Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — Page 2

CYCLONE KILLS FIVE HUNDRED

Missouri’s Largest City and Its Illinois Con- ■■ sort Meet Terrible Calamity.

ST. LOUIS ffl RUINS. Huge Buildings in the City’s Heart Destroyed. DEATH ON THE BI VER. I Excursion Steamers Are Blown Bottom Side Up. '.-.'a. Z ‘ ~ 11 Human Beings Swept to Instant Doom -—Steamcra Are Sunk.Btiildingis Blown Down, and Railroad Trains Overturned —Loss of Life Rivals That of the Johnstown Disaster -- Principal Buildings in East St. Louis Destroyed —Fire Adds Its Horrors—Millions of Dollars' Property Damage. The city of St. Louis, torn and devaststed by a cyclone, flooded! by torrents of rain and in many places attacked by fires, was Wednesday night the scene of such a carnival of death and destruction as has seldom been equaled in America. Owing to the frightful havoc of the storm cutting off almost every line of communication with the stricken city, but little Information could be had, and that of a very vague nature. It is estimated that •s many as 500 lives were lost, while the damage to property is inestimable. Scarcely a building in the city but has been in some way or another damaged by the tornado. Ruin and desolation are upon St. Louis. For the first time in the history of a me-

THE GREAT CUPPLES BLOCK.

tropolis the terrors of a cyclone have come upon its avenues and boulevards, ravaged hie business streets and brought death to hundreds. St. Louis, with its 700,000 people, passed through in one brief halfhour Wednesday night an experience paralleled only by the horrors of the Johnstown flood. Cyclone, flood and fire. This triple alliance wrought the dreadful havoc. The grand stand at the race track was blown down, killing 150. The east end of the great Eads bridge was destroyed and it is reported that an Alton train went into the river. Steamers on the river were sunk with all on board. A station of the Vandalia in East St. Louis was destroyed, and It is reported thirtyfive lives were lost. The roof of the Republican convention hall at St. Louis was taken off. The two top stories of the Planters’ Hotel are gone. The Western Union , and many other buildings are wredKCl"' The -city was left Fires broke out and threatened to destroy what the wind spared, but rain finally checked the flames. At Drake, 111., a school house is said to have been demolished and eighty pupils killed. Telegraph wires were down and it is difficult to secure information. Heavy damage to life and property is reported from other localities. After the wind and rain had done their work, fire added much to the storm’s loss account. Down wires, wild currents of electricity, crushed buildings, all contributed to this element of destruction. The ‘ ’.arm system was paralyzed. Approaches '.ere blocked; a $200,000 conflagration on the St. Louis side was supplemented by a dozen lesser fires. In East St. Louis a mill was burned and two other considerable losses were sustained. To the enormous total the fires added at least <500,000. Trail of Ruin Through the' City. From where the storm entered St. Louis, out in the southwestern suburbs, to where it left, somewhere near the Eads bridge, there is a wide path of ruins. Factory after factory went down, and piles of .bricks and timber mark the spots on which they stood. Dwellings were picked up and thrown in every direction. Busi-

POSTOFFICE AMD CUSTOM HOUSE.

ness houses were flattened. There was no chance for the escape of the occupants. Ths ruins covered bruised and mangled bodies that will not be recovered until a systematic search is made. Thousands of, families in South 8t Louis are homeless, practically, and the temporary hospitals shelter scores and hundreds. At the time the storm broke the streets were thronged with crowds of people re-

penetrated almost iriomentarily by flashes of vivid lightning,' the ominous rattle and Tumble of the thu!iiler,__thc_ torrcnto of . stinging rain and the raging and howling of the mad tornado cheated a panic that made the streets of the city resemble the corridors of a madhouse. ' Chimneys, cornices, signs, everything that came in the wind's way, were swept away and dashed among the frenzied people. Pedestrians were themselves caught by the wind and buffeted against the walls of buildings or thrown from their feet like mere playthings. Overhead electric wires were torn from their fastenings and their deadly coils, with, their hissing blue flames, joined in the destruction of life' and property. People were killed by the score and the city hospital, which fortunately escaped serious damage by the storm, was soon crowded to the doors with wounded and dying. Long before the tornado had spent itself many of the downtown streets of the city were impassable with the wreckage of shattered buildings and the strands of broken electric wire which were sputtering and blazing everywhere and had it not been for the floods of rain the tornado might have been but the prelude to the destruction of the'entire city by fire. ; On the river the destruction was even more complete tha non land. Only one

