The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-02-29
Record es cassua,tsss.
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Record ef 0assualtass.
Trichiln appear to an alarming extent around
The damage by the storm at Paducah, KY,
Mrs Hully, prominent lady Of Switzerland
county, Ind, was drowned in the food
The Southern cyclone killed no less than five
hundred persons, and destroyed 3l,OOO,OOO
Of property.
A saw mill boiler exploded at West Carlisle,
Pa, killing two men named Ridenbsugh and
bnckmaster, aud severely wounding several
others
fire at Charlottetown, Prince Edwards Is
land, destroying all the business places ON the
south side Of Green's square, tho postofice and
custom house The loss is placed at 425O, ,OOO:
insurance 100000
San Francisco Special: A rain storm caused
great damage to the Southern Pacific railroad
The greatest damage is between Los Angeles
ana Mojave, whore for distance of thirty
nearly all washed away.
An oil tank that was leaky rolled from car
IN Bellefountainc, Ohio, and . boy lighted the
which exploded, scattering the burning oil over
slx children. One Of them will die and the 9TH
ers are seriously burned.
There is no doubt that fully 800 people were
killed in Georgia by the storm and fully three
times that number wounded, many SERIOUSLY.
OO. and in every respect the cyclone is tho
most disastrous that has visited Georgia In
twenty five years.
The heavy iron roof Of the retort house Of
Charleston, g. c., Gas works fell in killing
John McGann and injuring Cornelius McGow-
an and Edward Clarkin, frenen, who were en-
gagged in the building at the time Of the acci-
he.e daas 1 Te be damage to r0RSry Rn il
the city.
Reuben Hart and vito (colored) residing
three miles in the country from Crockett, Tex,
asleep At ten O'Clock the house was discov-
cred to 10 on fire, and it burned 30 quickly
| that 1t was impossible to save it or the chill
dren, every one Of them was burned to death.
The eldest was boy thirteen years old.
A wire bridge spanning the Kiskaninet river
at Apollo Pa, parted Immediately over the
pier in tho middle of the river. and won't down
with . crash. William Henderson aud Harry
ieneins were crossing the river with load Of
Henderson escaped with cold bath, but Yen-
kins and the two horses were drowned
Thomas Default and Bernard Houlc, 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 10th. There is no
hopes OF Honles recovery. Default hada wife
and four children. HOu1e is unmarried.
West-bound passengers st Los Angeles had
to take steamer at San Pedro for San Francis
CO. The Southern Pacific has stopped selling
through tickets Wis Los Angeles or Needles.
The officials Of the road estimate the DANA
ges at u 100000 Reports from the southern
| part of the state indicate considerable damage
BY foods-bndges 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 food
at Metropolis, Ill, was tho old National hotel,
fifty years old, made famous by Charles Dick
ems in his Martin Chuzzlewit Tho new Nc
! Cswley house has given away on the river front,
and is expected to collapse ct any moment
Mrs. Green's hotel on the river front has been
swept away. Tho Metropolis Slave 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, arc filed with the debris Of DESTROYED
buildings :