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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 3, 1873

News Items.

KANSAS and Iowa have lately been visited with storms of terrible severity. In Kansas, the rivers have overflowed their banks and great damage has resulted to the farmers. And so also in Iowa, with the addition of a tornado in Keokuk and Washington Counties, May 22. By many it is thought to be the severest that has ever visited the Western country,—but this is probably not the case. More damage results from such storms now than years ago, as the country is more thickly settled.

The Chicago Tribune of May 25 contains a lengthy account of its ravages, referring to which the Detroit Post says:

“Unlike many first reports of disaster, that of the tornado in Iowa does not diminish on investigation. A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, who has been over the ground, more than confirms the destruction which it caused and the terror it created. The amount of damage in money is estimated at seventy-five thousand dollars; but the loss of life cannot yet be accurately ascertained. So far as is known, fifteen were killed and thirty-three wounded, some of whom may yet die.”

It arose near Lancaster, Keokuk County, nearly destroying the town, and passed in a north-east course about five miles north of Washington. It was accompanied with a deluge of water and large hail.

MARSHALL McMAHON has been elected President of the French Republic.