The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-21
A MERcILEss TORRENT.

| Cloud-Burst in the Miami Valley Causes
Great Loss of Life and Destruction of
| Property-Twenty-two Dead Bodies Re-
covered at Xenias O.a=The Cities of Day
| ton and Springfield Under Water--The
Entire Southern Portion of the State
Visited Terrible Work of the Cyclone
| in Indiana-Spain Swept by Hurricane
Seventy Persons Killed in Madrid.
RUIN WROUGHT IN ONO.
| XENIA, o., May 14.-Twenty-t bodies
| cold in death in an extemporized morgue,
| and dozens of grooming sufferers lying
near them yesterday told of the extent OF
! the greatest disaster that has ever afflict-
ed Xena-the terrible flood that has mum
dated the city.
| About eight O'Clock Wednesday night a
| wonderful rain, wind and electrical storm
came up, which continued with unabated
| fury for three hours.
| In the midst Of the storm-about ten
| o'clock-the fire-bells rang out their wild
| alarm, but no great number OF people re-
| sponded to the call; but directly the second
alarm came and the streets were filled with
excited people. The night was dark and
| the rain was coming down in torrents. 1t
was soon learned that the trouble was that
| Shawnee creek was out of it's banks and
sweeping every thing before it. As one
| stood upon the banks of this mighty
stream in the rain and darkness. the situa-
ton was appalling. The following are the
| killed and missing:
| Mrs. Nellie Anderson and sister, Lydia
!, Casey (colored), both widows past sixty
years of age; Mrs. Samuel Corcoran and
| two sons, aged about twelve and twenty
| five years; Mat Evans Fcolored-day Ia
borer), wife and child, the child missing
| Orrin Morris (white laborer), wife and five
children, three girls and two boys, the old
| est girl fifteen years of age and the
| youngest a babe of ten months; Stephen
Dunton (colored), laborer; William Pow
| ell (cart-driver), wife and six or eight chill
| dren, one child escaped from the house, as
| dld Henry Brazelton, son-in-law of Powell,
and two children, who were found yester-
day morning, the rest are missing; Lewis
Anderson and wife (colored); Mr.. Powell
| and two children.
The destruction of property was heavy.
| Correct figures are wanting, but it is safe
| to say that to the city and it's citizens it
will reach SIS 900, while the railroads will
suffer as much more.
One of the causes of the destruction in
| Xenia was a small cuIvert under the
| Columbus & Xenia railroad just east OF
the Wilmington pike, it being insufficient
| to let the water through, and it rose to
the top OF the road, forming a great lake,
which suddenly broke the embankment,
| letting the water out with great rush.
| 1t came down INTO the doomed part of the
| town in body ten to fifteen feet high,
| carrying everything before it.
DAYTON o., May 14.-Dayton and vicin-
| ity were visited Wednesday night by the
most violent cyclone that has ever been
| known in Ohio.
1t is impossible to detail the damage.
| Houses, barns and sheds left their founda-
| tions and either tottered and fell or went
| floating down the swollen and raging
| stream to destruction. Hundreds OF fami-
| lies were driven from their homes and thou
sands of dollars OF damage was done to
merchants throughout the city. Hail
| stones as large as walnuts fell and did in
| estimable damage to fruit and gram. The
entire loss in the country about here will
| foot up in the millions.
SPRINGFIELD, o. May IA. Terrible dam
| age was caused in this city by the heavy
rain-storm Of Wednesday night. Rivers OF
| water two feet deep rushed through the
| streets. Ephraim Williams family were
| sleeping in q lower room when the flood
entered. All escaped but one child, which
| was drowned No other lives are reported
lost. The damage here will reach $50, 900.
CINCINNATI, O., May 14.-The storm OF
| last night which did such fearful work at
Xenia was far-reaching, extending
| throughout all OF Southern Ohio. The
| counties of Montgomery, Clarke, Butler,
| Warren and Greene lie adjacent in
| Ohio and form an elevated plateau
| with but shallow valleys and low
hills. In these counties are the towns
| OF Dayton, Springfield, Hamilton, Leb-
| anon and Xenia. In the eastern county oil
| Indiana adjoining this district is Corners
vile. At all these places the rain of
| Wednesday night was OF the heaviest vol
ume ever known. Dayton measured four
Nearly every railroad across the State
was crippled.
| IN INDIANA.
| LAFAYETTE, Ind, May 14.-The cyclone
which prevailed throughout Indiana, Ohio
and Illinois Wednesday night did much in
| jury in this city and vicinity. In the city
the courthouse and the Roman Catholic
and German Methodist churches were bad
| ly damaged, the large carpenter shops
| burned to the ground by the light
ming and numbers OF smaller build
| ings demolished. At Attica and
/
here, the storm spent most of it's fury. At
the former the buildings of the Attica
| Milling Company, the Revere House, the
Hess q Harvey carriage factory, the
depot and several hundred dwellings
/ and smaller business houses were de
/ stroyed. Over seven hundred people
are homeless, four were killed out
right and two more fatally
injured, while large number are seriously
| h&rt. The aggregate losses will be in the
neighborhood of $500, 900.
The tornado reached Wilamsport about
seven p. M. and left the town in ruins.
| Two persons are reported dead-one lady
and MANY more are badly injured.
Train-master Crimson, OF the Lake Erie
/ 9 Western railway, has returned from
Hobbs, small station fifty miles east oil
here. He says the ravages there last night
were terrible. Groves, houses and barns
were totally destroyed. Scattered along
/ the track of the storm were carca sses OF
| horses cattle, hogs and poultry. while
fragments of household furniture were
everywhere found. Several persons were
killed and Others fatally hurt.
| At Wilkinson. fifteen miles distant from
/ Greenfield, on the Indianapolis, Blooming
/ ton q Western railway, the storm blew
| down all the buildings in town except
| three. Samuel White was killed and his
wife was fatally injured. A boy named
! Shaffer was also killed and about twenty
| persons seriously hurt, several of whom
| will die. The wires are down at Wilkinson,
and direct communication is cut off,
HURRICANE IN SPAIN.
| MADRID, May IA terrible hurricane
has just swept across the middle OF Spain.
In this city seventy persons are known to
have been instantly killed and twenty 9th
| ers seriously injured.