Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-04-26
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i severe lhGuder storm visited Whccilog
"Wednesday morning. Considerable damage was
| done. lie B:iIsire, Ohio, the damage was very
great. Ia the Bc!!airc goblet works thirty h7c
men were at WORK, when the slusl' struck one ot
the icagy sluue walls Of the buiIci9g and utter
ly demolished it, the debris COVERING a number
of the workmcD. r. Sms,l aud q. Connegs
were killed. D. Hsndley lad hisa aud LEGS
b,okeo badly, and J. Grady, Z. Sullivan, W.
G. Gill and &. Ray were seriously ibi ured. The
glass works sustained heavy loss. One Of the
large window glass factories Ess also damaged
badly, while several warehouses end dwellings,
were torn to fragments People on the street
we're hurled from their feet, aud milk wagon
aud horse were lifted from the grouad AMI
blown across the wide street aad mashed against
the front OF house. 49,.
There is considerable interest felt by tho Gill
zaDs ia the movements of the Comm lnists OF
Chicago. They are sctively ct work, drilling
and armioe With breach loading flf2s Upon
being questioned they confess they are pre-.
psriog for future emergencies, but say they
will act merely 10 sell dcfcnce, and W Il not
fomeDt disorder. There arc about 5000 Of
them in that city, AID it is stated that tron
ouc to t5o thousand are arm ID cd drill weekly.
The police force are watching their movements
to prevent q recurrence ct The riot 81 last
July.
The schooner Paul Sea7y arrived at New
Orleans yesterday from Laguayra, bringing as
passengers 262 cmlgrants, originally irlm To-
land, who went II South America TO t0rm
colony, but after they had made Improvements
on their lauds the Government removed them
to another locality, and becoming discouraged
az the prospect OF not being permitted to enjoy
Il L.. 1ok1
Young to take them back to Poland. Not
su,ccedings ia this. they embarked With Capt.
Young tor New Orleans The probabilities are
they will remain 10 Leu siany
Patrick Irwin, first President Of the Hibcr
uis Babk, sub5equr n!ly Presl1eot Ct the til.
oqruia Insurance Conpang ADD one Of the
founders Of the street railway system Of New
Ole,ns, died suddenly yesterday oi anoF!-Z3,
aged GS years. hr. lrwin Was on the street 10 the
morning. His personal and real estate is es.
mated at $4,000 900.
A cyclone has devastated socli0n of couo.
try four mics from Rome, Georgia, three huu
drcd yards wide, passing from southwest 10
norsheast. Trees three feet in diameter were
twisted oT nioe dwellings blown down and
eight persons injured, and many bOrsos auo
mules killed.
The Chicago aud Southern Railroad Wcdues
Day was bouebt in The United States Court by
Henry A. Rust. The price paid fur the road
was sl55.00U
Tie Windsor Hotel at Coburp Ontario, vas
burncd yests risy. By tie fallog of a wall
three frcmtn w~re lostautiy killed, aud an
Their fatally i,jursd.
M,rtio Bergen, MoIlie Maaulte. has beeu
o,pr;cted al PutisviiI. Pa. ct murder 10 the
hrs: dcsre' f. killing Patrick; Burosaa Tusca
rora i. 1870
THE LATE STonM.-A d!spa,ch IRON Sioux
CitY says: Sundays storm did greater dam.
age thao anticipated in previous reports. 10
the vicinity OF Wall Lake hardly house or
feuce escaped injury. The Catholic Church at
Car oil Was COMPLETELY demolished. The
house Of D,uiel Letz vas blown d3wo, and
child torn from its mother arms By the who'd
was tCuld ID marsh cast OF the house, while
Mrs. Letz was found half mile west. Tee
er0u1d is strewn with discmhoweted aud dead
duoks, geese, etc, Macy head Ct cattle were
killed. Pear Auderson's hou:e, barn ADD
granary, all we'll stocked, were demolished,
and not thug Of value CAP be found Oh the
place. A rumbcr Of other barns aud houses
were also destroyed IN the same vicinity.
Heavy less Of Lie and property i, reported
at Swedish settlement in CraHtJrd county,
but the particulars are wanting. VIM. Hol!en
vas borne up into The air, ard has not been
seen sGce. 4 boy last seen driving cattle
home has also mysterousIy disappeared. VIM
Beach and lwo sons, GEAR Sac CITY. welU
killed. Peter L,upnan, Of Ids Ufy, was ia.
stap,ty killed. II the same locality Too houses
we're destroyed, and fivs parsoas killed aud ten
wounded.