The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-26
TOWNS SWEPT BY CYCLONES
MANY BIYES HAVE BEEN REPORT
ED LOST IN THE VEST.

One village is Reported to Have Been
Completely Wiped Out-Buildings Were
Destroyed List of Those Who Were
Killed by the Gale.
Dubuque, Ia, May 25.-A terrific
thunder and lightning storm struck Du-
lbuque shortly after o'clock last night.
/ In the midst of the storm Mrs. Clark,
lstation agent of the Chicago and Great
\ Western railroad. at Durango, eight
I miles northwest of Dubuque, was call
4 ed from her residence to the depot near
Eby to get orders for train which had
\ just arrived. She took her four chill
sdren with her. The station men also
REPAIRED with their families to the de-
tpot. About midnight the water sur
Grounded the depot and the streams
(which forked at the bridge poured their
Hoods into the valley until it was filed
&from bluff to bluff, distance OF loa
3yards.
y The water first carried away the
lIlGu Liz lSSidClISS civ AAAiNNA'S
1.-THE depot, which was borne down stream
la mile and a half. While going down
istream the depot struck a tree and
Scareened. Tom Griffith, brakeman,
4seized the oldest Clark child and jump
led. The other three Clark children
Awere drowned. Both are missing. Mrs.
3Clark clung to the roof. Two section
linen caught the limbs of an overhang-
sing tree and will be rescued when the
df1ood subsidies. The depot lodged
aagainst tree. Those who remained in
\ the depot were rescued. The loss of her
4 Achildren drove Mrs. Clark crazy
All railroads leading into Dubuque
3were washed out and telegraphic COM
\ amunication was completely destroyed
"A Brides on all the roads were washed
tout, the Illinois Central losing thirty be-
8tween Dubuque and Lemars.
4 Twelve persons lost their lives in a
Af1ood on the Bloody Run, stream along
y the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul.
aemptying into the Mississippi at North
II 5McGregor. One man was drowned at
%Dyersvile, Dubuque county, and two at
n Manchester, Delaware county.
V Mount Clemens, Mich, May 25,-A cy-
Aclone passed over this place tonight,
Awrecking fifty houses and killing six
Nor eight persons and injuring several
Mothers.
VI Elgin, ILL.,, May 25.-This city was vis-
"a tied by tornado early this morning.
IaThe great brick smokestack, 125 feet
NJ high at the insane asylum was wreck
m ed and Jack Kehoe was killed and bur-
Med beneath the debris. The asylum
Mbuildings We're seriously damaged. The
3roof of the Englin Bicycle and Sewing
N Machine works was torn off and the
~ building practically ruined.
# AT Clintonville, ILL.,, the storm wreck
N ed a flour mill.
n Pontiach, Mich, May 25.-Reports
a from Ortonville, Oakwood Oxford and
u Thomas. which are located in Oakland
y county, fifteen to twenty miles north of
N here. say that a cyclone swept over
II these sections this afternoon. Orton-
ssville and Thomas were nearly wiped out
n of existence.
q 1t is said that fully a dozen persons
Ia lost their lives at Ortonville, while at
n Thomas four were killed.
n Mount Carroll, Ill, May 25.-The Sc
N verest storm ever experienced in this
"A section broke at 11:30 last night and
Alasted until this morning. Carroll
"A Creek rose twenty feet in half an hour,
u passing the high water mark by five
fleet. The J. M. Shirk company's mill
u dam broke, f1ooGing the electric light
Il plant, Lebecker's carriage factory, the
n Mount Carroll tannery and all the
llbuildings along Galena avenue and Mill
4 street. The fire alarm was rung and
A people were rescued on rafts. Two
Hundred feet of the Chicago, Milwaukee
A and st. Paul railroads tracks between
A here and Savannah was washed out,
and telegraph lines are down. Plum
river is six feet higher than ever before
known and iron bridges and fences all
went down in the flood. The damage
hin Carroll county is estimated at $780,
900.
I Bradford, ILL.,, May 25.-Several people
were killed and thousands of dollars
worth OF property was destroyed by a
storm of wind, hail and rain which
swept upon the region last night. The
storm was the most severe southeast of
| this city At midnight a cyclone struck
one mile south of Egan City, wrecking
fkilling her instantly. Her two girls and
1
believed the younger girl will live.
Big trees were torn from the earth,
'icrops levelled and outhouses destroyed
I3by the storm Dr. Hildebrand, his wife
and daughter were killed near Monroe
ICenter. the wife being beheaded by a
beam and Miss Rhinehart lost
[her life at Leaf River. Davis Junction
also suffered from the storm to serious
extent.
In this city the storm ragged for more
than an hour, filling the air with balls
of electric fire, while flashes of light
hing followed each other with frishtfnl
Irapidity. The city, however, escaped
the destructive force of the storm, the
chief damage being houses struck by
lightning, first floors and Easements
2flooded and telephone wires wrecked.
|There are numerous washouts on the
railroads.
McGregor, Ia, May pa cloudburst
devastated this city and county last
might. For ten miles everything is in
ruins All the afternoon threatening
clouds were gathering and about /
clock the storm burst in its fury, soon
deluging the valley. 1t swept every
thing before it. Six bodies have been
recovered, namely those of Michael Ma
oney, John Maloney, Mrs. Patrick
Burke and boy and Mrs. Laurence
Meyers and five-year-old son. Eight
other persons are missing and are sup