The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-05-28
FURY or THE STORM.
Reports Continue 10 Come OF Death
and Destruction.

and Destruction.
Enid, Okla, May 26-Hundreds OF
persons we're rendered homeless and
property damaged estimated at $780,.
00C was done in the Enid bottoms
alone by cloudburst which struck
west Of this city at midnight Saturday
night. The aggregate will doubtless
be raised much higher by losses sus-
tanned between Enid and the seat OF
the storm. At II o'clock a bank OF
water three feet high and 200 feet
wide swept down through the bot
toms. carrying houses and everything
before it. II came upon Enid without
warning while most of its citizens
were asleep. Within a few minutes
hundred houses we're partly or COM
pletely submerged. Rescuers went to
work Immediately and all Saturday
night labored industriously saving
persons from perilous positions and
aiding those driven from their homes.
Yesterday IL was found that several
hundred were homeless. Many pttiable
scenes were 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 2G. -
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 a tornado
and spent the night in cellars and
caves. All day yesterday and last
night more than half the city was I'M
der water, and in some instances
water was three feet deep in houses.
II 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 ga tornado
struck Foss, town of 200 inhabitants,
81 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
reported at Yukon, eigh-
teen miles west of Oklahoma, COM
pletely inundated the Canadian valley,
great damage TO 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
and through the Wishita
valley, causing more or less destruc.
ton. The damage was confined most
ly 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 and effectually block. |
ing traffic. The north-bound Rock |
Island passenger train ran into a }
wash-out five miles north of here and !
left the track. Several passengers
were slightly injured, but there was |
no loss Of life. Two bridges on the !
Frisco railway between Chickasha and q.
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.
shed a number of barns and smashed
dozens of windmills. The storm was |
preceded by vivid lightning, punctured
BY peel after peel of thunder, and
'7re up rapidly from the southeast.
The storm seemed to be more severe
about three miles west of town. and |
N It's path number of barns and
smaller buildings were demolished.
cloudburst in Iowa.
Sioux City, Iowa, May ga cloud
burst above Merrill, added to the re-
cent continued rains, has caused q
aTge flood in the valley of the Floyd
liver, which is a mile wide at Hinton
stretching from hill to hill. Great
lamage to farm property has resulted
much stock being drowned.
Terrific Storm at Pittsburq.
P1ttsburg, Pa, May 26. - A terrific
funder storm, accompanied by high
WIND, struck this section yesterday af-
ernoon and, besides killing one man.
I'D considerable damage to property.