The Portland daily press., 1885-08-04
TERRIFIC STORMS.
Heavy Rains and Cyclones In the
South anc West.
Hundreds of Families Homeless and
Several Lives Lost.
Fearful Work of Cyclone in Penn
syivania.

CHICAGO, Aug. 3.-The great rain storm
stopped at midnight. The total rain fail in
the preceding II hours was 5.58 inches, an
inch more than the entire rain fall during the
month of August in either of the last three
years, and the greatest fall within the time
specified on record. The fall was so great
and rapid that the sewers were unable to
carry off the volume of water Paved streets
throughout the city this morning have the
appearance of having been scrubbed clean
with brooms. Many of the Grant docora-
tions on the public and private building are
bedraggled and torn. Damage by the flood
ing OF Easements was heavy. Thousands of
rats issued from the sewers and the base
nents as the water began to fill up the con-
duIts. Cinnamon, all of whom occupy deep
Easements, found themselves without shelter
and late into the night were seen hunting up
lodging houses.
BALTIMORE, Nd, Aug. 3.--In Western
Maryland there was severe storm last night
and much damage was done. In Carroll
county, on the line of Western MARYLAND
several bridges between Westminster and
Union Bridge were swept away, and all rail-
road travel between those points is sus-
pended. There are also several bad wash
outs on the Hanover Branch railroad. One
bridge gave way this morning as the last car
OF a passenger train passed over it. In
Washington county crops were considerably
damaged by the flow of water. A man
named GilSman was struck by lightning and
house.
Carroll Creek, whick flows into the Catoc
tin at Frederick city, over1owed it's banks
today, and all the people living in the de-
pressed, part OF the city have been driven
from their homes, and the destruction Of
property is considerable 1t is stilI raining
heavily in Baltimore, and some of the streets
are flooded to a delsth of two feet In the
western section of the city the cellars are
again Hooded and sickness is feared from the
oyeriioWs, which have occurred three times
within a month.
clone sweeping up the Delaware river this
afternoon, struck this city near Greenwich
Point, demolishing portion of the works of
the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Com
pany, and injuring several employees. Then
it took a course across the river, wrecking
the river steamer Major Reynolds and the
ferry boat Peerless. The storm blew pilot
Emery Townsend and Capt Eugue REYNOLDS
OF the steamer Reynolds, into the river,
drowning the former and painfully injuring
Capt Reynolds. The Peerless was swept
clear almost to the waters edge. Several
buildings on the Jersey shore were demol-
ished.
In its ravages in Camden scores of dwell
lngs were unroofed and some of them blown
down and the damage to business property
along the river front is great.
Hundreds of families were rendered home
less and several persons were killed outright
or fatally injured About 1900 dwellings
erewrecked or so badly damaged as to be
rendered unfit for habitatlon, and over 200
families were driven from their homes to be
cared for by their neighbors. The cyclone
is described by those who witnessed its
prowess on the river, where it could be seen
tosadvantage, as an immense black, cone
shaped cloud with its apex resting upon the
water and its base mingling with rain clouds
which brought dense masses from the sky.
1t is possible that some passengers on the
Reynold were swept overheard and lost but
no bodies have been recovered as yet.