Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-05-12
LINES OF COMMUNICATION DE.
sTRoYED AND NEWS CAN.
NOT BE VERIFIED.
TERRIFIC STORM IN lows
HOUSES ARE CRUSHED TO DEBRIS
IN TWINkLINo-oREAr DAM.
AGE DONE.

full hail storm and later a cloudburst
mas done great damage in this terri
tory. Wires are down and details are
meager. 1t is reported that Cordell a
town In Washita county. has been
wiped out. One hundred lives NAV
have been lost. No verification up to
a late hour can be secured.
| West OF COrdell damage to crops
end cattle is reported. Northeast of
| Cordell is the little village of Bridge
port. Alarming reports were received
early in the day from that town. but
all communication is still cut off, and
it's fate is unknown. There are 100
inhabitant sthere. 1t is on the Rock
Island railroad, which is washed out
in several places. Couriers are now
on the way to the storm stricken sec.
ton.
Helena. Timber Lake and Alba were
also struck by the tornado. Crops,
cattle and buildings were damaged.
but no lives are reported lost. The tor
nado in places is said to have been
one and half miles wide.
Bad in Iowa.
Des Moines, Iowa, May Z. - A cy
clone which swept a portion of Iowa
yesterday afternoon caused consider.
able alarm in the northern and north
western sections of the state. The
weather bureau believes that the Iowa
cyclone is the tail end of the tornado
earlier in the day in Oklahoma. The
damage done in this state was not so
great as at first feared. according to
reports last night, but the telephone
and telegraph systems in the section
visited by the storm are so democrat
lied that little news can be secured
at first hand.
Meriden small town on the Illinois
Central railroad. suffered the most
damage. The house of the mayor, a
substantial two-story structure, was in
the center of the cyclones path and
was swept in twinkling into debris.
Other frame buildings and barns stu
ated on either side of the mayors
house were also demolished. Many
trees were uprooted, lumber yard
was swept clear and fruits, poultry
and cattle were damaged. The cy-
clones path was in places quarter of
mile wide. It entered at the north
western corner of the county and
seemed to subside at the extreme east.
Rain Is Terrific.
The damage done at the town OF
Cherokee was considerable. A dozen
outbuildings and two or three frame
houses were damaged. No one was
hurt. A terrific downfall Of rain fol-
lowed the cyclone. and did more dam
age than the wind. Roads for miles
were washed out as were crops and re-
ports from several sections of the Illi-
nois Central say that the track has
suffered bad washouts
All traffic is at a standstill on the
Sioux Falls branch railroad on account
of the cloudburst which began at the
north of Cherokee.
News Is Lacking.
In the section visited by the storm
there are several settlements which
are cut off from all communications
and have been isolated since the storm
struck in the early afternoon 1t is
feared that the damage there is seri-
Gus.
Every endeavor is being made by
the state authorities to get fuller news
from the storm visited section.
Many Killed in Texas.
Cisco, Tex, May 7. - 1t Is reported
that many persons were killed and
much property and livestock were de-
stroyed by tornado eighteen miles
north of Cisco. Wires are all down
and it is impossible to get particulars.
Relief parties cannot start on account
Of the impassability of the roads. At
Moreland several persons are known
to have been killed. A tornado Is re-
ported in Parker county, near Wealth.