VIEW OF ST. LOUIS, OVERLOOKING THE DEVASTATED DISTRICT.

steamer out of all the fleet that crowded the levee remained above the surface of the Mississippi. The others fell easy prey to the fury of the tempest and quickly sank, in many cases carrying down with them all on board. The Great Republic, one of the largest steamers on the river.was siink along wi th others. Death List la Appalling. Ten millions of damage to property and five hundred persons killed and a thousand injured, is what has been accomplished. East St Louis is as badly damaged as St. Louis. Half a dozen small towns close to St. Louis, In Missouri, and at least two villages in southwestern Illinois are gone. There has been loss of life in each of these communities. What seemed to be three distinct and separate cyclones struck the city at 15 minutes past 5 o’clock in the afternoon. They came from the northwest, the west and the southwest ~“~ When they reached the Mississippi river they had become one, which descended upon East St. Louis and from thence passed on toward Alton. The day was an oppressive one in the city. There was no wind and the people suffered from the heat. About 4 o’clock in the afternoon the entire western horizon was banked with clouds. These were piled one upon the other, with curling edges, yellow in 'tinge. A light wind sprang up and a sudden darkness came upon the city. This darkness increased until the storm broke. The descent of the storm was so sudden the fleeing women and children were caught in the streets and hurled to destruction or buried under falling walls. Before the mass of clouds in the west, hanging over the villages of Clayton, Fern-Ridge, Eden and Central, gave vent to their frightful contents funnels shot out from them. Some of these seemed to be projected into the air, others leaped to the earth, twisting and turning. Lightning played about them and there was a marvelous electrical display. Then came the outburst. Three of the funnels approached St. Louis with a wind that was traveling at the rate of eighty miles an hour.

STEAMER REPUBLIC SUNK BY THE CYCLONE.

From them and the clouds above, a strange, crackling sound came. This filled the air and at times was stronger than the incessant peals of thunder. The funnels enveloped the western side of the city, and in thirty minutes were wreaking destruction in the business heart. Men and women, horses, all kind of fowl in the open, were picked up and carried hundreds of feet in every direction. So irresistible \was the cyclone and so much, greater in magnitude than any the country has ever previously known of. that some of the stanchest business blocks went down before it Structures, the pride of merchants and architecturally famous from New York to San Francisco, were line tinder boxes when the wind was at its - height The massive stofie fronts caved in. “ •“ '~~- Iron beams were torn from their fastenings and carried blocks away, ( as if they had been feathers. '"Roofs, braced and held to their positions by every device known to the best builders of any day, were torn off, as if held only by threads. Telegraph poles fell in long rows, not coming down one by one, but in groups of a dozen or more at a time. A railroad train on the Eads bridge, one of the express trains of the Alton, known as No. 21, was b|pwn over and the passengers piled up ip a heap of injured. The east end of the Eads bridge, one of the most solid and finest bridges in the world, was destroyed. The other great bridges spanning the Mississippi were all injured, some as seriously as the Eads. Scores of persons were drowned, or, after being killed on the land, blown Into the water. Steamers like the Grand Republic, the City of Monroe, packets which are famous between New Orleans and St

Louis, were carried everywhere. StiH Others, after being torn from their moorings, disappeared, and have not been heard from: As a rule the smaller craft was sunk. This was particularly the case with the smaller exbursion .steamers, most of which had a great many women on board. Houses weft blown in th the river, and at-one time during the worst of the jdovfa section of the river.was.scoqul muddy bottom shown. The water was carried blocks away as though it were a solid. Not while within thg city limits did the funnels rise arid fdll from the ground, as is usually the case in cycldnes in small places. There was no rebounding. Consequently whatever was in the path of the wind was either destroyed or badly injured.

THE GREAT EADS BRIDGE OVER THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.

And this destruction was done in thirty minutes. The bells of the city were pealing 6 o’clock when the worst of the storm had passed. East St. Louis Ruined, East St. Louis’ tremendous shipping interests have received a' heartrending blow. The ra.ilroad tracks were literally torn up from the right of way and scattered. Huge warehouses and freight depots were piled on top of each other. Long lines of box cars loaded with valuable freight were turned upside down. The telegraph offices were, destroyed and miles ofwlretflowndnwn.- ——

There was a short time after the storm when St. Louis could not communicate with the outside world. Nor could her own citizens communicate with each other by any electrical means. Such a confusion and rjiin in a large city Was never witnessed since the Chicago fire. Breaking at the hour it did, and the night following, thework of rescue and relief was very slow. The firemen ami police were immediately made aids to the surgeons and physicians of the city". Many people were buried tinder the ruins of their homes or places of business. The electric lights being out, searching parties in the ruin strewed streets could not go

CLUBHOUSE, GRAND STAND AND RACE TRACK, ST. LOUIS FAIR GROUND.

ahead. They simply had to wait for the dawn. , RECALLS THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD Story of tlie Disaster that Visited the Pennsylvania towns. The catastrophe which has befallen St Louis was within a few days of the seventh anniversary of the awful calamity visited upon Johnstown, Pa., and adjoining towns May 31, 1889, in which many lives were lost and millions of dollars’ worth of property destroyed by. the floods that raged along the Conemaugh river,

bursting a reservoir covering . a square mile located just above Johnstown. For weeks heavy rains had fallen in the mountains, and the resultant freshet wrought ruin and death that appalled the country. While towns were washed away, bridges destroyed and industries forced to suspend. Hundreds of people clung to their floating homes, which were swept onward upon, a volume of water unprecedented in

ST. LOUIS CITY HOSPITAL, FILLED WITH INJURED.

modern history. Many people were rescued from their perilous positions in the upper stoxias of their homes. The CamtLia iron works were destroyed and 2,000 rflen were thrown out of employment Five large bridges were swept away- Oars and lumber floated upon the

■ J ' h -••• mad torrent.- —Al 1 trains on- the PennsyL vania and Baltimore and Ohio railways were abandoned. Meh, women and children were panic stricken. The fatality list exceeded 1.200. - The water reached, a depth -Of fifty feet, and it required prompt, persistent ailfl heroic action to feectre the inmates rif a valley in which death?rode through upon, a wave of mercideso water. ~ ~ ' ", ' —■ Th<-rain descemled in torrents for sev-fnty-two hours. Hundreds of dead bodies floated upon the bosom of the river for a distance of fifteen miles from the scene of the Wires were down and all telegraphic communication temporarily cut off. _ Collieries in the vicinity were forced to suspend. The dainage extended

to the properties of the Lehigh Valley and Reading railways. % .'V

FOUR UNDER ARREST.

Quartet of Chicago Toughs Charged with T. J. Marshall’s Murder. The coroner’s jury has charged Frank Carpenter, Charles Gurney, Clarefice White and John Lang with the murder of"

Thomas J. Marshall, one of the most prosperous young merchants of Chicago, and the quartet has been held for trial. The murder war one of the most sensational which have occurred in the Western metropolis in -years.- < )ue evening just before it was

time to close the genera] merchandise st ore known a s the bddeii Rule, located on West Madison street, owned and conducted by Mr. Marshall, three men entered the store by different doors and approached tlig 1 cashier's desk, where sat Miss Mattie ordered her to deliver over the cash, emphasizing his demand by pointing two revolvers at her, t -She ref used to comply with his demand, and closed the cash drawer, throwing off the combination. The would-be robber aimed a blow nt her head with one of his guns, which she barely managed to dodge. There were several lady clerks standing,about waiting for the time to go home. They saw what was going on at the desk and began to scream, This attracted the attention of Mr. Marshall, who was in another part of the store talking with his general manager. Just as he was about to start toward the desk one Of the other men approached him and leveled two revolvers at ms head. Frightened by the seven ms of the girls, the burglar at the desk started to back out of the store; guarding his retreat with his revolvers. Marshall advanced toward the mail who was coming his way and he, too, started but of The store, keeping Marshajl covered' all the time. Seeing that 1 he latter was bent upon his- capture; the man fired both revolvers just as he reached the door. One ball, struck Marshall in the temple and the other in the heart and he fell back dead.

The screams and the shots had attracted a large crowd about the store doors and the robbers and murderer saw that they were in danger of being cornered, so they began to fire into the crowd, injuring two or three people, and clearing a way for their escape. They ran in different directions, but in such a manner that they came together a short distance from the store. One of them was captured by a pedestrian just as he reached the rendezvous, but the others coming up he was set at liberty and the trio vanished? Half a, hundred suspects were rounded up by the police, and out of the lot the four named above were identified by the clerks as those who participated in the tragedy.

NEW PROFESSOR AT ANN ARBOR.

