Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-27
STORM AND WAVE.
raE Track OF TIE ToRnADo.


-E1g0t00n Lives Lost.
A correspondent at Rochester, Minu.,
has compiled from the official reports of
the relief committee and of the agents
sent out by the county commissioners es-
Inmates Of the losses of different farmers in
Olmstead county. The agents report that
the path of the cyclone was from west to
east and was about eighteen miles long.
They have examined the condition of fifty
farms in the track, and say that every
house and barn on them was demolished.
farming machinery wrecked and thousands
of bushels of grain destroyed. The loss
to farmers in the county is not less than
$200, 900. In Rochester itself much relief
work is being done and $25, 900 have been
received, but the funds are still made.
quate.
One hundred and fifty families are des-
titute and rely on outsiders to shelter
them. One hundred and forty buildings
will be erected on sites vacated for the
purpose. A building association will be
formed, in the fund of which the money
appropriated for the erection of buildings
will be placed and will be distributed pro
rata, each assisted person giving a note
for the remainder of the cost of the i'm.
provement of his building. Two moro
deaths of injured persons occurred yester-
sday.
Thrown Heavily From q Carriage.
A frightful accident occurred to two
ladies in Reading on Saturday while re
turning home in carriage from a picnic
in the country, by which one was seriously
injured and the other badly bruised. When
the team reached Lebanon Valley bridge
train of cars came rushing along under
meath. The horse took fright, and gave
a leap, which broke the shafts, and
then ran toward the Harrisburg turn.
pike. The occupants were Miss Jen-
ME Hahn and Miss Amanda Stoudt.
The former was driving when the accident
occurred, and in holding on to the lines
tightly in order to check the animal, she
was pulled over the dashboard and thrown
violently into the road, striking on her
head and shoulders. She was seriously
injured, blood from her temple and face
flowing copiously. The carriage cushion
was hurled into field adjoining the road,
while her, hat and watch were thrown in
tho opposite direction. She was conveyed
to her residence and is now lying in a
precarious condition. Miss Stoudt's dress
was caught in the carriage which remained
behind, and she escaped with few bruises
which, though severe, arc not of a serious
character.
News Notes.
1t is asserted in Chicago that " east and
| west bound freight rates are being freely
and almost openly cut" also that "a re-.
bate of 10 cents per hundred pounds is
being offered grain shippers from Western
points, and that rebate Of $50 cents per
100 pounds is being allowed on butterine. !"
6. ~ nh Of 1,hv oil
struck at depth of 30 feet, fifteen miles
from GAINESVILLE, Ohio, on Friday. 1t is
reported to be flowing rapidly.
| William Rockafeller's double team Iu.
dependence and Cleora, was driven mile
at the Charter Oak track at Hartford, on
Saturday, in 2:16!. This is the best
record ever made by any double team,
except William Fl. Vanderbilt's Maud s.
and Aldine.
| The annual exposition in the music hall
at Cincinnati, and the two buildings con.
nected with it, built expressly for the
purpose, will begin on the 5th proximo,
and continue until October 7th.
| The JOhnstown street steel rail company
has commenced tho manufacture of the
rails at the Cambria iron works. The rail
has the ordinary l. face used On street
railways, but the body and bottom are
made like the I rail. This form obyiates
the use of wooden stringers, as tho rails
can be spiked directly to the cross ties and
connected by splice bars, making COZ
tinuous rail. They are made of Bessemer
steel.
Drowned In the Channel.
! A collision occurred at 3 o'clock yester-
| day morning off Eddystone light, in the
| English Channel, between the steamer St.
Germain, Captain Boneau, bound from
Havre for New York, and the steamer
Woodburn, from the East by way of the
Suez canal. The Woodburn sank imme-
diately after tho collision, and eighteen of
her crew were drowned. The St. Germain,
which was disabled by the collision. has
arrived at Plymouth, where she landed
| her passengers and those who were saved
from the Woodburn.
| The steamer Palermo, bound from Ham
| burg to Lisbon, collided off Ushont with
the steamer Rivoli, bound from Bilbao to
Middlesborough, the latter steamer sank
and five persons were drowned. A thick
| fog prevailed at the time of the collision.
Government Affairs.
The commissioner OF internal revenue
| has issued instructions for the investiga'
| tion of the reports that several officers in
| tematically swindling the government by
hiring persons to put up old stills in remote
places, and then capture tho material in
the night time and obtaining the govern
| ment reward of $50 for each seizure. 1t
is alleged that but few of the stills cap
tured in the mountains have been used for
Illicit distilling.
The treasury department on Saturday
issued warrants for 50, 500, 600 on account
of PENSIONS making about s26, 0O0, 600 Paid
out on that account during the present
month.
| Sixty Fee OF q serpent
George Saunders, of Fairport, Wis.,, re-
ports the discovery of sea serpent csti
mated at GO feet in length, in Lake
Michigan, off Summer Island. Several
other persons declare that they have seen
the same monster, which has a head like
an ALI gator and three fins along its back
o. w. Guthrie, the Chicago ice man, says
that Saunders has worked foS him aud he
is willing to vouch for the trustwOrthiness
of his statements. though he never had
any experience With him in the sea serpent
line.
| In tho Courts.
A suit was begun in the common pleas
court in Cincinnati on Saturday by VIM.
| Rive against Isabella Hodgson and others,
| in which the court is asked to annul the
decree divorcing Jane NJ. C. Rive from the
| plaintiff. 1t is averred that tho divorce
was obtained by relatives Of Mrs. Rive,
now dead, and that she did not have suffi-
cient mental capacity to consent to the
bringing of the suit. The plaintiff now
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