Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-06-11
CYCLONIC HAVOC
Done in and About the Town Of
Lyle, Minnesota.
FARMERS THE PRINCIPAL LOSERS,


FARMERS THE PRINCIPAL LOSERS.
Ono Life Known Ts He Lost and . Score -
So More or Less Isjured-Thc Dead MAJ
Carried Forty Rods by the whirlins
Terror-Clean Path Swept by the Wind
New England Experiences Some june
Weather of the New Kind.
Minneapolis, Mimi, June ia spe.
ctal to The Tribune from Mason City.
Ia, says: At $50 last night a cyclone
struck northwest of Lyle. Mimi. taking
a southeasterly course. Several people
were killed and injured. 1t tore up
houses and other buildings in its course
and the territory is now bare. 1t was
half mile in width. All telegraph lines
north are down, and box cars on sidings
were smashed into kindling. Cannot get
list of killed. Another telegram from
Willmar says: A cyclone passing over the
town Of Randolph, this county, entirely
demolished the building on the farm of
John Berquist.
A special from Usage, Ia, to The
Tribune confirms the report of the cy-
clone. and says six persons were killed
and number injured. A special train
will take surgeons from that place.
Not So Bad as Reported.
Lyle, Min, June 1.-THE first reports
concerning the cyclone at this place were
exaggerated. The damage is almost en-
tirely in the country. Instead of six per-
sons being killed, as at first stated,
only one-Henry Hanson. living about
two miles west near the Iowa line-met
death. Hanson had just returned home
from Lyle and was caring for his team
when the storm struck the barn, COM
pletely demolishing it and killing the
team and other stock. Hanson was car
ried about forty rods east, where his
body, badly mutilated. was found. He
was prosperous farmer and leaves a
widow and child.
Played Havoc with Property.
AS nearly as now can be ascertafned
the storm originated four miles west of
this village, and pursued a zigzag course
toward the northwest, sweeping every
thing before 1t fully half a mile wide.
Trees and telephone and telegraph poles
were broken off, and barns, houses,
orchards. groves and gardens swept
with the mad fury of the storm. Sew
eral loaded cars on the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and st. Paul railroad were removed
bodily from the track at the railroad yard
OF L. A. Sherman. and scattered promis-
cuously about the country. Wind mills
without number were destroyed.
Fifteen or Twenty Persons Hurt.
As most Of the damage is in the coun-
try it is difficult to get accurate infor-
nation, but as nearly as can be learned,
from fifteen to twenty persons are more
or less injured. Peter Hanson, a har-
ness maker, had his leg broken in two
places, and his son, 4 years old, had
severe head wound, but will recover.
MIR. and Mrs. Brooks, Of Clarion, Ia.
who were visiting at Hanson's, are both
slightly injured. Charley Larson, wife
and child, are injured. Others injured
slightly are: Mrs. Stipe, P. K. johnson.
Christine Peterson, MAIDS Peterson. Pc
ter Peterson, Charles Severson, Mrs.
DR.. Fraser, Mrs. NJ. L. Hughson and her
son-in-law and daughter.
Obliterafed a school House..
The school house known as Minnereka
near the Iowa line is completely oblit-
Grated. Everything that can be done
Is being carefully attended to by Cit
liens and friends. Physicians from
Usage. Mitchell and st. Ansgar are on
the ground assisting the local doctors.
The damage to property is variously
estimated at from $4,000 to $4,000.
NEW ENGLAND SWEPT BY FLOOD.
Unprecedented June Weather I'm There
Heavy Rain Works Havoc.
Boston. June II. The northeas tern
rain storm which set in Wednesday
morning, and which was apparently the
elimination of week of dull easterly
weather, appears to have blown itself
out. The storm has been almost nm
precedented for this month, many years
having passed since rain has fallen so
heavily in June. The storm was an
parently confined to Massachusetts, and
the regions northward, scarcely anyrain
falling south of the state line The de-
struction to life and property by reason
OF the storm has also been surprising.
particularly along the various branches
OF the Boston and Maine railroad. Wash
outs have multiplied and the freight
wreck at Exeter. N. H., in which three
trainnen were killed, was due directly
to the storm. The loss to the road by
the storm will be fully $4,000.
Nearly every city and town in Maine,
New Hampshire and Vermont situated
on a stretch of considerable size reports
more or less damage by the high water.
while the low lands all through this
region are flooded. At Dover, N. H.,
where in 1896 four bridges and a BUSH
ness block were carried away by the floods,
the Cochoo mills have suspended opera
tons. Along the Merrimac river. par
ticuaIly at Concord, N. H., there was
some destruction Of property. In that
city one of the peculiar results of the
overflow Of Penacook lake is that the
city's water supply has been cut off, as
the water has been diverted from the
service pipes.
The precipitation has been exceptional.
z.c6 inches of rain having fallen since
wednesday morning, while the wind at
| times reached a velocity of thirty miles
an hour. The reports from northern
New England show even a greater rain
fall than in this state. and predict small
crops because Of seed rotting in the
sodden ground.
Wisconsin Federation Of Labor.
Appleton, Wis, June 11-wisconsin
| Federation of Labor yesterday elected
these state officers: Secretary-treasur-
| er, Martin Jesko. Of Racine: state or