Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-05-28
FURY OF THE STORM.
Reports Continue TO Come OF Dea'n
and Destruction.

Enid, Okla, May 20 Hundreus "
nersons we're rendered homeless ana
rroperty damaged estimated at $780,.
ooc was done In the Enid bottoms
alone by a cloudburst which struck
west Of this city at midnight Saturday
night The aggregate will doubtless
ne raised much higher by losses sus'
tanned between Enid and the seat OF
the storm. At IL o'clock bank Oh
water three feet high and zoo leet
wide swept down through the Dot.
toms carrying houses and everything
before 1t. II came upon Enid without
warning while most of its citi2ens
were asleep. Within few minutes
hundred houses were partly or COM
pletely submerged. Rescuers went 10
work Immediately and all SATURDAY
night Iabored industriously saving
persons from perilous positions ana
aiding those driven from their homes.
Yesterday ii was found that several
hundred were homeless. Many pitiaele
scenes we're witnessed as the people
stood around waiting for the water TO
subside. Everybody has lost every
thing they possessed.
Heavy Damage Reported.
Oklahoma City. Okla, May 26. -
Oklahoma City was visited Saturday
night and Sunday morning by the
heaviest rainfall ever known in this
region and damage estimated at $780,
600 was done. Many feared tornado
and spent the night in cellars and
caves. All day yesterday and last
night more than half the city was un-
der water, and in some instances
water was three feet deep in houses.
It required boats to transport the
women and children through the
streets to higher and dryer land.
Traffic on the electric railway Is sus-
pended. All trains into this city, with
the exception of the Santa Fe, are
waterbound, and many wash-outs are
reported on the Choctaw, Oklahoma &
Gulf.
Three Killed by Tornado.
Guthrie, Okla, May pa tornado
struck Foss, a town of 200 inhabitants,
on the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf
railway in Western Oklahoma, yester-
day morning, completely destroying
thirteen residences and wreckiug
many outhouses. Three persons were
killed and a number injured. The
cloudburst reported at Yukon, eigh-
teen miles west of Oklahoma, COM
pletely inundated the Canadian valley,
causing great damage 20 crops and
stock. but no lives are reported lost.
Bridges Washed Away.
Chickasha, Ind. T., May ga Sc
we're rain and wind storm passed over
Chickasha and through the Wishita
valley, causing more or less destrGc-
tion. The damage was confined most
~ TO the Rock Island and Frisco rail-
ways. The Rock Island bridges over
the Canadian and Wishita rivers were
washed out, carrying over 500 feet of
track with them apG effectually block
ing traffic. The dorth-bound Rock
Island passenge: train ran into a
wash-out five miles moth of here and
left the track. Several pass engers
were slightly injured, but there was
10 loss of life. Two bridges on the
Frisco railway between Chickasha and
Oklahoma City were washed out.
Severe in Minnesota.
Glencoe, Mimi, May 26. - Glencoe
and vicinity was visited by a severe
windstorm that blew down shade
trees and small outbuildings, demol.
ished a number of barns and smashed
dozens OF windmills. The storm was
preceded by vivid lightning, punctpred
by peel after peel of thunder. and
came up rapidly from the southeast
The storm seemed to be more severe
about three miles west of town, and
In its path number OF barns and
smaller buildings were demolished.
cIoudburst In iowa.
Sioux City, Iowa, May ga cloud
burst above Merrill, added to the re.
cent continued rains, has caused n
large food in the valley of the Floyd
river, which is a mile wide at Hinton
stretching from hill to hill. Great
damage 70 farm property has resulted.
much stock being drowned.
Terrific Storm at PIttsbure.
Pittsburg, Pa, May 26. - A terrific
thunder storm, accompanied by high
wind, struck this section yesterday at.
ternoon and, besides killing one man
did considerable damage to property.