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another seven horses. Another cyclone started at Wmslow, DeKalb county, 

 another started four miles southwest of Rosendale, passed eastward one mile 

 south of Rosendale. The course of all the above cyclones was east by northeast, 

 Another cyclone started eight miles northwest of Hopkins, in Nodaway county, 

 its course for twelve miles being southeast. It was one-fourth of a mile wide, 

 and nothing escaped destruction in its track. Many lives have been lost in all 

 these cyclones, and the destruction to property is very great. 



The outer edge of a fierce wind and rain storm passed Davenport, Iowa, this 

 evening from eight to nine o'clock. The lightning was very vivid and almost 

 coatinuous. Dispatches state that the storm has been working eastward since the 

 noon before. The town of Colfax was struck by a disastrous tornado, destroying 

 several houses and severely injuring a number of persons. A dispatch says : 

 Reports from the south part of that township show a number to have been badly 

 injured. The rain fell in torrents. Messages received by the train dispatcher of 

 the Rock Island Railroad line state that a heavy thunder and hailstorm passed 

 over Western Iowa this afternoon. The hail was so heavy that several houses 

 were unroofed at Walnut, and the lights broken out of railroad trains and locomo- 

 tive windows. At four o'clock the storm was traeeling eastward from Des 

 Moines rapidly. The rain literally came down In sheets for half an hour. At 

 four o'clock this afternoon the storm had reached Brooklyn, and was growing 

 milder. 



KANSAS WEATHER SERVICE. 



FROM OBSERVATIONS TAKEN AT WASHBURNE COLLEGE, TOPEKA, 

 PROF. J. T. LOVEWELL, DIRECTOR. 



The auspicious weather of the first twenty days of May continued through that 

 month and the first week of June. Since then the weather has been rather too 

 warm for comfort, but frequent showers have continued the favorable prospects 

 of crops of grain and fruit. 



A destructive cyclone occurred in Ottawa county, near Solomon City, on the 

 pth, in which three persons lost their lives, and again on the 12th, a still more 

 destructive tornado visited Sumner and Sedgwick coimties, while on the same 

 date a similar tempest was developed in Osage county. In each of these locali- 

 ties lives were lost, and many were wounded, but as yet no careful study has been 

 made of these storms in their connection with each other and with the almost 

 simultaneous cyclones reported from Missouri. 



Farmers in the Kaw valley were beginning to cut their wheat on the 13th. 



Highest temperature, 91° on the i6th. Lowest temperature, 61.5° on the 

 24th. Highest barometer, 29.08 on the 25th. Lowest barometer, 28.61 on the 



