The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-02

Topeka, Kan, MAY IA report has
been received at Rock Island head
! quarters, of a cyclone Saturday night
at Duncan. 1. T.. in which about oo
people were injured. No fatalities
were reported
The storm made a complete wreck
of 20 houses in the town and as many
more were badly damaged. Eighteen
| of the comDany's cars were turned
over and most of the window lights in
| the town We're broken.
| The rain of yesterday, while general
! throughout the state, was heaviest in
| the southern half. In the western por-
ton. it took the form of mild biz
zard, light snow falling at intervals.
INJURED SEVERAL PEOPLE.
Sapulpa. /. T.. May IA cyclone
struck this town today at 8 am, re-
sulting in considerable damage to
property and the injury of several peo-
pie Mrs. r. Taylor and two babies
have been removed from the ruins of
their demolished house. dangerously,
but, it is thought, not fatally hurt. The
residence of Robert Howell, a mer-
chant. was turned upside down while
the family were all inside, but all es-
capped Rev. Mr.. Raw and family, re-
siding in the Methodist parsonage, mar
rowly ESCAPED from their dwelling just
as the storm twis 81 1T from IT'S
foundation Other DIV ~-Ings and store
houses were more or less injured, and
the town is flooded as a result of
cloudburst Sapulpa is within three
miles of the path of the cyclone that
swept away Chandler. Okla, a year
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SHORTENED HIS LECTURE.
EVELYN B. Baldwin. the Arctic ex-
plorer and executive officer in the Wal
ter Wellman expedition, lectured here
last night, dedicating the new hall
with a. full house. ~ severe storm
struck the town just as he was about
TO conclude his address, and he pru-
IDENTIFY shortened the lecture, al
lowing the audience to take tnein-
selves to the cyclone cellars with
which the town is well provided and
where many Of them remained during
the night.
Mr.. Baldwin leaves here Monday en-
route to Chicago, from there proceed
10 New York and will then sail Tor
Norway. where he will join his expe-
dition. which sails from Tromsoe.
OVER NORTHWEST IOWA
Mason City. Ia. Nav IA devas-
tating cyclone swept over north EST
Iowa last night. The worst destruc-
ton is reported near Archer, in o Brlen
county
Primgher. Hartley and Curlew it is
stated, are badly wrecked. Hartley IS
said to be almost entirely destroyed.
The wires are down and only meagre
particulars are obtainable. Several peo-
pie are reported killed and the prop
erty damage seemingly is great
AT ALTON. Ills
Alton. Ills, May IA windstorm of
great violence passed over Alton TINS
afternoon. Several buildings were I'M
rooted and window fronts blown in.
Telegraph poles on Fourth street were
blown for distances of three blocks
and much damage resulted to trees
and outbuil6ings-
IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
Sioux City. Ia, May 1.-The storm
which originated last night near Val
paraiso, Neb., crossed the Missouri
river to South Dakota, where it struck
the towns of Elkhorn and Richland,
and finally wound up in northern Iowa.
In Iowa the villages of Sheldon, Alta.
Westfield, Akron, Mallard. Archer and
Maurice suffered. Another branch of
the storm struck Otoe, Whitney and
Smithland, but did comparatively little
near Richland, S. D., is the only victim
of the tornado, so far as known.
Along the path of the storm many |
houses are demolished and crops have
suffered greatly from the hail which /
it. AT Maurice two grain
elevators and the Sioux City & North |
ern depot were blown to pieces.
DAMAGE AT ST. LOUIS. /
st. Louis, May Tonight violent /
windstorm swept through this city, do I
ing considerable damage to property in !
the western portion. Trees were blown 1
down, several roofs lifted and the peo-
pie ran, panic-stricken, through the !
streets, fearing another tornado. Sew /
eral large plate glass show windows in
the business center were blown in.
Heavy downpour of rain followed, with
severe lightning. The lower floor of the
Union station adjacent to Market
street was flooded, the passengers wad-
ng around to their shoe tops. No in
urieS are reported.
MODELLING IDAHO TROOPS.