The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-02-28
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Triehinss appear to an alarming extent around
& The damage by the stormat Paducah, Ky,
! on thel was $1U,00O So ss
county Ind, was drowned in the food. .E E. :.
+ The Southern cyclone killed no less than five
hundred persons, and destroyed 81 ,oOo, 600
OF property.
A saw mill boiler exploded at West Carlisle,
Pa, killing two men named Ridenbaugh. and
Buckmaster, and severely wounding several
others.
fire at Charlottetown, Prince Edwards Is
land, destroying all the business places on the
sonth side of Green's square, the postotIico and
custom house. The loss is placed at $:'50, 600;
insurance $10o,
San Francisco Special: rain storm caused
great damage to the. Southern Pacific railroad
The greatest damage is between Los Angeles
and Mojave,, where for distance of thirty
miles through Soledad canon tho tracks are
nearly all washed away.
An oil tank that was leaky rolled from car
in Bellefountaine, Ohio, and u boy lighted the
oil on theground The: fire. AN to the tank,
which exploded, scattering the burning oil over
Six children One of them will die and the 9th
ers are seriously burned. e.
There is no doubt that fully 300 people were
killed in Georgia by the storm and fully three
times that number wounded, many seriously.
The destruction to property will reach So, 600, :
OO0, and in every respect the cyclone is the
most disastrous that has visited Georgia in
twenty five years.
The heavy iron roof of the retort house Of
Charleston, s. c., Gas works fell in killing
John McGann and injuring Cornelius Meow
gagged in the building at the time of the acct
dent. The damage to property is $4,000.
There will be no interruption in the lighting of
the city. .--...
Reuben Hart and wife (coloreiD residing
three miles in the country from Crockett, Tex,
went to church and left six children at home
asleep. At ten O'Clock the house was discov-
cred to be on fire, and it burned SO quickly
that it was impossible to save it.or the chill
dfen, every one Of them was burned to death.
The eldest was a boy thirteen years old
A wire bridge spanning the Kiskaminet river
at Apollo, Pa, parted Immediately over the
pier in the middle Of the river. and went down
with crash. William Henderson and Harry
sheet iron, and were thrown into the river.
Henderson escaped with cold bath, but YEN
klns and the two horses were drowned.
Thomas Default and Bernard Houle, two of
the Oldest and MOST respected citizens of North
ern Dakota, were found about five miles west
of Pembina Tuesday afternoon frozen nearly to
. death. When found they were unconscious
and Default died the goth. There is no
hopes of Houle's recovery. Default had a wife
and four children. Houle is unmarried.
West-bound passengers at Los Angeles had
to take steamer at San Pedro for San Francis
CO. The Southern Pacific has stopped selling
through tickets via Los Angeles or Needles.
The officials of the road estimate the DANA
ges at 81 COO, eco. Reports from the southern
part of the state indicate considerable damage
by hoods-bridges and houses washed away.
In Los Angeles city about fifty houses were
carried away, but thus far no lives are report
ed lost
Among the buildings destroyed by the flood
at Metropolis, Ill, was the old National hotel,
fifty years old, made famous by Charles Dick
ems in his Martin Chuzzlewit The new Nc
Cawley house has given away on the river front,
and is expected to collapse at any moment.
Mrs. Green's hotel on the river front has been
swept away. The Metropolis Stave factory is
gone. The Metropolis foundry has yielded to
the waves. The plow factory and many other
business industries in the flooded districts have
been swept away. Many private houses have
collapsed, and the streets, where they enter the
water, are filed with the debris of destroyed
buildings.