Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-07
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
DISASTROUS STORMS IN v,prors svcr,o,

bihAhIROUs STORMS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
"A terrific cyclone passed up the Della
ware river Sunday afternoon, striking Phila-
delphia near Greenwich Point, demolishinR
portion OF the Pennsylvania salt works and
in1uring several employees. IL then crossed
the river, wrecking a steamer and ferry boat.
The captain and pilot Of the steamer we're
blown into the water. The pilot was drown.
cd and the captain painfully injured The
boat was swept clean almost TO the water's
edge and horse and wagon were hurled in-
TO the wator and sunk. In Camden scores of
buildings were unroofed and hundreds OF
families wero rendered homeless. Tho storm
also passed over TO that part Of the twenty
fifth ward OF Philadelphia known az Rich
mond. Hore about $50 dwelling houses were
wrecked and at least POO families driven from
their homes, and a number Of people serious
ly and some fatally Injured
severe rainstOrm visited western Mary.
land the same day, several railway bridges
being swept away aud much other property
ruined. cyclone swept path 200 yards
in width through Cecil county houses, mills
and bridges were swept away. Trees were
blown half milo and a loaded freight train
with all brakes down was blown a mile along
the tracks.
Chicago also was visited by great rain
storm Sunday which began at daylight and
spent itself at midnight The total rain. fall
in the last ~ hours was So 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 timo
specified on record. The fall was no great
and rapid that the sewers wero unable to car
ry of the volume of water. The damage by
the flooding OF Easements was heavy. Thoua-
ands OF rats poured from the sewers and the
Easements IN the water began to fill up the
oonduits The rats ran round the streets
scurrying hitler and thither in their search
for places of safety.
A terrific storm passed over tho country
about Easton, Pa. Saturday, doing great
damage to growing crops railroads, etc. A
number OF bridges were washed away. The
loss will not DO less than 800, 600
The most terrific storm ever known at
Shenandoah, Pa, prevailed all day Monday,
doing much damage. Several Of the collier
ies we're compelled to suspend work.
Storms Of great violence swept over the
central and northern parts of Spain Sunday,
destroying much property and in many
places utterly running the telegraph lines
| Many persons are reported TO have been
killed.
The heaviest rain storm in many years ex-
tended over New Hampshire Monday after
noon and night. Crops we're cut down, high
ways dug up aud grass lands flooded in every
direction. A large wafer.apout occurred on
| Sunapee lake Monday afternoon and the lake
rose a foot during the night. There were
| bad washouts on the Concord n Caremont
railroad. No trains ran on the Mt. Washing
ton railroad, the first delay in running be
cause of the weather for ten years. There
was a fall of a. inches of rain on Mt. Wash
ington.
A heavy rain, accompanied by high wind,
prevailed throughout Vermont and the Con.
nectiout river valley during Monday night.
While widespread damage was not done in
| Vermont, reports of shade trees blown down,
buildings unroofed, crops leveled to the
ground and roads badly washed come from
many places.
At the Lake Pleasant spirtuRlist camp
meeting the wind made havoc with the tents
and did other damage. In Greenfield the
streets were badly washed, and reports of
similar injury done come from surrounding
| towns.
| ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS ABOUT THE DELLA
WARE RIVER CYCLONE.
The cyclone that visited Philadelphia and
the vicinity Monday afternoon was after the
western type with variations. Its approach
is described in various ways. One said it
was black funnel very narrow at the bot
tom and enlarging until it spread all over the
| sky. Another described it as black ball
several hundred feet in diameter still an
| other as huge corkscrew, which went twist
ing around, sucking mp everything it touch
| ed. At one point, for distance Of half a
block, 1t would sweep everything before it
close to tho ground, and then, for that dis
lance, it would apparently rise and only
| touch the top of the houses. Gyrating like
a top it moved along sometimes with light
ming rapidity and again at u snail pace. The
| roofs of houses we're scooped of, shriveled
and sucked up toward the leaden sky. Trees
| three feet in diameter were twisted of or up.
rooted one man was blown 300 feet and
was dead when picked up, with a look of
| mortal terror on his face another had leg
torn of and carried 400 feet, and in Camden
alone 800 houses at least were unroofed
After wrecking the river steamer Mai. Rey-
bold, the storm struck the ferry-boat Peer
less, lifted it completely ont of the water,
and dropped it in the river, with the prov
still pointing toward the Pennsy lvania shore
1t il a singular fact that h4t.rOofed houses
suffered the most The wind with the great
est ease catching them under the cornces,
lifted them a. though they were sheets OF pa
per- So great was the violence OF the wind
that the fronts and sides of houses and bulk
windows were mashed in as though they we Q
egg-shells. Roofs were carried hundreds Of
yards away. One Of the saddest features of
the storm was the general destruction of
shade trees. They were moved down like
platoons of soldiery on battlefield. The
eccentroities OF the wind could be seen on
every side. Buildings which it would seem
that an ordinary storm would demolish, and
which we're in the direct path Of the cyclone,
were spared, while their neighbors, modern
structures of brick, would be Quilted or wreck
ed outright. Five people at least lost their
lives in the storm, four are missing and 90
we're injured, some fatally. The appearance
of localities on both sides Of the Delaware
river in the direct track of the tornado re
semble once thoky populated region that
had been visited by an extensive fire. The
total loss will amount to about $500, 900, in
Guiding $1,000 on property in Camden
$50, 900 in Philadelphia, and 1925, 900 on
vessels damaged in the river. The rain
storm which followed the tornado also did q
great deal OF damage.
A great earthquake has visited tho re-
gion about Tashkend In AsiRiic Russia. L
damaged most of the houses in the town Of
Bisheerzek and ruined the cities Of Sulul
aud Belovodsk. In the latter place a churcl
crowded with worshipers was shaken to frag
ments and a large number of people wer'
killed. The earth opened in great assures il
Bslovodsk and many people were swallow
ed up.
A party of 53 travelling gypsies that ha,
been Brought owes here by one Of the Frencl
line OF steamers we're refused landing b.
the New York commissioners of emigration
because they were likely to become a charg
on the community.
The FIRE losses in the United States and
Canada during July are placed at 50 0O0, O0'
-one-third more than the average for the
month during the last ten years.
w. L. Smith and A. L. Talbot ascendeC
in two balloons at Cbittsnham beach, nea
Chicago last Saturday night for a race il
mid air When up about 1900 feet the ma
chimes collapsed. Talbot came down will
his wreck comparatively uhinjured, but Smitl
fell the whole distance, striking some tele
graph wires before reaching the earth, AM
receiving fatal injuries.
"A soldiers monument erected by th
, people of Slndusky county, o., at Fremont
on the site of Fort Stephenson where Majo