Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 25, 1882, Page 1

o L) “MILLIONS IN IT." That i3 Gallons of Water in Dmaha Cellars, A Hurricane Strikes the City Barly Sunday Mornin LR Heaviest Reiufall Ever Known and tha'Damage It Wrought. Over xty v Chucks Wind Miles Hail Sto at the Devoted Oity. Lose of Families le All and Hundreds of Surplus Stock. Herote Acts and Hair Breadth Iscapas Numerous, Omaha Damaged to the Extont of Probably 8200,000, Which s Divided Among All Claster, Rich and Poor Alike. v Telographic Communication Cat Off in All Directions. . Grain and Small Fruit Loavel- ed to the Farth. A Horrible 3ight and a Terrible Wreck of Homes. of the Clouds in Mid Air A Battle Omaha had for so long enjoyed im- torms which munity from the terrible have raged about her in every direc- tion that her citi boast of the matter, when the visi tion of yus! rded them of the old over crow till you get out ¢ fter ans began to quietly rem woods.” night which was extremely wned bright and clear indica- tion, beyond a sultry atmosphere, of a The barometer at the signal serviee office showed a normail condition, and it was nct until the sigual offloer went to receive hismorn- ing reports and found thiat he could not. ot Choyenne, Denver or Washakie, that he knew of the treatened dis- turbance. North Platte had, how- ever, sent a dispaich that a violent storm had passed that slation and was traveling in the direction of Omaha at the rate of forty-five mules an hour were on the Towards 8 n to grow head, the morning ¢ ud with no coming storm. and congequently look for o’clock the sky out a br bog; and those on tho top cf Capitol Lill were the first to seo THE ADYANCING CLOUDK First came three long lines of dark tingad hue. They extended the entire length wind clouds, with a roseate of the horizon and as they ascended, moving toward the east had a revoly- ing motion as if something was push- ing them along; they were divided by a whitish line so that each was distinct from the others and when the firat had reached to a height of forty-five degrees from the horizon, a mass of angry black clouds followed them. These were turning and moving about as if engaged in a fight among them- selves. It was then apparent that there were two counter curronts striv- ing for mid-air mastery, one forcing the red clouds to the eastward and the other trying to move to the west, Boon the former apparently won the battle and the others becoming ab- sorbed quickly with their vanquishers. ROLBED ACROSS THE SKY in one dense mass of forbidding clouds, which extended quickly from horizon to horizon, throwing a pall over the city and sending terror to the hearts of many who, with the details of the Towa disasters fresh in mind, imagined that Omaba was doomed, and began seeking for the nearest route to cel- lars and dug outs to escape the antic- ipated danger. At first a few great drops of rain fell, making spots as big as saucers on the dry ground; the wind had risen to a considerable ve- loaity and blew CLOUDS OF DUST through the streets; the rain increased and came down in fierce and blinding sheots, At7:43 the velocity of the wind had reached sixty miles an hour, and it struck the city with a blast that made it shake to the center; over turned chimneys and small houses; wrenched the largest limbs from trees | und twisted others off entirely, flin;- | ing them about like wisps of straw; unroofed hou ; hurled signs and boxes, barre and loos boards | through the streets to the imminent | danger of life and property. To add to | THE THE | TERRORS OF TORM, hail stones began falling, ranging from the size of a pea to that of a walnut, and piling up ina few mo. mentsin gatters and corners and on the roofs, to a depth of several inches, being found four 1uches deep in many | which were tu sa Big as Hen's Flggs | the places late in stones aleo froze like ico when salt is thrownon it, sixty mile wind subsided to an aver age of forty-thr e miles at 7:48 and convinued that way to the termina tion of the storm, which lasted about forty-five minutes in all. Daring this time it was impossible to swe across the street and dangorous to venture forth, as even by an ¢ m the FLYING DER one waa liable to be blown away or drowned in the putt atreets, The lat- ng rivers as tho atr tor is literally ters and ai g were coverod