Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-10
r .ERRIBLE STORMS.
STREET.-THE TORNADO 1T VAL
LINGFORD, CONN.
-xys.Uy 1AIiIeu, Large NumDer
Wounded and Great Destruction of Prop
erty----Heavy Storms From the New
Hampshire Coast Into Canada--A Schoon-
err Split From Stem to Stern by Lightning.
TORNADO IN CONNECTICUT.

Wallingford, demolished the cid Catholic
church on the plaips and ther levellcd some
twenty houses III WallaGes row. Other houses
were moved and injured. Gong up the hill
the tornado dashed to the ground a $4,000
brick school house and then passed over the
hill, swapping big elm trees if they were
mere reeds and laying PROSTATE telegraph
poles. Several persons kaye been killed and
many wounded, and the village authorities
have sent 10 Meridian for doctors.
MERIDIAN, Conn, Aug 9.-The severest storm
Ct thunder, lightning, rain and wind ever
known in Meridian occurred this afternoon be-
tween and Z. The shop of Bradley q
Hubbard was badly damaged about the roof.
Many chimneys and trees were blown down,
but no lives / st.
AT wALLINGFoGD, CONN.
WALLINaFoRD, Conn, Aug. GA terrible
tornado passed over Wollingford about 6 this
afternoon, and Blew houses, uprooted
trees an caused the greatest devastation. 1t
is estimated that the killed will number at
present at least twenty, while the wounded
VIII reach that number. Telegrap pin wires and
poles were blown down, making it impossi BILE
to communicate with New Haven on the south
MeridU Hartford to the north. Word
was finally sent by the up o'clock train to
the two places. and on next down express,
which leaves Meridian at 1880 came physicians
and help. The greatest excitement prevails,
and the widest rumors ale afoat to the loss
of life. The tornado confined to a belt of
territory about half mile wide, and the wlclc
loss of life took place on the sand plains. about
D quarter of no lie north of the railroad sta
ton, near the line of the New York New Haven
IL Hartford railroad
At o'clock, while the men wer. leaving the
factories, gentle rain began to fall, while
almost continuous and vivid LIGHTNING illum-
,uatea the darkened sky bright as day, and
thunder rolled with increasing and deafening
roar. Then, without warning, u tornado, with
hail and rain, swept across the northern part
jf the town. from west to cast and anything
movable in its track was carried aW&ys 1t
seemed 10 last but moment, but its results
were frghtful. Afterwards light rain fell,
end that ceased, and at o'clock the moon
SHOWN brightly down upon o scene Of desoa-
ton. By actual count forty dwelling houses
were demolished and at least fifty barns.
The following among the killed,
nearly all by house falling. In the Plaine
school house, on chldren's desks, lay the bodies
of Mrs. Margaret Mooney, john Mooney and
Tracy and wife, and MIS- Joseph Haldy and
infant child, Frederick Littlewood, Mrs. Jno.
Boyle and Mrs. John Lynch making II in all
Besides John Caspian, aged IL, II daughter of
Robert Saunders, and Thomas Daley's child,
Mrs. Il. Downs, Katie Cauahlin, eyed 70, Fat
tick Q Mel child, and John Hayden, aged 16,
all certainly among the killed and is poss1-
BILE one or two more are among the ruins. In adj
dition Patrick o Mel had his head and shoulder
badly cut; Mary Healey, age l6, is dying; John
Clyne, aged Az had his arm broken; John Cas-
pen, age l6, had his skull fractured; Mary Ann
Rourke, age Is, dying; Mrs. Couglin, badly in
iured; Mary Tracy, wounded; John. of
Frederick Littlewood, dying; four of Thomas
Mathews family wounded two women in John
Munson's family injured; Chas; Parmalee, leg
hurt; Michael Kelly, wounded internally;
Henry Jones hurt about the head; Patrick
NaiJ Il Obi nuI lin iniu 100
unknown; Lawrence Downes. injured badly,
and daughter dying There are many others,
whose names could not be ascertalned.
