Show SEVERE STORMS THEY AGAIN PREVAIL THROUGHOUT THROUGH-OUT = 3IANY STATES Wisconsin Illinois Town Kansas 2icbraskn South Dalcotu and Mich gun Among Those Visited CHICAGO June 7Severe storms prevailed throughout Wisconsin Illinois Iowa Kansas Nebraska South Dakota and Michigan today with heavy rain and In several sections sec-tions with cyclonic manifestations Three heat storms passed over this city accompanied with heavy rains and hail Hail stones fell in hai Hai fel some places in this thick vicinity so they could be taken up by the shovelful After the rain in Hyde park nearly a peck of shells and gravel were picked pick-ed up In one place in this suburb small fish and turtles were found in large numbers Of this remarkable occurrence Observer Cox states that the transplanting of fish and shells and water gravel from their original resting places to points miles away was due to the air vacuums whirlwinds whirl-winds and straight winds which have prevailed throughout the west for a week past A sail boat was capsized on the lake this afternoon by the high wind and its four occupants barely escaped drowning Up to a late hour tonight no fatalities had been reported At Peoria a heavy rain did considerable consider-able damage At the Union Stockyards Stock-yards the storm played havoc Basements Base-ments and first floors were flooded and the big house packing firms were I heavy losers Hundreds of windows were blown in and the rain entering spoiled tons of beef which had been prepared for canning At Virgil S D a cyclone leveled a number of houses Irvin Daly was seriously injured From this point the funnel shaped cloud took a northeasterly north-easterly direction devastating every thing with which it came in contact Four persons were drowned and i is reported much damage was done to property at Leavenworth Kan Springfield I was visited by one of the most violent rain storms known there for years Chadron Neb was visited by a terrific storm Trains on all lines are delayed by washouts At Baraboo Wis heavy washouts occurred and train service is demoralized demoral-ized |