The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-09-21
Butler is said to be worth $4,000, 900
not counting the spoons
The EQuinOctial Storm.

The storm last week did great damage in
Western Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Vir.
GINA, Ohio, and portions of Canada. In
Western Pennsylvania the rain lasted three
days, the storm reaching the climax with a
furious gale of wind on Thursday night.
Telegraph lines we're postrated, and travel on
the Western railroads was interrupted by
wash-outs. At Meadville the creek running
through the town was flooded, and 500. 600
worth of property was destroyed. A freight
train on the Atlantic and Great Western
Railroad broke through bridge three miles
from the town, and the engineer, fireman,
and brakeman were drowned. On Friday
morning man was drowned by falling into
the swollen creek in MeadvIlle. A train on
the Erie and Pittsburg road ran into Gull
vert near Shenango, killing the engineer and
fireman and fatally injuring the brakeman.
house was swept away at Guntown, near
Conneautville, and it is feared several lives
have been lost. At Geneva a man and a
boy were drowned. In Virginia great dam
age was done by the wind, as well as rain.
many hSgsss in Chesterfield, Henrieo and
Hanover counties being biowi, 5GSE. end a
number of persons injured. The river at
Lynchburg rose rapidly. Bridges on various
railroads were demolished. In West Virgin.
ia, the rain at Wheeling was the heaviest and
steadiest ever known there, and travel on all
the railroads was stopped. Similar reports
come from Cleveland and other places in
Ohio. At gainesville man was drowned
by breaking adrift of steam barge. In Can
ada the Great Western, Grand Trunk and
Toronto and Nipissing Railways suffered
and navigation on the Welland Canal stopped
A man has been drowned at Markham, Ont
Later reports of the floods caused by the
ehauy TINT thar
in Eastern Ohio and Western PENNSYLVANIA
down to beyond the West Virginia border.
The rain fall at Steubenvile, Ohio, was 8
inches in "a hours, and at Youngstown, in
the same State, inches in u hours The
loss in Youngstown and the county is estima-
ted at 100000. BY the flood in the Mahon-
ing river, several dwellings we're swept away,
aud the rolling mill of Brown, Bonnel 4
Co., Morse Bridge Works, Nimrod Furnace,
Andrews Furnace and Dingleby & Co. s lum-
Der yard, almost totally destroyed The Pan
Handle, Pittsburg, Wheeling and Kentucky
and Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroads were
interrupted. Three men were killed on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, two men on
the Pan Handle Road, and :hree men on the
Erie and Pittsburg Railroad by wash outs.
On the latter road two men were also injured.
one fatally. Theloss at Mechanicsville, Ohio.
is estimated at $4,000. At Salem. Ohio.
two train hands were severely injured by the
falling of bridge. Near Alliance, Ohio.
the engineer and fireman of coal train were
dangerously injured from the same cause.
In Meadville, Penn, the food began to sub
side on Saturday afternoon, and the bodies
of two of the three train hands killed near the
place were recovered. One farmer in the
neighborhood lost 150 sheep, which were
pasturing in the lowlands. From all points
IN the Lake region of Canada come reports
of the destruction of buildings, bridges and
culverts and interruption of railway travel
At Brantford, Ont, three men we're drowned.
and at Gait boy was lost.
Reports from Youngstown, Ohio, on Mon
day night, say the food is subsiding, but over
100 families were still prevented from return
ing to their dwellings by the water Thirty
bridges in Mahoning county are gone, and
the total damage in the county is now estima-
ted at S300,0O0. At Warsaw, Ohio, the
Cleveland and Mahoning Railroad bridge, an
iron structure valued at So, 900, was destroy.
ed on Sunday. Travel on the Atlantic and
Great Western, and Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
and Chicago Railroads has been resumed
1t is still suspended on the Erie and Pitts
burg and Chesapeake and Ohio Railroads,
and there is great blockade of freight and
passengers at Charlestown, W. Va. Travel
by the kenesaw route in Virginia has been
resumed.