Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-31

buildings. The storm passed over part
of the town and destroyed John Crafts
farmhouse, demolishing it and kill
ing five inmates. Mrs. Crafts and
child, Mrs. Williamson and child, and
young man named Pfster, who stopped to
take refuge. A heavy rain and hail &C
companied the wind. At Patricksburg,
Owen county, the path Of the cyclone was
mile wide, and great havoc was made in
the town. Two sawmills were destroyed,
besides dozen houses; large flour mill
unroofed. Coats and Smaltz's store was
badly wrecked and the proprietors badly
injured. The houses of DR.. Richards and
DR.. Storm, and the Christian church were
all damaged greatly. The Flat Rock val
ley in Shelby county suffered from high
winds, destroying timber, orchards, fences
and houses, rendering many roads impas-
sable. The loss is many thousand dollars.
A DISASTROUS STORM.
CINCINNATI, May 20.-Reports are still
coming in of the storm Monday night up
the Little Miami valley. Something like
cloud-burst occurred, driving people off
the first floors with floods. At Freeport
the bridge across the Miami was torn
from the piers and wrecked and Stubbs'
Touring mill was unroofed. In Shelby,
Decatur and Bartholomew counties, Ind,
the destruction of barns, fences. timber
and growing crops was almost immeasur-
able, yet not single person was hurt. In
Butler county, Ohio, family near West
chester was badly injured by falling walls.
A great number of barns were unroofed
and two or three dwellings were denol-
ished. At Lancaster, Owen county, Ind,
W. r. Williams, wife and child and four
Craft brothers were killed by timber fall
ing on them and several others we're in
iured. Various other points in Ohio and
Indiana report high wind, extraordinary
rain, hail and lightning.
FIRES.
LYNoHBURG, Va, May 30.-The most dis
astrous fire that ever visited this city broke
out at 10 O'clock this morning and is now
raging furiously. Half million dollars
worth of property is already destroyed, in
Guiding the Daily ViTyinian building and
| fixtures, Commercial bank, the large hard
| ware establishment of Jones, Watts Bros.
& Co., the large tobacco mandatory of
Hood & Peters, and other business houses.
| Several residences we're also destroyed.
| strong wind is blowing, and the fire de-
partment is unable to cope with the
| flames. kilograms have been sent to
| Richmond for assistance.
The fire was got under control after rag
ing two hours and destroying property to
the amount of over 100000. The loss of
| Jones, Watts Bros. & Co. is estimated at
| S130,000, with insurance of only 49,, 500.
| The Virginian Office was totally destroyed.
| The loss is estimated at $4,000, with III
| surance of $4,000. Peters & Flood, to-
4 q y
| for $4,000. number of smaller build
ings are destroyed on which there was
partial insurance, and others were partly
| damaged by water and fire. Five men,
| Halsey, Gouldman, policeman James
| Vaughan, Felix Beldaiare, JAS. Clemens
| and Captain VIM. r. Moore, the last con-
| ductor on the Norfolk & Western railroad
| were buried under the falling walls of the
| VjrginiaN building and killed.
1t took several hours OF hard work to re-
cover their bodies. The city council held
a meeting tonight and passed resolutions of
| respect to the dead and calling upon
citizens to suspend business tomorrow
and attend the funeral. The council also
| made arrangements for the erection of 4
| monument over their graves. Business was
| practically suspended all day and the city
is in great gloom over the tragic death Of
FIVE persons. White and colored military
panies were called out by the mayor
early II the day for the protection OF
| property, everything being in state OF
unparalleled confusion. The fire COM
panies of Richmond and Danville were
recalled, their services not being needed
The insurance aggregates about 100000
| BOTTOM DROPPED OUT.
| Nov
accident occurred causing damage TO the
Knoxville water works. The bottom oi
one of the reservoirs dropped out, empty
ing in five minutes 100000 gallons O!
water, into a cave beneath. The water did
|, not come to the surface, though the reser
voirs are on hill several hundred fee
high. The existence of the cave was no
previously known. The other reservoir
was not damaged.
TWO FATAL ACCIDENTS IN BOSTON HARBoR
Boston, May 3O-The yacht, Skylarh
capsized in the harbor this afternoon and
the following persons we're lost: Davit
Butler and Matthew Kenny, of West hill
+, Jas. Wood and Jas. Cleary, of Boston
f Richard O'Brien, of South Boston an(
another unknown man.
\ The steam gauge cock on the steam
, | barge Ardria Master, burst this Afternoon
on the way from Point of Pines, severely
scalding Jno. J. O'Leary, of Boston and
= Edward Hart,ithe engineeI,wh will proba
4 bly, die. Burt Mcnamara, Henry McCarty
e of East Boston and Andrew McIntyr
: were also severely scalded and probabl.
= fatally.
g POWDER EXPLOSION.
r QUEBEC, May 3O.-A frightful accident
occurred at Betchuan, twenty miles beloJ
| Point Esquimaux. Fourteen men from
the seal fishery were dividing two kegs O
| gunpowder, in their house, and one OF
them was smoking. A spark fell into the
powder, the house was blown to atoms ant
b two men carried about 100 yards. Sever
5 of the party were terribly burned but non
8 killed outright.
!, ST.. LOUIS, May 3O.-The funeral Of viii
, liam Anderson, the miner killed by tn
! military, took place at o'clock this after
q noon. Over 1.500 miners attended tn
i. funeral. The inquest was continued thi
r morning and several witnesses examined
f among them Deputy Sheriffs Rogland an
Anthony. The testimony was conflicting
/. as to who began the firing, although Dep