The daily gazette., 1881-09-05
Ths 9aily Gazstts,
ENTERED AT WILMINGTON PosT.oFFICE
AS sECoND-CLAss NATTER.
FIRST EDITION.
WILD BOREAs.
Saturdays storn-Wfnd, Hail,
Thunder and observation-disclosures

Saturdays storm-wfnd, Hail,
Thunder and Lightning-Damag
Done.
Shortly after 3 O'Clock on Saturday
afternoon dark lowering clouds were
noticed in the northwestern heavens
which seemed to be approaching this
section of the country at q rapid rate.
Soon the sun was obscured, and, so
dark did 1t become that in many
stores 1t was necessary to light the
gas.
In the meantime low rumbling
thunder would be heard and ever
and anon the heavens were lighted
up with forked tongues of lightning.
Then it was that people became
aware of the fact, that storm was
approaching. As the clouds neared
they became somewhat lighter plain
ly showing that wind might also be
expected.
About A o'clock, with q suddenness
that was totally unexpected, the storm
burst upon the city, aud for about thirty
minutes 1t rained with unabated fury.
1t did moi come down 10 drops, but II
seemed as though the very food gates Of
heaven had been opened as the rain
came down In sheets and the terrible
force of the wind whirled 1t around like
q water 81 out. Added to this were the
vivid flashes Of lightning, followed by
the almost deafening peals OF thunder,
resembling the sharp discharges of q
cannon.
In less than ten minutes after the rain
commenced the gutter In all parts Of
the city resembled young rivers, so
great was the volume Of water rushing
down them. Those who had left barrels
or boxes sitting on the curb stone had
them carried away with the rushing
food.
The hucksters around Fourth and
King streets stood sadly under the avn
ings in store doors and gazed upon hun
dreds Of waternelons that were being
carried down the cutters. So great was
the force OF tho wind that trees, which
had withstood the storms of years. were
whipped of like co'ks from champagne
bottles.
| DAMAGE DONE.
Considerable damage was done In va
rlous parts of the city. The roof oi
Stewards large foundry, Front and Mad
ison streets, was lifted from its fasten-
ings as though 1t were but sheet OF pa.
per, and blown against the large smoke
stack damage about $500.
Al Sixth and Monroe streets, Allen
Ruth Is erecting :ow of houses fol
Jesse Bingham. The force of the wind
and rain together 50 loosened the walls
Of the corner house that they fell into
The cellar with loud crash estimated
damage about 5000.
The new canning factory being erected
over Eleventh street bridge by Jshn
Moir q Son was also damaged by one oi
the sides being blown In.
A large ventilator on the Hilles q
Jones boiler shop and also an iron
smokestack on the works of the same
firm alse succumbed to the fury of the
storm.
A number of the unfinished traps
being put In by the city became choked
up, flooding the streets and doing con
siderable damage.
The lightning also played its part In
the storm. A large bolt descended
upon the hardware store of James &
Bro, No. 204 Market street, leaving Q
large hole in the roof. The burglar
alarm in the tailoring establishment o.
Ferd Cai son was struck and exploded
with loud report. Chas. W. Schurz
q workman, who was sitting near the
alarm at the time, was knocked almos
senseless by the shock.
The signal tower at Bellevue station
on the p, w. & B. R. r., was alst
struck aud slightly damaged. An an
finished house over Eleventh sire
bridge was also considerably damaged
! by being struck with bolt.
The fire alarm gongs In the differen
, engine houses were kept cracking al
most necessarily by the electric fluid
there being no means Of turning off tn
current.
ri During the storm considerable hal
fell, some of the stones being as larg
as shellbarks.
The boards over the gutter that run
= under the p, w. & B. r. r. at Popla
street, were washed away, and mum
ber of workmen from the Pusey
Jones Company narrowly escape
drowning by falling into them, the
being unable to see that the quite
was open on account Of the rain an
p water.
Altogether 1t was . storm that hs
seldom If ever been seen in this sec
tion, even by tho "oldest inha oitant,
and it was well calculated to make u
= timid feel even more timid.
But very little ,ain fell at Now Cal
II tie, AID none at all down the Delawal
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