The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-06-05


man and damaging the stock of
hardware to the extent of about
$4,000.
Two railroad bridges were washed
away, one at Easton, on the Kansas
Central, and one at Paramount, on
the Union Pacific. Eight barns
were blown down in Salt Creek
Valley.
A most destructive cyclone is re-
ported from Odell, ILL.,, village 40
miles south of Joliet, on the Chi
cago and Alton Railroad on the
18th. The delegates of the State
Sabbath School Convention, return
ing on the train state that as the
train neared Odell they saw the
cyclone approaching. First they
saw the roof of an elevator raise and
sail off in the air and the building
collapsed. Then trees and houses
were raised up, tumbled over and
over like feathers, and then shat
tered to pieces, brick and frame,
and all sizes, from shanties to two
story buildings.
One of the severest storms ever
known in Joliet struck about $3.50
the same evening, when deluge of
rain and hail inundated the streets
and thunder shook the earth. The
thunder was deafening and the
electric display unparalleled. A
circus was giving n performance,
and in the midst of the performance
the storm struck the tent and turned
the whole show upside down. The
women screamed, the animals
howled, and general stampede
ensued amid sheets of lightning,
drenching rain and resistless gale.
Three persons were seriously injured
by the falling poles, and a humber
were hurt slightly.
Williamsport, Ind, the same day,
cyclone struck destroying every
thing in its track. Several houses
and barns in the north end of the
town were carried away. Reports
come from Attica, that it struck
that place about the centre of the
town, and destroyed several of the
business buildings, including the
new mill, the Revere House and the
Chicago and Great Southern rail-
way offices. The wagon bridge over
the Wabash River was torn down.
Several persons were on the bridge
at the time it went down and are
all supposed to have been killed.
At Xenia, o., terrible wind
and rain storm and electrical dis
play. The water backed up at the
east end of the town against the
embankment of the Pan Handle
Railroad. The bank gave away
suddenly and the flood came dash
ing through the town along Shawnee
creek in waves 10 or 20 feet high
1t swept twenty or thirty houses
away, and did 100000 worth OF
damage. The gas works are flooded
and the town is in darkness ant
terror.
AT LEBANON the Methodist Epis'
copal church, the Lebanon House
q grist mill, warehouse and severa
residences were unroofed.
3 A storm passed over Kempton
e on the Lake Erie and Western Rail
e way, unroofing houses, tearing dow
e trees and carrying everything befor
Q it.
a At Wilkinson, Ind, the storr
e blew down all the buildings in tn
d town except three.
!. A cyclone passed over Danvillt
A ILL.,, destroying a score of farm
d houses and demolishing the Unite
Brothers church and school house
IT The path of the cyclone was 81
:, miles in length and $50 yards wide
r Madison county, o., suffered
d an extent more than 100000. i
1t Fayette county the water spout W,
le so pronounced that flood 8 fe'
" came tearing down Point Creek in,
Ie Washington Court House, and il
If creased until, in four hours, it ha
risen IS feet, the highest ev'
J. known.
10 Forest, o., was visited by to
1t nado. The air was filled with bal
n of fire which exploded with lout
IS swapping sound. Nine deaths al
he reported from the south of Dunkirl
st Almost every window in passin
d train was broken, and a number ,
f. passengers were slightly hurt fro
d, flying glass. Losses estimated
e, $3.50, 900,
d. A cyclone formed one mile nor
ne of Lansing, Mich, and swept in
ne northeast direction, leveling fenc
+. and woods and tearing building
ee into fragments. The whirlwiI
passed across the big Chandl
tn marsh, nearly in the middle, stri
is ing Michigan Central freight trai
vn unrooting the cars and hurting Il
p conductor into ditch.
AT Albion, Mich. heavy viii
re and rain storm struck the city al
ell five brick stores were unroofed.
A fearful thunderstorm visit
wn the city of Dayton, o. The stol
M was accompanied by heavy fall
ok hail, which lasted about ten minute