Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1898 — A DEADLY STORM. [ARTICLE]

A DEADLY STORM.

Two Lives Lost and Much Damage Reaalta from a Cloudburst Star Galesburg, 111. Galesburg, 111., June 24. —Deatli and serious , damage attended a terrific cloudburst which struck this locality early Thursday morning. The worst effects were felt a few miles northeast of Galesburg, on the main line of the C., B. & Q. near Altona. Walnut creek rose 44 feet, washing out the C., B. & Q. track and flooding the country for miles. John Hubbell, one of Knox county’s leading citizens and oldest settlers, was swept away in the flood and drowned. At Wataga Mrs. N. A. Anderson was caught in the rise of a small creek and Her body was carried over a mile before it was recovered. The yards of the Galesburg Vitrified Brick company are several feet under water, stopping all work and doing great daanage. Trains on the C., B. &Q. are brought through on branch lines. There was much injury to crops. Stock was threatened but not injured. It was to save cattlg in peril that the two dfeaths reported occurred.