Six Hundred Women to Benefit by Dr. Eliza M. Mosher's Experience. Dr. Eliza M. Mosher, of Brooklyn, who comes to Ann Arbor as associate dean of the department of literature and arts and

professor of hygiene, is now on her way to Europe to .study the colleges for women in connection with Oxford and Cambridge. TJue dean of the department for many years was Martin L. D’Ooge, but the

place Dr. Mosher is eliza m. mobher. to fill iy a new one. Her duties will bring her into almost personal relations with the 600 young women in the university, and to each of them she will be guide, philosopher and friend. Dr. Mosher will be the first woman professor in the university, and her post will be one of great distinction and responsibility. She leaves a very lucrative practice in Brooklyn to

accept the offer of the University of Michigan. Henry Stefke, aged 40 years, was found dead in Bloomington, Ind., the presumption being that he met death in * runaway.

T. J. MARSHALL.

STOW'S DIRE WORK.

A Cyclone Devastates Three States. DEATH IN ITS WAKE. lowa, Illinois, and /Michigan the _. Sufferers, .. ■ “ f-. • The Death Holl Will Pas* the Hundreds, and Hundreds 31 ore Are Injured—Terrific Downpour of Water in Several Instances Completes the Destruction Which the Wind Began -Damage to Farm Property Is Literally Inconceivably—Several Tbwns Are Wiped Off the Earth. . A most fearful storm originated Sunday night, a little ’ northeast of Des Moines, lowa. Traveling almost due east, it devastated portions of that State, Illinois and by Monday evening had reached the eastern boundary of Michigan, culminating jn Macomb County. In lowa it raged most fiercely in Polk and Jasper Counties, killing twenty-seven persons, fatally injuring seriously injuring nineteen and demolishing a large part of five towns —Valeria, Bondurant, Santiago, Mingo and Ira. The country between the towns was devastated and

the erops utterly rnined. the stock In the path of the storm was destroyed. In Bondurant five were killed’; in Santiago, tWft; in*Valeria, seven; near Mingo, four; and in the intervening country between Mingo and Ida, nine. Eighteen were injured, several fatally. Besides the loss of of life the damage to farm buildings, fences and live stock is fully $1,000,000. Drowned in the Flood. In eastern lowa, a terrific downpour of water occurred, doing greatest damage at *Dubmjue--a ml -Durango.. At the latter place, the depot was carried by the flood a mile and a half, and Mrs. "Clark' station agent, four children, Engineer Griffin; J. Dillon and P. Moss were drowned. The combined fury of wind and "water wiped out the family of John Maloney near Postville, numbering six, and near North McGregor fifteen bodies, unrecogwere found. Miles of railroad tra ck, sevefaTMepots *.‘i n d**eigh*teen bridges were swept away. Delaware County escaped with large property damage only. Passing into Illinois, the first' effects were felt at Elgin. Engineer Keough, of the asylum, was killed. The bicycle factory was- demolished, loss over $200,000. A wide farming territory was devastated,

M’GREGOR, WHERE SIXTEEN WERE KILLED, WAS NOT IN THE CYCLONE'S- PATH, BUT WAS VISITED BY A CLOUDBURST.

and railroad property suffered greatly. Near Rockford four were killed. In Chicago and suburban towns, scores of residences were utterly demolished; miles of street paving -hashed away; hundreds of basements fifled with goods flooded, and over two hundred people injured'. Strange to say, not a fatality was reported, though the ruin of many dwellings wasso instant and complete that escape of many from death seems miraculous. Everything in the path of the storm was leveled. The suburbs suffering most were Norwood Park, Niles, Niles Center, Edison Park, Irving Park and Ravenswood. Churches, trees and dwellings were razed. Osse Hundred IHe in Michigan, Leaving Chicago, the next report" "of damage came from Ortenville, Oakland County, Mich. Seventeen lives were reported' lost and a half-hundred persons injured, while the town is practically wiped out of existence. From Oakwood, northeast of Ortenville, word was received that eight had been killed. The villages directly in the line of the storm were Thayer, Groveland, Austin, Brandon, Seymour and Davisburg. A message froip Clarkston late Monday night said that'there had been a large loss of life there, and that Davisburg, Clarkston and Springfield had also a large list of Killed and injured. Mount Clemens, in Macomb County, was given a Ijgd scare, and while much property damage was done and a few injured, yet no loss of life resulted. Thirty

MURPHY'S STOCK FARM, EDISON PARK.

