Storms And Floods

SWKPT BY STOIÏMS. üoi.stein, I., June 29. - Lightning and hail in abndance hare done irreparable damape in this section to crops and cattle. The district stricken by hail is 8 miles west of here and is 3 miles wide and 10 miles long. Barley is almost totally destroyed; wheat and oats are r' unaged. At Cushing and Correct'. Ie the houses were flooded and 1 ildren were drowned at Corr ■. Lightning struck and killen Kinne. Two miles f rom this to n the barn of It. Leonard was struck aud two horses were killed. Sioux City, Ia., June 29. - Reports from the flooded country indícate that the flood was even more disastrous than lias been supposed. Cherokee, Ida, Plymouth, Woodbury, O'Brien and Osceola counties have suffered worst Monona county, though not in the storm región, is flooded by the water from the Little Sioux and Maple rivers. The west part of the county is low, and here the waters spread out and ruined crops for many miles. Cherokek. Ia., Jun e 30. - Gov. Boies arrived in this city Monday morning and after surveying the flooded district issued the following1 proclamation: "TO THE PIOPI.B OF THE SXATKOPlOWA: You have beard of the affliction which ntó fallen upon somo of the towns of our stilte". I bave made a personal examinationof the facts In this city by coming here and golag over the' flooded districts and find that at least seventyfive families have lost everything and 8ome twenty-five more huve lost most of their household joods uik! much of their clothing, whlle their dwelllngs have been greatly injured by tbe rloods. In uddition to this loss of homes and of furnlture and clothing, the county at large has suffered jreatly in the loss of nearly every bridge, both iron and woud, within its. limits. A careful estímate places the numberof families which require help at once at 100, thua making a popuhuion of about DOG that require and will require fur a considerable length of time to be cared for by the charity of our people. In additlon to the above many of the surrounding towns h.ive also suffered greatly and will be compelled to appeal to the people of the state for aid. In view oí this calamity I recommend that the mayors of the several cltles of the state and all other charitably disposed persons immedlately take steps to organizo proper committees to solicit aid for these unfortunates and seethat the same is promptlyfor warded to Davitl H. Bloom, mayor of Cherokee, for distrib'jtion umong those of this city who have suiïered losses. and to such persons as may be named by the proper authoritles of toe other towns which have suffered from the same calamity. All cont-ributions so forwarded will be faitufully applied to the purpose for which they are sent. Let contributions be prompt and liberal. "Hoiiace Boies, Governor of Iowa." Milton, Ia., June SO. - A eyclone passed 5 miles south of this place Sunday night tearin thhisjs up in terrific shape. The two-story brick house, of Mr. Straight was demolished. Trees were torn r.p by the roots and carried away and crops coinpletely destroyed. The full extent of the damage cannot yet be learned. No fatalities have been reported. IN KANSAS. Emporia. Kan., June 29. - Word is just received in this city of the great damage caused by the heavy rains oí Thursday in this and adjacent counties. Many farms have been entirely flooded, and barns. iraplements and entire crops washod away. On the farm of John Stotler, on Jacob's creek, alarga orchard was destroyed and hedges of ten years' gTOwth were washed away. The storm also did grest damage to buildings. At Soden's mili, just below Emporia, the Cottonwood river is out of its banks and spread over the country for miles. In the flood, as it passes, raay be seen all kinds of wreckage, barns, parta of all kinds of farm machinery; wheat in abundance, and here and there a wagon bed or a dead animal. The flood is now subsiding. IN COLORADO. Denver, Col., June 29. - News has just been received of a destruotive cyclone which passed over this country 25 miles east of this cijy Thursday night. Houses were blown away, trees uprooted and carried away and the crops for many miles are coaipletely ruined. A dozen persons were injured but none seriously. C. S. Clark was in from his ranch, 3 miles west of Deer Trail, and reports that the hail feil for twenty minutes and killed about 250 sheep and the eyes ot many were put out. HEAVY STOÜ.MS IN (.Li; MA. NV. Berlín, June 29.- The storm in western Germany lasted three days. The downpour of rain was incessant and was increased by foarful cloudbursts and furious waterspouts, spreading destruction far and wide. Floods have suddenly covered sections of Westphalia, Hanover and the Rhine provinces, enormous in extent, the like of which has not been recorded in history. The valley of the Eider looks like an open sea. Cassel and Wildungen were submerged by waterspouts. A million marks will not cover the damage in these districts. Seventeen persons have been killed and twenty injured by liffhtning, and no estímate can yet be formed of the number drowned. in oiuo. Cleveland. O-., June 30.- A heavy rain and hallstorm passed over Champaign, Richland and Lieking counties Monday, doing great damage to the wheat erop, whlcb was ready for the harvest. Oats and hay were also ilamaged. The rainfaü was heavy, and at Mansfield the streef ! were flooded to a depth of several inchos and ruuch damage done to pavetni Cincin:. i n, Dillsboro (Ind.) sfteoial to t Sta says the m rain and windstorm ever known tb ■!■■■■ ibout ." o'clock Sunday. uprooted and streets tl assable. From other soul - known that local Btorms of wiil. txail and rain passed over different portions of southeastern Indiana and Into Kentucky Sunday afternoon. Great damage was done to wheat. IN INDIANA. Bhelbyvii.i.e, Ind., June 80. - A veré storm passed over this county Sunday evening. doinfr great damage to crops. The clouds parted just west of the city and blevv the wheat and corn level with the gTound. The hail also did mueh damage in the north and south. The lig'htning' struck many houses and barns and some of them were biirned.