The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-30
LIVES LOST IN A GALE.
ONE MAN BLOWN FROM A BRIDGE
INTO A RIVER.

Several Children Caught in the Rush
ing Waters ard Drowned-A Brake
man Killed While Trying to Manage
a Train-Narrow Escapes from Death
Under Failing Building.
PITTsBURG, PA, May 29.-The storm
which swept over Eastern Ohio, West Vir-
ginia and Western Pennsylvania yesterday
afternoon was of very destructive oharac-
ter, and the aggregate loss to buildings,
crops, and railroads and telegraph lines
will foot up many thousands of dollars.
Several lives were also sacrificed, and a
number Of persons were injured about
Point Pleasant and Huntington, W Va.
AT Canton, O., Beaver county, Pennsyl-
vania, and through the oil regions the
storm was particularly severe, the hail fall
ing in torrents, while the wind was very
violent.
Near Revenwood, w. Va, Mr. and Mrs
William Howell were killed by lightning
while sitting in their home.
AT Charleston, W. Va, Mrs Robert Shan
non was killed by falling tree.
CAUGHT IN A RUSH OF WATER.
AT Bridgeport, o., the 6-year-old son of
Joseph Howell was caught by a rush of
water in a narrow ravine and drowned.
Two of the childs companions had mar
row escape.
AT Bellaire, O., a railroad brakeman,
named CASTILLO, was killed while endeavor-
ing to manage train.
During the storm at Canton, O., houses
were lifted from their foundations, and
the steeples of several churches were
wrecked. The south wing of the New Ham
den watch works. 20 feet in length and three
stories high, was blown down, and is total
wreck, and the Dueber watch case works
were badly damaged.
MANY NARROW ESCAPES.
There were many narrow escapes from
death by the fall of the Hamdel building.
A workman named Miller was probably
fatally hurt, and Joseph Myers, another
employe, was seriously injured. The loss is
estimated at S70,0 900.
In Beaver county, Pennsylvania, fully
$4,000 worth of damage was done to prop
erty by the storm, but as far as known no
one was injured.
AT Oil City the roof of the Arlington
Hotel was blown off, and the guests rushed
from the building panic stricken.
Titusville also suffered severely.
BLOWN INTO THE RIVER.
Frank Burchfield, of Pleasantville, while
crossing the Pine creek bridge in a buggy,
was blown over into the water, the vehicle
reduced to splinters and the horses lifted
bodily and carried 100 yards. Burchfield
was hardly hurt.
Mrs. Barber and family, who were out
driving, were thrown from their carriage
and slightly injured.
Through the oil regions derriclks were
blown down and much damage was done.
About this city the storm was not so
heavy, but specials from many other points
represent hail as large as hens eggs. Tele
graph lines are down badly, and in many
places the railroad tracks are covered
with debris from the hills. The damage'to
orchards has boen particularly heavy,
many trees in the region visited by tue
hail being stripped of every leaf, and other
crops suffered in a corresponding degree.
The total loss will probably reach several
hundred thousand dollars.
DAMAGE IN ILLINOIS.
CHICAGO, May 20.-Dispatches from
Western and Northern Illinois report that
the rain and hail storm of Sunday night
and yesterday did considerable damage
| especially to fruit crops A great many
horses and several head of cattle were killed
| by lightning. Farm buildings were dam
aged to a consider able extent, and in Egin
thousands Of panes of window glass were
broken and chimheys destroyed.
Reports from Iowa and Kansas say the
fall o. hail was terrific and the rain de-
scended in torrents. Hail stones were piled
up and drifted in many places fr IN 2 to o
feet deep in the morning, and large sections
of country were covered with a sheet of
ice. The damage to gardens, fruit trees
and vegetation is incalcuIable. Windows
were broken, vegetables beaten into the
ground, and fruit and forest trees stripped
Of their foliage.
TWO CHILDREN DROWNED.
OMAHA, NEB May 29-Two children,
son and daughter of Hugh Beckett, living
fourteen miles southeast of Beatrice, were
drowned during the heavy rain Sunday
night Mrs. Beckett and four children
were all alone when the rain came up. The
house stands near stream, In which the
water rose rapidly. Fearing the house
would be washed away Mrs. Beckett, tax
ing two children, aged and years, and
bidding an l6 year old daughter to follow
with the the baby, left the house. In cross
ing small gully the mother became fright
ened and fell, losing hold Of the children,
who were swept away into the stream be-
low, where they met their death. The
other daughter and the baby, after a severe
struggle, reached shore and were saved.
KNIFE OF WATER