The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-08-10
BY TELEGRAPH.
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT.
TO TIE DAILY LNTELLLGENcER
HEAVY STORMS.
Thunder, Lightning, Raln and
Wind. (
Forests Moved Down Like Grass.
Houses and Barns Carried Away.
Terrible Destruction Of Life at
&. WalIingford.
Thirty Persons Killed and Many
~ Wounded. T.
Dwellings, Churches, and School
Houses Crushed Like Ess-shells.
Unparalleled Destruction.

Unparalleled Destruction.
Bosrox August "a succession OF
heavy showers, accompanied BY heavy
thunder and sharp lightning, visited this
section today, and considerable damage
was done, Sr
AtRys Beach, N. g., at noon, a terrific
storm Il reported. It was quite wide, and
in some places in its path whole sections
Of woodland were blown down. The
bridge at Bathing Beach was swept away,
chimneys demolished, dwellings flooded
and wrecked, and less substantial build>
ings leyelled. A boarding house near
Bathing Beach was blown down, and
Cotes boarding house on the beach was
split indtwo. Acres OF woodland have
not a standing stick, and few chimneys in
the track Of the storm remain.
At Cape Vincent, n. Y, during the
storm last night, the Presbyterian and
Catholic Churches, railroad, warehouse,
and dwelling were much damaged BY
lightning. The storm on the St. Lawrence
was terrible. The telegraph lines were
all prostrated, and no trains arrived to.
day. Barns filled with grain were burn.
ed.
Al Belleville, Ont, to-day, the wind
and lightning did much damage to houses,
barns and outlying grain, while in Toron-
TO three houses were considerably in
jured by lightning.
A TORNADO IN CONNECTICUT.
HARTFORD, August 8. This afternoon
about 8 o'clock a'tornado struck the vii.
lage Of Wellingfosd, demolished the old
Catholic Church on the plains and then
leyeled some 20 houses in Wallaces row.
Other houses were moved and injured.
Going up the hill the tornado dashed TO
the ground $4,000 brick school house
and then passed over the hill, snapping
big elms as II they we're mere reeds, and
laying PROSTATE telegraph poles. Several
persons have been killed and many woun.
dsd, and the village authorities have sent
TO Meriden for doctors.
MRRIDEs, August 9.-The severest
storm OF thunier, lightning, rain and
wind ever kuowusin Meriden occurred
this attsrnoon, between 8 and z O'clock:
The new shop Of Bradley u Hubbard
was badly injured about the roof; many
chimneys and trees were blown down, bat
no lives loss, -. ,,,r,
wArgRIows, n. Y, August 9.-Trains
over the local roads hereabouts, stopped
BY the storm last night, are not expected
to be running again before to morrow
night Turnpikes are impossible, owing
10 the destruction OF bridges. Whole
field. OF grain, corn and other products
were wholly ruined. Grain, harvested
and stacked, was swept away by the flood
Oue man OF this city, awakened by his
bed becoming wet, found the front door
of his house open and the water two feet
deep on the hoor, and the cradle, con.
tanning the baby asleep, floating arouud
Ia some places live stock was swept away
and lost. The lightning was almost con
tinuous and painfully vivid. Last nights
storm prevented the meeting at the
Thousand Isles Park camp.
TERRIBLE STORM AT wALL1soFoRD.
WA11rseFoRD, Conn, August "a
terrible tornado passed over Wallingford
about 6 o'clock this evening, and blew
over houses, uprooted trees and caused
prea, destruction. II is estimated that
the killed will number at present at least
tseuty. while the wounded will reach
twice that number. The telegraph wires
and poles we're blown. down making It
T impossible to communicate directly with
New Haven, on the South, or Meriden or
Hartford to the North. Word was finally
sent by the mp I o'clock train 10 the lat
ter places, and on the next doun express,
which leaves Meriden at $50, came ply.
sicians and help. The greatest excite
ment prevails, and the widest rumors
are aaoat "a to the loss OF life. The tor
nado was confined to belt Of territory
about half mile wide, and the whole
loss Of life took place on the sand
Plains, about quarter Of . mile north
Of the railroad station, near the line oi
the New York, New Haven 4 Hartford
Railroad. At six o'clock, while the men
were leaving the factories, a gentle rain
began to fall, and soon increased to a
perfect dsluge, while almost continuous
and vivid lightning illuminated the dar-
kened sky as bright "a day and thunder
rolled with 40 Increasing and deatening
roar. Without warning q tornado, with
hail aud rain, swept across the northern
part OF the town from west to east, and
everything moyeable in its track was
carried away. Il seemed to last but q
lsW moments, but its results were fright.
| ful. Afterwards 4 light rain fell and
kthis soon ceased, and at 8 O'Clock the
moon shons brightly down upon 4 scene
Of 'desolation. BY actual count torty
dwelling houses were demolished and at
lsASt tifiy bGfna.
The following are among the killed,
nearly all by houses falling: In Plains
school house, on the childrens desks, lay
the bodies Of Mrs. Margaret Mooney, John
Mooney and vile and Matthew Mooney,
Cornelius Tracy and wife, Mrs. Joseph
Huldy and infant child, Frederick Little.
wood. Mrs. John Boyle and Mrs. John
Lynch, making Il in al. Besides these
John Cas-, : young daughter Of Robert
Saunders, Thomas DAily's child, Mrs. E.
Downs, Katie Coughlin, Patrick o'Neils
child and John Hayden are all certainly
among the ruins. Gn addition Patrick
O,Neil bad his shoulder badly cut; Mary
Healsy, aged l6, Is dying; John Cline,
aged 10, had bis arm broken; John Paden
and vile, badly wounded; Mary Rourke,
aged is, Il dying; Thomas Mathew iami
| II wounded, two women in John Nun
Son's family injured, Charles Parmlee
hurt: Michael Kelly wounded internally,
Henry Jones hurt about the head Pat
rick Coughlln, injuries unknown; Law
renee Downs Is injured badly and his
daughter il dying.
There are many others whose names
could not be ascsrtained. The scene was
memorable one. The wooden houses
we're carried cleAs of their foundations
from few feet TO an eighth Of . mile.
In the line. Of the tornado nothing was
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