Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-08-20
TERRIBLE STORMS.

The Empire State the Theater OF Some Very
Severe and Destructive StOrms-Railway
Travel Seriously Impeded by Washouts-
-Four Inches of Rain In Six Hours ut Sara.
toga-what the Lighting Did.
AMSTERDAM, N. z, August 13.-Re.
pairmen who endeavored to repair the
damage done by the storm last night re-
port that it was impossible to do any
thing toward relieving the p. m train,
still held there by the break at Turnpike
Bridge. which completely disclosed two
passenger rails for distance OF fifty to
one hundred feet, though the freight
tracks to this point are intact. About
half mile further on the entire four
tracks that cross between two large cul-
verts, together with the culverts, are1
gone for q distance of two hundred
and fifty to three hundred feet
leaving the ties and rails wedged
in with large trees, some OF which are
three feet Ia diameter, together with
brush, corn and rye from neighboring
farms, forming an artificial bridge. so
strong was the force of the storm that
the solid masonry of the culverts Is
cracked and hangs in a threatening posi-
ton. The soft bottom OF the creek mas
been deepened so much that 1T will take
piles thirty to forty feet in length to be
of any use, and the work OF repair at this
point will take weeks at least.
The West Shore opposite here had Its
tracks engulfed in a land slide, and late
last night telegraphed to Fl. Johnson
vile tor steam shovels. An old employe
on the road says that nothing in the ma
ture of washout as long as he remem-
beers can compare with the force and de-
structiveness of last evenings storm on
the New York Central.
young man in a barn three miles
distant at the time reports having
seen what he took to be white
streak of lightning about
two yards thick and seventy-fve
long in the sky, then it turned into a
sheet of water and struck the barn reach
ing from the ground sto the first story,
the volume of water turning the entire
building around. The damage to prop
erty there is something considerable.
Trains this morning are running to the
break and transferring passengers BY
turnpike, a distance of three miles, to
the other side, and will continue to do SO
for some days yet from present indica-
tons. Meantime all freights are at
staudstill.
SARATOGA, N. Y, August IA ter
rife storm, accompanied by thunder and
ity shortly before noon yesterday, and
continued with scarcely any intermission
until late in the afternoon. The races
were postponed and all business was
totally suspended for several hours. The
Flagstaff on the tower of Grand Union
Hotel, 200 feet above the ground, was
struck and splintered, but the electric
light wires carried the thunderbolt
of without further damage. A team
ster driving two horses along a
road about q mile west of Sar-
atoga was struck and instantly killed,
both his horses suffering the same fate.
Telephone and telegraph wires were dis
abled, and the fiery discharges were
dropping from the clouds everywhere.
party of gentlemen standing in the pavIl-
ion over the Vichy Springs, south of the
village, were shocked and two of them
knocked over, but fortunately they sus-
tanned little injury except that one of
them had his hearing partially paralyzed.
Over four inches of rain fell in about six
hours. Saratoga has not been visited by
such a storm since 1869.