Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1892 — A GREAT STORM. [ARTICLE]

A GREAT STORM.

[t Was Wide-Spread and Exceed-ingly-Damaging. High Water and Tornados Make Sad ; Havoc at Many Point*—lmmense Destruction of Property. y Deirango, Tex., was visited by a tornado Thursday evening. No less than a dozen souses were swept away and many people were killed or injured. On the same jvening a cyclone struck Troy, Tex., doing much damage to property and fatally Injuring five persons. The damage in Houston county is fully 150,000. One man was badly hurt: ~~. —r It was the worst storm ever experienced it Grand Rapids, Mich. Three miles of Jhe'G. R. & I. roadbed was washed outand jne bad freight wreck occurred. Traffic was brought to a standstill, The Gastonade river at Richland, Mo., was the highest known. All streams in fact have become raging torrents. Much damage was done in the territory of Oklahoma. Murphysboro, 111., reports 1,000 families homeless in that vicinity Another crevtse has occurred in the Mississippi river sear Jamestown, La. Similar reports are made from all points of the western and Muth western country.