Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-06-29
THE STORM KING.
He Revels in Devastation at a
Number of Places.
FRANKS DESTROY MUCH PROPERTY.
Lightning Kills Number of PER-
sons and the Wind Wrecks Many
BuildinGs-Big Hailstoncs Do
Damage in Colorado.

st. Louis, June &C. - The reports Of
heavy storms throughout southern Il
linois and Missouri continued to be re-
ceived all night and until an early hour
Friday. st. Louis was again deluged
with rain. While the wind has been
destructive to trees, crops and build
ings in some sections, the rain has
greatly benefited some crops. Around
Cairo, ILL.,, fully five inches of rain has
fallen within the last week, breaking
the drought and saving corn and other
crops. Reports from nearly every see-
tion of southern Illinois indicate that
while the yield of wheat is below the
average the quality is unusually good
st. Joseph, Mo-, suffered especially
from the wind. Big trees We're uproot-
ed, and small buildings crushed. Tele-
phone and telegraph service was sus-
pended for some time, but SO far as
learned no lives We're lost. The other
points throughout the state where the
storm was especially severe were Mo-
berry, Alexandria, Fayette, Trenton
and California.
Killed by Lightning.
| Several lives were lost through light
ming. Mrs. Reuben Rickabaugh, wife of
n farmer, was instantly killed while
sitting at the window of her house, two
miles from Albany. Albert Rouster, a
farm hand living near st. Charles. Mo.
also suffered death in the same way,
while number of farmers in both Illi-
nois and Missouri had barns and crops
burned by the lightning.
The immense Advance elevator ga"
in East st. Louis, in which was stored
100000 bushels of grain, was struck
by lightning and set on fire, but fire.
men saved it from destruction.
Young Man Killed.
Sedalia, Mo-, June 26.-An electrical.
wind and rainstorm struck this city in
the morning, doing much damage.
Trees were uprooted and barns, fences
and many small houses completely
wrecked. A Missouri, Kansas & Texas
passenger train ran into couple of
box cars that had been blown from the
siding near Montrose. The engine was
partially demolished, and a young man
whose identity is unknown, and who
had sought shelter i'll one of the cars.
was killed. Crops have been utterly
destroyed in many sections of this
county. No casualties except the one
mentioned are reported.
Great Devastation.
Rich Hill, Mo-, June 26.-A tornado
struck the northern portion of this city
Thursday night. The damage will
amount to thousands of dollars. One
set of kilns and one set of furnaces of
the Cherokee-Lanyon Smelter COM
pany were blown down, caught fire and
were totally consumed. The black
smith shop and other buildings at the
plant We're blown away. The Rich
Hill canning factory was wrecked. The
brick block of the NJ. S. Cowles Mer-
camille company was unroofed and the
water poured in, greatly damaging the
stock. The Klump block was damaged,
and the amphitheater house, horse
stalls, sheds and floral hall, together
with agricultural halls and other build
ings at the fair grounds, were complete
ly demolished. The streets are blocked
with trees, fences and outbuildings,
signs and plate glass. The Christian
and Episcopal churches We're wrecked.
No lives We're lost, though Thomas
Smith at the zinc works was struck by
flying timbers and badly injured and
several others were more or less seri-
ously hurt. The damage to crops alone
will reach thousands of dollars. The
storm lasted for so minutes. The rain
fell in binding sheets and was accom-
panied by hail.
Big HaiIstones in Colorado.
Pueblo, Col, June 26-The hailstorm
that passed over this city early at night
was the most severe experienced here.
lncredulous persons are inclined to
doubt the statement made in regard to
the size of the stones which fell, but
many are willing to make affdavits that
some of the hailstones weighed over
eight ounces. In Bessemer stone was
picked up which measured 10% inches
in circumference and weighed Seh
ounces.
Fortunately the path of this storm
was not wide and its duration was not
great. For this reason little damage
was done, although some windows were
broken in the southern portion of the
city, The storm extended for some dis
tance east, and farmers arriving from
that locality report that the crops and
orchards have been very severely dam
aged, and it is thought that some stock