The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-07-20
DESTRUCTION BY WIND AND RAIN.
Some Loss Of Fife and Great Damage {
Property.

1FoPcFtDs
Nr,v YoRK Jnly 12.-Advices to tho
Associated Press from all parts oil New
York. New Jersey and New England SHOW
that a terrific rain and wind storm rageu III
last night. The storm was particularly
severe along the coast, and many s"i'ins
vessels ven ashore. No large loss OF lie
ba, as vet been reported, but the damage to
the property will be large. A dispatch
from WATERFOWL, n. Y, shows that the
storm was very oevere along the st. Law
renee and on Like Ontario. At Cape VIM
cent tbe Islander and Annie Laurie,
small passenger steamers, were driven ashore
and a number of barses SUNK.
A dlsptach from Boston says that the dam
a q nv the storm in th-. vicinity so lar as
heard from was occasioned at City Point.
1t is reported that nearly q dozen yac"tS
were sunk during the night II that sew
eral persons sleeping in them were o"he'
II 10 known hat one man was drowned
and the police boat will SC over to-day and
search for bodies. Adyices from SANDY
Hook this afternoon state that the storm
continues, though not so severe, anu 'ha'
the sea is very rough.
The United States lighthouse steamer
ran aground while entering the Inlet this
forenoon, The captain OF the lie saving
station has zone to her assistance. A lresh
gale is blowing from the northwest and the
steamer is flying signals OF distress.
PIr1sBURa, Pa, July 12.-The waters
that have been sweeping the valley of the
Monongahela and the valleys OF its trlbu-
taries for the last sixty hours are again
falling into their natural channels. They
leave il their track scenes of desolation and
ruin that have never had their counterpart
in the same localities. From Pittsburg to
the mountain Businesses of Randolph coun-
ty. West Virginia, towns AVE been raw
aged. manufactures have been inundated,
boats have been sunk, houses and lumber
have been foated off, fields with their
wheat in shock and growing crops have
been devastated, families forced to the hills
for shelter, and in many instances the &C
cumulations of years of toll and self denial
have been lost in an hour.
The losses entailed by the flood will not
fail short of 50, OOO, 600, a large proportion
of which falls upon the people of the thriv-
ing counties of Monongahela, Marion, Tay-
lor, Harrison, Lewis, Barbour. Upshur and
Randolph, in West Virginia. In Pennsyl-
va1ia the losses are in the counties OF Allie
gheny, Washington, Westmorela1d,
Fayette and Greene.
These losses fall most heavily upon the
owners of coal property, railroad
companies and farmers. In fItts-
burg proper, much of the loss
falls upon the owners of shanty boats and
lighthouses. The owners of mill property
will lose largely and will have to undergo
no end of inconvenience on account OF the
invasion of mills by water yesterday, put
out fires and rusting and almost running
valuable machinery. From points above
millions of feet of valuable timber and
lumber have come down and carried OIL
into Ohio a total loss to owners.
PITTsFIELD, Mass, July 12.-Passen-
gers reaching here from the west this even
ing report that last nights cyclone created
terrible devastation between here and AL
bany, sweeping from the state line to East
Chatham, levelling three paper mills, many
small houses, etc. 1t is supposed there has
been some loss of life.