The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-03-29
Storms and Floods.

Carolina, says the tornado on Tuesday night
blew down thirty houses and the Methodist
Church in Newton. Mary Hunsicker was
killed and IA persons were injured. In Lee
noir six women were killed, but as the tele-
graph wires are down no particulars can be
obtained. In Mecklenburg FIVE or six dwell
lings were destroyed, but no lives were lost.
The tornado also passed through Iredell coun-
ty, doing great damage to fruits and blowing
down many houses.
Tuesday nights storm at Gainesville, Ga,
was very severe. Many houses were levelled
to the ground. The storm travelled northeast
with rotary motion. Hail stones as large
as guinea eggs fell thick and fast. The track
of the storm was about $50 yards wide. The
cloud was black, with silver-gray back;
ground. Three lives are reported lost, and
furniture, beds, roofs, trees and timber cover
the ground in every direction.
A tornado near London and at Pittsburg,
in Kentucky, on Tuesday afternoon, destroyed
a large amount of property, made 100 tami-
lies homeless, killed four persons and injured
a number of others, eight, it is feared, NOR
tally.
A tornado near Piedmont, South Carolina,
on Tuesday, demolished the house of man
named Watson, and fatally injured three of
his children.
A fierce wind unroofed number of houses
III Illpley, oHlO, Oh lucSudy uiSHl. anu tuc
roads were obstructed by fallen timbers.
Captain Godfather took refuge in bridge
over City Creek, near Xenia, Ohio, on Tues
day, during storm. The bridge was carried
away by the wind, the horse killed and the
carriage demolished. Captain Godfather only
escaped by swimming ashore.
A heavy thunder storm burst over Peters
burg, Virginia, early Wednesday morning
The rain came down in torrents, and the
thunder shook the houses. The meadows on
the Chesterfield side Of the Appomattox river
were submerged.
In Poland township, Mahoning county,
Ohio, on Tuesday night, the storm demolished
several houses, blew down trees and killed a
number of cattle. Several persons were in
jured, but no one was killed.
A heavy wind and rain storm swept over
Lynchburg, Virginia. on Tuesday night, caus-
ing great damage to property in Amherst
county. The low lands are all submerged,
and fencing and bridges and several mill
dams were swept away. Considerable dam
age was done along the line of the Richmond
and Allegeny Railroad, between Lynchburg
and Lexington, and the tracks of the road in
the former city are submerged from the ac-
queduct to Tenth street.
| Tue Times Democrat says: The condition
of the levees above New Orleans is critical
and serious. The expenditure of 100000
now will save millions and prevent great suf-
fering. New Orleans is only in danger from
the breaking of levees above the city.
The water at Kansas City, Mo-, has reach
ed the highest point ever known at this period
of the year, and is rising at the rate of an inch
per hour.
At Bismarck, Dakota Territory, the river is
rising slowly. There is gorge five miles be-
low Buford, and although the river rose seven
feet in twenty four hours the ice above Buford
is still solid.
The dam of the Newport Water Works, at
Lykens Valley, Rhode Island, broke on Tues
day night and the estate of Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe was flooded. The carriage house was car
ried away and the vehicles damaged.
Railroad communication between Los An
geles and northern points in California is again
interrupted by heavy landslides on the South
ern Pacific road, which, it is said, will delay
! trains for a week.
All the wharves in the lower part of Rich
mond, Virginia, are submerged, and the water
has reached the main street.
At Columbia SO miles above Richmond,
the water had risen % feet at s clock We'd
nesday evening, and continued rising at the
rate of five inches an hour
The river at Contoocook, New Hampshire,
overhowed its banks Wednesday night. The
large machine works have stopped, and all the
low lands on the Warner river are flooded.
The bridge over Beaver brook, on the
Naugatuck Railroad, between Ansonia and
Derby, Connecticut, was washed away We'd
nesday afternoon.
The Connecticut river at Hartford covers
the wharyes and fills the cellars along the
river front. The freshet is increasing at the
rate of about two inches per hour.
A despatch from Boyd, KY, March p,
says 1t will be days before the extent of
desoation caused by the cyclone can be as
certained. The loss of life, as well as the
damage to property, is great At Colemans-
vile, two miles distant, not one of the 800
inhabitants escaped injury and IS buildings
were demolished. The little towns of Mt.
Nebo, Conroy and Antioch were swept away.
Throughout the country nothing was left
standing in the track of the tornado. Stock,
barns, dwellings, fences and forests were
carried off, Babes were blown from their
mothers arms and killed. Bodies of dead
persons were found strewn along the roads.
Immense numbers of cattle were also slaugh-
tered A church was lifted from its site and
has not yet been heard of; the organ was
found about five miles distant. Rocks weigh
ing three tons were borne quite distance
and the ground was much torn up. Vast
quantities of water were blown from the river
When the cyclone first appeared it looked
like an immense circus tent filled with air
and being carried by the wind. After the
tornado a heavy hail storm prevailed. Ten
minutes later the sun shone brilliantly on a
scene of devastation. The villages destroyed
are in the Blue Grass regions and the COM
munity is made up of well-to-d do people.
A tornado passed six miles south of Day
ton, Ohio, Tuesday leveling trees, and dam
aging and demolishing number of buildings
A terrific storm of wind and hail visited
Knoxville, Tennessee, Tuesday afternoon.
Windows were smashed by the hail, fifteen
frame buildings were demolished by the wind
and several persons were injured.
The most disastrous wind storm known in
many years struck Denver, March 81, and
continued with undated fury. Many of the
finest buildings in the city, including the City
Hall, and the Moffatt and Hassler and Syne's
and Clifford blocks were unroofed. Several
persons were injured, but not fatally.
The village of Scipio, o., was wiped out by
Tuesdays tornado. Only two houses remain
and they are badly damaged. Rev. Joseph
Winston was killed.
Dispatches received at Washington, D. c.,
on the 25th inst, state that the Mississippi has
broken over most of the levees, and that COVER
ment adds necessary to prevent people of Lou
isiana from starving. Hon. j. f. King, membe
OF congress from LOulSlauai mas recelVeu tne
following telegram from Rodney, Miss: Kempe
levee has given way. This makes the disaster
complete and the Mississippi valley one vast
inland sea. This will make the loss beyond cal
culation, to say nothing of the loss life and suf
fering of the people. The lofts of our GIN
houses and floating RATS will be the only
place of abode"
The Secretary of War sent to the Speaker
of the House of Representatives on Tuesday
letter in which he notifies the House that the
foods in the Mississippi valley from Vicks-
burg to New Orleans have reached higher
point than in 1882, that large numbers of
people are in need of help, and suggesting
that the Secretary be permitted to expend
Sl25,oO0 of the unexpended, balance OF the
sums appropriated for the Ohio river suffer-
ers.
New ORLEANS, March 25.-Gov. McEnery
telegraphed to the Secretary of War today
and the Louisiana Congressman that the
laboring population will require rations in
omoupt the same MS in 1882 He saws the dis