The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-07-03
BY TELEGRAPH.
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT.
TO THE DALLY LNTELLIGENCER
GENERAL NEWS.
Further Particulars Of the Storm
Great Damage and Loss ofLife In
In Indiana.
A Terrific Storm at Parkersburg,
West Virginia.
Houses and Barns Blown Down.
Houses and Barns Blown Down
The Baltimore Collect CtOrshlp.
Further Reports From the
Storm.

Storm.
CINCINNATI, July 2.-As the advices
come in from remote points it is evident
that the storm Of wind and rain Saturday
was even more destructive to life aud
property than any previous one. lts
path seemed to have been through the
counties Of Indiana and Ohio lying south
Of the centre OF the States.
At Waverly, Johnson county, Indiana,
about Q o'clock at night, the storm struck
the residence Of George Dressler, blowing
it down. DrCsslcr was found with his feet
lacersted and cheat injured, His wife
and two children, five and three years old,
were killed; another child, twelve years
old, died yesterday; another child, nine
years old, who received severe scalp
wound, ia not expected to live. The res.
idence OF James Armstrong, near by, was
blown down, killing one child instantly
and injuring another 30 that it has since
died. Near St. Paul, Ind, number Of
barns and dwellings, also church anil
school house, were destroyed. NJ. Mehlish
was killed, Mrs. Kicker fatally injured,
c. Jappenlitz injured internally, and
John Lewis had his collar bone broken.
The new church was utterly torn to
pieces. The farmers lose very heavily,
large number of cattle being killed,
fences leveIed and barns destroyed. In
the vicinity Of Columbus, Ind, the low.
est estimate OF damages is $4,000.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 2.-Another de.
structive wind storm passed over the
central part Of the State Saturday even.
ing, near Franklin. The house OF Mr..
Brunner was demolished, killing the en-.
tire family OF five persons, and the house
Of Geo. Fressler was torn to pieces, kill.
ing family Of six persons. The house
OF 4 Mr.. Armstrong was torn down and
two children killed and others badly in.
jured; cattle, crops, barns, forests and or
chards suffered severely. In Morgan
county several houses are reported
blown down and many injured. Two
children since dead. A house was car.
ried fifty yards down a hill, and a school
house was carried across the road into a
cornfeld and the school furniture scat.
tered for half a mile. One house was
bespattercd with mud supposed to
have come from stream half mile
away, rs no rain accompanied the storm.
Corn waist high was literally torn TO
shreds and plowed ground carried away.
The storm was from quarter to half u
mile in width. Michael Mehrlick and 4
Mrs. Kicker were killed and others injur.
ed, with as great damage to houses
and crops as in the other counties.
In Wayne county two persons who had
taken refuge in u bridge were killed by a
falling tree crashing through across their
buggy.
An eastern bound train on the Pan.
handle ran into tornado near knights.
town. 4 tree fell across the forward end
OF the postal car crushing it, but doing
no other damage, as the train was NOV.
ing slowly at the time.
IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.
KEESE, July 2.-Sunday afternoon a
tornado passed through the southern part
Of Gilsum and spent itself in Sullivan
Twenty barns and sheds were blown down
in GIlsum, and large number Of fruit
trees and timber were prOstrated.
ArPARKERsBURG, PA.
PARKERsnURG, IA, July 2.-TherC
was a terrible storm here yesterday
which unrooied houses and blew dowr
barns, fences and trees. The full exten
Of the damage is not known yet. Th,
course OF the storm was southeast, acros.
a country thickly populated.
AT MARLBORO, N. Y.
MARLBORO, N. Y. July 2.-This plac,
was yesterday afternoon visited by ter
rible storm. Fences, barns and ont
buildings were blown down, and sheer
and cattle killed. The house OF I
O'Brien was destroyed. Part Of Mali
street, with costly wall, was under
mined. Much damage was done TO fruit