Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-31
DO Deadly And Disastro1s Work In
New England.

New England.
Boston, July 30.-The details of the dam
age wrought by the thunder storm are COM
| ing in from all directions. At Attleboro,
Mass, Frederick Fogg's dwelling house was
struck, its attic rooms badly damaged and
the west end of the building torn out. The
second floor rooms were likewise damaged.
| Benjamin Packard, twenty-five, a hack
| driver, was struck in his chamber and in
| stantly killed. John Burton, night watch
man at the depot, was Frustrated. At New
Bedford three rooms of three-story block
corner of Acushnet avenue and River street
were shattered by lightning. John N. Nor
ris' carpenter shop was badly and Abram A.
Aliens barn was slightly damaged. In
Stoughton Alexander Hamilton's hardware
store was struck and burned to the ground:
loss 1900. Nally's cigar store caught fire
and was consumed. In Brighton John
Behen's stable was struck and with
eight horses, five tons of hay, ETC.,
was consumed. His tenement house
caught from the stable and was partly
burned; total loss 81, 700. In Mansfield Mrs
Phebe Liveolns house and barn were struck
and burned to the ground. A COW and many
horses persisted. In South birmingham
Samuel Stones barn, with twelve tons of
hay, was struck and totally destroyed In |
struck and burned. In Randolph a house |
occupied by Mrs. Riley and three children |
was struck. The beds occupied by the mem |
bers of the family were scorched, but no.
body was hurt. In Fall River bolt struck |
a cottage, corner Mulberry and Division
streets, and passed into a room where |
Michael Toomey and his three children were
sleeping. One side of the bed and the foot |
board were shattered, and the bed clothes
were scorched, but none of the occupants
were hurt. Several other houses were slight
ly damaged and two ladies were Frustrated. |
The tempest was especially severe in Wor-
cester county, where the wind was almost |
eyclonic.
At Taunton the house of Rev. Father
Beavans of the Church of the Sacred Heart,
Wier village police station, house owned by
Elbridge G. Dean and occupied by Widow
Falvin and the foundry of the Taunton loco
motive works were struck with slight dam
age. The tower ON the Old Colony station
was struck and the fire department. called
out. In the operating room below two in
struments were burned and the room fired.
damage was done to the Balti-
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wires. George E. Walkers house at West |
Dighton was damaged. The lightning went |
through every room on one floor among the |
people, but no one was injured. |
The barn of the Colbernet wool
en- mills company at Uxbridge was
struck by lightning and the hostler, Henry |
and two valuable horses were
killed. A dispatch from St. Adams says
that brief but terrific hail storm passed
through sections of Georgia and Milton last
night, cutting crops and breaking windows.
The storm was accompanied by incessant
lightning and but little thunder. The same
storm swept through Chatesugay, N. Y, and
damaged hops and other crops to a great ex
tent beside making terrible havoc with win
dow glass. 1t is only two weeks since these
farms suffered incalculable damage from
hail, which fell to such extent that drifts
of it two feet deep were found four days af-
ter the storm.
At Dennisport this forenoon lightning
struck the chimney of Rev. Austin Dodge's
house, completely demolishing the chimney.
Entering the house it damaged pictures and
several articles of furniture.