Electric power out for two to seven days. Trees toppled and 15,000 without power.
Lightning bolt enters home, hurling young woman sitting at the family piano across the room.
Two crewmen die and fears of chemical spill abound. New York stops flow of water over Niagara Falls for 30 hours. Deadliest avalanche in U.S. history thunders down the mountains near Wellington Station. Snow sweeps three large locomotive train engines and some passenger cars off the tracks and into canyon burying them under tons of snow. Avalanche claims the lives of more than 100 people.