Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-27
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DOMESTIC NEWS.
Further Storm Adxices.

DOMESTIC NEWS.
Further Storm AdyIces.
CHICAGO. March 26th.-A London (Ky.)
special says terrific cyclone, the seyerest
known in that section OF the country. passed
through that place and PittsSurg, two miles
north of London, at 4 o'clock yesterday after.
noon, causing death and destruction in its
track. especially st Pittsburg. where it was
severest. The Methodist Church was razed
to the ground, and much property damaged
at Pittsburg. John Hartman, brakeman, was
blown from q freight car, carried about fifty
feet, slightipg on his head in creek, break
ing his peck and causing instant death.
Three freight boxes, two coal oil tanks and
caboose were blown from the track, slightly
injuring several people, and OBTAINING the
south bound mail train five hours. A little
cabin in which Mr.. BrougAtOn was living was
blown down, instantly killing Mrs. Brough-
ton and two little children. The following
persons are thought to be mortally wounded {:
Colonel Z. A. Strings., both Is broken and
cut 10 the head Mrs. 9. w. Stringer, hip
mashed; Robert Rulings, spinal column
broken and cut in the head; Miss Sallie
Gotf cut in the head James Warren, two
ribs broken and wounded in the head.
Among those slightly wounded is w. Wool
sey. Over leo men and their families are
left without homes snd employment by the
dreadful catastrophe.
THREE CHILDREN FATALLY INJURED
COLUMBIA Is. C.), March 26sh-The Dai{y
Registers Piedmont special says a severe
cyclone passed over Anderson county, near
Piedmont, destroying the house of Mr.. Wat
son, and his three children are thought TO be
fatally injured.
THUNDER AND HIGH wATER.
PETERSBURG (Vs.), March 2Gsh.-A ire
mendous thunderstorm burst over this city
shortly after midnight The thunder was SO
severe rs to shake the houses. The Appo-
mattox river at this point is very high. The
meadows on the Chesterfield side of the river
are submerged. The water is still rising. A
protrscted spell of bad weather this month
hos greatly retarded all farming operations il
this section.
SIX LADIES KILLED.
CHARLOTTE IN, C.). March 26th.-Specials
regarding the cyclone in this section last
night state that at Newton thirty houses
were blown down and the Methodist church
wrecked. Mary Himsucker was killed and
fourteen persons wounded. Rumors from
Lanoir says d whole family was killed. Six
ladies are known to be killed. The telegraph
wires are down. At Mecklenburg five or six
residences were destroyed, but 70 lives were
lost. The cyclone also passed through Ire.
dell county doing great damage to fruits,
and blowing down many houses.
TOWN WIPED OUT.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 26sh.-A Brookville
Iud) correspondent of the Journal tele-
graphs that the village of Scipio, near the
Ohio and Indiana line. was wiped out by
Tuesdays tornado. Only two houses remain,
and they are badly damaged. Rev. Joseph
Winston was killed..
TERRIFIC WIND STORM.
LYNCHBURG va, J, March 26th.-A terrific
wind and rsin-storm swept over this section
last night, causing great damage to property
in Amherst county. The lowlsnds were all
dams swept away. james river at this point
is higher than for FIVE years.
HIGH WATER AT RICHMOND.
RICHMOND (Vs.), March 26tb.-Al the
wharves in the lower part of the city are sub-
merged. The water is up into the main
street, and steadily rising.
EVERYTHING SWEPT CLEAN.
RALEIGH IN. C.), March 26th.-A cyclone
formed near Newton yesterday afternoon,
and travelled east. Trees were blown down
for distance Of two miles, and everything
swept clean. Hail stones fell as large as eggs
;
Many persons are rendered homeless.
TERRIBLE DESTRUCTION.
DAYTON (OAio), March Goth. Intelligence
from Shakertown, Ridgeville, Csnterville,
Spriag Valley. Trsbein's station and South
Charleston tell of terrible destruction by the
cyclone yesterday evening. Two Johnston
brothers were killed at Ridgeville. Ex-
Sheriff Gla5feller was drowned while refuged
in o bridge which was struck by the cyclone.
The damage done Cannot bs estimated.
The Lower Mississippi Flood.
WASHINGTON, March Carbohydrates 26 re-
csived from Louisiana sey the Mississippi
river has broken over most OF the levees, and
Government aid is necessary to prevent the
people and stock from starving. Tensas par.
ish is submerged and 10000 psople are desti-
tute. The river az st. Joseph is six inches
above the high water OF 1882, and the river is
rising from Cairo down. Governor McEuery
telegrsphs that the laborinp classes are in
great distress, and asks the Secretary of War
for as many rations as in 1882.
Governor McEuery has received dispatch
saying that the Black, the lower Ouchise, the
Little, the lower and the upper Tensss rivers
sections are entirely overf1owed The people
and stock need immediate relief.
New YORK. March 26th.-It was reported
on the street this morning that the Texas Pa.
cifc Reilroad had temporarily tied up
at the New Orleans terminus that the
engines had been run into the round
houses, and the ears switched eff TO
dry places, owing 90 heavy washouts.
Your reporter saw C. G. Elder, freight agent
Of the road, who said There is some
truth in the report. Lavees on the Missis-
sippi have burst, and flooded the land be-
tween Cheneyville and New Orleans, so that
hot f,ts =, lad
Cannot say when the damage will be repaired,
but freight ID received right along and sent
up the Red river by steamers.
PoRT ALLEN Ns.) March 26;h.-The For.
doche levee is broken, and help in the way of
steamboats, is called for to remove the people
and stock. This break causes the overflow
of one of the richest csne.producing sections
of the State.
VICKsBURG, March 26th.-The river is
even with the high water of 1874. At Davis
Bend everything is overAowed, and for thirty
miles down the river, except LovelPs plant
alton at Somerset, never before inundated. is
now at the mercy OF the waves. From the
high points in this city the Delta looks ii
built IN the csEter of big lake, the people
goipg from house to house in skiffs.
JACKSON (Miss J, March 2G;h.-A report
from Rodney, Jefferson county, says 1900
overflow. a call is made for Government
aid.
United states Senate.
WASHINGTON, March 26th.-The Senate
took up the bill reported from the Committee
on Indian Affairs, providing for the allotment
of lands in severaIty to Indians on various
reservations, and to extend the protection of
the laws of the States and Territories owe.
the Indians.
After . short debate the bill passed.
The education bill was then taken up, and
Vance spoke at length on the course of Mas
sachusetts, whose people, when slavery be-
came Improbable TO them, sold their negroes
to the South, and thsn sung doxology
through .heir noses and thanked God that
they were not responsible for the acts of in
iquity.
Dolph cnncurred in the main with the pur-
pose OF the pending bill, though not with its
details. All Northern, Western and Pacific
States could educate. The Southern States
would voluntarily tax themselves. As much
ss the people of Portland, Oregon, had done.
they would be able to give all their people as
good an education as a majority of the men,
bers of the United States Senate hsd received
in their childhood.
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