Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-07-18
MASSACHUSETTS.

Boston, July 17.-During a
storm yesterday at Nantucket, the
house of w. FL. Lee, on Centre
House hill, was blown to splinters.
A new grocery store was blown
over and driven through the side of
Lincoln's cafe. A skating rink and
connections were blown to shreds,
and barn in which were two ladies
and three gentlemen, was lifted and
carried eight feet, and two of the
men were badly bruised. Many
boats and yachts were lost and the
occupants rescued with difficulty.
A yacht capsized off the beach and
four persons were drowned. The
bodies of three unknown men
washed ashore at Hull. Two yachts
capsized near Governors Island,
and one man, two women and tive
children were drowned.
Captains on the Boston and Nan
tucket line say that they never ex-
perienced such a gale before.
Many hundred panes of glass
were smashed by the large hail
which fell. The loss at Nantucket
is estimated at from $4,000 to 50,-
900. The spire on Adams Acade-
my, at Quincy, was blown off, and
other damage done. The large
windmill used by the Boston and
Providence Railroad Company for
pumping water at the engine-house
at Dedham was completely demol-
ished. A house near Oakdale sta
ton was struck by lightning and
badly damaged.
i Reports from Danver's Port,
North Beverley, Marblehead, SAM
gus, Nahant, Salem, Lynn and
other points Immediately surround
ing Boston give accounts of more
or less damage, but report no loss
of life. One of the most melan-
choly incidents of the storm is the
sad fate of the Dundon family at
Charlestown. The party num-
bering six persons, consisting
of Thomas Dundon, engineer
on board of the light ship
at Woods Hall, his wife, two sisters
Mary Ann and Susan Dundon, his
neice Lizzie Dundon and Master
Arthur Ream, left Charlestown
about 81 o'clock in the yacht
Myrtle, passed in the early portion
of the day below. Seeing the ap-
preaching storm Dundon made sail
for the city and was met by squall
on Birds Island fats off East Bos-
ton Point. Finding it impossible to
reach the city Dundon placed his
wife, her two sisters and niece in the
yachts tender. Before the boy
and himself could get on board, the
tender was blown away from the
yacht and swamped, the yacht
meeting the same fate. Dundon
was forward when the yacht went
down, and clung to the mast as long
as it was out of water, then drifted
toward the shore, and was picked
up in an exhausted condition by
the tug Vim, which had the brig in
tow. All the bodies were recovered
except those of Susan Dundon and
and Arthur Ream. At Newton
there was great damage.
Additional particulars arereceived
of the destructive storm which swept
over Massachusetts yesterday. Al
+ Northampton most of the elm trees,
for which the city is famous, were
prostrated. Many houses were un-
ROOTED and several tobacco barns
were demolished. One of the latter
buried a man in its ruins. The
loss of life is greater than at frs
supposed.
Capt. Terrill, of the schooner
Hue Foster, was washed overheard
at Hull and drowned. The slooE
was seen to overturn off Bakers
Island, near Salem, and all or
board, SO far as known, have beer
drowned. Search will be made
to-day for bodies. An un
known boy was washed of
the yacht in the harbor, and
| ldroWned, and the rest of the crew