Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-05-14

being resiously injured. The rain fall was
four and half inches in three hours.
GREENFIELD, Ind, Nav IS.
News has just reached this point from
Wilkinson. 10 miles distant. on the Indinna.
Bloomington & Western railroad. that the
storm of yesterday blew down all the build.
ings IN town except three. Samuel White
was killed and his wife fatally injured. A
boy named Shaffer was also killed and about
~ persons seriously injured. Several will die.
DANvILLE, Ill May l3.
A cyclone passed through this county last
nlght, destroying score of farm houses.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Miller and an infant
son OF John Shaw were killed. Mr.. Shaw
himself was fatally injured. The track of
tue cyclone was six miles in length and $50
yards in width.
INDIANAPOLIS, May Is. -
The railroads leading east from this city
are seriously crippled On the Pan Handle
it Is said the amount of track washed ont ne
tween here and Bradford will aggregate five
miles.
CHESTER, H.. NAV l3.
TUESDAY afternoon this city was visited by
hurricane, which continued fully an hour.
and caused great damage to property. No
lives were lost
ST GENIEvIEvE, Mo MAY l3.
A tremendous storm of wind and rain
swept over this town Wednesday afternoon
Ii lasted for an hour but fortunatel, no lives
were lost. The sheet iron roofing of the
bone mills was rolled up like a scroll and
blown iEto the street. The roof of Charles
Burgests smithy was also blown off, fruit
trees stripped, fences demolished and creeks
in the vicinity oyerflowed their banks. The
tempest was the most severe for years. The
Mississippi is rising rapidly.
COLUMBUS. O.. Nav l3
A Dayton, Ohio, special says the storm
Wednesday night resulted in cousiderabie e
damage. The rainfall filled the Miami
rivers bank full. The drainage of the city
led the water to the main street, where bust
ness blocks occupy all the ground The
thoroughfare became river and flooded all
the store cellars, destroying goods. especially
In groceries, shoe houses and hardware stores
Arnold Son claim loss of $4,000 Wolf
Creek levee broke, flooding the west side, un-
derminiDg structures and turning families out
of small tenements. The patrol system car
ried women and children out of danger.
The Big Miami rose nine feet between 8
T. M. and midnight, which indicates great
loss to farmers and gardners of the valley.
Railway bridges and culverts were washed
from Dayton. Trains were all behind time
and several hundred people detained in the
city. A washeut on the Bee Line four miles
south of Dayton, took away 200 feet of the
embankment and delayed the night express
to New York and will delay the running of
trains for "a hours. Like washou,s are re-
ported on every road out of Dayton. This
morning no trains had arrived since o'clock
last night All kinds Of extravagant rumors
are afoat.
Senator Kemp left for Dayton on news
that his home had been washed away and his
family could not be found
Reports from Springfield announce great
destruction by the lightning and food A
portion of two trains were derailed but there
was 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 struck by lightning.
New YORK, May l3
At 2.30 A. NJ. the storm reached Bath,
Pittsburg and Cleveland, where it came with
great violence.
CINCINNATI, May l3
Still no telegraphic communication with
Xenia or Dayton. Twenty persons are re.
ported to be killed and large number a,
Xenia injured.
The storm last night, which did such fear
tul work at Xenia, Ohio, was far-reaching.
1t is heard of in Illinois, through Indiana and
Ohio, and at Winchester, Va. Here there
has been unusual electric disturbances fol
the past three nights. Monday night there
was almost uninterrupted lightning from II
p. NJ. till 6 A. NJ. Tuesday night a similar
condition existed with heavy rains and hail,
the latter of very narrow range. Last night
thar bar ole ind
and heavy rain and hail At Xena the
storm, however, was much more furious
The counties of Montgomery. Clarke, Butler
Warren and Greene, lie adjacent in Ohio
and form an elevated plateau with but shal
low valleys. In this lie the cities of Dayton
Springfield, Hamilton, Lebanon and Xenia
In the eastern county of Indiana, adjoining
this district, is Connersville. In all these
places the rain last night was of the heavies
volume ever known.
The most serious damage to railroads by
last nights storm fell upon the Little Mlam
road from Corwin to London, a distance o.
forty miles. Eight bridges are gone and the
road is a series of small and great washouts
The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton road ha
two bridges out, one at Carrollton and one a
Miamisbrrg
MADRID, Nav l3.
A terrible hurricane has just swept acros
the middle of Spain. In this city sevent,
persons are known to have been insiantl,
killed and 200 others are seriously injured.
| The wind struck the city with the sudden
ness of lightning train Of cars, and cab
were overturned and broken into splinters
roofs were torn off and telegraph wires every
where torn from their poles. The parks il
and about the city were devastated and il
some cases entirely denuded. One churc
| tower was blown down, a number of house
| in the suburbs were entirely wrecked and o
many cottages on the outskirts of the capital
which were blown from their foundations an
wrecked, some were completely and quick
| lv broken up and scattered by the wind tina
they may be said to have simply vanished
before the storm. Telegrapbic communica
ton has been so completely cut off that it j
as vet impossible to obtain news from tn
Provinces, but it is believed that the ruiz
wrought by the hurricane has been wide
spread.
Only mere outlines of the great disaster
are vet obtainable. From these it appear
that the rainfall last night was the worst eve
known in that part of the State. 1t lasteC
about two hours. Shawnee run. which run
through portion of the town, with cottage
built on its banks, rose to an unprecedentec
height Exactly how the great volume o
water acted, whether being damned and then
breaking, or by its direct course, is not yei
known, but from so to 100 buildings were
swept from their foundations and the inmates
suddenly found themselves helpless IL
the flood. How many lives we're lost is not
vet known, but at Il.30, "a bodies had been
.scured The sform il described as the mos