with | water from a depth of a foot on Far-| | 1 Douglas to two and three the valioy of Tho wind seom n the on streets along South Omaha creek {ed to do the greatest damsga | business strects, while the tiood w t on Harney and venteent |4 o sewer and | vhich it son and Jones, | Liea n toward the rive IN THE HOLLOW of the of South Oma to an ung county jail and no ek, the burst, J creek and overflowed all the low land, spreading out over tho fillod epace abutting on St. Mary's avenue, and belonging to Mr. H. Kountze. This is bui't up largely by Swedes, who have generally very small coltages and in some places houses of but one room each. The torrent swelled to A SEA OF WATER, and rolled across the avenue, falling from the sidewalk on the south side to the lower ground beyond, a dis- tance of about twelve feet, like a mammoth dam, or a mineature Nia gara, It was an awful sight at this point and at one time threatened to tloat away every houso 1u this quarter, A cow was seen to geb into the deep water, and hardly had tion been called to her when she sunk and dis- appeared in THE ROLLINC TIDE which was of wresistible force and fast increasing volume. A bugay passed down with a whirling motion, like the cylinder of a revolver aud, as the flood entered the houses, tables and chairs, lounges and every sort of household farniture, with barrels, casks, wood and lumber swept by. A small house on the north side of Har- ney, near Eightcenth street, was lifted from its foundation and floated off as steady as if it had been built and bal- lasted for navigation, wnd aslight as a cork, e H, Malimquist, the owne had gone down town to look after his photograph gallery, and 1118 WIFE WAS ALONE in the house. She rode in it across a whole block when it ladged on a raised piece of ground, right side up and without damage. It 1s eoveral hundred feet from its original site. Murs. Behren'’s house, in the path of the flood, was filled to the ceiling, She had fortunately wone over to neighbors, where she wasu little bet- ter off, though in that house tho water sed soveral feet, Other small houses in the bed of the ravine were more or less submerged, and goods and property destroyed by water, wind and . Just across from the houses described is a large two-story building owned by Mr. Christianson, which had the ba ment walls partially washed out ai was damaged to the extent probably of $1,000, This is the fourth timc this house has been flooded. 1t pears that the culvert beneath ST, MARY'S AVENUE |is entirely to small to carry off the water from so large an area as ting drained by the croek at this porit, and since Mr, Kountze built up tne ground it acts as a backwater whon- ever there is much of a rain. Duiing tho forty-five minutes duration of (he storm the figures at the signal oflice ehow that rain fell to the depth of three inches. The observer had to go on top of the government building during the height of the storm and change the rain gauge which was full. This is something that has probably never happened in the history of Ne- braske, a rainfall of three inches forty- five minutes being A VERY UNUBUAL OCCURRENCE anywhere, It may be imagined then that there was an_enormous amount of water rushing down the bed of the creek, * On reaching the vicinity of Jackson and Fourteenth strects it spread out and inundated almost everyhouso and flooded every cellar from Fourteenth to Twelith and be- tween Jackson and Leavenworth, This district was the scene of the worst effects of the storm. The streets were like mountain torrents, especially Thirteenth and WRECK AND RUIN was spread over the entire district named. Many were the narrow es- capes from death, Mud and water filled hundreds of houses to a depth of two to four feet, sidewalks were sent whirling down the stream, cel- lars containing valuable stocks of goods were filled to the surface of the ground, and the water continued to r1se several inches on the floors above, The trees were -orn to pieces by the fearful gusts, the hail fell like a shower of grape and cannister over all the terrible ecene. On the hills to the south of the creck, the one story two fences, Dr, Peabody’s fine house, which overlooks the whole valley, was stripped of chimuneys and the glass | broken out of the we Along the hillside, and esf $t, M venue, the tr 'he rest trees in