Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-28
BUILDINGS WRECKED ALL OVER STATE
Number of Fatalities Reported, but List
Smaller Under circumstances
BUSINESS PORTION OF BROOKS WRECKED
Heavy Rains Accompany the Winds and
Add to Discomforts.
RIVERS AND CREEKS OUT OF THEIR BANKS
Damage Done 20 Buildings and
Crops by wind and water
VIII Amount TO Large
sum.

DEs MONIES. Ia, May 2t-fngh water
| in the Des Moines river is causing apprs-
hension here tonight and reports receive,
from the upper river indicate q repeh
| ton of the disastrous floods of last June
The river at o'clock stood sixteen ard
| one-half feet above the low water mark,
| The highest stage reached in the flood OF
| last year was twenty-four and one hal.
! feet. Easements in the wholesale section
are flooded, butt he tops of the levees
| In the southern part OF town are sull three
| feet above the water. The levees are belns
| patrolled for the purpose of repairing
| breaks IL any occur. North of here the
| Des Moines river is rising rapidly. At
! Boone the river is the highest ever know
and the same report comes from Lehigh.
At Webster City the Boone river. tributary
| to the Des Mones, is two feet eight inches
above last years high water mark. Tho
! Raccoon river is rising rapidly.
| From all parts of the state come reports
of rising waters
| Wires are down In all directions through
out the state. owing to the storms Of last
| evening, and reports are being received
| it is believed that last nights experience
was even worse and more fatal than that
of yesterday
In South Des Moines the storm was espe-
cially severe. The dead number two, but
the list of injured never can be compiled.
| The damage to property will reach fully
S5O.OOO. The Des Moines river Is rising an
inch every two hours and with every pros
pect Of exceeding the high water mark OF
year ago.
Two miles north of Gray, Audubon
county, Charles Leslie. a telephone re-
pairer, reports two children dead in the
wreckage Of farm house. Five other per-
sons were seriously injured in the same
mousse
Another death has been added to the
list of victims of the tornado In Des
Moines last night. The home of Richard
Wallace. a carpenter was completely de-
| stroyed and the fire In the kitchen started
a blaze among the ruins.
The S-year-old daughter of the family
was pinioned in the debris. Before assist
ance could reach ner she was burned 70
death. Y. .3sttas. ~
Disastrous storm at Atlantic.
! ATLANTIC. Ia, May 27-(special Tele-
gram. 1.-THE most disastrous storm ever
visiting this county has just passed over.
All day yesterday and all last night
1t ragged. Two and ffty-seven one-hun-
dredths inches of water falling added to the
two inches of Monday sent every creek and
other stream in the county out OF their
banks and over the entire low lands of ;he
county.
In this city the Nishnabotna river is the
highest 1t has been for twenty years and
thousands of dollars worth Of damage has
been done to houses and furniture, barns,
outbuildings and fences, while a large
amount of stock has drowned and crops
almost beyond value have been destroyed.
The Atlantic Canning company alone
estimates is loss at $4,000, nearly l25 acres
of its growing pea crop having been ruined.
The roads over the county are nearly all
impossible and the damage to crops will
be very heavy, corn especially being
severely injured.
MARSHALLToWN. Ia, May 27--A Sc
we're storm damaged the hospital of the
Iowa Soldiers home last night. A large
brick smoliestack was blown down, crash
ing through the roof the inmates narrowly
escaping injury. Trees were blown down
and houses wrecked. Heavy rains caused
} the Iowa river to leave its banks and
floods are threatened in the lowlands.
Town Completely Demolished.
AUDUBON, Ia. May 27.-(speciai TeIe-
gram.)-The latest reports from the Botna
tornado are that one was killed and sew
eral injured. The town was completely de-
molished.
CREsToN. Ia. May 27.-(speeiaI.) )-six
| people injured, one Of them possibly IA
tally, and a great amount OF damage to
: property, is the result of the storm which
visited this city last night The injured
are:
Miss Maud loops, possibly fatally.
Mrs. S. Toops, bruised.
Mr. Mclaughlin, hurt by falling timber.
, Miss Elizabeth Kelley. back injured.
Floyd DeHaven, thighs crushed.
| gfa I.l.
The home OF Mrs. S. E. loops was the
! only building entirely demolished though
there is scarcely one which is not damaged
. TO a greater or less extent This house
was picked up and carried by the wind for
a distance Of thirty feet and then dashed
TO pieces. Both Mrs. loops and her
daughter were buried I'm the ruins The
y DeHaven boy was injured by wreckage
e from a barn which was partially destroyed
S Reports are coming in slowly from the
- country which indicate that the property
Z loss there will be heavy. though no loss
e of life has been reported as yet
e The heavy rains which have fallen for
y the last several days. together with the
[ downpour OF last night have rendered the
roadbed of the Burlington. both main line
and branches, soft and trains are run
slowly and with extreme caution M
- actual washouts are reported. however
: At Pacific Junction. which Is low and nat
a It is reported the town resembles float
n ing village.
-, Among the buildings badly damaged were
the Methodist church, the creamery ter
= residences and about nifty barns. The storm
/ ! was accompanied by brilliant lightning
which struck two buildings and many trees
n The storm Travelled In a northwestern direc
" ton and did about 10000 damage. This Il
J. the first time In years that Creston has
a been visited by a like storm.
II WEBSTER CITY, Ia. May 2.--(specia
l. Telegram THE Boone river at this poih
l. has risen ten feet IN the last sixteer
/ hours. Many homes on the east side fat
n are flooded and people are moving out
>, The waters are still rising and the rair
continues
q several Injured al Brooks.
CORNING. Ia. May H.-(speciaL )--Th,
u village Of Brooks was visited by tornad,