distance, and thrown to the
ground a shattered wreck. The entire fam
lily of occupants were killed. Ihe roads are
almost impa assabe from debris, fences,
outbuildings and branches Of trees being
swept together in piles. A messenger from
Bondurant, who arrived at o'clock says
r. G. Scott a prominent farmer was kill
ed and also that the church al Ankeng
was blown down and several persons We're
hurt.
The town of Granger was badly wreck
ed. The number of farm houses wrecked
between Valeria and Bondurant is very
Mayor MacVicker has called a meeting
at the council chamber to take active
measures for the reiiet or the sufferers.
number OF cor1ns nave been shipped TO
BOndurant on the Great Western roads
extra train, via Berwick, the nearest
point.
Des Moines, Ia, May 25, 10 p. MAS
more definite accounts reach here of the
storm in Polk and Jasper counties, the
number of dead is placed at 20, with as
many more seriously injured, a number
of whom will certainly die.
The storm started in two divisions
about twelve miles north of Des Moines,
the starting points being nine miles apart
AS the divisions progressed they gathered
force and gradually converged, until they
met two miles east of Ankeny and here
they developed first the cyclone form
with funnel and tremendous force, and
roaring and electrical disturbances. From
this point west for nearly twenty miles
the path Of the storm IS path of de-
struction.
The greatest loss of life occurred in the
track of the storm from Bondurant to
the northeast. Nothing was left in it's
path. It passed for several miles through
a dense forest, with oak trees, TWO IeeL
in diameter, and not one that was struck
was left standing. All were snapped off
short or torn up by the roots. Houses
struck by the storm disappeared utterly
The path covered by the cyclone proper
is, in most places, from forty to eighty
rods wide. The blow perpetrated all the
remarkable freaks that cyclones are IA
nous for.
Those who heard it early saved them
selves by getting into their caves or cell
lars In other places whole families were
killed or terribly injured and their prop
erty destroyed.
A typical bit of destruction was at the
Bailey home, northwest Of Bondurant.
There were in the house nine people, four
of them were killed and the rest injured
so badly that it is doubtful if any of them
will recover. Two minutes after the storm
struck there was no trace of the house
save the cellar, and in it were piled the
chimney and stove and half the furniture.
boards into splinters. They We're scat
tered so far that no trace of them can be