The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-03-26
FINE SPRING WEATHER.
lorna does in the West and South
Great Loss of Property.

HIgGIxsYIILg, Mo, March 81 Fifty build
ings are partly wrecked, one man was mortal
Iy wounded and several others were hurt, the
10 WI is in darkness aud the streets are strewn
with debris as the result of tornado and hail
storm which swept over Higginsyille today.
The hail on the streets was foot deep
within five minutes after the storm began.
Dozens Of trees in the town were blown down
aud several horses were killed on the street.
Wind and hail came first, and were followed
with terrific downpour of rain, which food
"a nearly every cellar in town. The storm
came from the west Ii kept within a narrow
path. only about two blocks of the business
quarter being damaged.
Corder aud Alma, Mo-, are said to be con-
siderably damaged. According TO meagre re-
ports. several houses in both Corder and Alma
were wrecked.
J. W. Ensely's grocery in Higginsville was
wrecked. John Holzen, a clerk, was mortal
ly injured.
is said thai 1000 windows we're broken by
the storm. More than fifty houses we're I'M
rooted
I.rrrLE Rock, Ark, March pa tornado
today did great damage to property and caused
at least one death in central Arkansas.
At Fourche dam, four miles from Little
Rock, negro school house was blown down
aud one Of the pupils was killed. Several
Others were injured.
At the Confederate Soldiers Home, five
miles from Little Rock, the chlmneys were
blown down, the slate roof torn up aud the
interior deluged with rain. None of the old
soldiers WAS hurt.
In the section twenty miles north of Little
Rock great destruction of property is reported,
bat wires are down and it cannot be learned
whether there was any loss of life. The storm
did much damage to property in this city.
LOUISVILLE, KY. March PA violent
rain and hail storm swept Western Kentucky
mud Southern Indiana today. The property
loss will be very severe la and around Hop
kinsvilIe, XIV, the damage amounted to many
thousands of dollars. One church was I'M
rooted, "a negro school house wrecked and
scores of dwellings damaged. One negro
woman was killed and one white man injured.
CHICAGO. March 23.-Much damage was
caused today in Chicago suburbs by spring
tioods-the worst in years. The Desplalnes
river reached a record mark, and at Romeo,
Lemont, Willow Springs, River Forest and
other towns in the Desplaines Valley bridges
were wrecked or weakened by the high waters
aud the residents greatly alarmed. One man
was drowned as a result of the flood, and there
we're a number of narrow escapes. Farm
houses at Lemout situated on the edge of the
valley are standing in water which reached up
to the windows.
In Austin 800 employees of the Meyer Cord
CO.. were made idle because the water flowed
in the basement of the plant, putting out the
fires.
Conditions were similar in some OF the
towns along the Fox river. Many of the resi-
dents of Dauphin Park are unable to get sup
plies to their homes Children being unable
10 reach school at Burnside except by boats,
the classes have had to be abandoned.
Beoit, Wisconsin, was flooded by the over
flow from two streams, Monday and Tuesday,
causing loss to property of over S250, 600.
A large machine shop was also burned, loss
500, 900. An ice gorge was formed III both
creeks. causing the water to run down the
main street.