New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-08


1be raih of destruction being l0S5 feet The wlnd
within the vortex sometimes reaches a velocity %
900 miles an hour, the average velocity oehE o.
miles Tomatoes always move eastward Du' HAY
he swaved from side to side during their progress
The States in which these storms have oeon most
frequent according to the records referred TO- arc
named below:
Sel Period Torga, STATE Period. TS Sos.
Goorria..l s5l1ssl 3 kansas ls}9lssi a. a.
icwS........is54Issi 81 .ls-3-lsS1 -
This table shows that within CT years
States have suffered from SIG tornadoes OF
more than half Of the eniIe number feooi"eu
during 81 years. he weather for the first nan ol
The present year agrees well with the CONCLUSIONS
drawn from the examination Of the tornado
records. Although during the month Of May ter
riGc hail-storms occurred on nearly every day.
there were no general tornadoes. The wind, how
ever. was of sufficient violence at Shreveport
la. Cherokee City, Kan, Petersburg, Va, Hol
SPRINGS. Ark. Waucntbn, Mo-, and Lakeheld'
MIMI TO unroof houses, damage crops ana prop
erty generally. and in some Instances seFeri
persons were killed. In tie Southwest. Nevada
aud Oregon. sand-stoms were frequent, ana 'he
rivers OF the Mississippi Valley were raised lar
above their normal height by many heavy ram
storms The exact number of tODodoes that
until the official investigations have been made as
MANY of the local storms of the month have prob
ably been incorrectly reported as tornadoes. The
6a,t available reports show that anoJt 80 people
lost their lives during the almost daily storms OF the
month and that nearly if not quite, 400 persons re-
ceived wounds that were not fatal The damage TO
crops buildings and other property probably
amounts to about $j,000OO0. Some account al
the damage done during the month by tie storms OF
destructive character IS gwen below, wit@cOa re
Ieatiug The details.
ufE MoSTu OPESED WITH PANS AND B'GH Ms
on june ! much damage was cone by h!ch winds
aud heavy rains 10 trees and fences N tne neisnbos
hood Of birmingham. Iowa. and 81 Paola Kan, The
crops were injured considerably by ? bai-storm
lasting half an hour At Sterling, Kan, hS1+ninS
damaged q dwcllng-house and injured woman
standing near Ter stove. Ia the northern and cen
trd parts Of Wisconsin there were heavy white
f,osts on the 21 vlnie OF Dubuque.
IOWA. Watcrtown VS. Springfield and Clinton
Ill., heavy rains prevailed with bali at Waterfowl,
srd B. 20 inches Of Iaiu al lhe LIMOS capital. IN
June Q aud 4 the Wind w9, high over Lake Mlchl-
gan and two or three schooners were wrecked. tho
entire crews of two being lost wita;n sight Of the
shore. o. tie 4tb destructive hail-storn visited
tie southeastern part Of Virginia ana ho northeast
9ro part Of North Carolina. sever al houses ielng
Iior-u down and large trees being .proO'ef. tour
lives eie lost ard the cotton wheat add coI crops
were badly damaged. L. Northampton County, H.
c. Che lail fcil 20 tho depth of several inches some
Of tie stones Weighing hall pound Al Laredo
Tex on June hail fell for hale an hoGr. and sew
cral houses we're unYoofcd and otherwise damaged.
one man was wounded BY falling walls. ana an
other was beaten 10 death by hailStones. Great
damage WIS doue to tie crops &E1 tie sbeep N tho
Deighborhood.
on the 9th th. railroads in the northwestern pant
Of Missouri we're torn up in places by wate1spout
tue holes being 80 feet deer il places. Or tho
10Th heavy Tau-stonas visited Red Oak aud Bur
lington, Iowa. ard several co10i'es 10 Illinois.
causing floods IL the small streams and washing
cway bridges. Al night wateTsPOdt swept over
Denver doing n great deal of damage. Several
houses near the South Platte River we're swept
away and 1--WE or more lives were lost On
,he l2th the rainfall at Louisville measured
moro than O.7j of inch in one hour
and on the following day inch Of rain fell during
a thunderstorm. Late on the 18Th heavy RAIN
storm east of Clinton, H., damaged the railway
tracks considerably. BY the breaking OF aflcGe
over the Wabash one man was killed and t"o en-
uiues were wrecked. Early Oh the l1th tie NORTH
eastern part of Indianapolis was flooded and several
small cottages along Posue's Run Were carried
away ten OF fifteen inmates being drowned. Other
buildings were damaged by water also, The total
loss beng about $3.50 OOG. On the same day Lcavy
rains fell in southern Indiana and Ohio, the WaleTS
of the Little Miami rising three feet
at Loyeand, Ohio. III an hour The
damage to the railroads injured by the
rain amounted to over 500. 900 Between Indian
apolis and Guilford Ind, f0Gr bridges were rnined
on the Cincinnati. St. Louis and Chicago Railroad
MANY grain fields were flooded, and near Lawrence
burg. Ind over 5000 lcrcsOf corn land was washed
ont On the same day the telegraph poles near Sid
ney Ncb were blown down for distance Of several
milce and much damage to the railroads was caused
by washout, At Eminencc, KY. the crops were in
iurcd by "A heavy rain and hail storm during which
a barn was set on fire by lightning and destroyed
On the 18th small tornado visited Preble County,
Ohio. without doing much damage, but at Frank
fort, XIV. e large di.dllery, valued at
$4,000. was set on fire by lightning dur
ing a thunder and hail storm, and destroyed On
The 10th q violent hail-storm passed over Dubuque,
Iowa solid chunks of ice" says one writer, from
The size % a marble 10 that Of cCcoanut demohsh
ipg,vctv skyhghi i'm the city and breaking WIN
dow unfortunately. Numbers of the stones
weighed FROM To 10 ounces and some at least
II some of the stones were shaped like dice, with
rings like comedians: others i'm round punches,
with snail protubcrances ike popcorn balls Some
81 them had bits Of gravel and blades 90 grass en-
belG,d in thcu." " y. actual measurement says
another correspondent. some Of the stones were
fr,u.9 To- / inches i'm circumference and from 3 10
4 inches ia dAmctcT They were a. large as
sauccr bat the great bulk were about the sizc Of an