The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-07-07
Destructive Storms.


The town of Parkesburg and the village oil
Ercildoun, in Chester county, fh'i were ue
yaslated Sunday afternoon bya violent Storm
AT Parkosburg eleven houses we're demoilsh'
ed. and one man was killed and another Sc
yerely Injured Al Ereildoun twenty dWel-
iugs and A new seminary building were
DESTROYED, a woman was killed and hve per
sons we're injured, two perhaps fatally;
Another hurricane swept through Centre'
Indiana and Ohio on Saturday night dong
great damage to the crops aud other properly
and causing some loss OF life. Near iheh'
mund, Ind, tree was blown upon oriuge
lust as two men we're crossing 1t IN buggy
and one of the men was killed, whlie the
other was dangerously il not fatally injured
A man, boy and team OF horses seeking
shelter under tree during a thunder storm
near Youngstown, Ohio, were all Killed ny
lightning. , "a.
There were heavy thunder showers ai Ih'
Gu, n. Y, and all along the Mohawk 'ailey
on Saturday night and Sunday. The canal
and river were oyerilowed, the rise being
more rapid than was ever remembered before.
A dry goods store and the telegraph office at
Boonyille we're struck by lightning, and the
damage is estimated at over $4,000. Heavy
rains fell at BiddefOrd, Me-, Sunday--a iall
of eight inches in three hours, making the
streets impossible, is reported by telegraph
A house in kennebankport, Me-, WAS struck
by lightning and two women were badl
Injured,
The Columbia Hotel, in Chester, Pa, was
struck by lightning Sunday evening and seven
persons were stunned, one OF whom, William
Appleby, is seriously injured. The building
caught lire, but it was soon extingulshed.
a violent storm of rain aud hail struck
Waterbury, Connecticut, Sunday evening, at
I O'Clock All the skylights and nearly all
the panes of glass in the city were smashed,
the hailstones being ''as large as buItcrnuts.
The garden crops were almost entirely ruined.
The streets and roads were badly washed by
the heavy rain.
During severe thunder storm Sunday
morning, lightning struck the agiator and
cooper shops Of the Liberty Oil Works, in
Lawrenceyille, near Piitsburg, and set them
on fire. The cooperage and machinery, with
2OOO empty barrels and about 5000 barrels Of
crude oil were destroyed. Loss 100000.
The Catholic church at LacOnia, n. H., was
fired by lightning Sunday, aud destroyed.
The loss is $4,000.
iAt htbtui WHICH phoaNN AulNukA NthtAAA
Indiana and Ohio on Saturday evening was
more destructive than its predecessor. No
rain fell, but the wind tore up, damaged or
demolished nearly everything in its way. At
Waverly, in johnson county, Ind, the house
otGeorge Dressler was blown away; Dressler
wife and two of his children were killed, his
two other children were fatally injured, and
himself sustained serious injuries. The house
OF James Armstrong was wrecked, one OF his
children was killed. and another so badly in.
Jured that it has since died. Near St. Paul
number Of barns and dwellings and u church
and school house were demolished man
was killed, one woman and two men injured,
the woman fatally. AT Tolbey, Ind, cattle
were killed, barns and outbuillings levelled,
and new church demolished. The damage
near Columbus, Ind, is estimated at $50, 900.
Near Franklin, Ind, the house of Mr.. Brum.
mer was destroyed aud the family Of five per.
sons killed. In Morgan county a number Of
persons were injured, and two of them--chil.
dren-haye since died. One school house
was carried fifty yards down a hill, and an.
O.her was blown across field, the furniture
being scattered in all directions. The grow.
ing corn, waist high was torn into shreds,
and IN some places the surface of plowed
ground was carried off by the wind. 4 train
on the Pan Handle road, near Knightstown,
was overturned by the hurricane, and the pos.
tai car crushed in bya falling tree, but no
person was injured, Sunday morning heavy
rain storm, with thunder was progressing nj
Indianapolis and westward.
The town of Marlborough, in Ulster county,
N. Y, sustained heavy loss on Sunday after.
noon, from "a terrific thunder storm accom-.
painted by high wind, Many sheep and cattle
were killed, but no injury to persons is re.
ported
Great damage was done to trees, fences,
sheds, barns and dwellings in Surry, Gilsum
and Sullivan, n. H., by tornado on Sunday
AFTERNOON. 4 thunder storm the same after.
noon covered the track of the Northern Rail
road, near Lebanon, n. H., for a considera
Ole distance, with dirt to depth of eighteen
to twenty.four inches.
There was still another severe storm In In.
diana and Ohio on Monday night and Tuesday
morning, the northern aud central portions
of those States being the sufferers. At Elk.
hart, Indiana, ON Tuesday evening, six houses
were wholly, and four partially demolished,
and nine persons severely injured. AtKiups.
bury, Ind, house was blown down and four
persons were killed At Clinton. Ind A man
was killed aud his daughter badly injured by
q falling roof. Three men were struck by
lightning near Waterford, and one of them
was killed
Wheeling, W. Va, was visited by severe
thunder storm on Monday night. Fences
aud trees were levelled, the crops damaged,
and buildings unrooied.
;, During severe thunder storm near Mid.
dletown, Pa, Tuesday morning, the barn of
Jonn Osman was struck by Lightning and
burned, with its contents, including two cn,.
tie, Loss, $4,000. WV Wv
a violent storm prevailed in New York.
OHIO aud Pennsylvania, Thursday afternoon
and evening, causing considerable damage.