Mra. | Clark many of them torn down, and everywhere the st and sidewalks were covered with br ken limbs and leaves, grass and light debris of every nature, | checked the flow of brick house of G, A, Lindquest way | were deluged. unroofad aud half of the roof | | HALNEY STREET BUBLED. IN3Q THE ALUBY | The front of the old brick blac one hundred feet away, tearing down | gmith shop was prostrate on t Johngo; carriage shop and wished him, like the roar of musketry, and overy- the bed of the storm, is very wide | and deep, and this was A PICTURE TO LOOK AT, Tenth ater and sewer and culvert united would carry away the water, which spread from s1de to side, rose to a level with the floor of tho Eleventh street | streot the not The fill across it on ON FARNHAM STR The Cavfield house had several chimneys blown down, a large patch of shingles pulled off the root and sus- tamed slight damages from water. The maguiticent trees in and about the Tivoli Garden were torn and twisted and the limbs strewn about in every direction. The canvass awning and screens at the Natatorium were badly handled by the wind and left in shreds, A wost window was broken out of Max Meyer's building and the repair- ing room flooded. The celler was in- undated, and several hundred dollars worth of cigars damaged by the water. The notion room was also WELL WET DOWM, The fine largo shade tree by Me- Vittie's store was blown down. The front of the old frante buildin: occupied by Swaysland's cigar stor and A. Martin’s tailor shop was blow i out entirely and Mr. Martin's stock badly damaged, The same front ‘whs blown out by the bi zard of 1878, The large fine wire sign of J. 0. El liott’s plumbing establishment and & similar one of the ‘99" cent store were torn down whipped to picces. Hickma ed the samo fate, Chas. Goodrich loses u couple of hundred by water and had several panes of glass broken by hail On Fifteenth street Schro:ter and Becht's cellar was flooded and about $500 worth of goods destroyed. They had just got in a quautity of sults and such goods, which wera dissolved in TWO FEET OF WATER. 10 box gitting in front of An- ven's store in the opera ao carried across the strect and Jim Ewing's steps, <shank’s big sign was torn off and oarried out of sight. Lt is prob- ably eailing through the air advertis ing the firm over i Frouzer's new cellar w water aud s flooded, Tn Wil- J. Kirnen's barber shop and Dr. Dinsuore's bath rooms wero flooded, the WALLS CAVING IN in the area outside the basement wall, ‘the damago is considerable to botn, and both were flooded out shortly ago in the same way. On the next corner the trecs wero terribly torn and sc tered, those about Mrs, Downs’ res dence, and up that side of the street being stripped of leaves and branches which covered the ground for blocks. On Douglas street five windows were broke in the new Millard and the basement flooded to a depth of eight inches, The iron ornamental work on top of Mies Anuie Wilson's house was partly blown away. The Third ward school house had a chimney blown off and twenty-three panes of glass broken, The cellar of the drug stors, corner of Tenth and Douglas strects, was flooded several inches deep and the doctor will lose about $200 OoN 8TOCK The chimueys were blown off’ of the house diagonally opposite the drug store, THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC had its lamp circle broken und its sign board dashed down, Henry Hornberger was driven out ot his room by the storm, and the cel- lar under his store was flooded. The sidewalk on Fourteenth street, in front of Schmidt & Rasmussen’s harness store, caved in, and the cellar had to be pumped out, Loss consid- orable, The Hellman block, vccupied by the American News Agency, next door, had a pile of water in the cellar and a disjointed sidewalk, Pumping here, . P. Rogers & Co,, down on Four- teonth, near Central Hall, had a cellar full of lemons and fruit, which was flooded. Their big sign blew away too. Loss about $200, The cellars under 1. 