The Portland daily press., 1886-05-14

wind blew with great force. Fences, sheds
and barns were blown down. Six miles
south of this place the storm seemed to be OF
a cyclonic character for space Of four rods
in width. Barns. fences, trees and wind
mills were leveled with the ground. Will
liam Hixon, a butcher of this place, drove
under shed to escape the fury, of the storm
The shed was blown down and one, OF the
foundation stones struck Hixon ON the head,
fracturing his skull. He died about two
hours later.
NEW YORK, May 13.-At 2.30 a. M, the
storm had reached both Pittsburg and Cleye-
land, wheresit ragged with great violence,
while all wires leading east from Chicago,
it was stated at midnight had been badly
demoraliZed by the storms at Lafayette, Ind !,
Winamac and Logansport. At 1890 this
morning communication between this city
and Cincinnati was established. but only
with one wire. The storm is also reported
to have been quite severe in Southern
Ohio.
INDIANAPOLIS, May 13.-An east bound
passenger train on the Indianapolis, Bloom
ington & Western railroad which left here
at last night ran into Washout towards
midnight with terrible ana sli fatal effect; The
plunged into the abyss. j. V. Treniar,. en-
gineer and James Hudson, fireman, both of
this city and an unknown passenger were in
stantly killed and the baggagemen and con-
ductor seriously injured. All OF the passen-
~NN~-O
riously.
CHESTER, ILL.,, May 13.-Tuesday after
noon the city was visited by a hurricane
which continued fully an hour and caused
great damage to property, but by almost
miracle no serious injury was done 10 any
person. The gale was accompanied by hail,
rain and vivid lightning. Houses were un-
rooted and in some cases completely demol-
ished. Fences, trees and shrubs were torn
away, and the air was full of debris The
government fleet lying up here was blown
from its mooring and part of it carried down
the river. Small water craft were torn
from their anchorage and carried away. The
Buena Vista school house and residences
and stores in all parts of the city were badly
damaged. Beyond the blowing down of por-
tions of the fence the prison escaped with
out damage. 1t was the most. disastrous
storm that has visited this place in years.
CHICAGO May 13-Dispatches from Mt.
Carroll. Galesburg, Rockford, Marshall,
Tuscola and Streater, H., and other points
in eastern Iowa, southern Wisconsin and
northern Indiana, indicate that the storm of
last steyening was general throughout the To-
calities named. In every place it is reported
as severe and electrical storm, accOmpan-
panied by furious gale and heavy fall of
large hail stones. Great damage was done
to buildings in the towns and crops and fruit
such as have already been reported.
No further particulars of yesterdays storm
in Indiana and Illinois are as yet obtainable
owing to the interruption of telegraph COM
munication. Wires were swept down by the
score. In one place in Illinois over a hun
dred poles were blown down. There is nc.
communication with ST. Louis, Cincinnati
and other southern points, and Cincinnati is
completely cut off in all directions up to $50
.. m.
WILLAMsPoRT, Ind, May ia cyclone
struck this place last evening, destroying
everything in its track. Several houses and
barns in the north end of the town were car
ried away. 1t seemed to have formed about
two miles northwest of the town, and took
southwesterly direction, travelling about 30
north end of this place Reports come from
Attica, about two miles east tof here, that it
struck that place about the centre OF the
town, and destroyed several OF the business
House and the Chicago & Great Southern
Railway offices and the wagon bridge over
the Wabash river were torn down. Several
persons were on the bridge at the time 1t
went down, and all are supposed to have
been killed. Several inmates Of the Revere
House were severely injured. The wires are
all down, and it is as yet impossible to get
any definite information from outside. AT
this place, two brick houses belonging to
Henry Butt were torn down, and Mrs. Butt
pie of this place escaped injury.
DAYTON, O., May 13.-Dayton is isolated
and there are no trains or mails in or out.
The telegraph and telephone wires are down.
A storm of wind rain and hail struck tnis
vicinity at o'clock last night Small streams
became rushing torrents and the Miami riv-
er nightly flood rising nine feet IN three
hours inundating fifty acres OF houses In the
Fourth Ward, and drowning many horses
and cows. Merchandise in cellars Was ru-
ined, bridges in all directions were swept
away, farm buildings and dwellings denol-
ished and all kinds of crops totally ruined.
The greatest destruction is in track east
from The Big Miami to the Little Miami. AT
Zionville, the brick Reform church, tour
miles south of Dayton, was razed. Fair
mount is total wreck. A.church at Beav-
ertown was demolished and dwellings there
were twisted from their foundations. AT
Shaker village, three miles east, many build
ings were unroofed, barns blown down and
cattle injured. A special train with Superin-
tendent Tucker, was wrecked near OsDurn,
and Mr.. Tucker and six others were injured.
A north bound freight train on the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton dashed into washout
at POssum Run, five miles south of Dayton
and the thirty ton locomotive was carried 100
feet down the mighty torrent before sinking.
then it rolled over and over. At daylight
farmer a mile across the waters noticing the
signals of distress rescued the freight crew
from the tree tops, the engineer, John Nc
Cutcheon and his fireman being seriously. in.
jured. The rain fall was four and one half
inches in three hours
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 13.-The Wa
bash, ST. Louis & Pacific east bound passen-
ger train struck washout six miles below
Lafayette this morning, throwing the whole
train of seven coaches from the track. The
cars were piled upon each other promiscuous-
ly, but no one was hurt seriously.
HAMILTON, o., May 13.-The loss to prop
erty by the storm in Buttin county was very
severe but no loss of life has been reported.
Owing to washouts, no trains are running on
the Cincinnati, Richmond and Chicago d
Cincinnati, and Hamilton q Dayton roads.
GREENFIELD, Ind, May 13.-The news
has reached this point from Wilkinson, 10
miles distant on the Indiana, Bloomington
& Western railroad, that the storm yester-
terday blew down all the buildings in that
town except one. Samuel White was killed
and his wife fatally injured. A boy named
Shaffer was also killed and about 20 persons
seriously hurt several of them will die.
DANvILLE, ILL.,, May 13.-A cyclone
passed over this county last night, destroy
ing score of farm houses. Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Miller and the infant son of John A.
Shaw were killed, and Mr.. Shaw. was fatally
injured The path of the cyclone was six
miles in length and $50 yards wide.
uEpnlcT E0R THE CONERNMEN