The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-05-03
THREE KILLED AND SIX Will Ole
OVER 5000 900 WORTH or PROP
ERTY IS COMPLETELY DE
MOLIsHED.
CONES WITHOUT WARNING
HIGH WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS
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fIs VxOsbs 80 ofAA SsAS $50
tied yesterday by a destructive storm.
during which at least three persons
were killed outright, ~six.fatally injured,
a score or more seriously hurt and
$1,000 0 worth OF property destroyed.
The fury OF the storm broke loose at
4:35 in the afternoon. There was no
;premonit!on Of its terrible violence.
There was an utter absence of the tusu-
al funnel-shaped cloud and the clouds
locked no more Threatening than those
which produce the ordinary spring
thunder showers. The wind was a
straight gale, but 1t was Of
Terrible velocfty,tS
whipping down scores Of houses In the
south pert Of the city and reducing to
kindling wood 100000 worth of the
finest mining plants in his district.
The worst havoc in joplin city was In
a territory four blocks wide commence
ing at the west limits of h city at
Seventeenth street and ending at Sew
enth, street on the west. Within this
narrow belt the destruction done is, Wis
ible on every hand. Passing east from
the main portion Of the city the storm
spent Its fury on the suburban districts
known as Moonshine Hill and Villa
Heights.
Three People Were. Killed
at Moonshine Hill. News Of the de-
struction there did not reach the city.
until late last night. The Hill is now
a tangled mass Of debris and not a
single house is left standing. It is pop
hlated mainly by miners, who live in
little. shacks. OF the little home OF
Bidwell Hunter not a timber is left
standing and the three inmates Of the
house~are dying, all having had their
skulls fractured. It is feared that the
mining camps farther west, which
seemed to have been in the path Of the
storm. have suffered great damage,
but no reports have been received from
there. s3s
Many Fine Buildings Wrecked.
Many Of the finest buildings in the
city were wrecked. The tall spire OF
the Baptist church, n Of the most
imposing edifices here. toppled over, and
crashed through the roof, destroying
the handsome interior OF the building.
The Stevens hotel was unroofed and
its occupants were driven elsewhers.f for
refuge from the deluge Of water WHICH
flooded them. The Frisco roundh0us6
was destroyed and no less than twenty
mills are badly damaged. The tele-
graph. telephone and street car service
Is paralyzed. The electric light and
gas plants are crippled, leaving the
city in total darkness.
Iowa Gets n Taste of ii.
Des Moines, Iowa, April 27.-Speciat
dispatches show the presence of high
wind, accompanied, by heavy rain all
over the northwestern quarter of the
state. Jefferson, Fonda, Storm Lake
and other points report wind with a
velocity Of sixty-five miles an hour. A
cloudburst occurred at MingO, water
running eighteen inches deep in the
street. Telegraph wires were pros
.trated along the Rock Island between
Council Bluffs and Atlantic and along
the Chicago Great Western in the vi
entity OF Mingo n Valeria.
Fatality at Omaha.
Omaha, April 27-An unusually heavy
wind storm which struck this city last
evening killed one person and injured
a number Of others, unroofed a number
of buildings and damaged great num-
Der of skylights. There was a heavy
downijour c. rain. Street cars were
stopped for an hour; wires and signs
were blown down in all directions
Rain and Wind In Illinois.
Chicago, April N.-Heavy rains, ac-
companied by a gale of sixty miles an
hour, swept across Chicago and North
ern Illinois last might. The downfall in
Chicago registered nearly two inches.
The wind tore many signs from their
fastenirgs and blew pedestrians into
the street. In a number Of places VIM
dows and store fronts were blown IN.
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