0. O. ¥, block ound after the storm, Windows wero smashed in Steelo & | 's aud Broatch’s blocks, | William Suyder was ht in his | out, out and the hu windowa out, The od on the iron roof | The skylight was kno d several hail stones body in_ this block was half deaf with the noise, The big sign on top of the *Corn From Thirteenth strect to Tenth, The damage done alo > | o i, the walls o pal business streets from Howaed ! . The' Dodge was scatteriug,and neatly evory ib till ¢ was ono s in that locality loses more | \ neck, and Ly that | or less, from a sign to onoortwo|and the plank he was * kept| thousand dollars in stock, flooded | ae (ho surfaco of the rosring torcent in the collars. It would be impossi- [yutil others camo and a wan’ wag Lot ble to detail all, but some of those re-|down to him and got him out. 1+ was ported are given below weil done and the boy slhowed the e e —————— —— The Ty heuse din ' and THE WORST OF A1 1s hins been stated, was 1 th and N 0 sireets, evory iing sutfered. A house that was not flooded and its contents dostroyed and « cellar that was not filled to tho brim with water waa out of fashion yester bridge and over the piling on thesow- [day. A few only ean bo 1 er extension now in progress, A bug A lake of water stands ¢, wheolbarrows, outhouses and all | placo where the \\'i_lnl P rceivable things camo down with [up, and a dozen wind g the water and whirled about in this [ have | od it dry yes it lake and the heavy sto front | the row of hou in o enlvert fell into the murky ! William Chamber rom | donths with a ¢ Beyond th o feot of wa col- | Niuth stre bridg the stone of m our | culverts under the U. P. abh nd Mitke Meancy t wotk | track was the next vent which|with pumps and bucke [ s not cqual to the emergoncy | raise the sei By the | 3 | AVED A BOY'S 1 1 ALY [ye y. 1t was durin of | and the huge stones seat plunging|ihe storm that the lad, w vabout | thr I water like blocks o |12 1 old, fell into t} {tohonl Wou( aving an acch of clay only t vest eide of the 1 . ; support tho track. The flood w e was sous vt I freo at laat, and rushed and {umbi and at las R down to mingle its muddy mass of | und out of sight, Miker ¥ waters with the Missouri's ng tide. | The boy reapponred and | v inci- | most remarkablo grit, L. Lovi had three feet of water in | his collars and will lose vt least $1,000, Mahoney Bros.” grocery (hir- teenth and Leavenwor lar flood- od aud up through floor. Loss about $200. P. Kelly, Thirteenth near Chicago, was compolled by the flood to vacate s residonce. Heimrod & Dorman will suffor soverely by the water which inundated the four cellars and buildinus of the Lange corner, to a depth of three feot. | raising, starch, ete, were de stroyed in large quantitics, valued ut from §2,000 to §5,000. Mra. A. Lange, next corner below, | was washed out. for the third time. She had eight foet of water in the collar and a pils of bricks for an ad- dition to the store was washed clear g store and cellar same fix as tho vest and t tho was seriously damaged. A. J. Qvistgard’s gro v Blore on Farnhaia was wrecked | followed by Thirteenth ne: by a caving cellar wall, the storo fleor givi unimportant, Madame Leeper was badly used the elements. Her hovse was i path of the flood, aud new prano aud fine furaitur: wer Loss several hundrod. In the alley between Juckson and Jones are several little houses, and these were badly used v The fam- ilies in some inntances gicaped by ropo stretched acrozs shéalley aud by wading out in water armpic deep. A woman and her child wore saved in this way. A man got caught on a raised bit of irom oscape in any direotion. Hedid notenjoy playing Robinson Crusoe. A fow escaped by climbing out over roofs and others flod with bedding to O'Ke fe's brother saved s to havo somowhat volume as it receded ¥ towards Tho storm & decreased in from the centre of thee 15 N SRN HECTION, 120 Wis very great, | | and while the da u8 will be acen from our report below it was n bad 23 in the n part of the cit ot nearly so rible as it w ¢ the line of the south Omaha creck. A i oral tenem ha, sustained a asmowhat B Her new brick block on the west side of Thirteenth street, between Dodgo and Capital avenuo, was partially flooded; one very largo pane of glass and thirty-two smaller ones wero smaulic nd several punes of the li tlo frame structurcs opposite, Nos, 107 and 109, were also smashed. The busement of No, 107 was very badly flooded und a quantity of household furniture was waltzing around. The cellar of 216, which is nex% o the brick building, was filled with water, but fortunately therc was very little property in it which could be damaged, Mrs, John Lucas, who has two frame hounses on Chicago street be- tween Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, was (uito a sufferer by the storm, He houses were literally torn FROM THEIR FOUNDATIONS, and they are now in a very insecure state, The reporter pdd u visit to the back kitehen where he found | everything turncd top:y turvy, While he was there some of the boards gave markod indications of dissolving purt- nership, and he was glad to retire as speedily as possible. 