Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-14
TIE WORLDS NEWS.
SPECIAL DISPATCHES To THE REcoRp-uYIoN. /
DOMESTIC.


night resulted in considerable damage. The
rainfall filled both the Miami rivers bank
| fuil. The drainage of the city led the
water 10 Main street, where the business
blocks occupy all the ground. The thor
oughiare became river, and flooded all
the store cellars, destroying quantities of
goods. Walk creek leyee broke. flooding
the West Side, undermining structures and
turning families out of small tenements.
Inc fatrol system carried the women and
chlldren out OF danger. The Little Miami
raised nlne leet between 9 2. NJ. and mid
| night, which fact indicates great damage to
| the farmers and gardeners OF the valley.
halfway bridges and culverts were washed
out and telegraphic communication shut
OH from Dayton. The trains are all be-
hlhd Tune, and several hundred people are
| IN the city. A washout on The Bee Line,
| four miles south of Dayton, took away 800
| feet Of embankment Little washoufs are
reported on every road out of Dayton. All
KINDS OF eXtrayagant rumors are ahoat con-
corning loss of life.
Reports from Springfield. O.. announce
| similar destruction by lightning and floods.
Portions of two trains were derailed. but
no loss OF life was occasioned thereby. The
foundations OF several baildiugs were
| washed out, causing them to tumble down,
and several houses in the city and country
lightning. At West Baltimore o., George
Wilkes, prominent farmer, was struck
by lightning and killed.
DAYTON AND VICINITY.
DAYTON (O.), May 13th-Dayton is iso-
lated, the telegraph and telephone wires AL
being down. A storm of wind, rain and
hail struck Dayton and vicinity at s O'Clock
last night. The small streams became
| rushing torrents, and the Miami river was
mighty flood, raising nine feet in three
hours inundating fifty acres of houses in
the Fourth Ward, and drowning horses
and cows. The merchandise in the cellars
was ruined, bridges in all directions swept
away, farm buildings and dwellings de
molished. ard all kinds of crops totally
ruined. Fairmount is total wreck The
church at BeavertOwn, where prayer
meeting was in progress, was demolished,
but none of tie panic-striclen worshipers
seriously hurt. Dwellings there were
twisted from their foundations. At the
Shaker village, three miles east, many
buildings were unroofed. 4 special train
with Superintendent Tucker, was wrecked
near Osborn, and Tucker and six others in
jured. The north bound freight on the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton road
| dashed into washout at Possum Run,
five miles south of Dayton, and the loco
motive was carried $50 feet down the
mighty torrent before sinking At daylight
| farmer. mile across the waters, noticing
signals of distress, rescued the freight crew
from the treetops. The engineer and fire.
man were seriously injured. The rainfall
| was four and half inches in three hours
Additional disasters, reported by the coun-
try people, are constantly coming in
FRIGHTFUL LOSS OF LIFE.
CINcISNATI, May l3th.-Only the merest
| outlines of The great storm disaster at
Nenia are, as yet, obtainable. From these
| 1t appears that the rainfall last night was
the worst ever known in that part of the
State. 1t was like a heightened cloudburst,
beginning at 5 o'clock and continuing until
after 10. The Shawnee river, which runs
through portion of the town, with cot
| tages built on its banks, rose TO an unpre-
cedented hight. Exactly how the great
volume of water acted-whether by being
damned and then breaking, or by its di-
rect course, is not yet known, but from so
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 vet
known, but at 1880 the rescuing parties
had rescued a bodies. 1t is estimated that
a number more would yet be found The
storm is described as the most disastrous
even known on the Little Miami Railroad.
The nearest approach any train could make
TO the city was three miles. The bridges
are all washed away, and sections of track
also taken. Trees were blown down, fences
destroyed and crops ruined. twill require
days TO repair the railroad.
WHOLE FAMILIES DROWNED.
COLUMBUS, May 13th-A Nenia special
| to the Springfield EreaiRg Gazette, which
has just been received, says There was a
| terrible wind and raiu-storm at 10 o'clock
last night, with wonderful electrical dis
play. The water backed up at the east end
of town to the bank against the handle
Railroad. The bank gave way, and sud
denly the food came dashing through the
town along Shawnee creek in waves fifteen
/, or twenty feet high, swept twenty or thirty
houses away, and did 100000 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 were reported
Bonfres were lighted, and the people
worked all night. Twenty bodies were re-
covered. aad there is still a number miss
ing. Whole families perished in the flooded
districts. There was great damage to prop
erty all round in the country, and The eX-
tent cannot be even approximated.
Following Is list OF the dead Mrs.
Nellie Anderson and sister; Mrs Casey a
widow Mrs. Samuel Cochran and two
sons; Matte Evans and child; 0rrin Nor
ris, wife and five children; Stephen Balton;
VIM. Powell, wife and six OF seven chill
dren Lewis Anderson and wife: Mrs Ed.
Lindsay.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE xENIA HORROR.
COLUMBUS May 13tb.-The State Journals
Xenia special says About o'clock last
evening terrible clouds were seen gather
ing. aud terrific lightning. followed by
peals of thunder This lasted till 8 o'clock
when an extraordinary clap seemed to
open the gates, and rain fell in torrents.
People living in houscs on Water street
escaped by every way possible. The
spout seemed to vent its fury on that por-
ton of the city, and for stretch of $50
yards the Little Miami Railway is swept
away. The spout struck the houses on
Water street, and tore them to pieces
as if they were shells. A resident of the
street states that within two minutes after
the clap OF thunder he stood in water up to
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