New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-23
THE STORM or SUNDAY NIGHT.

We have by telegraph and otherwise some account
of a severe storm of rain and lightning which passed
along the seaboard from Virginia to Maine on Sunday
night.
In New-York City the storm arrived about o'clock
on Monday morning. 1t was preceded by singulary
sarfed and electrified condition of the atmosphere,
and profusion of the faint flashes popularity called
heat lightning Just after midnight sharp forks of
chan.lig htnng began to appear in the southwestern
horizon where tie clouds were coming up thick and
black as the smoke of a Volcano In short time the
heavens were all abaze with ncesssnt Lightning, ac-
compan led by almost unremting thunder; and about
II o'clock il rsned as it might have raned IN the days
of Noah although the falling water, vividly lighted
up by the lightning, more nearly resembled the
shower of fire which fell upon the Sodom
of the Old World. There was some hail also but for
tunatey not much wind. The storm lasted about an
hour but in that time there fell almost unprece-
dented amount of water, doing world of good in
Purifying the air and the dreadully sickening streets
The morning following was bright and fresh the
storm was copious and grand. The forenoon very
hot, the afternoon breezy, with sudden whirlwnd
and brief shower at o'clock, and the evening was
rather too cool there being cold and violent wind "a
the winding up of the long sosticial day.
OF the storm elsewhere we find the following facts
From the National IntcQigsacsr Of Jrne22
A thunder storm from the westward broke upon
this city yesterday afternoon, at about quarter oi
8 O'Clock which will be remembered for long years
by all who witnessed it. coud, black aud portea-
tous had gathered in the west over the Virginia nils,
In which frequent and fierce sreaks of lightning fol-
lowed by sharp, rafting thunder, displayed them
selves. The cloud, as ii advanced and spread over
the city, at brief intervals exhibited long electric
flashes followed in a second or two by peas of angry
thunder Then came brisk, refreshing breeze from
the west which blew for about ten minutes and, to-
wards the last with very slight spnnkling OF rain
and here and there Maidstone, which lasted Only two
blast bringing visitation Of rain and hail or rather
Of spherical Jumps of ice many of which approached
an inch in diameter and nearly double that size
altogotbey unparalleled in experience. For several
minutes not only fruit and other trees. but The very
bouses themselves seemed danger of destruction
and when the storm happily sackened, the earth was
covered with ice-pebbes about the average size of
marbles and leaves and branches of trees, and
wherever there wss fence standing across the drec-
tion Of the storm may have been seen row OF hail
stones perhaps a couple or three inches IN depth.
The drains and sewers were suddenly full, and poured
out their swollen contents with unwOnted vigor. The
fruit trees within the range OF the st0rm-which we
hope was not very wide-must have been swept oil
seyepelghths of he'- burdens; II Is indeed ptiaoe
to see the ground strewed with the hopes oil me year.
OF course the destruction of glass, wherever was
expoVA 20 the storm inevitable; so that taere
will &evrekner consumption of the article within
week than lIas probably ever occurred IN any week
before since Washington was a city
Since the foregoing was written, we have discov-
cred that the range Of the storm was happily narrow
the worst Of if appearing to have passed along the