NINTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART I 13 
dropped into the cellar at Dalbey's place after the house had been car- 
ried away. Mr. Myers, as quoted in the Clarinda Herald, from which 
paper detailed accounts are obtained, says that in a moment the house 
moved and then settled back, while a second later it was whisked away 
completely; at a point six or eight miles west of Clarinda a rain of 
boards and shingles occurred, with a coating of ice on much of the debris. 
Meager reports of a storm over western Plymouth county indicate 
that a tornado of considerable violence passed over that section on the 
16th. On the 21st a storm, more or less general over southern Iowa, 
assumed at Albia the aspects of a tornado. It was here i-ie only fatality 
of storms occurred. Mr. J. M. Taylor was killed by a falling building. 
The roof of the Grant school building was torn off and crashed through 
to the rooms below, but fortunately it was just before the morning 
assembly of the school. On the 24th to 26th wind squalls damaging 
small buildings and windmills occurred at various places over the north- 
west half of the state, and on the 28th at Fort Madison. 
JUNE. 
The average temperature of June for the state was 1.7° below the 
normal. The month opened with a cool wave which was followed 
from the 5th to the 7th by a slight excess in temperature, but from 
the 8th to the 17th the weather was unseasonably cool. The minimum 
temperature was below 40° at many stations in the northern part of the 
state on the 15th and light frost occurred in several localities. The 
warmest period was from the 18th to the 23d, when the maximum 
temperature ranged from 85 to 94 degrees. The average rainfall was 
5.66 inches, which was 1.14 inch above the normal for June. Rain fell 
at one or more stations in the state every day from April 21st to June 
30th or 71 consecutive days. The largest amounts of rainfall were 
reported from the northern districts and especially in the west portion 
of the upper valley of the Des Moines river. Plover, in Pocahontas 
county, reported a total amount of 11.88 inches, 4.08 inches of which 
fell on the 18th in 24 consecutive hours. There were numerous severe 
thunderstorms accompanied by wind squalls and some hail, but the 
most severe and destructive storm occurred near Charles City in Floyd 
county on the afternoon of the 7th. A hail, wind and rain storm 
swept over the northeastern counties on the evening of the 20th. A 
detailed account of these storms will be found on another page of this 
report. The frequent and heavy rains prevented work in the fields, 
kept the rivers up to flood stages, flooded all low and flat lands and 
caused considerable washing of the soil on hillsides, and, as a result, 
farmers in some sections of the state were planting or replanting corn 
up to the close of the month. Many IBelds were abandoned and the 
acreage of corn has been reduced a little over five per cent as compared 
with the area planted last year. All the early planted corn on high 
and well tilled land shows a good stand, has a good color, and is 
exceptionally clean considering the adverse conditions, and some fields 
were laid by before the end of the month. All small grains are gen- 
erally in good condition and give promise of fairly good yields. Winter 
wheat and rye were ready for harvest in the southern counties at the 
