People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1893 — DISASTROUS STORM IN IOWA. [ARTICLE]

DISASTROUS STORM IN IOWA.

Property in the Vicinity of Dubuque Very Seriously Damaged. Dubuque, la., June 12.—The most severe rainstorm that has visited this section in twenty years was experienced here Saturday morning. The damage in Dubuque will amount to many thousand dollars. Farms on the low lands in this county are flooded and all crops arc destroyed. In this city cellars were inundated apd streets washed out At Rockdale all the farms : n the vicinity were flooded and chickens, farm implements and all loose attachments were curried awaj in the flood