Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-07-05
LOSS OFF LIFE
and PROPERTY
Tuesday NlNlght's Storm OF Gen.
eraI ScScope and Unusual
Fury.
ONE KNOWN TO BE DEA0
Mrs. Frank JoJohnson, OF HuSson, Was
Killed WhIhIle Going TO Cyclone
CeiIar-FtFive Hurt at Yenk-
ton. n, Two May Die.

Sioux City, }, June 26.-The wind storm
that swept ovover Sioux and Plymouth
counties, Iowowa, and Lincoln, cay
Union and Y Yankton counties, Soutn
Dakota, Tuesesday night, Is known TO
have killed onone, injured thirteen, w
probably ~fataaaaly. and to have caused
q property lossoss of not less thar S6Oo,OOO.
Al Hudson, i, s. D., Mrs. Frank John
| son. e farmer'er's wife, was killed. She
had Just left I the house to go TO the
| cave, where ne her husband and children
were, and wayas two rods from the
house, when I'll the wind carried 1t away
and killed her sr instantly. The hunting
elevator compapany's elevators at i1ud-
son and Callio1iope. Ia, were destroyed.
At Hudson tn the home of Eric J6nn-
son was demoliolished, the family barely
escaping. Davavld Thorpe's livery barn
was wrecked G: every house in town was
more or less injinjured and nearly all the
plate glass wawas blown In, the ram
soaking the stostocks of goods. Barns or
ii. Fitch, A. i. f. Frisbee, Abe Anderson
and a dozen otlothers, were blown down.
In the countryry dozens of barns were
destroyed, and I'd much stock killed. In
Norway townslnship, the three Seaman
avian Lutheranan churches, one. OF them
Just built. wereere destroyed, not q SUCK
remaining whehere they stood.
TWO WIvILL LIKELY DIE.
At Yankton tn the home of Frank Bierce
was blown TO ~ pieces and five members
OF the family in injured. Roscoe, 70 years
old, and Mrs. l. Bierce's mother are not
expected to liveve, and Ida, 20 years o!d'
had ribs and I'd breast bone broken.
Thronghem chuhurch. was DESTROYED and
the Masonic tertemple was unroofed.
At Mission HiHill, Hoklin's blacksmith
shop and the f. front Of Finotti's store
were demolishehed; at Lesterville, RIP
pies saloon andnd a Russian church were
wrecked, besidedes considerable damage
to other buildingngs; at Nonn a new Dahk
was leveled.
A large numlmber Of horses between
Alsen and Dale&lesburg were killed.
At Sioux Ccncnter, Ia, the First Re-
formed Dutch q church was blown nat,
meaning a loss IS OF 81, 500; the hardwar
store of Snellerler g. Wesselin was de-
storyed; Terwillilliger e. Dwight's eleva-
tor and the DeDebeer elevator are COM
plete wrecks. n Not a house in town es-
capped damage 2 and farms for miles
around suffered I'd severely. OF
the known loss Is put 1t at 100000.
COLLAR BONE BROKEN.
Four miles nc northeast, Dick Hollen-
beck's place waWas destroyed and his
collar bone injurured.
At Maurice, ththe brick yards were put
out Of business Is by the flood, and j. RI.
Queal & Co.'S II lumber sheds unroofed.
Within a radius rs Of three miles, 100 head
Of stock are repcported killed.
At Hawarden,en, the gale, continuing
Cor nearly an he hour, played sad havoc.
The general stOrtora Of Sweley e. Son was
broken In the mimiddle and carried away.
Mrs. SWeley and nd babe had Just gone In
TO a cave. The ne Economy store, Mrs.
Rudd's millineryry, w. l.. Summers fur
niture store, HtIIansen Bros general
store. II G. Williillis' saloon and the Nc
Ginnis cigar faQaCtory, were blown IN.
Tie Brewer hotlotel was unroofed and
Beck's clothing x store damaged. The
Methodist churChch lost its spire, and the
high school buildilding and city building
were damaged v badly. ID. Brunskilrs
barn was blowlwn to pieces and the
wreckage piled Il broadcast against the
Mussen house, oC occupied by Mrs. Gray.
Others who lost bt barns were ID. O. Stone,
ID. h. Van Zant, +, Frank Jacobe, Dan Nc
Kinnon. William m Hutchinson, AL Scott,
F.. II. Van Sickle.le.
Damages to bl buildings and stock is
also reported frCfrom LeMars, Calliope,
Fairview, s. d., l., and Tyndall, S. ID.
ORANGE c CITY HIT HARD.
At Orange Cityity most of the trees in
the town park v were ruined, as We're,
indeed, most OF IL the orchards and shade
trees in town. A.A. J. Betten's residence,
under process of of erection, was blown
to pieces, at u & great loss to the con-
tractors. Dyk i Bros. lost $500 by the
destruction of tn their implement sheds.
The store fronts Is of De Cook 81 Co.'S
hardware, J. A. Il Drinks shoe store and
F.. Tots pool h hall were blown out.
Window panes O all over town were
broken.
At Alton the S storm ragged fully as
fiercely. The Alt\lton Milling ~company's
roof was badly toItorn up and the smoke
stack toppled oveWer. An implement shed
belonging TO A. /. Hoeven was crushed:
the entire fronbnt of the Reformed
church, including IL the belfry, was blown
out, and considerable other damage
done.
At Carnes the lie Slagle elevator was
blown to pieces, [, the general store Of j.
lowering destroyeyed and some other
damage done.
The vino laid Il level the young corn
and tall small 81 grain, and the heavy,
drenching rain ca annot but injure crop
prospects. Fruit 1t was generally blown
off the trees.
officers OF the e Milwaukee road say
the storm did its Is first damage on their
line at Platte, ChCharles Mix county, II
swept eastward, a and at Parkston con-
siderable damage ge was done to small
buildings. Then Il turning into the Sioux
valley, il struck Il the towns Of Alcester,
Chatsworth, Hududson, Fairview, Cal
Hope and HawardTden, doing great dam
age in the towns as and intervening coun-
try.