Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-06
DISASTROUS STORMS.
HAVOC OF WIND AID Llanr.lno
Damage to Property ana Loss OF Life
Crime and Ualamity-The Track

Damage to Property and Loss OF Life
Crime and Uslsmity-The Track
OF Death.
A terrific storm visited Dover, New
Hampshire, on Wednesday night. The
Cocheco print works were flooded and
large quantities of prints ready for ship.
ment were damaged, while . large stock
of gum and colors was destroyed. The
flood was caused by the collapse of .
street sewer. Seven houses were struck
by lightning and three men were killed.
Blake & Co.'S mill, at Amesbury, Mass,
was destroyed by lightning yesterday
afternoon. Loss, $10O, 900, The mill en-
ployed 200 persons.-The bonded ware.
house and custom room at Atlanta, Iowa,
were struck by lightning and burned on
Wednesday night.-Severe thunder storms
and heavy rains have occurred at Scranton,
Pa, and in its vicinity during the last two
weeks. On Wednesday night the store
of Geoge Cooper at Green Ridge was
consumed by lightning. Yesterday several
house in Scranton were struck by light
ming and girl was killed. In Hyde Park
man was dangerously injured by brick
blown from chimney. 1t is feared that
tho crops, especially the potatoes, have
been injured by the rain-The new res
idence Of Ira T. Cummings. near Middle
town, Now York, was consumed by light
ming on Wednesday night. Loss, $25, 600.
The most destructive storm ever
known at Brattleboro, Vermont, visited
that place on Wednesday night. Great
damage was done crops and roads were
washed dout.-Yesterday morning. dur
ing a shower, two heavy landslides
occurred on the Portland and Ogdensburg
railroad near the Portlan House, on the
White Mountains. One of them covered
the rails, delaying the trains.
Recent Ualsmities.
The celebration of the Fourth in Chica-
20 involved 80 casualties, including 3
deaths, cases of mortal injury, 90 manned
for life, and z slightly injured. The chief
instruments of havoc were toy pistols and
small cannon iu the hands of small child
reh.-One of the old wooden mills of the
Harlbut paper company in South Lee,
Massachusetts,, was burned on Wednesday.
Loss $25, 900. The fire was probably caused
by rocket going through window.-In
Louisville. on Wednesday, six boys were
wounded by toy pistols and two by fire
crackers. "A dispatch from Huntsville,
Texas, says that Thursday morning an
explosion occurred at J. F.. Kelly's saw
mill owing to the carelessness of the
engineer. Dick Grant, colored, fireman,
and his assistant, John Barkful, convict,
and convicts Scale and Jordan we're instant
ly killed. Four other convicts were Sc
riously wounded. Tho proprietor, his
partner, Harry Miner, and a man named
Harrington were badly scalded.-The
sides of a trench for sewer in Albany, N.
Y, caved in yesterday afternoon, burying
four mon. David Fuller was dead when
dug out and James Burke seriously
injured. d.-Zalich Gotthainer, II years of
age, was drowned while bathing at Coney
Island on Wednesday men were
drowned by tho capsizing of q pleasure
boat off Staten Island on Wednesday,
Near Elizabeth, Pa, John Lemmer, aged
about so. was drowned in the MOnOnga
hela. He was in a skiff with companion
and dog. The dog fell over and in at
tempting to help it in Lemmer fell into
the river. He sank at once and drowned
before help could reach him.--At Gales
vile, near the county wharf in West river,
in Anne Arundel county, Md, Mr.. Ferdi-
nand Hartge, gentleman of over 20. was
rowing with his two grandsOns, aged re-
spectively 8 and S. in yawl boat, when
tIlo yOuuScI Cullus 100uluk OV0A JOO IC1l
INTO tho water. Mr.. Hartge jumped in
| bodies were soon after recovered, tightly
locked in each others arms.
Tho Annals OF Crime.
John Whelan, non union moulder at
the Malleable Iron Works in Troy, New
York, was found on Wednesday night on
| the sidewalk in front Of his boarding
l. 81, cak ko11
He was sufficiently conscious to say that
Cajame, Chief of the Yoqui Indians, in
Mexico, was assassinated on Wednesday.
1t is believed that his death "throws all
the rich lands and mines Gin the Yoqui
River district) open to the white men. -
John Saunders and John Heaton engaged
in q drunken brawl in Matamoras, Pa,
yesterday. Heaton struck Saunders blow
on tho temple, telling him to the ground.
When picked up he was unconscious, end
died shortly afterwards. Heaton fled,
John Name. assistant bridge contractor
of the Wabash railroad, was shot and
killed on an excursion train at Cairo,
Illinois, on Wednesday night, by Nelson
Howard, 4 cOlOred man. The cause of the
shooting is unknown. Carl Schmitz,
| of the Reformed church of Calicoon, New
York, was recently charged with drunken
ness aud immoral conduct. On Monday
last he started to drive to ThurmansVille,
Pennsylvania. and was found next morn
ing dead on tho roadside. His death is
attributed to excessive Drinking The
postmaster general yesterday received a
letter from Albion, Idaho, stating that
Charles E. Eggleston, postmaster, and
Frank E Eggleston, assistant postmaster:
at Salmon Falls, have both committed
Suicida