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The Catholic Church and Odd Fellows' Hall were totally wrecked. Nearly all 

 the barns and outhouses were demohshed. Scarcely a houfee in the town escaped 

 damage. The fences were blown down and trees uprooted for miles around. 



A Wells, Minnesota, dispatch of June 13th, says: A heavy wind and rain 

 storm passed over this section Saturday afternoon between 5 and 6 o'clock, the 

 storm from the east and west meeting between Easton and Delavan, going in a 

 northeasterly direction from three to five miles with the fury of a hurricane, car- 

 rying death and destruction in its path. An old couple named Chaffee were killed 

 and their building blown to pieces. John R. Evans had his house and barn 

 wrecked. L. P. Roberts' barn was wrecked and his daughter severely injured. 

 Reports continue to arrive, and show the storm to have been very destructive, 

 seven or eight houses and barns having been wrecked and a number of people 

 injured. 



A Blue Earth, Minnesota, special says : The most violent storm that ever 

 visited this section commenced at about 4 o'clock Saturday evening. Five inches of 

 water fell in one hour. Trees were uprooted and buildings demolished, but no 

 great damage to crops by hail is reported. Mr. and Mrs. Chaffee, living in the 

 town of Lura, were killed by the blowing down of their house. The barn of J. 

 L. Praber in the same town was unroofed, burying his daughter in the ruins. She 

 was taken out in an unconscious condition, and the injuries may prove fatal. 



A Chicago dispatch of June nth, says : Early this evening a heavy thunder 

 storm, rccompanied by torrents of rain and some wind, struck a section above St. 

 Paul and extended south as far as Omaha, causing considerable prostration of 

 wires and obstruction of telegraph in its course. About 9 o'clock another storm 

 burst in the same locality. In neither case did the injury extend far east of St. 

 Paul. It is impossible at this hour to learn whether any great damage was done. 

 Probably the storm was only temporarily troublesome. 



Cherryvale, Kansas, was visited on Saturday night by a young cyclone, dam- 

 aging some property, particularly the open house, which was lately completed, 

 moving it off the foundation a few inches and wrenching one corner. Some 

 dwelhngs were blown off their foundations, but no one was hurt. 



The southwestern part of Missouri seems to have been visited by the same storm 

 that ravaged parts of Kansas Saturday. The wind was not severe, but an immense 

 amount of rain and hail fell over a large area of country, and did great damage to 

 the crops and window glass. A water spout broke in a little valley in Barry 

 county, in which is situated the town of Seven Star Springs, and before the people 

 could reach the surrounding hills, a torrent of water rushed down, taking with it 

 houses, tents, household goods and animals belonging to those living near the 

 Springs. A woman and five small children, and a man and two women and two 

 children were swept away by the flood, but fortunately they all lodged in bushes 

 and were rescued some hours after. 



A heavy rain storm, accompanied by hail, visited Jefferson City the same 

 evening. The hail was small, and did but little damage, while the rain was greatly 



