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enue agency.THE STORM AT MITCHELL.Cnautliunllcateil Report* Say that Fourrpnuini were Klllrtl anil Nine llulliliui;*Destroyed.Wo aro still without any particular*! of the damage done by the cyclone which struck Mitchell on Monday evening.The stage from Yankton to Firesteel was entering Mitchell just as the storm struck the place, and was roughly handled, he- 'vrk ing tipped over and the top considerably jammed and battered. But the stage which left Firesteel yesterday morning # and reached Yankton last evening brought no particulars of the storm, and the. I5ut ' driver, who, however, only came from | tron,‘ Mill town, only knew that a storm had occurred and four lives were reported lost and several buildings demolished. ^ The stage leaves Firesteel, three miles east of Mitchell, at three o’clock in the morning ami does not pass through Mitchell on the down trip, which accounts for our not receiving any account from the scene of the devastation by yesterday’s stage.The telegraph line between Canton and Mitchell has not been in working order since the occurrence of the storm, therefore we have been unable to receive anything by telegraph. The operator at Canton reported that the bodies of two men, killed in the storm, passed east on the train this morning, but was unable to give tlieir names or any further particulars of the disaster than that it was reported that four lives were lost and nine buildings destroyed.A note from J. D. Flick, of Bockport, received last evening, says, “a terrible wind storm visited Mitchell and Fire-steel Monday night, blowing down buildings, and several persons are reported killed and qnite a number bndly hurt.No wind here, hut n splendid rain.”* LATER.The nniucs of the two men killed by tho cyclone at Mitchell, whose bodies passed through Cantou this morning, were Smith and Luther. This is all the information we have been able to gain in addition to that given above. The line between Canton and Mitchell continues out of order.nw'i.FOUND.A cold cuff button. The owner can i
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Yankton Press and Daily Dakotaian
Yankton, South Dakota, US
Wed, May 26, 1880
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