The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-06-30


slightly in violence and considerably in dura-
ton, according to locality, ragged Monday
morning throughout Iowa aud in portions Of
Missouri and Michigan. 1t reached Chicago
soon after one clock in tho afternoon and
travelled eastward through Indiana and Ohio,
breaking upon Cincinnati at quarter past
four o'clock. Everywhere in its path, trees
and telegraph poles were leyelled, and bridges
and buildings damaged or demolished. Near
kankakee, ILL.,, an express train was blown
from the track, and several persons were in.
jured. In Cincinnati three men we're injured
and one was killed
The United States Consul at Buenos Ayres
writes to the State Department, under date oil
May II, an account OF one of the most disas'
trous rain storms that has ever occurred in
the Argentine Republic. II lasted almost
continuously for several weeks; all the pampas
in the province of Buenos Ayres were flooded,
and the number Of cattle, horses and sheep
lost are estimated at hundreds of thousands,
il not millions.
A fire in Marblehead, Mass, Monday morn.
ing burned over nearly fifteen acres, destroy.
ing " buildings, including stores, factories
and dwellings, and causing loss estimated
at 1894 700. The burned district comprised
two.thirds of the old town. A fireman was
fatally injured, but no other casualties are re.
ported.
A telegram from St. John, n. b., says those
injured at the fire, who are in the hospital,
are doing we'll. Five persons are still mis-
sing. Thus far, the contributions for the re.
lief of the sufferers amount in the aggregate
TO S20O,00O, besides provisions aud clothing
The Mayor of Bangor, Me-, who returned
from ST. John on Saturday, says: "The
ea la gl,arn a.,
of the sorely distressed people are very great.
They are not people who parade their mis-,
fortunes. Somebody must speak for them
1t is only necessary for the cities of our couu.
try to know their true condition." A tele.
gram from the Mayor of St, John received by
the Maritime Exchange in Philadelphia, Pa
states the losses at $50, 900, 900, and the mum.
Der ofpeople made homeless at 20, 900.
In China, the famine in the northern prov.
inces continues; there are serious floods at
Canton, and the prospects of the silk crop
have been greatly injured by sudden cold
weather. The Government is said to be ab.
solutely paralyzed by internal political dis.
orders, and the calamilies of flood and famine.
The United Brethern Church at Rohrers.
vile, Washington county, Nd, was struck by
lightning and destroyed on Thursday of last
week. The residence of Mr.. Jacob Gloss,
near that town, was also struck and damaged.
Hail and heavy rain also did considerable
damage.
A tornado swept through the centre of st.
Joseph, Mo-, on Saturday night, unroofng
buildings and otherwise damaging property.
Several persons were injured, but not seri.
ously.
Frederick, Nd, made narrow escape
from disastrous flood on the 2lst instant.
In half an hour the water in Market street
was foot deep, cellars were filled, and it
was thought that the city would suffer as
severely as it did in 1868. Carroll Greek
oyerfiowed its banks, but fortunately, owing
to the wisdom of the City Council who had
the course of the stream changed and the
width enlarged after the disastrous flood of
1865, the water was carried of without very
serious damage, except in few instances,
The Times says The damage throughout
the county is said to be very large. The corn
IN many places has been COMPLETELY washed
out, the wheat beaten down, hay and fences
destroyed and grass beside streams which
oyertiowed their banks considerably Injured,
In some sections Of the county hail fell but
without intllcting any serious damage.
heavy wind and rain storm passed over
Harrisburg, Pa, between 4 and 8 O'Clock
Tuesday afternoon. The Harrisburg bridge,
spanning the Susquehanna from the Harris
burg side to Longneckers Island, was un.
rooted, and portion of it was blown out of
position. The bridge is damaged to the extent
otabout $1,000. One Of the turrets was blown
oil the Catholic Cathedral, and a number of
dwellings throughout the city were unroofed
and badly damaged by water. The storm
lasted about torty-iiye minutes.
A despatch from Mahomet, Ills, SAYS the
heaviest storm for fifteen years passed over
that place Tuesday afternoon and extended a
number OF miles around. The farm house
and barn Of Wylie Davis, few miles south.
were destroyed, and Mr.. Campbell seriously
injured. The house Of Wesley ARSON, near
Mansfield, was blown down, and Gylyano
Nelson was very badly hurt. Some cars were
blown from the track of he Chicago and
Padueah Railroad at Calef. Wheat, rye and
oats were blown fiat with the ground. A
despatch from Champaign, HIS, says vic.
lent storm ragged there, at Urbana and other
places. Severakhundred.fruit and other trees
IN Champaign were blown down, and nearly
one hundred stores and dwellings in Cham.
palgn and Urbana were more or less dam.
ageds All the grain was badly broken, and n
great deal Of it entirely Frustrated. A large
quantity of rain fell.
kilograms from various points in the West
give additional particulars of the damage
done to buildings, fences, trees and crops,
by Mondays storm. In Iowa the rainfall was
over two inches at Omaha it was one inch
and half. The crops in various quarters
were greatly damaged; in one county of Hi.
nois-Morgan-the loss on wheat is estimated
at 100000. A child was killed and four
persons injured, two of them seriously, in
Springfield, Ohio. In Reading Ohio, man
was killed by the demolition OF his barn. In
Chicago, house carpenter was blown out of
window and fatally injured.