The state journal., 1884-03-29
STORM AND FLOOD.

A tornado near Piedmont, South Caro-
lima, on Tuesday, demolished the house
of a man named Watson, and fatally in
jured three of his children.
The water at Kansas City, Missouri,
has reached the highest point ever known
at this period of the year. and is rising at
the rate Of an inch per hour. ~
The river at Contoocook, New Hamp-
shire, overlooked its banks last night.
The large machine works have stopped,
and all the low lands on the Warner river
are flooded.
The Connecticut river at Hartford is
gradually rising. The water covers the
Wharves and fills the cellars along the
river front The freshet is increasing at
the rate of about two inches per hour.
No serious trouble is apprehended.
In Poland township, Mahoning county,
Ohio, on Tuesday night, the storm de-
molished several houses, blew down trees
and killed number of cattle. Several
persons were injured, but no one was
killed.
A heavy wind and rain storm swept
over Lynchburg Virginia, on Tuesday
night, causing great damage to prop
lands are all submerged, and fencing and
bridges and several mill dams were swept
away.
All the wharves in the lower part Of
Richmond, Virginia, are submerged, and
the water has reached the main street and
is steadily rising. Merchants are Iemov-
ing their goods. AT Columbia, so miles
above Richmond, the water had risen
% feet at o'clock last evening, and con
tinued rising at the rate of five inches an
hour
AT Bismarck, Dakota Territory, the
river is rising slowly There is a gorge
five miles below 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 Tuesday night, and the estate of Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe was flooded.
The Times Democrat says: THE con
dition of the levees above New Orleans
is critical and serious. The expenditure
of 100000 now will save millions and
prevent great suffering. There should be
no hesitation in taking immediate action
This, however, does not affect the state.
protect her own levees, and is only in
danger from the breaking of levees above
the city.
A special to the New Orleans Times.
Democrat from Vicksburg says: sThe
river at this point marks forty eight feet
ten inches, showing decline of two
inches during the past twenty four hours.
Mr.. Hyland, of Davis Bend, states that
everything is over-fowed at that place,
and for distance of thirty miles down
the river.
Tuesday nights storm at Gainesville,
Georgia, was very severe. Many houses
were Ievelled 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 silvery-gray back
ground. Three lives are reported lost,
and furniture, beds, roofs, trees and tim
Der cover the ground in every direction.
Dispatches to Charlotte, North Caro-
lima, state that destructive cyclone
struck that section of North Carolina on
Tuesday night. At Newton thirty houses
were blown down, the Methodist church
wrecked, and the residences of Rev. Colry
Killian and Charles Jewett swept away.
Mary Hunsicker was killed, and fourteen
other persons were wounded. Rumors
from Lenoir say that whole family were
killed there. Six ladies are known to
have been killed at that place, but the tel
egraph wires being down, further partic-
ulars cannot be obtained In Mecklen
burg five or six residences were de.
stroyed, but ne lives were lost.