The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22
A NIGHT OF HORROR.
Xenta, Ohio, Struck by a Storm which
Destroys Much Valuable Property
Thirty Lives Supposed to be Lost
Other Towns in Ohio and Indiana
Visited with Fatal Results.

| AiSuO VI OhC 1ZbIls LIE HOOQ OI water
was so sudden and overwhelming tlla
| the damage was done almost before
! the people were aware that the storm
had begun. The water backed up at
| the east end of the town to lake
against the Panhandle Railroad. The
bank gave away suddenly, and the
| flood came dashing through the town
| along Shawnee Greek in waves fifteen
or twenty feet high, and swept twenty
or thirty houses away in a twinkling.
| The gas-works were flooded, and the
| town was in darkness and terror.
The cries OF the people in the flooded
district were awful to hear. MANY
acts OF heroism in saving the drown
ing are reported. Bonfres were lighted
and the people worked all night.
| Whole families perished in the flooded
| districts. There was great damage to
property al around in the country,
| but its extent cannot now be even ap-
| proXimated.
The following are the killed and mis-
! sing: Mrs. Nellie Anderson and sister.
Lydia Casey, colored, both widows
! past 60years of age; Mrs. Samuel Ger
| coran and two sons, aged II and 90:
Mat Evans, colored, day laborer, wife
and child-the child missing; Orrin
| Morris, white laborer, wife and five
children, three girls and two boys, the
eldest girl l 5 years OF age and young
est babe of 10 months; Stephen
Donton, colored laborer. VIM. Pow
ell, cart-driver, wife and six or eight
children. One child escaped from the
house, as did Henry Brazelton, son-in-
law of Powell, and two children, who
We're found this morning. Therest are
missing. Mrs. Ed. Lindsay; Mr.. Pow
ell and two children.
The loss of property is great. Whole
lumber-yards and all the bridges are
| gone, completely. The scenes in the
devastated district are indescribable.
The City Council has appropriated
| 81 900 for immediate usein the burial
of the eVictims. Aprivate subscription
has already reached into the thou
sands. A committee is distributing
clothing and bedding. The rink has
been turned into arefuge for the home
less, who are many. All aid possible
IS needed from every source. Among
the losses are: Mcdowell & Terrence,
| lumber, $4,000; Miami Powder Com
pany, $25, 900; Little Miami Railroad,
| 1925, 1000; private individuals, $780,
! 600. The city engineer places the city
loss at $4,000. The Little Miami
road has about sixteen miles of track
swept away. Two more bodies were
found next day, being children. They
are not identified. The hecomplete num-
Der of dead whose bodies have been
found is twenty-five, with eleven still
| missing.
Serious damageto property and loss
OF lie from the storm are reported in
all directions in Ohio and Indiana At
Attlca, in the latter state, the follow
ing casualties occurred: Killed: Mrs.
Joe Davis. Fatally wounded: Mrs.
Morehead, Mrs. Abe Nathan, VIM.
Van Deventer, James Idle. Seriously
injured: Mrs. Kirby and son, Reed
Brady, Bob Paris, Mrs. Moore, Court
ney Morehead. The last named is q
son of Hrs. Morehead's. The loss will
exceed $4,000.
A Greenfield, Ind, specia reports
| that news has reached that point from
! Wilkinson, fifteen miles distant, on
the indianapolis, Bloomington &
Western Railway, that the storm blew
down all the buildings in town except
three. Samuel White was killed and
his wife fatally injured. A boy named
| Shaffer was also killed, and about
| twenty persons seriously hurt, several
OF whom will die. The wires are down
and direct communication is cut off.
Two people were killed and a number
of buildings destroyed in the vicinity
| of Danville, Ill.
The most serious damage to rail-
roads fell upon the Little Miami Road.
| From Corwin to London, a distance
OF forty miles, eight bridges are gone,
and the track is a series OF small and
great wash-outs. Fortunately the
| Muskingum Valley Road is intact and
| the Little Miami trains can use it for
their through traffic and for reaching
| Columbus. The Cincinnati, Hamilton
& Dayton Road has two bridges out,
one at Carrollton and one at Miamis-
burg, but it can use the Bee Line track
to Dayton. The wash outs on the Bee
Line are beyond Dayton.
News of damage by the storm con-
tinues to come. Madison County, O.,
suffered to the extent of more than
100000. The streams in that county
are generally low-banked and the un-
precedented food caused nearly all
the ad-bridges to be carried off. In
| Fayette County the waterspout was
so pronounced that flood of eight
feet came tearing down Paint Creek
on the 18th into Washington
| Cour6-house. All the lower part of the
city was inundated and many people
driven from their homes. Dozens of
bridges were washed away. In Clinton
! County the chief damage was by wind.
Five barns are reported destroyed and
the timber is prostrated over a large
area. In Butler County also there
was much damage by wind. Fifty
feet OF Woodsdale bridge over the
Miami River was blown off and a fine
iron and wood bridge on the Elliott
turnpike was demolished. Miles
OF fences were fattened and
many small bridges torn out
At Middletown the damage was by
wind and storm. Trees were blown
down. The river was higher than it
has been since 1875. It was full of
wrecks OF houses, barns and fences.
1t is mile wide The mills are all
stopped and nearly all access to the
town cut of. Heavy damage by wind
occurred south of Middletown. At
Sidney, O, great damage to the rail
roads is reported. Six miles west OF
Sidney the Bee-Lina had a washout
100 feet long and twenty feet deep.
Between Sidney and Quincy several
culverts areout. The Dayton & Michi-
gan road has several breaks between
Sidney and Dayton and two culverts
out north near Johnstown Station.
At Lima the Lake Shore & Western
trains were suspended by reason OF
washouts. Mail trains are delayed in
every direction. Similar reports come
from many parts of Indiana.