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

1 1nO QUILL pdsSOO ON0I pdIb
of the town and destroyed John Crafts
| ing five inmates. Mrs. Crafts and
child, Mrs. Williamson and child, and a
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
| a mile wide, and great havoc was made in
| the town. Two sawmills were destroyed,
| besides dozen houses; large -four mill
| unroofed. Goats and Smaltz's store was
| badly wrecked and the proprietors badly
| injured. The houses of DIR. 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
I'sable. The loss is many thousand dollars.
A DISASTROUS STORM.
CINCINNATI, May 30.-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 Stubs
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, a family near West
chester was badly injured by falling walls.
A great number of barns were unroofed
and two or three dwellings were demol-
ished. At Lancaster, Owen county, Ind,
W. R. Williams, wife and child and four
T-,f e. L
ing on them and several others were in
jured. Various other points in Ohio and
Indiana report high wind, extraordinary
rain. hail and lightning.
FIRES.
LYNCHBURG, Va, May 3O.-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 Virginio11 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 were also destroyed.
A 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
100000, with insurance of only $50, 500.
| The Virginion Office was totally destroyed.
The loss is estimated at $4,000, with in
surance of $4,000. Peters q Flood, to-
| bacconists, lose about $4,000 and insured
for $4,000. A number of smaller build
ings are destroyed on which there was
partial insurance, and others were partly
damaged by water and fire. Five men,
Ealsey, Gouldman, policeman James
Vaughan, Felix Beldalare, JAS. Clemens
and Captain Vim. r. Moore, the last q con-
ductor on the Norfolk 81 Western railroad
| were buried under the falling walls of the
VirginiGa building and killed.
It took several hours of hard work to re-
cover their bodies. The city council held
| 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
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
ompanies were called out by the may or
early in the day for the protection of
property, everything being in a state of
| unparalleled confusion. The fire COM
panies of Richmond and Danville were
| recalled, their services not beng needed.
The insurance aggregates about 100000.
BOTTOM DROPPED OUT.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, May SOTO night an
accident occurred causing damage to the
Knoxville water works. The bottom of
one of the reservoirs dropped out, empty
| ing in five minutes 100000 gallons of
water, into cave beneath. The water did
not come to the surface, though the reser-
| voirs are on a hill several hundred feet
high. The existence of the cave was not
previously known. The other reservoir
was not damaged.
| TWO FATAL ACCIDENTS IN BOSTON KARBOR.
BOSTON, May 3O.-The yacht, Skylark,
capsized in the harbor this afternoon and
the following persons were lost: David
Butler and Matthew Kenny, of West hill,
Jas. Wood and Jas. Cleary, of Boston,
Richard O'Brien, of South Boston and
another unknown man.
The steam gauge cock on the steam
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on the way from Point of Pines, severely
scalding Jno. J. O'Leary, of Boston and
Edward Hart, the engineer,who will proba-
bly, die. Burt Mcnamara, Henry McCarty
of East Boston and Andrew Mcintyre
were also severely scalded and probably
fatally.
| POWDER EXPLOSION.
QUEBEC, May 30.-A frightful accident
occurred at Betchuan, twenty miles below
Point Esquimaux. Fourteen men from
the ssal fishery were dividing two kegs of
gunpowder, in their house, and one of
them was smoking. A spark fell into the
powder, the house was blown to atoms and
two men carried about 100 yards. Seven
of the party were terribly burned but none
killed outright.
ST.. LOUIS, May 3O.-The funeral of Will
liam Anderson, the miner killed by the
military, took place at 8 o'clock this after
noon. Over 1,500 miners attended the
funeral. The inquest was continued this
morning and several witnesses examined,
among them Deputy Sherifs Rogland and
Anthony. The testimony was conflicting
| as to who began the firing. although Dep