1ho foundations had all been nearly washed sway and the houses are now perfect wrecks, Mrs, Lucas estimates it will cost her over §500 to put them in order again, Another house next to hers, occupiod by Mr. Daniel Mariarty, was similar- ly injured. On Sixteenth stroot considerable havoc was created. The telegraph wires were blown down, and they were being repaircd shortly after- wards, Four trees in JEFFERSON SQUARE the squars pitated, Wil- store, on were torn asunder and gencrally looks very dil iam Gentloman's grocery considerable, Mr. L T, Longprey, who is right opposite, is als0 & heavy loser, A number of wagons and vehicles of various kinds which were standing in front of his place were blown by the wind in various direc- tions aid somo of them were badly {did not escape the ravages | with o protty warden, was also a v Mus. Louiso Hilleke, who owns sov- | ¢ m the storm. | ! OMAIA NEB. MTONDAY MORNING, JUNE 2, 1382, blow the rear of his building wero down in trying to straighten things up, vold's dry goods store for its share the o g cor plotely swamped with water, Mrs Keats, who opened up a hair store on Saturday had hor place more or less flooded and lars b THE BEE NIV photograph galloty had scveral win 1store, and Lan one atore were also dam od by flooding. M Vapor, the ilor, is tent and his place was herwiso damaged, Mr. 1 Mr, Jacob Kaufmann also we hoavy losers by floding Mr., A, F. Wolf, who residea on Charl treot, between Saunders i pets, got mors than of thostorm. The rear por tion of the huilding was struck by | L and Mra, Wolf, the mothor prietor, happened to be in ratod through the roof | Shio becamo insonsi- | ; rostored it | fovnd that sho had ki LOST WEARING by the shock, but otherwiso sl uninjured, The building itsoli thoroughly shaken up, the roof being tora off and the ceilings were all tor ribly smashed. Mr. Woodman's beautiful garden on Burt street, which he has taken much pride io, cultivating, was en- ticaly demolished, All his choice tlowara are ruined and tho place thor- ouchly unrecognizablo. Beard’s nursery is in a terribly de- plorable condition and nearly every pane of glass in his hot houso is smashed to picces and his flowers and fruit ave all irroparably spoilt. His loss will probably be botween $200 and $300. Mr. Volkmeior, the butcher, in Krug's block, on Cuming stroet, sus- tained no inconsiderablo amount of loss on account of the storm, Ilis lace was deluged with water, but ho could not form an idea of the extent of THE DAMAGE DONE as yet. Tt is to be hopod it will not be 8o bad as anticipated, as Volkmeior Lias only just started business in his dew store, and tho loss will fall very heavily on him. Krug's browery of the storm. His cellar was flooded with water, and over $300 worth of barley in completely ruined by heing drenched, Mr. M. G. Cole, who has a fino residonco on Cuming streot, botweon Eightesnth and Ninotoen A largo quantity of his fruit was and his vinery, which he had uch paing to cultivate, was ut- dy destroyed. His garden is now complotely strown with fruit blown down by the wind, M. P. A, Soxman, tho woll-known carponter on Sixteenth stroct, mot with some loss in the shaps of broken windows. His tent was carried away by the wind. THE OLD BLUE BARN Aoso by was badly swamped, and tho ‘Bugu wore lied ab. work Weetyday doing their bost to fix it up. The North scheol looked mora like a reservoir than anything eise. All tho upper part of the building w filled with water and a number ceilinge had fallen down, The cdif is now in u very insceurs sfato, and it i bable several other ceilings will Ng. in quite unfit oy, and will have to b utilized agpin, THE BRIDGES in north Omuha are all very seriously ho one on Saundors 5 wreck and s thor- All the timbers and 1t looks aa if it s ontirely raiied. The Twentieth stroot bridge, which only repaired lust Saturday is in