Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1903 — RECORD OF RECENT STORM AND FLOOD DISASTERS [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF RECENT STORM AND FLOOD DISASTERS

May 20—One killed and four Injured In Southern Indiana cyclone. May 20—Two killed and one Injured In Texas cyclone. May 21—Three killed and twelve Injured In three cyclones which swept Assarts, Ashland. and Blaine, Kan. May 22—Twenty-two killed In cyclone In Clay County, Kansas. May 22 —Eleven killed and ten Injured In windstorms throughout Ohio, Indiana and .Nebraska. May 24 and 25—Nineteen Allied and twenty. Injured in seven cyclones aud tornadoes In the Mississippi -Valley. The storms were general In Illinois, lowa and Nebraska, and caused inestimable loss of property. May 23—One killed and damage of $300,OQp caused by cyclone in Chicago. May 26 —Eighteen killed by cyclone which wiped out town of Elmo, Mo. May 20— Six killed aud eighteen injured by three tornadoes lu Iowa; damage $200,ixxl. The storms extended to Southeastern Nebraska, where damage was caused to the amoant of $500,000. May 2<i Three killed at St. Joseph, Mich., by tidal wave on Lake Michigan. May 27—Four killed and six Injured in wind aud rain storms at I.ogansport, Kokomo.and Hammond, Ind.; loss, $1,000,000. May 27—Five hundred made homeless by flood at Sioux t’lty and Webster City, lowa. May 29 to June I—Seven dead and $2,000,000 loss at Dos Moines on account of flood. May 30 to June 6—Elghty-two persons dead ns result of flood nt Topeka, Kan.; mil Jons of dollars' loss (uuestlmatcd). May :X) to June 6 -Fifteen dead and thousands homeless la flood nt Kansas City, Mo.; loss, millions (uncstlmnted*. Flood nt Armourdale caused loss estimated at $3,000,om. 7 May ;:o and 31 —Miles of country in Southeastern Nebraska Inundated; damage, inllItoiiN pineallimited,. Julie I—One hundred killed and damage of $300,000 caused by cyclone at Gainesville, tin. June 2—Hannibal, Mo., flood damage $2,ooo.mw. June 2—Boonerllle, Mo., flood damage $2,000. non. June 3 to 6—Twenty lives lost and $300,000 damage done by floods at Venice, Madison. and Granite City, 111. June 3 to 6- Eleven killed and $10,000,000 damage by flood at East fit. I-on is, 111. June C—One hundred killed, 300 homeless, sod damage of $3,500,000 In flood at Pacolet, Cllftiiu. and'<!lendfl|e, fi. C. June.6 —Great property loss by cloudburst and fl,Hid <rt Burton and Hundred, W. Va. June 10—Seven dead and great property loss mused by cloudburst at Blsliee, Arts. June 13—Three huudrod killed In the destruction of the town of Heppner, Ore., bj a cloudburst; property loss, $1,000,000.