The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-08-26
A STORMS RAVAGES.
Death and Destruction by a Tor
nadO in New York State.
Three Workmen Crushed to Death
by a Landslide.

A dispatch from Norwood, N. y, gives the
following account Of the destruction wrought
by & tornado, which struck the village about
5 r. NJ, and continued about fifteen minutes:
Tho cloud is described rs dark and roaring
mass of wind and rain, and was preceded by
a calm. As tho cloud drew nearer a roaring,
Kissing sound was heard, which increased
to a wild crash as it struck. Hailstones
much larger Than walnuts filled the Dir, while
sheds, roofs, boards and limbs of trees were
scattered in every direction. Several por-
sons who were out in the storm showed the
black and blue marks where they were struck.
Drivers left their teams in the street and fled
for their lives The devastation in some
parts of the village is almost complete. Fegc-
tation of all kinds is as flat as though run
over by n roller. On ono street there wero
over thirty trees blown down in tho yards
and highways, soma of the trees being foot
i'll diameter.
The bridge of the Ogiensburg and Lake
Champlain railroad - 27S feet long - was
picked up and thrown thirty or forty feet
into the river. The staging and tower wero
torn from the new schOOl-lIouse. Tho stecple
of the Congregational church blew over. The
roof was torn from the I1olbrook brick block;
also the roofs from the Norwood Lumber COM
pany's mill and sash, door and bind factory.
Wells e. Gibbs factory. the Ohio and Louis
vile Central freight house and portion OF the
Ro,lce grist mill. Windmills belonging to
Luther Bartlett and S. r. Phelps wero blown
down. Pearson's broom factory is n mass of
ruins The Whitney house barns are I'M
rooted Napoleon Cardinals new house was
carried forty feet from its foundation AMI
destroyed. Beside these at least one hundred
buildings are IN jurel to some extent. Many
windows are broken entirely and probably
two thousand pnnes of glass smashed.
The loss OF life so far as reported included
Michael Martin. a farm hand. and Mrs.
David Fitzgibbons. The injured were Myra
hurt; Mrs. George Cramer,S f. Leslie, Mrs.
Oliver Lunderman, Carl and Rufus King and
Charles Miner.
As the farmers came in they brought re-
ports of damage at Hewttsvlle. West Pots
dam, Norfolk, Raymondvlle Plum Brook
and Brookdale. John Kenneen, assessor ut
Norfolk. and Carol King, of the same town,
are injured Tho total loss is estimated at
from SO, 900 to $200,090
A Schenectady dispatch says that the dam.
ago to tho railroad was fully 100000, and
nelShborlnS Farmers suhereu 10 the e"IeilI VI
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An Ithaca dispatch gives the following &C
count of terrible accident which occurred
at Mckinney's, about five miles away, during
the progress of q thunderstorm: 1t seems
that on the approach of tho storm
six men who were working in the
vicinity OF Mckinney's took refuge in
a shed at tho base of perpendicular ledge of
boulders which forms the palisade along the
cast side of Clyuya Lake. The rain descend: ::
cd in torrents, and in some way looscned
several of tho great stones overhangins tho
cabin in which the men had fled for shelter.
These fell with terrific force, completely
dcmolishing the wooden structure and
instantly crushing to death thrce men:
Their names were: Michael Mack, foreman Of
a section gang on Cayuga Lake railroad :;
Patrick Mcmahon and Michael Fahee. Two
of the remaining thrco men escaped with a
few scratches, but the third. John Sullivan,
hal his hip crushed and was otherwise in
iured internally, so that it was thought he
would die Fahce and Mcmahon were 10th
married and leave families.