The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-10
Violent storms-Loss Of Life

Levin Barker was seated on a fence near
/ tetterman, near Wheeling, West Va, last
Saturday evening, when the lightning struck
a tree close by him. The electricity rebound.
ed from the tree when half way down and
struck the young man on the head, instantly
killing him. There was only one mark of the
electricity on him, and that was a slight burn
on his hair, yet every bone in his body APP
peared to have been broken.
There was a violent thunder storm, with
hailstones as large as walnuts, at Toronto.
Canada, Sunday. Much glass was smashed,
and vegetation was greatly damaged
A terrific storm of thunder and lightning.
accompanied by floods of rain, visited Wash
ington Monday afternoon Forty or fifty
houses were unroofed, and the Patent Office.
Smithsonian Institute, Office of the Post. the
Holy Cross Church of the Communion, were
oil struck by lightning, but escaped serious
damage. A colored woman occupying a
small house on the river bank was killed by
being blown into the river along with her
\ house. Castle Stewart which has been leas.
ed to the Chinese Embassy, was damaged nv
the storm. There was such a heavy fall al
rain that the avenue near the Executive
Mansion resembled a river, and near the rail.
road depot people had to be ferried across
I the street in wagons
! A destructive hail storm visited the vicinity
Of Frostburg, Nd, Monday.
At Canton, Pa, a reservoir belongipo IN
the Water Power Company gave way during
a storm on Monday evening, and caused great
destruction OF property in the village and
along the line of Towando Creek. Coon &
Brain $ sash and blind factory was entirely
| swept away, with many other buildings. No
lives were lost, though there were many mar.
row escapes.
! Three women were killed by falling tree.
during storm, at Anna, ILL.,, on Sunday
evening.
| On Monday night Robert Townsend and
Edward Roberts were overtaken by a furions
storm near Phenixville, Pa, and TAKING
shelter under tree were struck by lightning.
Townsend was instantly killed, and Roberts
/ is not expected to recover.
A storm OF wind and hail did much damaoe
at Morristown, N. j., on Sunday afternoon.
| Considerable glass was smashed, trees and
signs were blown down, and corn in some of
the fields was cut to the ground.
! At Hartford, Conn, on Monday. the dam.
age done by lightning and hail was greater
than has been inflicted upon the farming in
terests OF this part OF the State for many wears.
! The lightning struck the Methodist church
IN Wrapping, a few miles from Hartford.
while the service was in progress, and three
ladies IN the congregation were Frustrated nv
| It. One, daughter of Samuel o. Belcher.
had the hair torn off the back OF her head
and the fluid scorched her back and burned
one shoe to crisp. She will probably recov.
er. In Broad Brook, Windsor, East Windsor.
East Hartford, Pennington, Hartland and
otner places IN Hartford county the fall of
hail was unparalleled in violence and in
the size of the stone, and tobacco farms were
greatly damaged, acres of crop being riddled
with holes and leveled to the ground, SO as 10
destroy It IN many cases completely. Farm
ers IN this part of the Connecticut Valley de-
pend largely upon the success of tobacco
ctsture, and live by il to great extent, and
as the crop this year was promising the loss
is keenly felt. 1t is estimated that in Broad
Brook at least so per cent. of the crop Is
ruined.
Great damage was done in Providence. r.
l., tuesday afternoon, by thunder storm.
The rain fell in torrents, flooding the streets
and cellars and Outlying the highways.
! The streets of Newark, and Orange, N. j.,
were flooded Tuesday morning by a heavy
rain. At Newark, travel on the Erie and
Paterson Railroad was interrupted for an hour
by the breaking of the track
A man named Ringgold was struck and
fatally injured by lightning, in Washington,
! ID. c., Tuesday evening.
A very heavy rain storm occurred in the
lower part of Washington county, Nd, on
the 9th instant, raising the water in the Ches-
apeake and Ohio Canal until it overhowed
the banks in some places AT Joel Charles
MILL two miles east of Four Locks, and sew
enty-six miles east of Cumberland, the tow
path gave way to fearful extent variously
stated at from so to 200 feet. 1t is believed,
however, by well-informed canal men that
the break is not over sixty feet long, but as
the bank is washed away for eight feet below
the bottom of the canal, it is bad one, and
hive days or even n week or more may be re-
quired to repair it.