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Show I I11111.lt r mm iiniiiiiiir. Bt. I.UUI9, A rll 11. Thunder and lightning, hall and wind combined this evening to form the severest itorni this city has had for years. The steamer l II. Pike, wis lying at tho wharl with no steam up und Dvu men on board aud waa blown adrllt. It la feared sho auuk with all on board. A harbor boat with a full crew aboard wai alaj blown Irom the same wharf and lint not been heard Horn, lno wharl boats, auchirod near by, met with a similar fate. Xo trace can he round ol any of these bjata although searchers are out everywhere, lrees, roofs and outbuildings were blown down aud several runaways reported Beveral ersoua were InJureJ. Uumm ll.inoll.lir.l Hiol'x Cliy,Ia , April II A cyclone cyc-lone struck the lowu ot Akrou, la , at 3 o'clock this afternoon Many homes auj builuess buildings were demoh libed, but there was no loss of llfo. Thero waa an iillmatej prot erty loss el $4(1,000. iScrtr Weatfleld a null and wife, names unknowu, were killed. The atorm crossed tho Mlsiuurt river near that place anil swept across Nebraska to Page, ISO miles wuit ol here, destroying des-troying inuoli property en route. At Pago much damage was done and Clara Meyers was killed and two children daugorously Injured. Mrtiek "..ir-.Uii. I.isooln, Neb, April 11. A tremendous tre-mendous cyclone struck Ni braika and Iowa this afternoon, doing great damagu In tome sections lile-f lile-f hone and telegraph wires are down an 1 It Islmpossille loseouro the details. In the western part ot tho statu tne rains amounted almost to a cloudburst. IIIIUII'S IIIIAIIATION Apparently Imull eil In Noma Myslerj, Han I'liAhciscu, April 11. Thla alteruoou It was lcarne 1 that the amount ol J. W. Flood's defalcation li (101,000, as heretofore given out by the bank olllclals. Thu banking company today filed a suit ot,ulnit I lood to recover J 139,000. lie only having hav-ing made reatltutlcu ufj:5,000. 1 loo lconfenea that the defalcation has occurred since Msrch 41b, when the lunk movej from the quarters It bad oeuunled fori enra lo a new and moro pretentious location, tut what he did with It and why he took It I lood abtulutoly refutis to state. He!ias been a man hereloforo of an upright life aud rigid habits and no theory that It was stent In dlailpillou aud gambling la tenable. When tho theft WM dlscovtred laal Tnesda) liv tho Btnte bank commie-elorera, commie-elorera, 1 lood waa tailed luto the 1 rlvate olllce by President Douobuu aud he Immediately acknowledged his responsibility for thu disappearance ot the money, but declined absolutely to tell where It had gone. He did say, however, that he 1 aid It out over thu counter In tho uiual manner to peraona now out ot tho Jurladlctlon ot talllor-nlacoutta. talllor-nlacoutta. Ho would not divulge their IdoLllty even under Uureaa, but declared de-clared the bunk at liberty to hold him accountable ani send him to prtcon. He cheerfully gave up property worth ,.5,000 lu 1 sitlal ret arattun, tne theory Isolvouced by soma that ho voluntarily sacrificed his liberty slid reputation to ahleld others, lie suggeettd to President Donohuu that ho might make disc faults before his death, which might bo In n oouj lo ol days, seeming to Imply lib intention to coiult suicide. |
