The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-10-07
PORTSMOUTH o. MONDAY EVENING OCTOBER + 1850
Tremendous Hail Storm at Pittsbnrgh-.
slsgr Great Loss of Propefty. US

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4 Weiearnofron the Pittsburgh Dispatel
of Saturday, lhat1a most terrific hail storr
occurred at that place on Friday evening
about two o'clock, which done 40 jmmens
anlountsof damage 10 property. a
Tie following'is The account given B.
i the Dispatch Of the storm:
Is The seyerest part Of tho storm laslei
some fifteen minutes, and was really tear
ful in violence. Some Of the hail stone
were Of astonishing size--neasuring min
land ten inches in circumference, nnd cne
actualiy ,ceighed, was found to exceed I,
il opnces--others six, and numbers of iiy,
ounces; and upwards. We aaye heard !
Others Of much greater weight, picked u
in this city, hul did not meet with he al
'fthority itsa facs, anqaesiionnd. tha
several persons wcro actually knocket
down, others badly cut, and several horse,
are stated positively to have been knocked
down. We saw pigeon, the skull o.
whichhad been literally crushed off BY q
hail stone. b @s
/ !The Sheet Iron Roof Of Messrs. Spana
and McCauley, and several others Of the
same description, in the city, were abso.
lulely riddled by the hail, driven clear
through, and torn into wide spaces in some
places. Eoery sky-ight pane in the
warehouses, and ether buildings, so far as
we could ascertain, and millions Of panes
of glass in the windows of public buildings
churches, ! hotels, stores, dwellings,, sc.
were battered out, and even sash and bIinds
broken in. A glazier told us that oil the
GLACIERS in the city could not repair the
damage in six months.
An immense deal Of dnmage has been
done to goods. furniture, c., already, and
the rain will undoubtedly increase the loss
80 that it will be greater than that of any
fire. which has occurred here, save that ol
lS45.
We saw one drayman whose head had
been cut in two places--his hat having
fallen off while attempting 10 stop his horse
and the blood was trickling down both
sides of his face. Many others had bruis.
ed arms, sore heads, &c.
A perfect stampede occurred among the
horses attached to the omnbusscs, draws
&c., and threatened a record Of fearful ac.
cidents, but we heard Of no loss of life
The horses in on omnibus on Fourthstreet
left the omnibus body nndrun away with
the four wheels. Knapp g. Co.'s foundry,
team knocked down lamp post on one
side Of Wood street, and stranded the big
wheels on u fire plug opposite. Horses
ran nway which had hardly been known
lbefofc to get up a trot, and numbers ol
dray horses were only prevented from run.
ming by being taken into the warehouses
and stores.
Fortunately, there was no wind blowing
at The time, or not a pane Of glass would
have been left in any window facing the
storm. As it is, nearly all the houses hay.
ing windows in the western side, or front
look as il. the city had been the scene of q
Tremendous riot, where puving stones hat
been thrown ,"like hail" 2a
We have heard no guess at the sum total
Of damage, but il is certain that window
glass " is riz THAT glazing will be a pay.
ing business 10 the glazer, and "whal's
The price Of putty" will be asked more
seriously than ever before.
If the storm has been equally severe in
the country. all the fruit has been cut down,
land great destruction done to the corn and
buckwheat. Sheep, fowls, birds, &C., will
also have suffered terribly.
We might fill columns with incidents ol
1.-THE storm, but have not room to spare.
Galamitous, though it certainly was, its
blows we're SO generally and impartiaiiy
bestowed that even the sufferers seemed
more inclined 10 laugh at each other than
[to grumble al their own losses, and it was
difficult to regurd ii seriously. ,a
The storm was very severe in Alleghe.
ny city, but less so, than in this, il appears,
although the windows of our neighbors
there arc'pretty well riddled. z SO 7 fli' +.
THE FEMALE DREss.7-A correspondent
! Of the Water Cure Journal, who Processes
Etobea "Country Girl" "prone TO ramb-
ling in the woods, suggests style of dress
adapted to such exercise better than, that
which hus prevailed from time immemo.
rial. 1t is as follows;
Stout calEskin CATERS, white trowsers,
made after the Eastern style, loose and
confined at the ankle with cord; a green
kilt reaching nearly to the knees, gather
ed ia the neck, and turned back with .
collar, confined ut the waist with scarle,
sash tied up one side, with short sleeves
for summer, ,and long sleeves for winter
fastened at the wrist; a green turban
made in the Turkish mode.
aINith such d Dress" says the Anna
zonian innovator, II can ride oirhorse
back, row in boat, spring over a fiverai
fence, climb a tree, or find my way thro
a green brier swamp, setting inside, the ex
ira feeling Of, Wild. daring freedom on'
possesses when thus equipped and alone il
1.-The woods.p assl 3 . i5a as t5,l, a,a
Two young girls were horribly ,burne'
Iin New York on Friday night, in conse
quence oftheir clothes taking fire from
\ camphene lamp which one of thcm wa