American temperance agitator Carrie Nation begins her…

American temperance agitator Carrie Nation begins her crusade to demolish saloons on June 5, 1900, upon receiving what she felt was a heavenly vision.

As Nation described it:

The next morning I was awakened by a voice which seemed to me speaking in my heart, these words, "GO TO KIOWA," and my hands were lifted and thrown down and the words, "I'LL STAND BY YOU." The words, "Go to Kiowa," were spoken in a murmuring, musical tone, low and soft, but "I'll stand by you," was very clear, positive and emphatic. I was impressed with a great inspiration, the interpretation was very plain, it was this: "Take something in your hands, and throw at these places in Kiowa and smash them." 

Responding to the revelation, Nation gathered several rocks—"smashers", she calls them—and proceeds to Dobson's Saloon on June 7

Announcing "Men, I have come to save you from a drunkard's fate", she begins to destroy the saloon's stock with her cache of rocks.

After she similarly destroys two other saloons in Kiowa, a tornado hits eastern Kansas, which Nation takes as divine approval of her actions.