about tho samo ndition and 1t will take a pile of fixing 1o mako it fit for traflic i The Bightoenth street bridge is also badly cat up and very little of it is left.” Considerablo stoppage of busi- ness is caused by the raination of these bridges, and the people living in the immediato vicinity aro at a loss to know what to do. The norih Omahs creck has been transformed into a river and prosents a most remarkable appearance. Tt looks hke A HUGE FLOATING JUNK STORE, being filled with pots, kettles and every conceivable wnd unconceivable ousehold utensil. ~ There is now a w0 opportunity for impecunious couples desiring to 2o into housekeep- ing to supply themselves with every requisite they moy possibly require, ['ho creek was fed Ly stroams of water running down the various stroets in that direction, and on Seventeenth street thero was quite a little rivulet, which continued running with quite a rapid current for several hours, Numbers of the sidewalks in this locality wero floating about in all di- rections, and altogether the scene was one that will not easily be forgotten by those who witnessed it. THIE RATLROADS, The Denver train yesterday of course arrived ahead of the stormand travel on the U, P, was not seriously interfered with until about noon, The storm, however, had cut off all com- munication with the west and a switch engine was started out with a gang of men to repair the lines and to pro- ceed cautiously over the route and & that there wers no washouts before sending out tho overland train, whict very heavy one yester ‘ streot is a porfo oughly impuasabl the corner ot Cass strect, was very | Lincoln train and the regular west rovghly treated by the tornado, mora | bound mail train were both held at than half the panes of glass being | the U. P. depot until half past on, broken by tho hail. The upper and | when the former went out and the lat- | lower rooms of tho house were swamp- | ter was side tracked to await tho ar | ed with water an damage dono [rival of No. 4, The Lincola train to the furniwure and stock must be|coming north was laid out at a sma station down along the lino and ar-| rived considerably behind time. was another reason for not out the U, P, train and tha | the washout mentioned wbove | on the track leading down to the| shops, which made it impossible for Exchange” fell and broke its back. broken, Several tall trees situated in them to got any locomotives up, The | The overland train f M woason for their not brin considerable and perhaps they would | . ing them | porter that at one time the currens 1d his men had plenty to do around by the B, & M. track under | was so awift that he really thought he [ the bridge is not known, but it ap- | would lose 10 in|poars that it would have cost them |be ;s his toothold. A Rosen- PLANING MILL not ask for tho accommodation at all. | wag considerably damaged and the Early in the morning they had re- || coived a telogram notifying thom to bo on the look ovt for astorm and their cars and locomotives had been [, disposed of in the best manner pos- | ¢ siblo to ahield them frc lowa trains all particular frot the |4 late hour | matter of to wot any | all beinyg up from t camo on and no lamage was reported other roads up to a night night, althoueh as a tact 16 would be impo timo wites in tho offico out of thirty ting thom with tho Union Pacilie headguarters and the other tho one running up the Omaha and St. Paul | rond to Herman, with which place |5 thoy were in communication, Re- |y pairera were sent out oiall roads early | v in the day, and worked until darknoss | y camo on last night. Botween Omaha | v and Cheyenno tho worst break scoms to have fi.\ou near Central Oity, al- though lines were prostrated in evory divection, but thero both the Union Pacific and the Western Union lines were down, and last night the only line botween the |t two places named was ono mado up of a union between the U, P, and the W. | g U. wires. At this hour they also | had ouo wire via the Northwestern to Chieago, two wires to Kansas City and one to Oreston, Towa. There | L come over the one wire counecting |t Omaha to Chicago, and the conse- quenco was very little cawme over for anybody. THE TELEPHONE, t The telephone wires and poles |t wero prostrated in various parts of the city and thero was more or interruption in the use of