bouses were blown down. The path cut by the cyclone from Oakland and Metamora on the northwest through Thomas, Orion, Goodison, Washington, Disco and the country located between is filled with populous towns and it is feared that many of them have been wiped off the map. It seems that the list of dead and injured would pass 100, and no, estimate can be given as to the property damaged. Storm Was a Twister. Actual details of the devastation caused by the cyblone were meager, but all of the witnesses agree that the storm was a regular Western twister. Its first appearance at Thomas station was from the southwest in the form of a densely- black funnel-shaped cloud, moving with alihost incredible swiftness and seeming to take long leaps. It seemed to have the elasticity of a gigantic rubber ball, and would strike the ground, then, leaving a footprint of devastation, bound into the air

and travel a mile or more before again touching the earth-. -J- ___ Beyond Macomb County the storm was lost somewhere in the Canadas. A terrific- hurricane and cloudburst struck Cairo, 111., at 8:30 o’clock Tuesday morning. The extent of the destruction of property could not .be ascertained, but it is known that at least a dozen lives were lost through the capsizing of the .steam ferry boa t K-a-therinc. Thwdis*ster occurred at the mouth of the Ohio river. As speedily as possible relief parties were organized to drag for bodies and rescue the ill-fated passengers and crew from the mad fury df the waves. The captain, engineer and clerk of the steamer succeeded in .keeping afloat until succor reached them and they were brought ashore. All attempts to save the other victims were '...ttinr. . ' . FIRST WORK OF DESTRUCTION. "T ~~ ‘ ~ Z ■. ’ , Hurricane Came Like a Thief Upon steeping lowa Families. In the lowa region, where the storm started, Sunday had been a fearfully hot and sultry day, .the air had been oppres-

sive and still and many people had remarked that there was danger of a cyclone. Most of the people were in bed. There was a rain and thunder storm just in advance of the cyclone, and while the wind was Whistling through the trees and the rain beating down in sheeA suddenly the awful roar that every prairie farmer knows gs the dread forerunner of the cyclone would be heard. Another instant and the storm would strike and then .all was chaos. Those who-heard 1 it early saved themselves in some cases by getting into their cellars or caves. In other places whole families were killed or terribly injured, and their property destroyed; Atypical bit of destruction was at the Bailey home, northwest of Bondurant. In the house were nine persons, four of whom were killed and the rest injured so badly that it is doubtful if any of them recover.

ROUTE OF THE CYCLONE THROUGH IOWA AND ILLINOIS.

Their house was on a high hill, above the surrounding country, and the funnel dipped down to it. Houses, barns, outbuildings and grove were destroyed alike. Two minutes after the storm struck there was no trace of the house save the cellar, and in it were piled the chimney and stove and half the furniture. The house was torn to pieces, the boards into splinters. They were scattered so far that no trace can be found save here and there for a mile east pieces of the broken lumber. The trees were stripped of their bark, but left standing. This was a freak of the storm/ At.-places, as this one, it would strip the trees of their leaves and bark, but leave the trunks and branches; at othees'it would twist them eff-or -uproot them. At the Bailey place the members of the family were blown a considerable distance from the house. The bodies of the victims were found in the fields, where were also found the bodies of a dozen horses, two score of cattle and about 100 hogs, that had occupied the barns and other buildings on the place. Every animal was dead. Freaks of the Storm. The storm perpetrated all the remarkable feats that cyclones are famous for. The first large building wrecked in lowa was the Monarch school house, west of Bondurant. Here it took up a large school house, shook it to pieces, scattered it so that very few of the boards are to be found, and even distributed the stone foundation over the fields, while a big wooden stile over the fence, three rods from the building, it left unharmed. The huge cylindrical cast iron stove was tossed into an oat field a quarter of a mile from the site of the building. The storm came in some places in the fgrm of two and in others in the form of a single funnel. At Bondurant there were two, sweeping along the earth side by side. Between them was a calm space, and in this little damage was done. After the two consolidated their force seemed to be greater. It was at Mr. Markoff’s barn, near Elgin, however, that the cyclone played Its most curious prank. The barn has an Interior covered stall, like a small shed,' Mjhere Jim, a bay horse, makes his stall. The furious wind reduced all the rest of the barn to splinters except this stall, which it threw fifty feet through the air and stood bottom end up in an adjoining lot. Jim was found standing on the ceiling Monday morning chewing hay from the roof of his home os contentedly as if nothing had happened. He had not received a scratch. * LIST OF THE DEAD. Those Whose Lives Are Known to Have Been Blown Out. lOWA. Valeria —Two children of Douglass Aikens, Miss Monita Dickey, Solomon Dickey, Charts Phalan, Sr., Charles Phalan, Jr., Daniel Phalan, Dennis Phalan, Susie Phalan, Michael Phalan, Mrs.

