Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-07-17
Terrible Storm.

COOG altcf U cluch yCs.cidaY tlViuUIL |
storm If great violence burst over BJsio1, iis!.
Jog about % miuutc5, doing great damage 10
lito and property. May small yachts Md
otter boats were capsz, ard The schooner Mgr |
tie, ot Charicslowu, .a7iog On boald SIX pr
sol S, four wom"n and mat aud toy. The
schooner was cap;izad off Bird Island. AID all
excepting the man. Thomas Dlaham, vic
clurs TO The topmast. wtre drowned. Tho
bodies were recovered by Il tug AID taken to
the city. A boy was also drowned By the cap
sizing of boat of Hull. Tho damage through
out Tue city will probably amount 10 many
Thousand dollars. la The southwestern part 81
tho town it was particularly severe. Hail fell
10 large quantities, and large number OF wln'
doss were broken. Many trees were blown
dowp, and sonc houses uprOoicd, chluntys
toppled over, and the food 10 sone OF the
streets formed q stream several iCchcs in depth
the Catholic Cathedral, Madison Block and
the Metropolitan Hotel were damaged by hail
aud had windows broken.
Onc of the wors. tornadocs that ever visited
the vicinity passed over Ntchbufg, Mass, yes.
| terday, 1t lasted but three minutes. ADD oil
| the damage was done in that time. The splre
of tho Up7erFalist Church vas hurled in!o
Main street. The ito roof Of the City Hall vas
launched into The street. The castcry wall OF
| The extension to tho Oily Hall, which was in
| process Of construction, was blown down aud
several workmen narrowly escaped being buried
| in tho ruins. Nearly all Ct tho treas along the
street from the Fi,chburs Hotel to the Episec'
pal Church were blown down or broken cit as
were sevcra! on Hartwel, Richard AID other
streets. Many houses lost all their chlnneys,
seven falling from the Fitchburg Hotel. The
damage to the City Hall is estimated at 81 900:
Shingles were torn from many bulldogs, and
much glass was broken throughout the city.
| A tornado from the west struck the s,uthcrn
suburbs Of Pittsfsld, Mass. yesterday evening"
Two persons we're killed and three or four
wounded, soma fatally. BuIdioGs wtro uD-
rooted AID blown down, hundreds Of trees level
cd, and fully SIS 900 or $40. 900 damage done.
| Northampton suffered the loss Of her famous
Gins, some Of them three feet 10 diameter.
which were tern up By the roots The Mansion
| House was also uaroofed. At Berlin. Mass, a
barn owned by Madame Rudersdoilf was de-
molished, man and two horses being nstsDt-
Iy killed, man i.jlrsd beyond hope OF reeoV'
cry, and two men seriously irirced.
| The hurricane struck Nan!a:ket Beach about
half-past five. The Albion House. large
hotel, end two large 5aras belonging to the
hotel were completely wrecked, turylcg
driver and the cock, beneath the ruins. The
former was badly bruised The latter had a
shoulder dlsocatcG ADD was othcrTl5o iJurfc
both externally aDd internally. 1hompSCu's
photograph car was bCwa TO spllnteEs. aud
CGarles A,kert, the artist, received It1rcs
which will probably prove fatal. \ cotcn was
overturned and three year OLD child was
| hined.
Litter dispatches show iha; The strrm WAS
general in all that section Ct the country, hail
of extraordinary sz, falling 10 many places,
houses uurot itJ baT1s bowed over, aud macy
people Injured by filing limb:r, &c.
LATER.
| Boston, July l7.-AilIionai particulars Of
yesterdays great storm como IN from all d.
rccto1s and The loss Ct lives is greater than
was at first supposed. Captain TtrrI, OF the
schooner IL. w. Foster, bound 10 Wrytaou.h,
with c,al, was washed overheard at Hull aud
vas drcwocd. \ sloop was srnn to orertura
off Baker island, near Hyde Park, and other
suburban towns all report heavy losses and
general d,mege to property OF all descriptions.
| Two bodies we're washed ashore al Hull and WIRE
| Identified as those Ct Charles B aeon, of BJs;on,
and Mr.. Churchill.
| PRovIDENCs. July 1.-THE tent CT = circus
was partly Frustrated ut pnoriz yesterday hy
| the storm, cau:irg SOME p,rS)ua IT. ltlcs.
| Mr.. Matteson oil CovcOlry mad both legs broken.
John Iloallnd's honsc at jamestown and
Lewis Carr barn 10 Warren We're stIu.k by
lightning last night. The former was badly dam
aged and the latter Was entirely burned n7olvlnc
| Q considerable lCss
Boston, July l7.-Tso boats cap7z. of
Scilua,e yesterday and 1hrs llsrris,c Sc'uatc.
| Lewis Paul and another man, holh ct Ho''nn,
were drowned.