The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-18
THE LATE TORNADO.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS OF THE STORM IN AND
ABOUT BosroN-IMMENsE DAMAGE DONE
PARTICULARS OF THE SAD LOSS OF THE Dun
DON FAMILY.
Boston. Mass. July II, 1879.
Additional particulars of yesterday great storm
come in from all directions and the loss OF life Is
greater than Mt first supposed Captain Terrill.
of the schooner H. W. Foster, bound to Weymouth
with coal. washed overheard at Hull and
drowned. sloop was seen to overturn off Bakers
Island. Salem. and all on board are known to
have been drowned. Search was made to-day for the
bodies. An unknown boy was washed of yacht in
the harbor and drowned and the rest Of the crew
were picked up by the steamer Stanford. John
Berry. of South Boston. was overturned near Pad
docks Island and was drowned. The body has not
been recovered. At Dover. Mass. unknown man
was killed and the town hall demolished.
The steamer Norman. Of the Boston and Philadel-
phia line, was forced ashore at South Boston, but
got OF and proceeded.
An unknown was killed by lightning back of
the Rockland House, Nantasket.
AT BRooKLINE.
Brookline suffered heavy losses the steeple of the
Baptist Church being blown to the ground and the
Town Hall was badly damaged.
Newton, Salem, Brighton, Hyde Park and other
suburban towns all report heavy losses and general
damage 10 properly OF all QeScrlptlOn.
Two bodies we're washed ashore at Hull and were
identified those of Charles Bacon OF Boston, and
a Mr.. Churchill.
The hurricane struck Nantasket Beach at alb out
half past five O'Clock. The Albion House, large
hotel and two large barns belonging to the hotel
were completely wrecked. burying Charles O'Hara.
q driver and Anna Oglesby. the cook. beneath the
ruins The former was badly bruised and the latter
jured, both externally and internally. Thompson's
photograph car was blown to splinters and Charles
Ackert the artist. received injuries which
will probably prove fatal. At Nantasket q
coach was overturned and three-year-old child
OF w. H.. Joy, Of South Weymouth. was
badly injured about the head The house of William
n Lee on Centre House Hin. was blown to snlnters
The new grocery store OF H. Cross was blown
and driven through the side of Lincoln's cafe. The
shreads. and barn back Of Union House, In which
two ladies and three gentlemen, was lifted and
and william sanders-were bruised good
deal about the arms and bodies fancy wind
mill ut Atlantic House knocked to pieces.
Many other small buildings and also conveyances
turned inside out, and many boats ana yachts
were lost those in them being rescued with diff
Guilty. One end OF Wade's grocery store. ct Straw
berry Hill, was blown in.
YACHTS CAPsIZED.
A yacht capsized of the beach. and before they
could be rescued four unknown persons down.
Two yachts capszed near Governors Island, and one
man, two women aud two children drowned.
The captains on the Boston aud Nantxsket line
they never experienced such gale before. Women
and children were greatly alarmed, and there was
much distress Many hundred panes of glass were
smashed by the large hail which fell. The loss ut
Nanaset estimated at from $50 900 to $50 900 and
that at Weymouth at 81 600.
VARIOUS PLACES.
The spire on the Adams Academy. at Quincy was
blown off and other damage done amounting to
about s2.750.
OF q house. doing no damage. but frightening the in
mates badly. The lightning struck in several
places at East Weymouth.
A large wind mill. used by the Boston and Provi-
dence Railroad Company for pumping water at the
engine house at Dedham. was completely demol-
ished.
house near Oakdale station was struck by light
ming and badly damaged.
Reports from Danversport, North Beverly. Marble
head Saugus, Nahant. Salem Lynn and other points
immediately surrounding Boston give accounts of
more or less damage. but this far those points
port no loss OF life.
rHH LOSS OF THE puNpoS FAMILY
One OF the most melancholy incidents is the sad
reported. The .party, numbering six persons. and
consisting of Mr. Thomas Dundon, engineer on
board Of the lightship at Woods Hole his wife, two
niece. Miss Lizzie Dundon. and Master Arthur Ream,
left Chnrlestown about hap eight o'clock in the
zach, Myrtle and passed the early portion on Of the
don made sail for the city. and by squat
on Birds Island flats. off East Boston Point. Find
ing it impossible to reach the city. Mr.. Dundon
placed his wife. two sisters and niece in the yachts
tender. before the boy and himself could get
board the tender was down away from the yacht
and swamped. the yacht meeting the
fate. MIR. Dundon was forward when the
yacht went down. and he chung to the
mast long it of water,
and then drfted toward the shore and was picked
up in an exhausted condition by the tug Vim, which
had brig in tow. The bodies OF Mrs. Dundon his
sister Mary Ann. aged forty five. and his niece Lizzie
aged twelve. the daughter of Captain Dundon of the
buoy boat Daisy, were also recovered by the of
the tug Vim at late hour last evening. The bodies
of Miss Susan Dundon. aged twenty-eight, and
Master Arthur Ream, aged fourteen. had not been
recovered
At Newton there great damage. The hail
smashed q large amount OF valuable stained glass in
the Grace Episcopal and Eliot Congregational
churches.
There many accidents from runaway horses.
MOHE BOATS CAPsIzED.
Two boats capsized of Scituate yesterday and
Thomas Harris of Scituate, Lewis Paul and another
man, both of Boston. were drowned.
DROWNED OFF LONG ISLAND.
Charles Baxter, aged twenty five. and Marcelus
Bent. aged twenty-five, were drowned yesterday off
Long Island by the capsizng OF their boat. The
house of Mrs. Hay den. at South Braintrce.
partially destroyed by the storm yesterday aud
she and young lady seriously injured. They
were brought to the Massachusetts, General Hospital
to-day.