Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-05-15

ternoon. A funnel-shaped cloud swept
downward from the storm center, and
general stampede of citizens for caves
\ and cellars ensued. At the school
Mouse the children fed panic-stricken
to the furnace-room, amid the widest
confusion, and a number of children
were hurt. The cyclone struck the
ground north of the town. Its course
was northwest. The path of the storm
was from ZOO to 900 yards wide, and
everything in its path was RACED to the
ground, including several houses.
Carl Johnson, prominent farmer,
was caught in the twister. He had
team attached to a wagon. He endeav-
ored to skirt the storm by driving in
meadow to the westward, but before he
could lash his horses out of the path of
the rapidly approaching hurricane he
was caught in its vortex, and man,
horses and wagon were carried through
space, together with fence boards, posts,
wire and other debris. His clothes were
literally torn from his back and he re-
ceived a number of wounds. At times
the wind would raise him high in the
air and drop him back to the earth, only
to catch him up again. In his flight he
would describe a circle, and when the
storm finally passed over him he was $50
yards or more distant from where the
storm first struck him. The wagon was
completely demolished.
After traversing a distance of about
two miles the nne-shaped cloud arose
as suddenly as it had shot down to the
earth, and at a point five or six miles
further north dropped again to the earth
where it is feared great damage and
loss of life resulted.
L Omaha, May IA cloud burst in the
vacinity of Omaha late this afternoon
~ 'sfuge of water was the result.
tbfeets of the city were running
4 inches deco for two hours and
N Naces were flooded. The dow npour
covered the state during the afternoon.
The damage in the city was consider
able.
There are rumors here of disastrous
cyclone in the interior OF the STATE.
Worthington, Minn., May "a A
cyclone struck this place last night de-
molishing twenty buildings. Fortu-
nately no one was seriously hurt.
Omaha, May IA special to the
Bee from Lincoln, Neb., says:
Lincoln was struck at 4:45 by lorna
do which ragged with undated violence
for twenty five minutes. During this
period rain fell as from a cloud-burst,
accompanied by hail. The prevailing
drift of the wind was from the south
west. but sometimes it seemed to form
in eddies between the business blocks
and was accompanied by cyclonic feat
ures. Buildings were unroofed and torn
down, cornices swept from the roof into
the streets, and the residence portion OF
the CITY nearly denuded of trees. The
greatest damage was done at the state
hospital for the insane, where many of
the larger buildings were unroofed. The
damage will be very heavy. The in
mates were excited but the guards
averted trouble The damage in tie
city will probably not exceed $4,000,
though it NAV be much heavier as the
suburban districts are yet cut off from
communication, The Injured are;
7. L. Workman, head cut by flying
debsis.
A L. Woody in a collapsed building.
Mrs. J. B. Abbott, caught beneath
horse.
Henry Meyer.
J. H. Thorpe.
There were no fatalities though the
injured were severely hurt. At the state
asylum iron supports weighing 800
pounds were blown several hundred
yards.
It is impossible to ascertain the
amount of this loss, but there is scarcely
street in the town which is not strewn
with large branches and whole trunks of
trees uprooted by the storm.
In the main business part of the city,
in the Kelly block, Ninth and P streets,
opposite and north of the Lincoln hotel,
suffered the worst. Here the storm tore
the tin roof from the building, throwing
It into Ninth street, and covering the
sidewalk on the two streets with bricks
Aronl chimneys and cornices.
The water completely drenched the
entire building