Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-30
HEAVY RAINS IN WEST
MUCH INJURY DOME TO GROWING
49, CROPS.
Storms of Great Severity Visit Sections
Of Tennessee-One Life
Lost.

A dispatch from ST. Louis yesterday says:
This city and vicinity Is the center of
| rainstorm of unprecedented severity that
has prevailed almost necessarily since Sat
urday morning. According to the local
/ weather bureau reports. 5.45 inches OF rain
has fallen since early Saturday morning.
| At times the storm equaIed cioudb1rst in
severity.
The storm Is the most widespread that
has been experienced In this country for
| many years. according to weather bureau
| officials, extending from the Rocky
| mountains to the Aneghenies, In Kansas,
| Iowa. Missouri, Illinois. Indiana. Ohio and
! Pennsylvania the rainfall during yester-
| day and today averaged from one to two
| inches. Considerable damage was done in
| this vicinity, the total estimated at about
| $3.50 900, resulting from the wind that ac-
companied the rain.
| Last night the wind attained velocity
OF about forty-five miles an hour, blowing
down trees and telegraph. telephone and
trolley poles, interfering with communica-
| ton at all points. At least one thousand
/ shade trees in variou parts of the city are
| reported blown down. From the country
surrounding comes reports of destruction
/ TO and the washing out of railroad tracks
| and bridges, causing serious delay to trains.
! Five hundred feet of the north wall of the
| Varied Industries Palace at the worlds fair
| site fell last night as the result of the
storm, the water undermining the founda-
tons when the wind was at its height. In
| places the worlds fair grounds are covered
with water.
| Nearly all inbound trains were greatly
| delayed today as a result of the storm,
| arriving from forty minutes to five or six
hours late. Several washouts were report
| ed and telegraph wires were down, so that
| trains could not be located.
One of the most disastrous foods in the
| history Of Alton, ILL.,, and vicinity resulted
today from the heavy rains Of Friday and
Saturday.
| At o'clock this afternoon it was estf-
| mated that 10000 acres had been COW
| cred by the overflow of Wood river, which
| was three to six miles wide. Most of this
| land Is either occupied by manufacturing
interests or planted in crops. The greatest
| single disaster caused by the flood was the
destruction of the plant Of the Stoneware
| Pipe Company at East Alton. The loss Is
estimated at $4,000.
| A dispatch from Chattanooga, Tenn. says:
Later Information from the storm Of Satur-
| DAY afternoon shows that great damage
was done to farms In this section, many
barns and other buildings having been
! blown down.
! Cora Kelly. a public school teacher of
| this city while driving through a grove Of
| trees In Metgs county, near Dayton, Tenn,
was killed by a falling tree.
| James Grayson, proprietor Of sawmill
| were both killed.
| Private Quirk of the 7th Regiment. while
| engaged in trying to prevent a stampede of
! the horses in the corral, was trampied
! under the feet Of the animals and fatally
| injured.
At Hartman, Tenn, a ffteen-year-old
| daughter of Frank Digger was struck by
lightning and killed.
| A dispatch from Denver, COL says: The
| drought. which threatened to be the most
| severe that Colorado has known for years
| has been broken by heavy and wide
| spread rain. Though the storm in places
| was accompanied by hail that did much
| damage. this Is trivial compared with the
| value OF the crops saved by the rain.
The storm damage in Denver and vicinity
| Is estimated all the way from $4,000 to
| $4,000.
Snow fell to the depth of eight inches in
| LeadVllie and many other places In the
mountains
| Eastern Nebraska has had four days of
almost continuous rainfall flooding corn
| fields and delaying the harvesting Of small
grain Some damage has been done to
| wheat in the shock. Country roads are
almost impossible. The temperature has
registered in the fiftieS
A severe storm which passed through
Gibson county, Tennessee, destroyed a mum
Der OF residences and caused the death of
John Richardson, a white man. sixty years
| or age. Fences and crops were ruined by
| the wind and rain It is feared complete
details Of the storm will bring additional
| reports Of loss Of life and damage to crops