the various cirouits yesterday, but the repairers day and but very littla trouble experioncod, as most of the business | ¢ houscs were closod and thoro was loss ot a domand upon tho line than usual, || They will all bo put in working order Dr. Grossman's lorse fell sower holo in the alley buck of the German Catholic church and was with difticulty saved, Mr. J. Schreiner’s residence on Chicago batween Fourteonth and Fifteenth was flooded in the basoment and sovoral windows broken. Four big chimnays were blown off | the west side and one off of the caet side of the court-houso. A fiold of oats west of town was cut down as buld as a billiard cuo. A tine tree i front of Hon, J, H. Millard's was paraly: ino honse No. 3 was ad, I floodad | i with inchos deep in the ocugine 1oom and ¢ six or ecight in the truck room. Wien Jim O'Brien opened the door |} of the lutter, the water which I boen held filst, rushed out o as to || nearly knock him down. Tho leaked 80 s to drive all the boys ou of bod, and they were in momentary dangor of the hoso tower faliing. Krebs' vinegar factory was vic ized by tho water, nud hisloss is osti mated by a neigh bor at §500. A wagon was left by the water at 16th and Jackson upside down, Mr., Wm, . Van Buron had just 1 ropapered and painted his rosidence, 1518 Farnam, and fitted it up with new carpets and furniture, He waded over the carpecs in several in- ches of water and his ceilings and walls are ruined, The telegraph poles on Twenty- fifth and Farnam wore flattened out. James Y, Oraig's nursery, Seven- teenth and Webster, A flying limb | went through the greenhouse and | broke $150 worth of gla Tho wawning was blown Mauss' Sixteenth strost bukery, and part of the cellar wall washed out, LUMBER YARDS The Cuicago lumber yurd was dam- | aged to considerable exfent. after the storm commenced tho creck became obstructed, and the yard a few minutes later became a lake, from two to three foet deep, The wind blew the lumber in all directions, and it was scattored for fivo blocks, Tho| ! loss sustained will amount to over one thousand dollars, South of their yard, and almoat in the street, is the house of Pat Fole, a laborer in the Union Pacific shops, which was raised from the foundation and before he anticipated any danger at all his houschold furniture com- menced to float, and he had over three feet of water in the houso, They then begau to search for a safe placo for their childven, West of Mr, Foley’s is the house of Jolling, who is also in the em ploy of the U, P, car shop. He was | t o o t r T ti ut the calamity that threatened his an. . Collins’ wifo and’ tw ren, who were home, were sur rounded by water so that drowning was imminent, but their screams st- tracted Mr. Anderson, and he at ¢ started to their assistance. H grabbed one in each arm and brought thom safely to their neighbors, Mr. Anderson stated to Tue Beere- chi chi fectly inundated was also filled and a force of men was 1 ita violenco. | Joss will amount m the west ar- | qollars on machinery and stock, wore ht, one of theso waa the wiro con- |8t Wyatt's yard was also L A While the storm was doing its of Mr, risk succeeded 1 secaving the e tor and mud, which was three | and con damage * here, storm broke in all the windows on St. Louis and in effeot only a few days, but already Hosper's last night, ¢ ywer part of the building was per- ‘His engine house Il day at work pumping and clearing he obstructions. Me. Rosenberrys to several hundred rived exactly on time, and showed WARSIREL'S YARS that ther vas no worse washout " . 16 Vo 1As: smcdintely upon | On Ninth strect was also_considerably it ival No. 3 palled out for the |4 amaged by the « nd lamber was wast, the break tho shop track | Aoattered in all diroc®lms. The loss havi baon bridged ovor by Super. will amount to about §600. Mr. L. intendont Lano at 2:30 and a locomo- | Bradford’s yard suffored almost from tive and sovoral cars bowsr broueht | the same offocts, only his stock was | not scattered in 8o large an area. Mr. G, Hoagland was damsged to the ox- it of 8500, roster & AY ho heaviost losers, 4 bout sixty ot of the roof of their long moulding hod was complotely carciod away by Az the wind and their wouldings were R AT RORA VI LS toattered all over the outside. The When the storm had passed over | dauago was very light. The los