The record-union., 1896-05-14
The Damage to Life and Property
Very Great.
A Heavy Storm Sweeps Over tie
Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin, Do
ing Thousands OF Dollars Worth OF
Neutrality-suspicious. Rainfall
at Lincoln, Nebraska-Panana,
Nebraska, Nearly Entirely Wiped
Off the Face of the Earth.

uudiulOuHceu Dy the w edlleI bui eau
or weather indications, fell upon the
city this evening. From an almost
clear sky at o'clock rain fell in tor
rents and was carried in waves through
the air by a fortymile wind.
Damage to life and property was very
great. Frederick Vetz, a steamboat
carpenter, was blown off a barge into
the river and drowned. Agnes Bolin,
aged 3 was blown off a back porch at
GA O'Fallon street and killed. William
Cedrastrom, boatkeeper for the Scan
dinavian Yacht Club, who was on the
river in a rowboat, was drowned by
the sWamping of his boat. Louis Traf-
finger, his wife and child were buried
under the debris of their house and
badly injured. The steeple of a church
at Fifteenth and Walnut streets fell to
the sidewalk, but no one was injured.
Three horses and two mules were killed
by the falling Of the smollestack of the
Anthony e Kuhn brewery. The smoke
stack of the Liberty brewery fell, but
injured no one. Incalculable loss was
done to shade trees, shrubbery and
light structures.
At Madison, near East st. Louis,
sixteen freight cars We're blown from
the track of the Chicago and Alton
Railroad and demolished.
At Venice three houses were blown
down and the sudden rush of water
washed out three culverts. DR.. Hast
ings of Venice, with his horse and
buggy, was blown into the backwater
of the river.
Wires are down and reports of the
disaster come in slowly.
HEAVY STORM IN WISCONSIN.
ST. PAUL, May 13.-A heavy storm
swept through the Chippewa Valley,
Wisconsin to-day, doing thousands of
dollars of damage. Cloudbursts are
reported at Bloomer and elsewhere.
William Sparks house at Eau Claire
was struck by lightning. At Menomi-
nee two railroad bridges, two wagon
bridges and a foot bridge crossing Will
son Creek were swept away. The loss
is said to be S45, 900. A mill some dis
tance above Menominee was also swept
away, which is not included in the loss
named.
TRAINS DELAYED BY WASHOUTS.
COLFAX (Wis), May 13.-Train NO.
. on the Wisconsin Central from st.
Paul, due at Chicago at 6:30 to-mor-
row morning, is detained by several
washouts between here and Chippewa.
A freight train is caught between two
washouts just ahead. construction
train has arrived and a large crew is
now at work, but the rain is pouring
down and the flood increasing at this
hour, II p. m. The train will hardly
reach Chippewa before tomorrow even
ing.
The storm is so heavy that it Will be
impossible to repair the cuiverts and
bridges tonight. The track Is under
water in many places. Efforts were
made by the Eau Claire people to send
a special train to this place, but it was
impossible TO get it through.
UNPRDCEDENTED RAINFALL.
LINCOLN (Neb) May 13.-The fall
of rain following yesterdays tornado
has been almost unprecedented, and
foods in the low lying districts of the
city will follow unless there is a cessa-
ton of the downpour. The record of
precipitation for twentyfour hours
ending at O'Clock this afternoon was
4.27 inches.
The bottom lands in West Lincoln are
already partly submerged, and occu-
pants are preparing to move out on
short notice. Salt Greek, usually a slug
gish, miniature stream, has assumed
the proportions of a lake. Some of the
railroad tracks are under water.
Those injured in yesterdays storm are
doing well and will recover.
WATERS RUNNING WASTE
HUDSON (Wis.) May 13.-A great
storm has been raging through this see
ton for many hours. Reports from the
country indicate that dozens of bridges
have been washed away by the flood.
Many small streams have overhowed
their banks and are running waist
deep over the lowlands. 1t is feared
much damage viii be done to early sown
wheat by washing it away.
RAINFALL AT ST. PAUL.
ST. PAUL, May brain has fallen
here to the extent Of over two inches in
the past twelve hours. There was a
washout on the Chicago. Milwaukee and
St Paul near Hastings.
VILLAGE NEARLY WIPED OUT.
OMAHA, May 13.-Additional reports
from last evenings cyclone in Douglas
County show that Panama, village
several miles northwest of this city,
suffered the most. being nearly entirely
wiped off the earth. Not a store build
ing remains. Livery barns, hardware.
implement and general merchandise
stores We're smashed like eggshells, and
hardly a vestige of them is to be seen.
One man, whose name cannot now be
learned, was caught under the timbers
of a falling building and was fatally in
jured. No other fatalities have so far
been reported.
During the storm in this city a run
away occurred which cost Peter Dow
dell, the driver, his life. He was thrown
from wagon and the wheels passed
over his body