Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-06-11
STORM and FLOOD
HIT Three States
MANY LIVES LOST AND PROPERTY
: DAMAGED IN ILLINOIS, IN
DIANA AND KENTUCKY.
CLOUDBURST CAUSES
DEATH OF A SCORE
York, New Mlnden and Duquoln, III.
Gradyvllle, KY, and Points In
Hoosler State Suffer - Houses
Blown Away by Tornado.

Chicago, June 10.-Dispatches from
Indiana and Kentucky tell of severe
storms which have caused loss of
life and the destruction of much
property.
Early Saturday the town Of New
Minden, ILL.,, 20 miles southeast Of
st. Louis, was visited by tornado
which killed four persons and in
jured score of others. At Grady
vile, KY, a cloudburst is said to
have caused the loss of perhaps 81
lives.
At York, ILL.,, 25 or 80 houses were
destroyed, and number of persons
are said to have been killed. Be-
cause of the prostration of telegraph
wires details are not available.
The storm is said to have been
especially severe in southern In
diana, and at Farmersburg and Sui
livan much damage was caused by
wind and rain. Duquoin, ILL.,, also
was visited by the storm that caused
the destruction at York. A number
of houses were blown down, but no
lives were lost.
Many Killed In Kentucky.
Louisville, KY, June 10-Twenty-
one persons are missing and the vii
aage of Gradyville, in the southern
part of the state, is almost destroyed
as the result of cloudburst, which
sent a volume of water down upon
the place shortly after midnight.
The bodies of the following had
been recovered up to noon:
DR.. Nell, Mrs. Calvin Wilmore Mrs.
Austin Wilmore, Miss Ada Wilmore,
Miss Mary Wilmore, Strong Hill, wife
and family, fairfield Moss, Miss Pearl
Moss, Miss Carrie Moss, Miss Irene
Moss, two sons of fairfield Moss,
Mrs. Mary Moss, Carl Nelson, Gar
land Nelson, Mrs. Keltner.
Storm RACES for Hours.
The storm began about ten o'clock
Friday night and increased in intens-
lily until 1890, when it's height was
reached The cloudburst turned Big
creek into torrent which quickly
overlooked its banks and poured
great volume of water down upon
GRANVILLE Nearly every house in
the place was washed away and those
who met death were drowned or
crushed to death in their houses as
they were torn from their founda-
lions.
Columbia was telephoned for as
sistance and large number of citi.
zens left that place at once, but ow-
ing to the condition of the roads it
will require some time to make the
trip. Every stream in the vicinity is
out Of its bounds. The cloudburst
did serious damage aside from the
loss of life, all bridges in this vi
cinity being washed away and thou
sands Of acres of corn ruined.
Gradyville has population Of
about $50, and is Is miles from
railroad.
Four Killed at New Minden.
Nashville, ILL.,, June i0.-A tornado
swept over New Minden, seven miles
north of this city, at six a. M Satur-
day, killing five persons and injuring
several. A number of houses were de-
molished.
The dead: Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Weihe and two children, and a child of
Carl Stuemeyer.
A score of persons were bruised by
debris. The storm struck the north
ern portion Of the town and most of
the houses destroyed were country
cottages.
In the town the German Lutheran
church was badly damaged, the steeple
being blown down and the roof blown
off. The church bell was hurled
through the large pipe organ below,
badly damaging it. On the north side
of the church the parochial school was
demolished. These buildings were
practically the only ones in the village
proper that were damaged.
Farmhouses Demolished.
From this point the tornado CON
tinued on and leveled about seven
more farmhouses. The Weihe house.
in which the-four people were killed,
was about the last house struck. It
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