The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-05-14
DISASTROUS FLOODS.
Great Destruction of Property
in Ohio and Other Points.
WHOLE FAMILIES Persisted.
DAYTON Isolated-Houses Collapse
$1,000 appropriated by the
Mayor OF Columbus
Disastrous FLOODS.


DAYTON. o.. May I3.-The storm last
night resulted IN considerable damage.
The rain filled both the Miami Rivers
bank full. The drainage of the city
led the water to the main stream, where
business blocks occupy all the ground.
The thoroughfare became a river and
flooded all the store cellars destroying
the goods. Walk Creek levee broke,
flooding the west and undermining
structures and turning families out OF
small tenements. The patrol system
carried the women and children out of
danger. The Big Miami raised nine
feet between 9 .. m. and midnight. show
indications of great damage 10 farmers
and gardeners of the valley. Railway
bridges ard culverts were washed out
and telegraph communication shut OF
from DAYTON. Trains are all behind time
and several people are detained in this
civ. The washout on the Bee line, four
miles south of DAYTON, took away 300
feet of embankment, and little wash
outs are reported on every road out or
DAYTON. All kinds OF extravagant
rumors are afioat concerning the loss OF
life.
Reports from Springfield, Ohio, an
nounce a similar destruction by light
ming and floods. A portion OF two
trains were derailed, but no loss of life.
Foundations of several buildings were
washed out, allowing them TO tumble
down, and several houses in the city
and country were burned from being
struck by lightning.
At West Baltimore, Ohio, George Mil
Ter, 8 prominent farmer, was struck Dy
lightning and killed.
DAYTON IS ISOLATED.
Telegraph and telephone wires are all
down. The storm-wind and rain and
hail-struck Dayton and vicinity at o
O'Clock last night. Small streams be-
came rushing torrents, and the Miami
River a mighty food, raising nine feet
in three hours, and inundsting fifty
acres Of houses in the Fourth Ward.
drowning horses and cows, The
merchandise in the cellars was
ruined. The bridges in all di-
rections were swept away, farm build
ings and dwellings were demolished;
all kinds of crops sre totally ruined.
Paramount Is a total wreck The
church at BeaverstOwn, where 3 prayer
meeting was in progress, was demol-
ished. but none of the panic-stricken
Worshippers we're seriously hurt. The
dwellings there were twisted from their
foundations. AT Shaker Village. three
miles east, many dwellings were IN
r0Ofed. a special train with Superin-
tendent Tucker, was wrecked near Os-
born. Tucker and six others were in
jursd The north bound freight on the
Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton road,
DASHED INTO A wAsHoUr
At Postum Run, aud the locomotive
carried $50 feet down the mighty tor
,ent before sinking. At daylight a
farmer a mile across the waters noticed
the signals of distress and rescued the
freight crew from the tree tops. The
engineer and firemen were seriously
injury. The rainfall was four and
half inches in three hours.
Additional disasters are reported by
country people constantly coming in.
COLUMBUS. Ohio, May Is "A Xenia
special TO the Springfield Evening Ga
-stte, which has Just been received,
SAYS. There was a terrible wind and
rain storm at 10 O'Clock last night,
with a wonderful electrical display.
Water blocked up at the east end of the
town, to the bank against the Pan
handle Railroad. The bank gave way
suddenly, and the flood came dashing
through the town along the Shawnee
Creek, in waves Of fifteen or twenty feet
high. and swept twenty or thirty
houses away. and did 500. 600 worth of
damage. The gas works are flooded.
and the town is IN darkness and terror.
The cries of the people IN the flooded
district were awful to hear.
Many acts of heroism in saving
the drowning are reported. Bon
fires wese lighted. and the people
worked all night. Twenty bodies were
recovered and there is still number
missing.
WHOLE FAMILIES PKRLsHED
II the flooded districts. There was
great damage to property all round in
the country. and the extent of the
damage cannot now be even approx
mated.
Following is a list of the dead; Mrs.
Nellie Anderson and sister; Mrs. Casey, |
WIDOW; Mrs. Samuel Cochran and two |
sons Matt Evans, wife and child: |
OTrln Morris. wife and five children;
Stephen Dalton; VIM. Powell, wife and |
SIX or seven children: Lewis Anderson !
and wife; Hrs. Ed. Lindsay.
CINCINNATI, May I3.-The storm of |
last night. which did such fearful work |
Al Aenla. Ohio, was far reaching. It is
heard OF IN Illinois, through Indiana
Snd Ohio and at Winchester. Va. Here |
mere has been an unusual electrical !
disturbance Tor the past three nights !
On Monday night there was almost an
interrupted lightning from IL pm. IN
al am Tuesday night similar con-
dluon existed. accompanied by heavy |
rains and hail. the latter of very |
narrow range. Last night there was J
another electrical storm with wind, |
heavy rain and hail. The Xenia |
form, however. vas much more |
leariul- The counties of Mont |
somery, Clarke, Butler, Warren and |
1reene lie adjacent in Ohio and form 1
a elevated plateau with but shallow !
alleys and low hills. In these counties
f6se the towns Of Dayton, Springfield.
hamilton, Lebanon and Xeria. In the \
stern counties of Indiana adjoining I
'-N district, is Co-nersyille. AT al |