The Mena star., 1899-08-03
DAMAGE BY STORMS.
Rain and Wind F1atten. Down Grain
 in Plymouth County, Neb.
HEAVY DAMAGE IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
A Construction Train Wrecked and Four Men Crushed to Death Mormon Elders Escape-Three Girls Drowned-Mis-
 placed Switch Causes Collision.

0maha, Neb., July 29.-A furious rainstorm and high wind rushed across Plymouth county late yesterday after noon, flattening the grain for dis tance of 80 miles and cutting q wide swath. At Akron, the big bridge over the Sioux river was blown out and out buildings and trees destroyed There was no cyclone. Harvest is just begin ming and the damage is serious. Re- ports last night indicated that one third of the wheat and oats is a dead loss. Corn will recover. The heat was intense before the storm and q number of prostrations occurred in the harvest fields.
 SOUTH DAKOTA FARMERS LOSE HEAVILY.
 Clear Lake, $. D., July 29.--A hail and windstorm struck this vicinity about four o'clock yesterday afternoon and did considerable damage. The storm covered strip of territory four miles wide and ten miles long, wiping out wheat fields that would have yielded 25, GOO bushels of grain. The following farmers have lost their entire crops: G. c. Clark, c. Loerch, John Johnson, c. Marks, c. Weisel, E. Ronald, W. Ronald, Thomas McFar- land, John Havner, H. Kopman and George D. Randt. Considerable win dow glass was broken and stock some what hurt by the hailstones, which were of large size.
 A CONSTRUCTION TRAIN WRECKED.
 Halifax, N. s., July go. Four men were crushed to death, seven seriously injured and number slightly hurt in the wreck of construction train on the Midland railway in Hanis county yesterday afternoon. A train of flat cars was proceeding slowly along some new track when one of the center trucks jumped he rails and the others behind piled on top of it. There were 25 or 30 men on the train. All those on board the ear that first left the track, four in number, were instantly killed One or two of those injured are in a dangerous condition. The ac- cident happened 13 miles from Wind sor. The only Nova Scotian killed was man named Salter. The others are said to belong to Newfoundland.
 MORMON ELDERS ESCAPE.
 Jackson. Ga., July 29.-The three Mormon elders who were taken away from the home of William Cunnard Wednesday night by a mob escaped from their captors and are now safe near here They are badly bruised. They swam down the creek, hotly pur- sued by the mob, finally escaping to the home of friends. It is not thought the mob intended to lynch them, but only escort them out of the country.
 THREE GIRLS DROWNED.
 Evansville Ind, July 20. IT August Mattingly, IT; Pearl Cheaney, IA, and Marion Onana where drowned in the Ohio river in front of the city last night, and three of their companions narrowly escaped Miss Onana was one of the leading society belles of Hen derson. Ky, and would have been married in a month.
 MISPLACED SWITCH CAUSES A COLLISION.
 Steubenville, O., July 29.-Ten men were badly injured and a large num- ber of others were cut and bruised in a collision yesterday between work train on the Cleveland & Pittsburgh railroad and shifting engine near Mingo Junction The accident was caused by misplaced switch
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