Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-19
STORMS.
Immense Destruction Of Property Be.
tween Charleston and RIceVilIe,
East TeHnessee-HeaVy
Rains in California.
The Disastrous Blow at Quincy, ilirYis
Houses Blown,
Washed and Telegraph
Lines Down.

Lines Down.
ST. LOUIS, June 18.-Between three
and four o'clock this morning the hesv-
lest and most destructive rsin-stoTm Oc-
CURED that has taken place here for
many years. The rain fell in perfect
torrents two or three hours, and many
p8ts Of the city were inundated, the
sewers being incapable of carrying Off
the immense quantity of water that fell
There was also a high wind, and the
lightning was incessant and almost ter
rible. The damage to various parts Of
the city are very heavy, in some places
property being wholly destroyed. The
stable of George E. Finch, on the corner
of Main and Wright streets, containing
three horses and a buggy valued at two
thousand dollars, was struck by lightning
and consumed. A row Of dwellings on
Washington street, between Twenty
first and Twenty-secOnd streets were
also damaged. 1t is supposed that they
will have to be almost entirely taken
down. Near Grand avenue, g station
on the Missouri iand Pacific railroad, the
water is so deep that a tenement house
is entirely submerged. Further down
the railroad track the water is twenty
feet deep. Around the machine shops Of
the company the water is deep, and
rushed through the shops several inches
deep. The extensive lime shed On the
corner of Seventh and Victor streets
was ignited by the Stacking Of the lime,
and was consumed. The basement
of the dry goods house of Grow, M'Creery
& Co., corner OF Fifth and st. Charles
street, lis flooded and considerable guam
tity of goods damaged. Other houses
suffered heavily. In the vicinity of
Twentieth and Salisbury streets there
is quite hollow into which water from
several adjacent streets run. This
neighborho0d is made up of one and two
story houses, all of which were more or
less inundated and the occupants forced
to flee in their night clothes to
save their lives. A fifteen
inch pipe has been draining this locality
since the storm; but this evening there
is still six or eight feet of water in the
hollow. The damage to property there
will be several thousand dollars. In the
lower part of the city there was also
great damsge, especially in low places.
Cellars and easements were flooded, and
large amount of provisions and mer-
chandise of various kinds destroyed.
On Beadle, Cass and Alton streets
in the northern part OF the city, dwell
ings and stores suffered heavily by the
overflow. Engines and pumps have
been actively at work all day pumping
water from cellars, easements and lower
IlooTs of dwellings, but in many places
little gain has been made on the water.
A number of parties threaten to sue the
city for damages on account OF the
meager capacity Of the sewers. 1t will
be many days before hundreds Of houses
in different parts Of the city can be made
habitable.
CHARLESTON, TENN.
Knoxville Chroniclel
CHARLESTON, June 16.-The heaviest
wind known to the oldest inhabltant"
passed over this place at three O'Clock
this evening from west to east. The
stOrehouse OF John Richey d Son was
unroofed, and also the dWellinghouse of
Colonel NJ. Il. Provine. No one hurt that
We have heard of up to this time. There
was some rain after the wind. The acad-
emy in Calhoun was unroofed; also the
of Mr.. James NJ. Knox. The
1t is understood here that there is great
destruction Of property between here
and Riceville.
IN CALIFORNIA.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 15.-Advices
from all parts of the State, except the
extreme northern and southern coun-
ties, from which nothing has as yet
been heard, report heavy rains, with
high wind, last night and to-day. No
definite information has been obtained
as to the effect on crops, but it is feared
much damage has been done to grass
and grain.
Later advices from the interior report
great damage to grain, both cut and
in the northern and central
portions of the State. The rain still
continues. Harvesting is suspended for
the present. Grasses in many localities
are ruined. The storm was unprece-
dented for the season Of the year.
IN NEBRASKA.
OMAMA, NEB., June 18.-During til
storm of last evening lightning struck
a cracker factory on Douglas street, and
knocked great hole in the brick wall,
wrenched a window out and did con-
J Johanna Goldstell was drowned while
to cross the North Omaha
creek. All the bridges over this stream
but one was swept away.
IN ILLINOIS.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.l
QUINCY, ILL, June l5.-Never in the
history of our city has SO terrible and
disastrous a storm visited US as that of
last night. At five o'clock in the after
noon, after q sultry and hot day, the
stOrm-clouds began gathering, and by
six o'clock-one hour later-it was too
dark to see without lights. From that
time till long after midnight the light
ming played, thunder roared, and rain
poured, almost without intermissiOn.
The storm first came from a southerly
but soon the wind changed to
nOrthWard. About nine o'clock in the
evening il was in its fury, and during
the remainder of its continuance the
like may again be seen, but never sur
passed in grandeur and magnifcence. 1t
was one uninterrupted roar with almost
incessant lightning, so vivid that the
eye could not bear it. One.half the time
a fearfully brilliant illumination, the
other half worse than Egyptian dark
ness, and all the time the rain pouri lg
in torrents. This morning all our ma
cadamized streets look as if they had
been scrubbed with brick and soap. In
connection with this fearful general
storm a hurricane struck the city about
Fourth street, and between Oak and
Cedar, taking southwesterly direction.
1t damaged some twenty-five or thirty
houses, among them the large brick
schoolhouse on the corner of Eighth
and Vine streets, known as the Jackson
public schools. OF this not one brick is
left on another down to the first story.
On Fifth street the fine residence Of Al
derman Aldrish was unroofed, thu roof
carried some two hundred feet, and
placed on the street-car track. Strange
as it may seem, with thousands Of hair
breadth escapes, only one life was lost,
that of John Menne, an old and re-
spected citizen, a member of the county
board Of supervisors, and large brick
He was out in his brick
yard, looking after his property, when
the hurricane struck his yard and kilns,
hurling timbers in all directions, one
him on the head, fracturing his
skull. He was found, covered with
boards and timbers, and life entirely eX-
tnct. There are several injuries re-
ported, but no dangerous ones that L
have heard of. The railroad tracks are |
all more or less washed. The Missouri |
Valley and Western lost small bridge,
but is all o. K. between here and heo-
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