The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-05-21
CALAMITY AT xENIA, OHIO.
Some Thirty Persons Known to be Dead,
While Many Others Remain Unaccount-
ed For-The Storm Else where.

Some Thirty Persons Known to be Dead,
While Many Others Remain Unaccount-
ed For-The Storm Else where.
Dispatches from Xenia, Ohio, OF the 18th
sa,@ About z o'clock terrible clouds were
seen gathering, with terrific lightning, fol-
lowed by peals OF thunder. This lasted
TIL 9 o'clock, when an extraordinary clap
Of thunder seemed to open the gates.
and the rain fell in torrents.
1t appeared like a cloud burst. Water
backed up at the east end OF the town toa
lake against the Panhandle railroad. The
bank gave way suddenly and the flood
came dasning through town along Shawnee
creek in waves fifteen or twenty feet high.
swept twenty or thirty houses away and
did 500, 600 worth Of damage. The cas-
works are flooded and the town is in dark
ness and terror. The cries of the people
in the flooded district were awful to hear.
THE VICTIMS.
The following are the killed and missing:
Mrs. Nellie Anderson and sister, LYDIA
Casey (colored), both widows past 60 years
OF age, lived in Barr's bottom; Mrs. Sam
uel Corcoran and two sons, aged about IL
and % years, widow and sons Of the late
Samuel Corcoran; Mat Evans (colored),
day laborer, wife and child, the child miss.
ing; Orrin Morris (white), laborer, wife and
five children, three girls and two boys, the
oldest a girl of Is years OF age and the
Youngest a babe of 10 months; Stephen
Denton (eolored), laborer; William
Powell, cart driver, wife and six
or eight children, who were found
this morning, the rest being missing; Lewis
Anderson and wife (colored,D Anderson
missing; Mrs. Ed. Lindsay; Mr.. Powell
and two children.
In addition to the above, two more bod
les were found this evening, being children,
and they are not identified. The complete
number OF dead, whose bodies have been
found, is twenty-five, with eleven still miss
ing. The loss OF property is great.
The city engineer places the city loss at
$75, 900. The Little Miamiroad has about
sixteen miles swept away.
Cincinnati, May 13.-The storm which
did such frightful work at Xenia, was far
reaching. 1t is heard ofin Illinois, through
Indiana and Ohio, and at Winchester, Va.
Here there has been an unusual electrical
disturbance for the past three nights. On
Monday night there was almost u~ninter-
rupted lightning from IL pm. until 8 am.
Tuesday night q similar condition existed,
accompanied by heavy rains and hail, the
latter of very narrow range. Last night
there was another electrical storm, with
heavy rain and hail. The Xenia 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
shallow valleys and low hills. In these
counties are the towns OF Dayton, Spring
field, Hamilton, Lebanon and Xenia. In
the eastern county of Indiana, adjoining
this district, is Connersville. At all these
places the rain OF last night was OF the
heaviest volume ever known. At Dayton
it measured four and a hall inches in three
hours.
The following is the list of dead and in
jured at Attica, Ind, from the recent
storm:
killed-Mrs. Joe Davis, Mrs. Morehead,
Mrs. Abe Nathan, William Van Deventer,
James Idle.
Seriously Iniured-Mrs. Kirby and son,
Reed Brady, Bob Paris, Mrs. Moore,
Courtney Morehead.
The last-named is a son OF Mrs. More
head. The loss will exceed $500, 900.
The heaviest losses by the cyclone are: