The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-08
THE NORTHWEST DELUGED.
FLOODS AND ToRNADoEs DO ENoR-
NOUS DAMAGE
About Twcnty-nvo Lives Thus Far Reported
Lost-ovsr 81, o o Damage Dono in
Four statcs-Tho Country swept with Rain
and wind storms since Inst Friday.


Four statcs-The Country swept with Rain
and wind storms since Inst Friday.
DULUTH, Mimi. July Tho storm that be-
gan on last Friday was general throughout tho
Northwest. Reports of damage and loss Of life
como from parts Of North Dakota, Iowa, Min
nesota, and Wisconsin. 1t had It's orr
gin in the Lake Superior region. So
many wires arc down in tho storm.stricken dis
trict that 1t 10 impossible to get anything like
definite information.
The tornado and heavy rains of yesterday and
to-day arc the second ones that have visited por-
lions Of the same country since last Thursday.
The second storm covers moro territory, how
ever, and has caused greater loss Of life.
The total loss of life is hard to estimate. how
over, rs conflicting stories keep coming in. So
far as known hereabout twenty-five lives have
been lost In both storms.
The damago to property cannot be estimated,
but it will undoubtedly be considerably over
$1,o00,000. Late tonight reports are being
received from towns along tho 81. Paul and
Duluth Railroad that all streams are rising.
Cloquet, MIMI. is in danger Of being swept
away by water. A message from there at IL
o'clock tonight says that the st. Louis is rising
at the rate Of q foot an hour, and that the people
are fleeing to higher ground.
In q cut near Cloquet, Miny., there is now a
lake covering an area OF twenty acres and with a
depth of thirty-fve feet. Nothing can be seen
but the tops of the trees. The place where tho
water now stands was q farm two weeks ago.
At Lowry, Mimi. q small station on the 500
road, a tornado last night, tore down telegraph
wires, uprooted trees and blew down buildings.
Several persons are reported killed. but nothing
definite can be learned as the wires are down for
twenty-five miles each side of there.
The tornado swept through Aiken county
cutting n swath through the woods, lcveling
the trees and everything else in. its path. 1t
struck the town of Glenwood at a late hour last
night, and several people were killed there. The
list OF dead at that place 80 far as known is as
follows:
Toli6 Lavan. Anna Morrow. g years old; Mrs.
Samuel Morrow, Samuel Morrow. Oswald Nor
William Norris and wife are also reported
killed. A one-year-old baby had q leg and arm
broken and will probably die.
Two men, William Sargent and Charles Will
son, are known to have been killed in a wreck on
the Great Northern near st. Cloud. Four others
are thought to be buried under the cars. Tho
train ran into n washout and was ditched,
twenty cars and engine being piled up.
Forty million logs have broken away in st.
Croix Lake. and the water has risen twenty feet,
flooding the entire country. People are fleeing
Straight River at Faribault has risen fifteen
feet in ten hours, and is near the danger line.
Two wrecks are reported on the Chicago. Mil
waukee and st. Paul road and four people killed.
Three inches of rain has fallen In Duluth in
twentyfour hours, and the work OF repair which
has been going on as q result of Fridays storm
Is being undone.