The Brookhaven leader., 1886-05-20


ed about ten minutes. The hail-stones
were very large and solid, and did great
damage to windows, shrubbery, flowers
and fruit.
The leyee broke at midnight, washing
away the Panhandle railroad bridge and
q large wooden carriage bridge. Tele-
graph and railroad communication is cut
off from the West. The water flooded the
business portion of the city, and damaged
goods over City thousand dollars. Trains
are all being held.
The Bee Line midnight express for the
East is held four miles south OF Dayton,
by two hundred foot washout. The
Dayton & Michigan trains are held at
Tippecanoe. The Dayton & Western and
Pan Handle trains are held at Trotwood.
Four houses In the submerged district
hoated away with their occupants, but the
latter were rescued by swimming horses
to them. One family is missing.
Horses, cattle, wagons, etc, were swept
away. The steel tubular bridge over the
Miami was broken by the floating debris.
1t Is impossible to estimate the loss, as
all Is tumult.
SPRINGFIELD, o., May 1S.-The storm
last night did frightful damage in and
about Springfield. The East High street
bridge, recently completed, was under.
mined and Is now q mass Of ruins. Hun
dreds of families have been driven from
their homes in the eastern and southern
portions of the city, many barely awak-
| ening In time to escape with their lives.
| The scene in that quarter is one OF fright
| full devastation. Dwellings are washing
| full of soil and debris and the railroads
| are all blocked up.
York street sewer broke and tossed the
boiler, engine and heavy machinery OF the
| Common Sense Engine Company and the
immense Ohio Southern railroad shops
like feathers, and four hundred foot
bridge over the East Fork of the Little
Miami river near Harmon was swept away
and went surging down the stream. On
its way it tore down the iron bridge two
miles below. Dozens of turnpike bridges
in the country are reported swept away.
No loss of life is reported, but there were
many narrow escapes. The loss will
mount up in the hundreds of thousands
of dollars.
CINCINNATI, May l3.-About ten o'clock
last evening terrific hail and rain storm
swept over this city. Numerous win
dows and skylghts were demolished and
many chimneys blown down. Tele-
graphic communication was entirely cut
off from the city for several hours. The
loss, considering the violence of the
storm, was very small, the heaviest loser
being A. E. Burkhart, who estimates his
loss from broken plate glass and sky
lights, at about five thousand dollars.
MIAMIsBURG, o., May l3.-Trains are
all held by washout. Miller, O'Key &
Freeman's circus train struck washout
at Cold Springs, ditching the engine and
four cars. No lives are reported lost.
Four bridges are down between Dayton
and Greenpille. No trains are running
except on the Cincinnati, Hamilton Day
ton and the Bee line, and those only In
the direction of Cincinnati.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 19.-Reports
come from Attica, in Fountain County,
that cyclone struck that place about the
center of the town and destroyed several
of the business buildings, including new
mill, the Revere House and the Chicago
Great Southern railway Offices. The
wagon bridge over the Wabash river was
torn down. Several persons were on the
bridge at the time it went down, and all
are supposed to have been killed. At the
Revere House several are reported to have
been killed.
A report from WilliamSport, Ind, says
a cyclone stglck that place last evening,
destroying every thing In its track. Sew
eral houses and barns in the north end OF
the town were carried away. 1t seemed
to have formed about two miles west OF
the town, and took a southwesterly d.
rection, travelling about thirty miles an
hour, striking the extreme north end OF
the place.
LoGANsPoRr, Ind, May ia terrific
! cyclone struck this city last night. Hum
dreds of houses we're unroofed and
fences, trees and houses blown down.
The high school and American Normal
| college lost their roofs. Thousands OF
trees block the country roads. The
| lightning struck several houses, and their
| inmates were badly shocked, but there
was no loss of life. Damage about
| $4,000
WEST POINT, Ind, May IA tornado
struck Attica at ten minutes past six
| Wednesday evening. In five minutes 200
houses were destroyed, among which
were the Revere House and the Chicago
& Great Southern freight depot. Many
| business houses and residences are in
ruins, and about seventy people are in
| iured. A Mrs. Davis was found dead in
the ruins of her house. Many telegraph
| lines are down in the track OF the storm.
| The midnight express train on the Wabash
| road ran into q washout and was ditched.
1t is a total wreck. The mailing clerk
| was slightly injured.
ATrIcA, Ind, May H.-Later reports
of Wednesday nights storm show the fol.
lowing casualties:
Dcad-Mrs. Jolt Davis.
| Seriously injured-James Idle, Mrs. A.
Nathan, Will Vandeventer, Mis-. A. j.
Moorhead and son and Mrs. Benton
Gamble.
Slightly injured-Two daughters q
Jno. Bethel, Mrs. Kirby and son, Rees
Brady, R. S. Paris and Jno. Ersingers.
EATON, o., May 1.-THE most terrific
and destructive rain and hail-storm that
ever occurred here comm enced at
fifteen minutes to eight O'Clock Wednes-
day night and lasted for twelve hours.
| The destruction to bridges over creeks
and other streams is very great. The
bridge Immediately west of town, that
has stood for sixty years, was swept
away, and in the eastern part of the
| county several houses and barns were
destroyed. The residence of Edward
Somers was demolished aud his wife was
| killed. The loss to farm property and
crops will be enormous in this locality.
WILMINGTON, o., May 14.-The storm
| Uadnaadav piohf struck thtS ciku at to,-