The record-union., 1897-06-26
Loss Of Life Also Reported From Some
Quarters.
Several Buildings at Rich Hill, Mis-
souri,, Wrecked by the Terrific
Wind Which Passed Over the City
A Heavy Precipitation Of Rain
Accompanied the Wind.

RICH HILL (nfo), June 25.-A tor
nado struck the northern part of this
city last night The damage will
amount to thousands of dollars. One set
OF kilns and one set OF furnaces of
the Cherokee Lanyon Smelter Company
were blown away, caught fire and were
totally consumed. The Blacksmith and
other buildings at the plant were blown
away.
The Rich Hill Canning Factory was
totally wrecked. The brick block of
the NJ. S. Cowles Mercantile Company
was unroofed and the water poured in,
greatly damaging the stock. Buckle
ridge block (brick) was unroofed,
and the building occupied by the Daily
Review badly damaged The City Hall
was unroofed and the Wiseman block
unroofed and the front blown in. The
Klumpp block was blown in.
The Amphitheater House. horse stalls
and sheds, floral hall, agricultural hall
and other buildings at the fair grounds
were completely demolished.
The Christian and Episcopal Churches
were wrecked. The round-house of the
Memphis Railway Is a total wreck, and
freight cars were blown from the tracks
in the Pacific and Memphis yards.
Thomas Smith, at the zinc works,
was struck by flying timbers and badly
injured, and several others were more
OF less seriously hurt. The damage to
crops alone will amount to thousands
of dollars. The storm lasted thirty
minutes. The rain fell in torrents, ac-
companied by hail
AT MACON.
MACON (Mo.), June pa hurricane
ragged here last night, damaging guild
ings more or less seriously, wrecking
trees and telegraph and telephone
wires and doing other damage. The
storm territory was fifty miles wide,
from Brookfield to Clarence. AS far
as known no deaths resulted.
AT SEDALIA.
SEDALIA (Mo), June 25.-An cleo
trical, wind and rain storm struck this
city this morning, doing much dam
age Trees were uprooted and barns,
fences and many small houses were
wrecked. A Missouri, Kansas and Tex
as passenger train ran into a couple of
box cars that had been blown from
the siding near Mortrose. The engine
was partially demolished and a young
man, unknown, who had sought shelter
in one of the cars, was killed. Crops
have been utterly destroyed in many
sections of this county.
IN KANSAS.
FORT SCOTT, June 25.-Three and
thirty-four hundredths inches of rain
fell here last night, making the greatest
precipitation recorded by the weather
observer in many years. There are
washouts on the railroads, delaying
trains. Both the Marmaton and Mill
Creeks are running up stream from
back water and rapidly rising. The
wind did some damage.
AT OTHER POINTS.
ST. LOUIS, June 25-Reports of
heavy storms throughout Southern IL
linois and Missouri continue to be re-
ceived. Last night and until an early
hour to-day St. Louis was again delug-
ea with rain. While the wind was de-
structive to trees, crops and buildings
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.
St. Joseph Mo-, suffered especially
from the wind. Big trees were unroot-
ed, and small buildings crushed Other
WHeTS IIe SIOT1n was especially
severe were Moberly, Alexandria, Fay
cite, Trenton and California.
Several lives were lost through light
ming. Mrs. Reuben Rickabaugh, wife of
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-,
has also been killed, while a number OF
farmers in both Illinois and Missouri
had barns and crops burned by the
lightning.
The immense advance elevator "a"
in East st. Louis, in which was stored
100000 bushels of grain, was struck by
lightning and set on fire last night. but
fremen. saved it from destruction.
TEN-OUNCE HAILSTONES.
PUEBLO (Col), June 25-The hail
storm that passed over this city and
vicinity last night was the most severe
ever experienced here Incredulous
persons are inclined to doubt the state
ments made in regard to the sizes of
the stones which fell, but many arc
willing to make affidavit that some of
the hailstones weighed over eight
ounces.