The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-04-27
Terrific Storms.

mills are almost entirely suspended, roads
impossible, and as the roads and bridges are
washed away, communication is cut of.
/ Many buildings in the course of overhowed
creeks were washed away. Snow is still fall
ing. Belle Fourche river, heretofore crossed
/ by Bismarck stage, is now three miles wide
and very deep. Passengers are being ferried
across in skitfs, coaches being unable TO cross
at any point.
During Monday night and Tuesday fore
| noon a terrific rain and thunder storm pre-
vailed at Memphis. A bridge over the Bayou
Gayoso, at Second street, costing SIS, 900,
was swept away. 1t is feared the planting
interests in that section have suffered severely
from the unprecedented rains ofthe past week.
st. Louis was also visited by one of the heav-
lest storms known. Rain fell in torrents,
| flooding the streets and cellars, and doing a
! good deal of damage. Nearly three inches
of water fell both at Memphis and St. Louis.
A terrific hail storm at Fort Concho, Texas,
on the 18th killed one horse and stampeded
200 others. Hail stones an inch an a-half fell
to the depth of more than a foot.
There were severe tornadoes in Iowa and
/ Illinois on Sunday and Sunday night. Storm
Lake and Wall Lake, Iowa, suffered much
damage, and several persons are reported
killed and injured. At Galesburg and Buda,
/ H., there was extraordinary rain and hail,
y
inches in circumference. Glass was smashed,
property in the houses and stores damaged,
and vegetation injured. A telegram from
Sioux City, Iowa, says the reports received
| there indicate that four persons were killed
and forty injured. Some of the latter are not
expected to recover.
| A dispatch from Wheeling, West Virginia,
April -, says:-0ne of the most terrific
thunder storms ever known here visited the
city this morning Considerably damage was
| done In Bellaire, Ohio, FIVE miles from
here, the damage was very great. In the
/ Bellaire goblet works thirty-fye men were at
work, when the squall struck one of the heavy
stone walls of the building and utterly demol
ished il, the debris covering q number Of the
workmen. II. Small and c. COnnors were IA
tally injured and have since died. d. Hand
ley had his arms and legs broken badly, and
]. Grady, C. Sullivan, w. G. Gill and G.
Ray were seriously injured. The other men
escaped by pure good luck. The glass-works
will sustain heavy loss in material, etc.
One of the large window-glass factories was
also damaged badly, while several warehouses
and dwellings were torn to fragments. Peo-
pie on the street were hurled from their feet,
and milk wagon and horse were lifted from
the ground and blown across the wide street
and mashed against the front of house. The
! loss is unknown, but it is we'll up in the thou
sands
A dispatch from Warren, Ohio, April "A,
says:-A heavy wind and rain storm passed
over this place this morning. The roof of
the new Methodist church was blown off.
During the storm Judge Nation Subtitle
dropped dead from apoplexy.
The damage by the storm is much greater
| than supposed at first The casting house of
the furnace was blown down. Truesdale &
demolished and several houses we're wrecked.
| A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga, April "a,
says:-A special to the Constitution states
that cyclone passed over section of coun-
| try four miles from Rome, Ca, clearing
everything as it went AS far as heard from
eight persons we're injured. Several horses
aud mules were killed; trees, three feet in d.
ameter, were twisted off and swept away; nine
dwellings were blown down. The path of
the cyclone was three hundred yards wide,
passing from southwest to northeast.
A dispatch from Cumberland, Nd, April
| "a, says:--A terrific wind and rain storm
struck this city this evening about six o'clock.
About twenty houses we're more or less dam
aged. The residence of Col. Charles Gilpin
had the front blown out bodily. Belvidere
Hall was nearly unroofed. Chimneys, trees,
signs, fences, &c, we're demolished. No
one hurt.
A dispatch from St. Paul, Mimi, April a,
says:-A Bismarck special transmits an &C.
count Of three distinct shocks OF earthquake
at Glendone, on the Yellowstone, on the 18th.
They occurred at intervals of half an hour.
The ground opened for distance of five hun
bred yards with sitting smell of sulphur.
The creviee revealed q five-foot coal vein.
THE LATEST.
A dispatch from Sioux City, Iowa, April
25, says Sundays storm did greater dam
age than anticipated in previous reports In
the vicinity of Wall Lake hardly house or
fence escaped injury. The Catholic church
at Carroll was completely demolished. The
house of Daniel Lietz was blown down, and
a child torn from its mothers arms by the
wind was found in marsh east of the house,
while Mrs. Lietz was found half mile west.
The ground is strewn with disemboweled and
dead ducks, geese, etc. Many head of cattle
were killed. Peter Anderson's house, barn
and granary, all well stocked, were demol-
ished, and not thing of value can be found
on the place. A number of other barns and
houses were also destroyed in the same
vicinity
Heavy loss of lite and property is reported
at a Swedish settlement in Crawford county,
but the particulars are wanting. VIM Hol.
len was borne up into the air and has not been
seen since. A boy last seen driving cattle
home, has also mysteriously disappeared
Vim. Beach and two sons, near Sac City,
were killed. Peter Lampman, Of Ida City,
was instantly killed. In the same locality ten
houses were destroyed, and FIVE persons
killed and ten wounded.
The storm of Wednesday caused great dam
age to property in the States of Ohio, Ken
lucky, Indiana and Illinois. The rain fell in
torrents, and in some places took the form of
hail. The force of the wind uprooted trees,
demolished or unroofed buildings, and made
a general prostration of fences. On half an
acre of land at Somerset, Kentucky, forty
four trees were uprooted At Kensington,
Ohio, a brick schoolhouse was demolished,
injuring nearly ell the children within 1t, some
quite seriously.
A rain storm commenced last Friday morn
ing and continued with slight intermssion
until Tuesday afternoon throughout North
Mississippi, West Arkansas, West Tennessee
and North Alabama, doing great damage to
buildings, fences and the crops. Eight inches
and half of rain fell, causing the creeks and
bayous to overflow the bottom lands.