Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1902-06-26
STORM COVERS WIDE AREA
Large Amount of Damage Done in South
Dakota and Northwest Iowa.
FIVE PEOPLE INJURED At ONE PLACE
Two of These VIII ProbabIy Die and
others Were Bruised by Being
Caught in wreckaEe of
Building.

Building.
YANKToN, S. D.. June 25.-Cspecial Tel
egram. THE windstorm here last night
was more like a hurricane than a tornado.
Orris Roberts of the government weather
bureau says AT 11:2O p. m. the wind was
from the southeast, blowing four miles per
hour At 11:20 II shifted from the south
east to the northwest and. rapidly increas-
ing in velocity, reached the gale point at
II As p. m, and at midnight was blowing
at an average velocity OF over a mile per
minute, the maximum for FIVE minutes
being sixty-four miles. with an extreme
velocity of ninety miles at exactly mid
night.
"The wind was accompanied by rain dur
ing the beginning and ending Of the storm.
but when at It's highest velocity no rain
fell. The storm was similar in every way
to that which I experienced during hur-
ricane in the West Indies during the Span
ish- American war. Last nights storm,
while OF the nature OF tornado, more
nearly resembles a hurricane"
The damage in Yankton is hard to esti-
mate, as losses are mainly small, although
nearly every property holder is suffering
in some amount; $1,000 to $500 on the
new Masonic temple is the heaviest loss.
In a strip Of country several miles long
and about as broad. about ten miles north
of town, there was heavy loss, nearly every
barn and many houses in the community
being destroyed.
One small neighborhood near Marindahl
reports twelve large barns destroyed.
Between Violin and wakooda the same
sort Of story is reported Hardly wind
mill in the county is left standing, over 100
having been ordered today in Yankton.
At Utica the railroad windmill was de-
stroyed, the depot injured and the Durecsh
hotel partly demolished.
AT Viborg, on the Great Northern, five
cars were blown off the track and much
damage done to buildings. At that place
and Davis $40, 900 damage Is reported and
SIS, 900 at Irene.
Heavy losses occurred at Parkston, Menno
and nearly all parts north and west within
1fty miles so far reported.
Two Fatally Injured.
The only serious injury to human beings
was to the family Of Frank Pierce near
Violin, where five persons were caught In
falling building. Two will die, Ander Gus
| tus and Fritz Savey, at Beresford, the for
mer being blown from the second story Of
building, where he was endeavoring to
Close a SnulleIs ne Oh AhO pave
ment and is still unconscious. The latter
had leg broken by part of building strik-
ing him.
At Beresford, besides much other dam
age, the new $15, 900 Catholic church, Meth
odist church and city water tanks and
| pumping station were destroyed.
Damage at Pierre.
l. PIERRE, S. D., June 25.-(Special Tele-
| gram. )-One of the worst storms in the his
tory OF this city swept over here last night.
The weather bureau record shows a wind OF
seventy miles per hour and a rainfall OF
1.10 inches.
A large amount of damage was done to
property, several small buildings being
scattered, while chimneys, roofs and glass
suffered. Shade trees were blown down all
| over the city.
The most severe damage was done to
Grace Methodist Episcopal church. which
was shifted on its foundation and so badly
racked that it will probably have to be
taken down and rebuilt. The total damage
| is considerable.
The storm last night, besides the damage
in this city, shook things up badly in Fort
Pierre. Hail is reported from Harold
thirty miles east. Heavy rain is reported
from Okoboji and Blunt and light rain fur
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TYNDALL. s. D., June 25.-(Special Tel
egram.)-A severe windstorm struck this
city near midnight, doing much damage
Awnings were torn off, chimneys leveled
windows blown in, hundreds Of shade trees
broken and electric and telephone wires
nearly all blown down. The front of e
Sunderlin's hardware store was blown out
Mr.. Cress, owner Of a fruit farm si1
miles from town, suffered much loss. He
had prospects of 1900 bushels OF apples
nearly all on the ground now and trees
are badly broken.
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., June 25.-Prac.
tically every building in the village o.
Viborg was damaged in a wind storm las
night. The force Of the wind carried barr
forty feet into the air and over a corr
crib without damaging the latter, Th'
crops over a wide extent of country, ada
cent to Viborg were hattened to the ground
Several members Of a family named Erick
son were injured, but none fatally. The!
were the only persons injured so far as ye
reported.
At Scotland the general store of H. Dick
son, the warehouse of Reich Bros. and tn
billiard hall of c. Mayer were destroyet
by the wind. Hardly a residence in tn
city escaped uninjured.
Iowa Gets n Taste.
SIOUX CITY. Ia, June 26.-(speciaI Tele
gram Alarming storm reports from soutl
Dakota have reached Sioux City, but oil
account Of the condition Of the telegraph
and telephone wires 1t has been impossible
to secure accurate information as to tn
, damage done.
South Dakota was swept by a terrih
[ wind storm during the night. The rumo
is that three people were killed at Hudson
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