, 1886-05-14
TERRIBLE FLOODS.
Fearful Effects of the Storm
in Ohio.
Whole Families Driven From
Their Homes.
Nearly All Railroads in the
State Crippled.
Heavy Storms IN Ohio.

terrible wind and transform at III o clock
last night, with a wonderful electrical dis
play. Water backed up at the east enc
of the town TO the bank against the Pan
handle railroad. The bank gave way sud
denly and the food came dashing through
the town along the Shawnee creek il
waves fifteen or twenty feet high, and
swept twenty or ;hirty houses away, and
did 800, UDO worth of damage. The gas
works are flooded, and the town il in
darkness and terror. The cries Of the
people in the flooded district were awful
to hear. Many acts Of heroism in saving
drowning people are reported Bonfres
were lighted and the people worked all
night. Twenty bodies wcre'~recovered
and there is still a number missing.
Whole families persisted in the flooded
districts. There was great damage to
property all around in the country. and
the extent of the damage cannot now be
even approximated. The following is a
list of the dead. Mrs. Nellie Anderson
and sister, Mrs. Casey, a widow, Mrs.
Samuel Cochran and two sons, Matt
Evans, wife and child, Orrin Morris. wife
and five children, Stephen Dalton. VIM.
Powers, wife and six or seven children,
Lewis Anderson and wife, Mrs. Ed Lind
say.
CINCINNATI, May lS.-The storm of
last night, which did such fearful work
at Xenia, o., was far reaching. 1t is
heard OF in Illinois, through Indiana
aud Ohio, and at Winchester, Va. Here
there has been an unusual electrical dis
turbance for the past three nights. On
Monday night there was almost uninter-
rupted lightning from IL p. m. until G
a. m. Tuesday night a similar condition
existed, accompanied BY heavy rains and
hail, the latter of a very narrow range.
Last night there was another electrical
with wind, heavy rain and hail.
The Xenia storm, however, was much
more furious. The counties of Mont
gomery. Clarke, Butler, Warren and
Green lie adjacent IN Ohio and form an
rl,,eau with but shallow valleys
and low hills. In these counties are the
towns of Dayton. Springfield, Hamilton,
I.eh,,on and yen;, 7, rho e,stern
county Of Indiana adjoining this district is
Connellsville. At all of these places the
rain ot lost riob, vac of ,be heaviest vol.
,me ovor lnowr A, DAYTON !, measured
forr anJ oh,lf ;,cbos !, obo,, ,brao
horrs y.n;. wos s,,n,ted an os,o moot
wors, ros,l,s Sh,wroo r,r ,r,vorses
nro.,o. na.,;on 81 ,ho o;,r od;,,o,. ,o
I;,,l. Man; r,,lr,,d which l;as lower
,han Tho min n,r,;on of ,ho c;,y Tho
r,ilroaJ emh,rtwent r;ses ,hoye rho ocn.
or,I loyel and ,ba .,ro,m a,ys ,hrougb !
in a larre culvert L,st piyb, the rain
en- wos or,;r.ly too mu,h Ear rho c,nacitv
of ,ho, nulvnr, Tbo w,,er rose and 81,
lac, s,r,n, a,rar tho omh,nlmont and
Nth aoonm,I,,oJ c,rco rrsho1 unor small
Io,,,ed in tho law hanks and
,r;,hnn, w,rninn hor. ,hom from their
cmnaa,;ona
A, Snr;naG.l1 ,b, aooa rvs If nearly
oon,l r,l,na h,t tho dr,inoge was
ha,,or Eos, Hin s,roe, br;1gc was
undermined and ia = mass or rr;ns Tn
tho EASTERN and southeastern nor,ions ol
,ho;r hove by tho ercro,ch;nc aood
D,,ons of hr;dros over streams were
,a.hoa au,r Tho ,oysos c,, NOT he
os,;r,,,o5 Inn, will bo oxcoodinclv heavy
A, I.ah,no, rho Ne,bol;st EnisconaI
chrr,h Iobonor h,rse rr;st mill ware.
ho,so o,,J sayor.l ,osile,cos wera nm.
roocod and tho shode ,roes rere nearl,
r,;nod N.,rly every r,;lro,d across IN,
onto uos or;rnlo1 Soma will @renu;r,
sevoral d,vs for ren,;rs
Tho S,,,e .L,onovs Xeni, sncciol sovs.
Abou, o'clocl los, evening" terribl,
Gland. wore seen gotbcriny and ,erri6,
Eab,n;,g v,s Collowed bv meals of ,hun
dor This l,s,ol iii o %o'clocL whom n,
na,rl;.ar, alan soonoa 10 ann, III,
ra,os and rain Gell in torrcnts Peonl,
:, ho,sos on W,,or street osc,ne,
br ov.rv roy ross;ble Tho snout secme,
.on, ;,s G,., ON ,bo, nor,;on az III,
o;,r Eor s,ro,cb If l5nrords rho Limb
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