, 1888-08-23
The Southern storm.

BALTIMORE, Aug. 22.-Reports OF the
storm in the southern portion of this
state show that the damage has been very
severe. A cyclone struck the village of
Still Pond, Kent county, with particular
severity. Houses were blown down and
ten people are reported killed.
A special from Still Pond, Kent coun-
ty, gives particulars of the cyclone yester-
day afternoon. A large frame building
occupied as a canning establishment by
Black Il Krebs of Baltimore was struck
and completely demolished. One hun.
dred men, women and children were at
work and nine were killed outright, three
dangerously hurt and a number slightly
injured by falling timbers. The killed
are Charles Schweitzcnberg, Charles
Beaucamp and wife, Laura Alpheus,
August Goete and wife and two boys and
Rosie Gould.
The storm demolished many houses
and barns and swept clean all orchards in
the vicinity. The dwelling of VIM. Will
lis was crushed and Willis was fatally in
jured. The storm came from the south
west and swept across the state dlagonally
in a track two miles in width, and houses
and barns were crushed and growing crops
swept away
PITTsBURG, Aug. 22.-The food has
almost reached its limit here, not to
reach a disastrous height. The lowlands,
however, are submerged. and the damage
will be quite heavy. Rains in the noun
tains and up the M~onongahela river are
almost unprecedented. Burgetstown is
partly submerged. Reports from ad-
joining districts state that the valleys are
all overlooked and the damage to crops
can scarcely be estimated. Bridges, sta
bles and Outbuildlngs were whirled away
before the rushing food, and the scene
this morning is one OF great devastation.
AT McKeesport the flats are flooded and
one person was drowned.
The Hungarian camp below town is
submerged, and many of the Hungarians
barely escaped drowning. At Jeanette,
where a big glass works are being erected
and have Just gone into operation, two.
thirds OF the plant is under water, and it
reported that eighty of the houses are
under water. The towns Larimer, Shift
ton, Irwin, Penn and Manor are practi-
cally under water, and many of the in-
habitants living in upper stories of
houses.
In the mountains the headwaters of
all the streams are swollen beyond all
bounds. In this city the water got up
into the fly pits of many mills and factor
les and caused a suspension OF work. The
Polish inhabitants of Shantytown were
again compelled to remove their goods
and are now encamped on the banks of
the river. The railroads are the greatest
sufferers In this section. No trains have
arrived or departed over the Ba' timore &
Ohio since yesterday. At Osceola station
on the eastern division they have seven
acres of a land slide, while every bridge
and culvert on the Wheeling division has
been washed away.
BosToN. Aug. 22.-It is difficult to es-
innate the damage caused by the disas-
trous rainfall of last night. Hundreds of
cellars are flooded. Two largo plants in
Roxbury alone suffered an aggregate loss
OF nearly $4,000. The Boston Betting
company suffered a loss of $25, 900 and
Towers oil cloth works $50, 900. The
New York & New England railroad IS at
a standstill.
READING, Pa, Aug. 22.-The Schuyl-
kill river is twenty feet above the ordinary
stage, the highest since 1869.