The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-07-05

during the day by the weather hureau
were; Atlanta, Ga, 90; Atlantic City- 90.
boston, w; Chicago, % Cincinnati o6.
DtVenpOrt, Iowa, 90; Des Moinra. Iowo
w; indianapolis, %; Jacksonville Fla
-; hansas City, 100; Little Rock Ark
"; Memphis, 92 New York, 9S: New
orleans, 30; Omaha, "a; Pittsbnrg. 9s.
@ @0a't Lake, w; st. Louis, 100; ST.. Paul
'o; Springfield, 9G; Vicksburg, 30.
Hot Winds Damage Corn
Kansas City, June 3O.-Missouri and
hansas are suffering from hot winds
tnaG threaten great damage to corn.
atchlson, has., reports the greatest
urouth IN northeastern Kansas since
I9oU' a warm wind blowing from the
south almost unceasiagly for the past
seven days. Abilene, Kas., reports IO5
ueeree weather, with many fields in
south Dickinson ruined
A Mexico (Mo.) dispatch saws the
thermometer IN that part of the state
registered lOI yesterday and today
anu 'hat IL ram does not come soon the
Iarmers VIII nave to put their stock on
Tue market Immediately to save it. Sc
uaiia' MO, reports 1O3 degrees in the
shade' with the statement that another
''SStN
failure in central Missouri.
Lincoln, Neb. June 3O.-For ,cvoroI
days the state has suffered from drontb
and hot winds. Crops have been badly
Injured.
storms Kill and Devastate.
st. Paul, June 2S.-Heavy storms are
reported all over this section thi. after.
noon and the property loss will run into
the thousands, while number of ner.
sons have been injured and many head
OF livestock killed.
The worst storm was that which
passed through the district sontb of
New Richmond, Wis. 1t was a tornado
ana did much damage to farm pronertv
although no lives were lost
On smaller scale il resembled the
tornado which swept over and DESTROYED
the greater portion OF New Richmond
two years ago. Over a dozen farmers
have already reported the loss of a part
or all OF their buildings, windmills. live
stock, machinery, etc, and the loss here
will be very heavy.
In some cases the buildings were
crushed, and in others swept away by
the wind, while food damage was else
where reported. rainfall of nearly
four inches is reported there. A tornado
Is also reported to have caused much
loss about Star prairie, some distance
to the north of New Richmond. Hector
reports all crops destroyed six miles
from there by a hailstorm.
Minneapolis, June pa terrible
storm swept over Minneapolis, st. PauI
and vicinity. The storm broke out
about 4 O'Clock, being preceded by al
most utter darkness. Many people went
INTO the streets and when the storm of
wind and rain broke there we're many
injured. Poll " Bennett was struck by a
live electric wire and killed.
Struck by lightning.
chicago, July 1.-Crowded together in
one old man, met instant death by
lightning today. They had left their
fish lines and sought shelter from the
fierce thunder storm that deIuged the
north part of the city about 1 O'Clock.
Ten minutes lates their bodies lay with
twisted and tangled limbs, like a nest
Of snakes as the men who found them
said. There were II who sought shelter,
and just one escaped. Twelve year old
Willie Anderson was uninjured, but he
lay many long minutes before he could
be drawn out from under the heap of
dead bodies. The dead are all from the
families OF comparatively poor people.
They were fishing and seeking relief from
the heat Of the day, or had come to
wade or swim.