The San Francisco call., 1896-07-28

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blacksmith shop blown down; livery barn
unroofed; 0. j.. Abbott's barn destroyed
| and house partially wrecked; lumber
house blown away and the storage-house
of the Kansas City Grain Company blown
| down; DR.. jays barn and Andrews house
badly wrecked; Diehls barn torn to
pieces; Atkinson's barn blown down;
/ Blooms house wrecked; Evans & Mabie's
roof blown off their place of business;
Peter Robinson's house wrecked and barn
unroofed and the depot badly damaged.
| The wind took clip at nearly every
thing, and hardly house or building es-
capped some sort OF injury. Nearly all
property damaged was insured, but the
loss will fall heavily. No fatalities have
been reported.
DUBUQUE, Iowa, July PA fierce
| rainstorm swept this section last night,
the fall being 4.S2 inches. Hilly streets
were badly washed out and debris carried
down on the street railway tracks, block
aiding them. Railroads suffered heavily.
| Later reports of the storm indicate that it
was more disastrous than at first supposed.
| Only the Illinois Central 400 feet of track
| was washed out at Dyersville, 20S at Julien
and bridge at Rockdale, besides wash
outs at Portage Curye and Scales Mound.
| The Milwaukee bridge, south of town, and
| portion of the tract near Showandasse
are destroyed. The Chicago and Great
| Western has washouts and Durango and
| Dyersville, and trains are badly delayed.
Frank Wahe was drowned while attempt
| ing to ford swollen creek at Dyersville.
Many small buildings in the country were
blown down by the wind, while a mum ber
of dwellings were struck by lightning.
LEMARS, Iowa, July 27.-Last nights
hailstorm destroyed nearly all corn and
uncut grains in a strip twenty miles long
and three miles wide IN this county.
Severe damage was done in surrounding
counties.
| GENEVA, Iowa, July 81 "A terrific
hailstorm ten miles in width passed over
the country four miles east of here yester-
day afternoon. The corn crop in the
center of the district was completely
ruined, being literally pounded into the
ground. Hailstones fell over twelve
inches in circumference. The damage
cannot be estimated.
| CHEROKEE, Iowa, July PA de-
structive hail and wind storm occurred
here last night Corn and unharvested
small grain will be almost total failure.
| OSKALOOSA, Iowa. July 27. = Sec
tions of the Iowa Central tracks were
washed out by a storm, and traffic was
delayed six hours.
ALBION, Iowa, July 27.-Albion and
vicinity was visited by small-sized, tor
nado, which, besides money damage, will
probably result in the loss of one life. The
residence of William Dennis, south of
town, was blown to pieces and Mrs. Dennis
was fatally injured.
| RIPPEY, Iowa, July 27.-During a big
storm last night big tent in which Cos
pei services were being held blew down
and panic nearly ensued. No one was
seriously injured.
PITTSBURG, Pa, July ga cyclone
storm burst upon this city at 80 this
afternoon which in few minutes had
caused the death of two persons, the fatal
injury of another and monetary loss of
probably 100000 throughout Allegheny
County. Several churches IN the hill dis
trict were partly unroofed and one was
struck by lightning. A number of smaller
honses were also unroofed, the streets
were flooded, sewers discharged their over
| flow into the houses and some of the
streetcars were compelled to suspend for
| periods ranging from half an hour to an
hour and half. Hundreds of trees were
uprooted and many lawns laid waste
| Chimneys and windows were demolished
in all directions.
At Sugar Grove, village on the West
Pennsylvania branch of the Pennsylvania
Railroad near Aspinwan, where the
Eighth Ward Fishing and Hunting Club of
Allegheny were encamped, a limb of a
sycamore tree fell on the commissary tent,
in which a number of the members of the
club had taken refuge from the storm.
John Figus of IL Pine street, Allegheny,
was instantly killed; George Miller of S26
Main street, Allegheny, had his back
broken and cannot recover, and Jacob
Metz and a man named O'Connell were
badly hurt.
In Pittsburg John Auhader, teamster
for the Williams Brick Company, was
struck by falling signboard and died
within five minutes. The storm RACED the
steeple OF the Centenary Methodist Epis-
copal Church, kirkpatrick street and
Wylie avenue, over 125 feet high, took the
big bell along ana dropped all into q
neighboring yard.
A 100-foot stack at the brickyards of
Booth & Flynn was blown down. The
temperature, which had risen before the
storm TO 93 degrees, fell in a few minutes
to II degrees. The fury of the tornado
was spent in less than ten minutes. 1t
was followed by several storms of less vio-
lence during the evening. During the
of rain fell.