Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-11-24
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fc'sons hllicd sud muoh ,.ive stccs and
o'hor Properly Destroyed.
News has reached Charleston, Missouri.
to the effect that tho tornado at Rertram
,oto Eli Browns house to splintcrs, killing
n'm outright fatally iuiuring lady aud
wounding several others. None In the
uouse escaped but small boy. The barns.
StabloH, COW sheds and fences where swcut
away. In the track of tho storm tr,os ar
larger siGo were twisted on near tho ground
unt strange tu say not another house on
pctson was injured
FROM Piedmont, Missouri, comca tho
hewS that tho st, Francois and BI,cl,
rivers are still rising. Tho railroad track
south OF Piedmont are two feet uud,r
water. Millions Of bushels of corn IN tho
Slack and st. Francois river bottoms have
oeen swept away. Dwelling houses. out
houses aud barns tilled with corn and oats
nave All gone. The people are on the hills
iho iosS Is not ascortained. Both rivers
arc stiil rising. The ravages of tho flood
are mostly disastrous In fact. all peopl,
living in East Piedmont and alnng
Macken2lo creek lost their houses, Iiye
stock worth thousands of dollars has been
carries away and the people residing along
tho creeks and lowlands arc on the hills
without shelter or food. Tho state of
'uairs at the Winter coal mine. tho
pIacc rhcro the Richlaud creek broke
through Its bod aud filled eleven mines
"hioh were connected with each other
with water, has not changed materially
since yesterday. The water Is flowing in
AZ the rate ut twcuty thousand gallons /,
minute, and It will take but short time
until the mines ara filed. The Winter
mlne loss is about $1,000 tho James
beatty mine, sl0, the Western mine,
S"uuv the Grecnwich mine, S35, 900 aud
tue Taylo mine, Sl2, 600. The other miues
are worked out. The mules in all the
mines except BcattY's were saved, but the
t'oIs OF the miners and the hoistiug boxes
wcro all lost. Mayor Mellsor and city
councils visited the scene aud held a mcc, .
lug afterwards They concluded that all
damage that could be done had been done
Already and that it was best tu I,. 'Er
mines I'LL up. then when the water rcccdes
tioSe tue hole IN the creek through which
" Is iowing into tho mines The opera
tors say they will not pump the water out,
~ u would cost moro than could be made
out OF the miues. Tho walls of several
buildings and the ground ON Pleasant HtIl
are cracked at several points, aud this WAS
caused by the compressed air in the mines
ioroing itself through the stones.
AT Indianapolis White river is still
rising. At noon Friday tho water was
within tSo feet five inches of the high
mark reached last winter. The low ground
At indianola, on the west side of the river.
are covered. All tho railroads have suffered
In"s from culverts and small bridges being
washed away. No trains are running
over the Indianapolis II Viucennes railroad
now. The trains ON the Vaudalia road
are running over the Indianapolis n ST.
LOUIS track between Indianapolis aud
Greoucastle. The Cincinnati, indianapolis,
IT. Louis and Chicago train ran over the
Cincinnati u Hamilton track to Cincinnati.
" trains left on the Bee Line Friday.