Ruined By Storms

SWEPT BY STOHV-". Rockford, 111., Aug. 3. - The storm did much damage throughout this oounty. Standing grtiin was badly beaten down. Trees were torn down and a number of small farm buildings were wrecked. One house and sevcral barns were struck by lightning and eonsumed. A section boarding-house on the new railroad was blown down anJ fragmenta scattered for some distanoe. Naperviij.e, 111., Aug. 3.- The heavy gale of wind whicu passed over this section did considerable damage to fruit trees and grain. Sevcral farm buildings were unroofed. It blew auch a hurricane that man y people fled to their cellars for safety. Chicago, Aug. 3. - During a ternfic storm yesterday lightning fired stablca at the Stock Yards, and twcnty horses penshed in the fiames. Many buildings were also struck by lightning, and two persons were killed. Minneapoi-is, Mine, Aug. .'!. - A winfl and rain-siorm yesterday did great damage to crope in the vicinity of St. Cloud and Sauk Rápida. In the fermer place twonty-one houses were Btruck by lightning and two children were killed, and in the latter many streets were flooded and houses could only be reached by boats. St. Croix Famj, Minn., Aug. 4. - A (rreat electrical storm passed over the St. Croix valley accompanied by rain. Schottmuller'g brewery, at Taylor's Falls, was struck by lightning and burned; loss, $3,000; no insurance. The Lutheran churoh, in the center of the city, was also burned; loss, 137,000, with insurance of $10,000. Reports froin the towns along the St. Paul & Duluth road show that the storm was one of the most severe ever experienced. At Centerville the Scandinavian church was struck by lightning, and with three other buildings was burned to the grouud. At Forest lake the water rose one and one half feet, and all the fishing boats were sunk at their moorings. No other damage was done there. Centrai.ia, 111., Aug. 4.- Kobbie Stinde, of St. Louis, and Bert Eastman, two boys, were caught in the debris of a barn that was blown down during a storm near Richview and received injuries that will prove fatal. Bt. Paul, Minn., Aug. 5.- Lightning Btruck the house of Lawrence McLaughlin, Bt Hazlewood, during a storm, killing Mrs. McLaughlin and her two sous, Patrien and Lawrence. Vincenhes, Ind., Aug. 5. - Mr. John B Yost, proprietor of the St. James Hotel, was sunstruck and died in flfteen minutes. He was 85 years oíd and married. i Burlington, Ia, Aug. 5.- At abutchers' barbecue in this city Andrew Weber, Frank Rensch and John Haas were overeóme by the heat. Weber died. Edward Buttsche, a laborer, was killed by the heat. Peokia, I1L, Aug. 5.- Henry Hicken, single, book-keeper at the Lion vinegar works, was killed by the heat. St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 5.- During a storm Governor McGill lost a valuable norse at bis home at St. Anthony Park, the animal being killed by lightning, and the Governor himself was rendered almost uneonscious by the same shock. He had just returned from a drive with his wife and child. The Governor is still feeling the effect of the shock, but will be around in a few days. Doluth, Minn., Aug. 5. - Tivo separate Btorms of rain, haiL, thundor and lightning visited Duluth within a few moments of each other. During two hours the rain ivas the heaviest ever known here. Several houses were struck, by lightning bnt do one injured. A polioeman and five other men who were standing on a oorner watching the Bood were knocked down by lightning but recovered. Upward of flfty orms suffere! loss through flooded stores and basement3, the losses ranging as high as $4,000 in some instances. Fred Baoha. who was the heaviest loser, has been flooded out three times. Travel on street-car lines was immeSiately stopped by fioods of water rushing over tracks, at some places two and three leet deep. The electric-light station was Booded and lights all over the city went out Washouts of Bewers, tidewalks and crosswalks are too numerous to enumérate, extending all over the city in various places. The telBgraph and telephone wires were badly broken and mixed, and rail yard and road tracks were undermined and' carried away. Oneenterprisingmercbantlaunched a blrch-bark canoe on Superior street and aavigattxl for a considerable distance in it. The losses will aggregate to city, county, railroads and private individuáis at least 1150,000. Dks Moixxs, Ia., Aug. 5.- A hurricaae truok Newmarket, Taylor County. There were high winds and rain from midnight tlll morning. Large trees were torn up by the roots, immense buildings moved from their foundations and ethers totally destroyecl. One young business man loses his all. The losses will aggregate about 15,000. St. Louis, Aug. 7- Stonns in the central section of Missouri have eauBed dam age to property and crops estiuiated at bout $500,000. Kansas Citt, Mo., Atig. a- By a cyclone oear Wellington, Kan., whole fields of corn were torn up by the roots and the ■talks stripped and ears husked. Many ohickens were found entirely devoid of foathers miles from their homes, and other ■trange freaks are reporte. One girl was hurt, but no one was killed. Half the tombstones in a oemetery were blown entirely away and can not be found. Spbikgfiei,d, O., Aug. 8.- A tremendous rain and winú-storm burst on the city and ragred for five minutes. In that brief time thousands of dollars worth of damage was done. The magniflclent Arcade Hotel building was Btruck by lightning and badly wrecked. The wind lifted the wrecked roof and the cornice and hurled it with tremendons Yiolenoe on an immense skylight, and it feil with a crash that could be heard squares. Houses were anroofed and forests in this vicinity were torn to pieces.