Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1886-05-14
DIsAsTHOUS OHIO STORM.
Great Destruction and Loss of
Life at Nenfa.

Lire at Aehths
DAYTON, Ohio, May l3.-The storm
last night resulted in considerable dam
age. The rainfall filled both the Miami
rivers bank full. The drainage of the
city led the water to the main street,
where business blocks occupy all the
ground. The thoroughfares became
rivers and flooded all the store cellars,
destroying goods. The Walk creek
levee broke, flooding the west side,
undermining structures and turning
families out of tenements. The railway
bridges and culverts were washed out,
aud telegraph communication was cut
off from Dayton. Trains are all behind
time. Washouts are reported on every
road out of Dayton. All kinds of ex.
travagant rumors are afoat concerning
the loss of life. Reports from Spring
| field, Ohio, announce similar destruction
by lightning and flood.
CASUALTIES AT xENIA.
CiNcINNATI, Ohio, May l3.-There is
no telegraphic communication with
Xenia or Dayton, but from railroad
officials it is ascertained that water fell
so rapidly in those places last night that
| the culverts under the railroad choked
up creating immense reservoirs, which
| finally broke the embankment and
rushed through the town, tearing down
trees aud washing away houses. Tween.
ty persons are reported to be killed and
large number injured.
WHAT THE STORM DID.
DAYTON, o., May l3.-Dayton is
isolated Telegraph aud telephone
wires all down. The storm of wind and
rain and hail struck Dayton and vicinity
at eight o'clock last night. The small
streams became rushing torrents and the
Miami river mighty flood, raising nine
feet in three hours, inundating fifty
acres of houses in the fourth ward, and
drowning horses and cows. Merchan.
| disc in cellars was ruined, bridges in all
directions were swept away, farm build
ings and dwellings were demolished and
all kinds of crops totally ruined. Fair
mount is total wreck. The church at
Beayertown, where prayer meeting was
in nrogress, was demolished, but none
Of the
PANIC STRICKEN woRsHIPpERss
Were seriously hurt Dwellings there
were twisted from their foundations.
At Shakers Village, thirty miles east,
many buildings were unroofed.
A special train, with Superintendent
Tucker, was wrecked near Osborne, and
Tucker and six others injured. The
north bound freight on the Cincinnati,
Hamilton 4 Dayton road, dashed into
washout at Postum Run. five miles south
of Dayton, and the locomotive was car
red l50 feet down by the mighty torrent
before sinking. AT daylight farmer
mile across the waters, noticing signals
OF distress, rescued the freight crew from
tree tops. The engineer and fireman
were seriously injured. The rainfall was
four and half inches in three
hours. Additional disasters are reported
by country people constantly coming in.
Bridges and Track Gone.
CMcINNATI, May l3-Only the mer'
est outlines of the great disaster are yet
obtainable from Xenia. Itappears that
the rainfall last night was the worst
ever known in that part of the State.
From fifty to 100 buildings were swept
from their foundations, and the inmates
suddenly found themselves helpless in
the angry flood How many lives were
lost is not yet known. but at 1890 res
cuing parties had rescued twentyfour
bodies. 1t was then supposed that a
number would yet be found. The
storm is described as the most disas-
trous ever known on the Little Miami
railroad The nearest approach any
train could make to the city was three
miles. Bridges are all washed away
aud the track also taken. Trees were
blown down, fences destroyed and the
crops ruined. 1t will require days to re.
pair the railroad.
An a., u. a w. Accident.
/ A.. Tba aauf.