WORK OF THE CYCLONE IN NORWOOD PARK.

Schell, Mrs. Lucretia Whitney. - Bondurant--Mrs. John Bailey, Llzzlu Bailey, John Bailey, Jr., John Bailey, John Maxwell, Robert Bailey. McGregor—Mrs. Morg Burke, William Burke, John Godlet, Michael Harle, John Lavotch, John Maloney, Mrs. John Maloney, Michael Maloney,,Lawrenee Meyer, Mrs.--Lawrence Meyer, Anton Meyer, four Meyer childfen, John Nichols. Dura ngo—Pour Clark children, Thomas Griffin, brakeman. Santiago—Peter Bolenbaugh, Mbs. Peter Bolenbaugh, Theophilus Mtibnrn, orphan, child. , . J » \ .■ . ILLINOIS. l/.T . A : - Rockford—Mrs, Isora Bird, Mrs. Godfrey Hildebrand, Elsie Hildebrand, Godfrey Hildebrand, daughter of Mrs. Isora Biid. 3 \ ~ i , / ’ Elgin—John Kehoe. Cairo—Captain Rittenhouse, Dr. Orr, Miss Orr, Miss Orr, Richard Thurman, Charles Gilhoffer, seven metfibera of the crew of the Katherine. MICHIGAN. Ortonville—Mrs. T. G. Heaton, two-

Howe children, John Milty, William Mitchell, Mrs. William Mitchell, two Mitchell children, John Porritt, Abram Quick, two Quick children, Mrs. Henry Quick, Mrs. Scott and son, Daniel Thompson and son. Oakwood—Mrs. William Davis and child, W. M. Fifield, Charles Laird, Roger Werber, Mrs. Roger Werber and others. Thomas—Eleven were killed hereabout; names could not be obtained. Minor Damage of the Storm. Several houses at Laporte, Ind., were struck by lightning, but the damage was small. ; d y , ■ At Fowler, Ind., James McDaniels’ barn was fired by lightning.*’ Four valuable horses perished. Lightning struck the residence of Councilman Jackson and Emery Swett at Kokomo, Ind., doing much damage. The

German Lutheran Church at Kappa was demolished by lightning. The new Methodist Church at Stavanger, 111., was struck by lightning- and burned. Loss, $2,500; uninsured. • At Westville, Ind., lightning struck the high school building and It was burned. Loss, $5,000; insured for $3,500. Lightning struck and burned the barns of Henry Lilly in Matteson township, near Coldwater, Mich. Loss, $1,500; insured. According to late statistics there are in the United States 40,000 deaf mutes. At Bay City, Mich., the city electric light tower on Center avenue, 220 feet high, the highest in the United States, was News down and, wrecked. Lightning’ struck the cabin of a settler named Cook, near Superior, Wls., and the owner and a companion narrowly escaped being roasted alive. Fruit growers near Benton Harbor, Mich., consider the storm a blessing to them, as a great many young peaches were blown off overloaded trees. The residences of Clem Hoover, Lewis Cowin and Robert Campbell at Muncie, Ind., were badly damaged by lightning and Mr. Hoover was dangerously injured. In the vicinity of Emporia, Kaik, bottom lands along the Cottonwood river have been, flooded for miles on both sides by continuous rains during the last two weeks, but the water is now receding. Sunday night a storm at Mount Carroll, HL, was terrific. Carroll creek rose twenty feet In almost as many minutes, carrying away the J. M. Shirk Company’s mill dam and flooding the mill, and the*” Electric Light Station, Gilbert’s glove factory and Libkieher’s carriage factory. North of Lanark barns and outbuildings were toppled over by the wind. Three new iron bridges were swept away, and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway had 200 feet of track washed out Fields that were beautiful and promising twenty-four hours ago are now dreary wastes. It is safe to say that SIOO,OOO will not cover the damage In Carroll County.

Chance for Doctor.

Eight hundred thousand franca, $l6O, 000, have been given to the Paris Academy of Medicine by a Mme. Audriftred, the income to be paid yearly to the man that discovers a specific for consumption, whether a Frenchman or a foreigner.

Profits of Steamship Line.

The Cunard company’s profits for tho j-ear just closed were £50,000 ($250,000) more than for the previous year. Grease stains on cloth may often be removed with magnesia. The stained place is first dampened; then the magnesia Is moistened and vigorously rubbed on the stain. It must be allowed to dry thoroughly. Then the powder can be easily shaken off.