Wild Tornadoes

IN WISCONSIN. Asm. and. Wis.. Aug. 10.- Ashland and Washburn were struck by ;t terrible tornado Saturday afternoon about 3:30 o'clock. llousos wcre blu'.vn down, buildings anroofed and many vessels drivon ashore. At Washburn a circus tent was wrecked. Two people were killed and fifty injured. The cyclone carae from the northwest, and was suelden. liain pouretl in torronts. The maiu business street was like a river. The storm drove through the large hotel, the Chequamegon, like a mülrace. Tweníy yachtí on the bay were wreeked. Four men were picked up off a eapsized soilboat after the storm. The Swedish Lutheran ehurch, the Genery block, the Daily Press office, the Ashland theater and Franklin house were anroofed. At Washburn, across the bay, Williams" circus was in full blast when the storm struek. Prof. Williams was going through an act with trained horses when the tent feil. The horses, wild with fright, burst out through the frantic mass of people. Two little ehildren oí George La Helle and an unknown boy were taken out dead. They were blown 500 feet. Miss Wilson's right leg was broken. The depot was turned into a hospital and the dead and woundcd carried there. It was a terrible deene. Motilen were frantically looking for ehildren nnd ehildren wandering about wounded and bleeding. The injured number at least fifty, severa] of whom will die. The wires are all down. Whole blocka of business houses were torn from their foundations and blown down, injuring manv people. The Feustad building, just oompleted, was totally demolishea. Beren persons ,were in the top story, bul all except one escaped without injury. The animáis of Williams' drena escaped from theireages. An anaconda U st 11 at large and geveral ot lier animáis havenot been captured. The roof was torn off the large Omaha elevator and considerable grain spoiled by water. The damage in Washburn is estimated at $50,000. Trainuavs on the coal docks were demolished. The storm was similar to that at Superior aeveral weeks jkgo. IX IOWA. Ottimwa. Ia., Aug. 10 -The terrible heat of Sunday morning, whieh reached 99 degrees in the shade, was broken by a tornado which struck this city about 2 o'clock in the af te rnoon. The storm in its f n 11 fury covered a somewliat liruited area. lts eourse uas from the sonthwesi toward the northeast. The first damage done by it was at Humeston, where the wind was most furioua Cara standing' on the Kcokuk & Western track were blown olV and tii.' rooi "( the roundhouse was lifted. At Corvdon t'ie Methodist ehurch and eourthouse were damaged. In this city the wind Ijlew with great violence, taking off the root of A. I). Moss' dry (foods store, the roof of Harper Mclntyre Co.'a wholesale liardware house, the roof of A. 1'. I'eterson's grocerv .store, damaging the Chicago, Borli&gton & Quincy round house, overturning the sealfokling1 about the coal palice and precipita ting it on a lot of telegraph and telephone wires; uprooting great trees all over the city. and demolishing barns and other fragüe outbuildings. The path of the storm through the country has been marked by the destruction of corn and the demolition of grain in stack. There was very little rain, and the damage was wholly by wind. ]ii.oo.Mrii.!.i. Ia., Avig. 10. - One of the most destructiva wind and rainstorms ever l;nown in this section of Iowa paased over Davis county Sunday afternoon. llouses were unroofed, fences blown down, besides much damage done to the fruit erop. An Adventist eamp-mi'etiiig tent was blown away. the telegraph, telephone and the electric light wires are tangled and broken, and DO livcs wcre lost so far as known. The damage to crops cannot be estimated at this time. Des Moixks, Ia., Aug. 10. - A terrific tornado, accompanied bv rain and hail, passed through Decatur county Sunday about 19 o'clock, doing much damage. It was the worst storm known in that section. Crops are practical ly destroyed over a large section of the country. Trees were blown down and houses unroofed.