The scene memorable one. The wooden
houses were carried clear off their foundations,
from few feet to the height of q mile. In
the line of the tornado nothing was left stand
ing, and on each side of the track lesser dam
age done. chimneys especially suffering.
The Catholic church, wooden, and the new
brick High school were totally demolished.
The top of the brick factory of the Walling-
ford community, was carried away. Fire was
communicated to the ruins in many cases by
lamps and stoves, and but for the rain the hor-
ror of the affair would have been greatly in
creased.
The youth, Matthew Mooney standing
On the railroad track when struck by the tor
nado He was pi .ked up fifty feet away, al
most beheaded. Mrs. Haldy had her child IN
her arms. When picked up both We're dead
and almost seal ped. Fred Littlewood was
picked np dead by the side of road where he
was killed by flying timber. He was coming
home from work. -Four female relatives OF
John Munson, up town, We're buried in the
cellar OF the house, when blown down, and it
took long while to- get them out. Two were
injured slightly; the other two nnhurt.
Michael Kelly while driving in a
buggy in the eastern part OF
the town, was blown over precipice some thirty
feet. He and the horse were slightly in jured
Ono mar, had m a
mt cf existence, Barns were Lifted clear OF
the hay contained therein, and the latter LET
standing. Roofs of innnmerable houses were
taken off. The railroad tracks were not dis
turbed and trains are running as usual. lhrtl
John Hoey, aged y, fearing the trains woult
be DELAYED, rode horseback six miles tt
Meridian. to get medical help. At late hou
the selectmen telegraphed Gov. Hubbard ask
ing that the local militia company be called on
to give AID.
MIDNIGHT AT wALL1NGFoRD.
WArIINeFoRD, Conn, Aug. 9.-At midnigh
the complete list of dead in the Plains schoo
house is IA follows: Thomas Casper, his step
mother, Mrs Maria Boyle Conrad Tracy, wifi
and l5-vear-old son; Mrs. Margaret Mooney, he
son, John Mooney, and wife and two children
Matthew and Nellie; Mrs. j. Haldy and baby
1Irs. Edward Downs and daughter, Mary; Kat
Coughin; Patrick ONeilrs two young chi
dren John and Patrick; Mrs Michael 'Eoope
and Fred Littlewood In addition Mrs. job
Lynch is dead and has been carried home; an
if the children noted in the former dispatch c
severely wounded die the death list at mos
will not exceed thirty. The tornado was COZ
fined in length to two miles, and about qua
tor of mile in width. There are no deaths
lightning. John Padden is reported dead, ais
several children. whose bodies have been take
home by friends. The damage to property
estimated at BOO, coo.
STORMS IN THE NORTHEAST.
Boston, Aug. GA succession of shower
accompanied by heavy thunder and sha
lightning, visited this section to-day and co
siderable damage was done. AT Rye Beach,
n. at noon, a terrific storm is reported.
was quite vide and in some places IN its pal
whole sections of woodland were blown dow
The bridge of the bathing beach was swe
away chimneys were demolished, Owe
iugs were flooded and wrecked and L
substantial buildings ieveiiea. a ooafol
house near the bathing beach was blown dow
and N T.. Gates boarding house on The bea
was split in two. Acres OF woodland have I
D. standing stick, and few chinneys in
track of the storm remain.
At Cape Vincent, N. Y, in storm last mig
Tho Presbyterian and Catholic churches,
railroad warehouse and dwelling were mt
do,nared BY lightning. The storm on the
Lawrence was terrible. Telegraph lines W
all Frustrated and no trains arrived to-day,
barns filed with grain were burned.
At Belleville. Ont. to-day, the wind {
liohtning did much damage to houses, ba
md outlying grain, while in Toronto +
houses were considerably injured by iightnl
IN NORTHERN NEW YORK.
WATEnTowN, N. Y, Aug. 9.--Trains over l'
soaaa hereabouts, stopped by the storm
nsght. asa nos expected 10 be cumming again