Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1899 — CYCLONES IN FOUR STATES. [ARTICLE]

CYCLONES IN FOUR STATES.

Farming recti—i» CSyckmes in South Dakota. lowa and Nebraska Sunday earned serious loss of fife and destroyed buildiugt by the score. Growing crops were ruined and Unit trees maimed of their feJinge. Wires are down in dm smwk visited, so that it has been impossible to obtain details of the damage in outlying districts. Michigan was swept by an nansuafly severe electric storm, many bouses bring stench by lightning. A violent rainstorm which broke over Chicago at 103# o'clock Sunday night hooded the city and suburbs, causing much damage to property. A disastrous and fatal tornado passed through the country in the vicinity of Bijou Hill*, twenty-five miles south of Chamberlain. S. p- resulting in the death as seven persons xnd the serious injury of two others. The tornado formed ©a a seetHO in plain view of hundreds of persons, and moved in a southerly course. The storm destroyed a church and a school house, after, which it reached the Peterses place, where the execution done was appuffing- The dead and injured were strews ad about the premises, all being bruised and maimed in a shocking manner, while the buildings were smashed to apEntrre. After doing its worst the storm passed into the range of MBs skirting the Missouri river, where it appears to have been dissolved. The path covered by the atone was only about twenty rods wide and about three miles in length. The wind urns accompanied by a heavy fall of rain and hail, the latter being as large as goose eggs. Everything in the course of the storm was completely destroyed. A large amount of stock was killed. Probably the most destructive tornado that ever visited Nebraska passed through the northern port of Hamilton County Saturday night at 7 o'clock, destroying Cram STS,OUU to *IOO.OOO worth of property, ndafiag fifteen dwellings, one church, one school bouse, two iron bridges across the Bine river, barns, eorneribs, outbuildings, orchards, groves, fences and stock. In Coming County a cloudburst in the northeast part faired much destruction. The creek was filled bank high in a flew minutes and the adjoining bottoms Banded. Over I.QUO tons of hay is known to be walked away and destroyed, and miles of fearing is rained. Corn land is badly washed. A terrific hailstorm struck Hastings, Neb, Sunday afternoon and coutinned foefifteen mounter, during which time several persons were hart, over iltM panes of glass broken, fruit and grain destroyed and darkens and birds killed and injured. Terrific storms swept over loan Saturday and Sunday. At Tama there was almost a eioadhuret and mnch done. The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad —stained mnch damage. A tornado struck flhe farm house of a man named McCoy, half a mile south of Keswick. The building was demolished and five persons were injured. Mrs. McCoy fatally. Rain and hail followed the storm, and much damage to the growing crops resulted. A storm passed through the coantry twentyfive Bales Mttbwt of Des Moines Sunday aftrfw«ML Several houses and burns are reported to have been faioorn down and waknlfc damage done, hut so far as knows no fires were last in that locality.