on yostorday morning the Westorn Union | $tock'and building wunt to con- Tolks found themeolves loft with bue | Aiderable over §1,500 MR ¢, N DIETZ, Paul Lumber yard suffored to the amount of §200 or §300. Me, 8 W, dly damaged u-all diveetition ie roof of his woulding shed was ewrried by the wind, and lumber was scattered every- where, His sidewalks were all car- ied away and the yurd dug up in a vory bad mannor. His loss will amount to over $5600, THE WNION PACIFIC car shops were considerably damaged. The new shops suffered by hail, a large lot of windows were demolished, a chimney was blown off and scat racks were ered in all directions, dug up in all quarters as if by bomb helle, At the old shops overything roked demoralized. Every building was full of water, and a force of men were at work pumping and cleaning, aumbor was blown at random. Here wore four press reports waiting to|tho reportor was shown several cars hat were moved by the wind ten to fifteen feet from tho poeition they wero loft in the day before, Cass street from Bixteenth to Twen- y-first looked in a bad shape. Those seautiful shade trees wero very badly damaged, Jimbs hung and wero scat- Tosn | torod in all direotions. HEROIC HENRY, Among tho many startling inei- wore sont out carly and kopt busy all | g iive which occurred yesterday in counection with the torrific tornado was one which, though it did not cre- o great deal of attention at the ervos o special mention, worst iem d to-day. el ove of Bonzon & Johnion's f SCELLANEOUS, ico happened to be . Abigtreoat No. 1516 Davenport lypunding: on Iofteenth street is down and the fierce down-pour of into a | hail falling upon the backs of the team 80 irritated them that they started off at w wild pace, and tearing down Far- nam streot they passed one of Mr, Sayder’s teams, which was standing in front of his market. No sooner had they passed Snyder's than his team went madly galloping after them, and there is no doubt but that thoy would 5ave dony serious damage had it not heen for the wonderful presence of mind and bravery displayed by one iyder’s men named Henry Flowers and small fruit suffored | Nemeyer. ™ In the midst of the pelt- overywh ivg hatl and violent winds he rushed carpentor’s bench lodged on top[out into the voad, and wading of n tres on upper Farnam. through the water at great personal ed wnimale,and by some severe stroggling nanaged to get them out of the shafts voy chem to the stable, At un to them the lio vime ho caught som had been overturned and the horses wore flying along at a terrible Mr, meo. Owing to Nemoyer's rompt action both horses and the were comparatively unin- inl Dispateh to Tux Drx, TO THE WEST. Fremont, Neb.,, June 2b. —~ No 10 18 reported the he north side of houses at Wahoo. A grent denl of property in the neigh- horhood was destroyed. QUIETING THE TITLE. Van Wyck's Bill for the Relief of Sottlers, @perial Dispatch to Tii Bek Wi niNaroy, June 24—-Tho bill ntroduced by Senstor Van Wyck to # and planta, | settle the tile to homestead lands in a off of | pumbor of counties in Nebraska luimed by the St Joseph & Western rond as cribeaced in the land grants, wssed th s sena‘e to-day as reported Soon | from the committee, Troubles of Ticket Agents: Natlonal Associated Pross, Cutcaco, June 24,—The new pas- senger rates between Chicago and St. Louis, Chicago and Kansas City, and Kansas City, have been ompetitions have arisen which seri- usly threaten further continuance of he new arrangement, The Wabash oftice is being flooded with tickets for edemption, and they claim rival oads are using unfair means to get ickets redeemed at once. Ponnsylvania Free Masons. Natlonal Associated Fresu. Puivaperenia, June 24.--The anniversary of the grand lodge of Masons will b colobrated by a grand procession, ont from home whon the double | P S k istalicy naarty 064 ‘l‘."“l'. “’”’""‘“‘l Csolone on the 5 1 Paul & Omaha through the heroic ciforts of Mre. An- | 780 pe AR, )“‘,“ Al ',"l ”‘L‘ ]fi’fl“"\‘ 1 Oneado, June 24, -A private tele- 5 “ gram from M acapolis states property which was in dunger to pro-| fo o000 struck tho Omaha road at irued over the buildings and eighteen box dopot i and caused considerable other Pa—— ) To Farmers o NEsraska,—Thir- ty thousand choice" fence (hardwood, soven foph) posts cheap. Vaughan; Ex-Mayor ncil Bluffs, Ie wa.