Daily Republican., 1888-08-23
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BALTIMORE, Aug. 21-The storm
which came from the South yesterday
BVoopod upon Maryland with almost
unparalleled velocity. Not until to-day
have the full details come from the Sec
tlons most Affected. The results show .
losS OF = doneD lives and hundreds Of
thousands Of dollars damage 70 prop
eEty. All nloDg its rack from the Po-
tomAo to the Delaware line are over
turned housea And uprooted trees.
II enaoted its worst tragedy at small
island village called Still Pond, in Kent
Comfy, not fer from the Eastern shore
OF the head Of the Chesapeake Bay, II
reached there about 4 O'Clock p. m.
WIN. Willis WAS siok in bed ct his
home. His wife WAS Just puttlnR down
the windoWs when the black funnel
shaped cloud struck the house and CON-
plotelY wrecked II. Mrs. Willis was
not injured, bat beam fell aoToss her
husbands face, pinnlna him to the side
Of the houIe and IpjurinR him 90 that
he will die. The cloud then seemed TO
separate and moved on 10 the ress OF the
village. Ssventy people, mostly Bohe.
mtAns from Baltimore, were at work in
the canning house Of Black, Krebs &
%. The building was complotsly
wrecked and the people were buried
6eneAlh the debris, SAld one Of the
WoFkmep:
The scene bsS. cared description.
90 etAnolnS some distance away from
me canp'.. ,, when suddenly l noticed
rhab appeared 70 be three SCOOP
ped clouds approaching the building
rom the Southwest When they reached
It the building was literally lifted from
Its foundation and boiler and ell were
turned bottom upwards and crashed
Into ruina
A DEATH ROLL OF HLRvKF.
There we're four men and ave- women
killed. Two OF those iDjured have died
since. One WOMAN VS. caught BY .
heavy beam that fell RoToSs her neok ~
che hpEAng through . door and instantly
killed her. The engineer was standing
beside the boiler when beam fell on hIS
leg, pinning him to the ground. The
next moment the boiler fell on the
other end Of the beam, releasing the i'm.
prisonsd mAn, who sprAng ont just a.
the roof fell in.
Goste and his Wife and two children
we're found huddlod together In = ooE-
ner dead. Most Of the night Was spent
In releasing those impTison ID In the
wFCcE. The storm continued on in it's
oourse, demolished Senator william 7.
Hepburn's svAporAtlnR house, wrecked
many barns, did great destruction
among the peach orchards, killed cattle, |
lsVeled nslde Of corn and finally crossed |
tho boundary line into Delaware.
WRECKS on TzE WESTERN SHORE.
Al Glendale, Montgomery County, on |
the Western shore, the storm wrecked
81. Georges Protestant EpiaoopAl |
Church and . blAcksmith's shop. At
Springfield Is nearly demolished the
depot, wrecked . dwelling house, shat
tered q car and blow down large oak
trees. Al Bowie II moved the school
house fifteen feet from lie foundation,
witted an out buildipR against ths
Methodist OhuToh, which was knocked
several yards away; wrecked two
] yelling houees, In one OF which child
was fatally Injured; blew \ horse and
buggy atty feet and whirled large trees
through the alr.
Barns, houses and trees surrendered
10 It's grasp. In Cyrus NJ, JohnBOn's
= ODDS, near R1uud Bay, It cut 3 clean
lWAth thirty fset wide aud several
hundred yards in length through the
iense forest ~ nicely % though done
with . knife.
CROSSING THE CHESAPEAKE,
Bat It was when the storm struck the
Chesapeake Bay that 1t reached Its ful-
est grandeur. II lhen divided into
immense WAlerHpouts, accompanied by
all oolumns Of black clouds.
The steamer Trumpster's escape was
The storm WAS seen Ap-
)FoAchinR. An Immense volume OF
yAter rose from the bay. Had 1t struck
he steamer II would have torn her to
wood. The WAterBpout pAsL cd
lear several steamers.
IN PEHHsYLvArIA.
ALTOONA, Aug. 22-TrAVel on the
'lt.sbuFR Division Of the PsnnsylvAnia
WAS Aa completely blocked to
ay as the PhilAdelphlA and New York
)IVtsions Were last March during the
liszArd, aud the suspension in train
1nninR was due 70 the great rainstorm
hat swept over this country for twenty :
* continuous hours.
Ats O'Clock this morning the ALLIE {
heny River rose so high As to cover the
'aOks OF the West Penn at NAtronR to I
point six feet above the rails and SER
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