Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-02
TERRIBLE STORMS.

DurS tHe Dail WAS severe, Df6dklDS
thousands of panes in private resi-
dences and in the Court House, Pres
byterian Church and Taylor Man.
Co.'s Works. The company lost
eight hundred panes of glass, and
machinists had to leave their lathes,
to seek refuge from the shower of
falling glass and ice. 1t is almost
impossible to exaggerate the dam
age done. There were no ordinary
hailstones, but simply large chunks
of ice, falling at irregular intervals.
In several cases the heavy leather
tops of carriages and wagons were
completely riddled. Several cases
are reported of serious cuts and
bruises to men and horses from the
ice. The storm came from the
south, and was merely local. Glass
was broken in at least two hundred
houses.
Reports from Parkersburg state
that the hail storm did great dam
age along the Ohio to crops, bridges,
trees and fences. The head lights
of engines and the windows were
broken and the sides of the cars rid
died. Lightning struck house and
killed Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Powell.
From Chadron, Neb. Country
flooded, farmers had to abandon
their houses along White and Lone
Tree Rivers water came down in a
solid wall; river rose sixteen feet in
forty minutes. Regular water
spout horses, cows and sheep per-
ished.
From Illiopolis, ILL.,, and Indian
opolis and Quincy, come the same
accounts of lightning, hail and rain,
and damage by storm and water.
From Hannibal, Mo-, Omaha, Neb.,
Shamokin, Pa, and various other
points come similar reports.
DEATH, DAMAGE AND DESTRUCTION.
REMOVE, Pa, May 29.-The cy.
clone struck the line of the PhiladeL
phia and Erie railroad between
Ridgway and DriftOn, a distance of
fifty miles, at about o'clock last
evening, and for time thereafter
wrought much destruction to prop
erty and caused the death of three
men, four horses and any number of
smaller animals. 1t all happened so
quickly that people had hardly time
to reach their homes after noticing
the first indication of heavy storm.
The wind swept before it everything
not firmly fastened to the earth.
AT Rolfe teamster driving two
horses was overtaken, and man and
horses were caught by the wind and
killed by being thrown against the
trees and rocks. In the woods a
short distance outside of st. Mary's
a young man named Patrick Leary
was struck by a falling tree and kill.
ed.
AT Emporium the damage to prop
erty was the greatest. The large
iron mills and machine works in
course of erection there were blown
to the ground and one man buried
in the ruins.
LANCASTER, May 29.-The sever
est haiistorm in the knowledge of
the citizens of the Northern part OF
the county passed over that section
last evening doing an almost incred-
ible amount of damage to property.
The greatest damage was done in
the Borough of LititZ, which, after
the storm presented the appearance
of having been cannonaded. Limbs
of trees were broken off and trees
stripped clean of leaves, while the
gardens were beaten fat.
Linden Hall Seminary and the ad.
joining handsome Dixon Memorial
Chapel suffered most severely.
Nearly 500 panes of glass were brok.
en- and the tiles of the roof of the
chapel were broken as if by hand.
The fruit trees IN the section Wis.
tied were completely stripped and
the wheat fields were beaten fat.
Barely half a crop will be realized
from the fields visited. Thousands
of panes Of glass were destroyed and
the hardware merchants of the coun.
ty were completely sold out of glass
to-day to repair the damage, which
will run into thousands of dollars.
PITTsBURG, May 29.-The storm
which swept over Eastern Ohio,
West Virginia and Western Penn.
sylvania yesterday was of a very de-
structive character, and the aggre-
gate loss to buildings, crops and
railroad telegraph lines will foot up
many thousands of dollars. Several
lives were also sacrificed and a mum.
Der of persons were injured.
At Charleston Mrs. Robert Shan.
non was killed by falling tree. AT
Bridgeport, o., a 6-year-old son of
Joseph Powell was caught by rush
of water in narrow ravine and
drowned. Two companions made a
narrow escape. At Bellaire, o., a
railroad brakeman named Castellen
was killed while endeavoriDg TO
manage a train during the storm.
Telegraph lines are down, and in
many places the railroad tracks are
covered with debris from the hills.
The damage to orchards has been
particularly heavy. many trees in
the regions visited by the hail being
stripped Of every leaf, and other
crops suffered in a corresponding
degree. The total loss will proba.
bly, reach several hundred thousand
dollars.
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