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Show BOREAS. Tho Ulg Blow iu lowu. Trees, Houses, men and cattle Y tilled About. Fatalities and Injuries.. Sioux city, 22. Additional uurti culars of the storm o( Sunday afternoon after-noon have been received. It began about 3 30 Sunday, and swept from the southwest to northeast in this section. The (owns damaged were Storm Lake, Fonda and Potneroy. Trees were lorn up, and the country presented tbe appearance of being ravaged by a terrible cyclone. A man named Keilly was carried bodily over a bouio and over tree tops and set down uninjured. Several houses were entirely destroyed with miraculously mira-culously Jitile low of life. Cattle were hurled oft lone distances and killed. The hailstones were lastened together in great masses. Alter tbe wind subsided, the town ol Storm Lake was tilled with country people looking lor physicians aod surgeons. Alfred King's residence was lilted from the giound and dashed to a thousand pieces. His mother was instiutly killed. A buggy ol his was carried a quarter of a mile through tbe air. The water in tb lake rose te a prodi gious height. The damage south of Otorm Lake is believed to be very great. It is reported that four havii been killed and forty wounded. In Griffith an unknown man had the top ot his bead taken cfl by sharp board. At Pomeroy, Obarles Pearce, ajroung man, was killed by falling timbers. tim-bers. Mrs. Wallace and family wore injured by a house blowing down, and are not expected to live. |