The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-08-29
the STORM KINGS POWER.
Manifested In a Most Convincing
Manner.

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the damage has been very severe A cyclone
struck the village Of sdlipond, Kent com
ty, with particular severity. Houses were
blown down and ten people are aid 70 have
been killed There IS no telegraphic commu-
n~ication, and reports are mostly received
from steamers arriving from points along
the bay.
A Baltimore special from StillpOnd gives
particulars Of the cyclone yesterday after
noon. Aiarss brick building occupied as 4
canning establishment by Black & Krebs, Of
Balanore was struck about 4:3e O'Clock and
was completely demolished. About one
hundred men, women and children were at
work. snd In their efforts to escape from the
wreck nine were killed outright three dan
g~erously hurt and a number slightly injured
by falling tinbers-
The storm demolished many houses and
barns and swept clean all orchards in the
vicinity.
PTrrsBURsK, August 2-Both rivers rose
nearly twenty-five feet. but will not go much
higher. The rainfall at Oil City was very
slight, but in the mountains and up the Mo
nongahela river it was almost unprecedent-
ed. The lower portions Of several mali
towns were submerged. and crops damaged,
bridges, stables and ont-buildings whirled
away before the rushing food, and the scene
this morning IS one Of great devastation. AT
McKeespon the flats are under water and
several mills nave been compelled 10 sas-
pend. Two houses were overturned and an
Italian laborer drowned. At Greensburg
considerable damage was done, particularly
in the fair grounds, where the water was
eight feet deep and the horse stable was
overturned. Many people were driven from
their houses, and two or three stores were
swamped.
PrTrsspRsH, August 2.-At Jeanette,
where the Seller-McKee glass works are be-
ing erected, two-thirds Of the plant and 80
Of the houses belonging TO the Western
Land and Improvement Company are under
water. The towns Of IArimer, shahon,
Irwin, Penn and Manor are partially sub
merged and the inhabitants are living in the
upper stories.
In this city many mills have suspended
In Allegheny City a row Of seven houses in
Pleasant Valley were wrecked. No trains
have arrived or departed over the Baltimore
and Ohio since yesterday morning.
A Wheeling dispatch of last night says:
A storm which in its disastrous effect equals
that of July 10Th last has been in progress
here since since 5 a. m. and shows no signs
OF abating. Wheeling creek, in the Narrow
Valley, east Of here, is a foot higher at 8 p.
m. tina ever before, roads being flooded
from two TO six feet deep and bridges de
stroyed. The valley Is nov one angry flood,
and The damage can only be estimated by
the wreckage that dashes through the city
and out into the river. The losses will reach
$4,000. The fact that the waters rose grad
ually and in daylight is believed to have
prevented loss Of life. It is known that FIVE
baltimore and Ohio bridges, rebuilt after the
former flood, have been destroyed. and the
Wheeling and Elm Grove railroad bridge
over Woods Run IS also gone. All trains
have been ordered abandoned on the Ohio
River road. About DO delegates to the Re
publican State Convention at Charleston, to-
morrow, are stuck on this road at Sisters
vile, forty miles south on the river.
A Unioutovn, Pa, dispatch Of last night
SAYS: The heaviest rain ever known in
Uniontovn set in about eleven O'Clock last
night, snd continued necessarily until about
I O'Clock this evening. The fall amounted
to four and one-half inches. Redstone creek
reached lis highest point at 8 O'Clock this
evening, when it had covered streets which
had never before been reached. Tonight the
town is hemmed in by a perfect sea Of wa
ter from the two creeks on each side. The
railroads north and south of the town are
submerged and tracks and bridges washed
away. The Pennsylvania construction
shops, tie Columbia steel millsand the War
rem glass works are flooded and all opera
ions suspended. The loss of property and
crops will be great, though il is impossible
to obtain particulars tonight.
dispatches from Southern Maryland give
particulars of the storm which swept both
sides Of the Chesapeake Bay. causing consid-
cradle destruction to property and creating
the widest sort Of excitement. Numerous
frame houses and barns were demolished,
and two scbooners were overturned, but no
loss OF life has yet been reported. Entire
fruit orchards were destroyed, and eorniclds
in many instances swept clean
Yesterdays rain storm has made the sec
ton Of the Stale around Altoona a scene Of
desolsiion and destruction. The Bald Eagle
and Spruce creeks and Juniata river are in
the midst Of an August freshet without pre-
cedent. The Blair District Young Mems
Christian Association camp, at Flowing
l Springs. is drowned out. the island being
covered with ten inches Of water. All the
country roads leading to Altoona and HoIli-
daysburg are impossible.
A Reading dispatch says: The hardest
rain storm Of this season continued inces-
sanity and with enewed fury during the en-
tire day. The ~Schuylkill, which was exceed
ingly low, rose nearly six feet, and all the
small streams were so much swollen as 10
overflow their banks. carrying way straw
stacks, fences, etc. In the northern section
Of Reading the streets were flooded. and a
torrent Of water poured into the forge Of
the Reading Iron Works, putting out the
fires.
The damage TO Philadelphia from yester-
days rain storm will reach many thousands
Of dollars. The downpour Of rain was 50
heavy that the sewers were taxed 10 carry
of the water. The big sewer on Twenty
fourth street, which has burSt twice before
within two weeks, again succambed to the
great pressure upon il yesterday and buried
the surrounding streets under a mass Of rush
ing muddy water Much damage was lone
in all parts of the city, ana in many places
lakes were formed. The North Penn railroad
station vas deluged, and the tsoks buried
out OF sight. The cohoksink sewer fell in,
and from every quarter come stories Of foods
and damage.
REaDrxG, August 22-S;x feet above ordi-
nary water mark, which the SchuyIkill river
had attained a; midnight, was increased dur
ing the night, until this morning it was four
teen feet above, which is the highest since
%. The Schuylkih river. Union canal and
Schuylkih canal. all lying alongside OF each
other, are all one body OF wster, and in this
city the sheet mill Of the Reading Iron
Works the three paper mills ofthe Bashong
paper company. the Consumers gas com
pany, which supplies the city with gas, and
other manufacturing establishments, all en-
ploying probably 500 hands, were obliged to
shut down because Of the inroads Of water.