Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-08-25
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Heavy Rain-Storms Prevail to an Alarm
ing Extent in Various LooalIties-NIuch
Damage and Some Loss of Life Result.
WHEELING, W. Va, Aug. GA storm,
which in its disastrous effects rivals that
of July 10 last, is in progress here and
shows no sign Of abating. Wheeling creek,
in the narrow valley east Of Wheeling, was
foot higher at p. M than ever before.
Roads are flooded from two to six feet deep
and bridges are destroyed. A piece Of a
Baltimore &c Ohio wooden bridge from out
the Pitts burgh division struck the Balti-
more & Ohio bridge at Main and Sixteenth
streets and carried it away.
At 30, while ], 900 people were massed
on the substantial stone bridge over
Wheeling creek at Main street, man on
the creek bank 100 feet above shouted a
warning and the panic stricken crowd
rushed over and into each other in a
wild effort to reach terra firma. After
the bridge was cleared those nearest, see
ing it still apparently safe, turned back,
laughing at their late alarm, but before
they reached the edge the bridge, 40 feet
in length, fell with one awful crash and
the waters leaped sixty feet into the air.
Water, gas and natural-gas mains,
sewers, telegraph and telephone wires,
electric light and street. car pow
er conductors were carried down.
The Baltimore & Ohio depot, built
over the creek, and the Market street iron
bridge, it is feared, will CO. The losses
will reach $3.50, 600 tits known that five
railroad bridges have been destroyed, and
the Wheeling and Elm Grove bridge over
Woods run is also gone.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug pa flood of
large proportions is looked for here. It
has been raining necessarily and at mid
nj ght there are no indications of the
weather clearing. Since 8 O'Clock a. ~.
over three and half inches of rain has
fallen, being the greatest rainfall since the
organization of the signal service. The
same reports are coming in from all sec
tions of Western Pennsylvania, Eastern
Ohio and Western West Virginia. At
Brownsville the water in the Monongar
hela river is rising at the rate Of
three feet an hour, while at the
headWaters OF the Allegheny all the
small streams are swollen and the river
is rising rapidly. Great damage has al
ready been done to the railroads leading
from that city. Washington, Pa, reports
a similar condition of affairs. No trains
have been running since noon, and it will
take several days to repair the damage
The loss will reach many thousands of dol
lars.
BALTIMORE, Md, Aug 22.-Dispatches
from various points in Southern Mary
land give particulars of severe storm
that swept up both sides of the Ches-
apeake bay. Frame houses and barns
were demolished and two schoon-
ers were overturned, but no loss Of
life has as yet been reported. Entire fruit
orchards were destroyed and corn fields
| y6a1 in in Sta ri n
immense Waterspout formed at the mouth
of the bay and was carried with terrific
| force across Poole's Island.
| BOSTON, Aug PA storm struck Bos-
| ton with great fury about 8 p. m Over
! two and a half inches of water had fallen
| at midnight. In the Journal press-room
the water is within two inches of the press
blankets, and further rise will prevent
the issue of the morning paper. The fire
| department has been applied to to pump
out the basement
| WILMINGTON, Del, Aug. GA cyclone
| passed across the State about six miles be-
low this city, cutting path about 200 feet
in width, leveling trees, orchards and
outbuildings, and doing damage es-
timated at S150,000. In this city the
buildings of the Mablow Brothers
iron-Worl1s were wrecked in an in
slant. Huge timbers were tossed about as
though they had been straws. A work.
man employed in the works was killed by
the flying timbers. The next moment the
cloud descended upon the creek. Five
small boats were capsized and two
men. Abraham Knight and William
Collins, who were in one of the
boats, were drowned. The darkness
seemed to grow more dense as the funnel
shaped cloud reached the town. 1t jumped
| the Pennsylvania railroad depot to Pussy
| & Jones' car shops, tore away about 100
| feet from the end of the car-repair build
ing, crossed the BrandyWine and went off
| in the direction of the oil works.
SALEM, N. j., Aug. pa cyclone passed
over this section. The Salem brick works
were nearly demolished and nearly all the
buildings swept away. The cloud then
took a northwesterly course, blowing down
| barns, whole orchards and growing crops.
| The damage in this county will amount to
many thousands of dollars.
| New ORLEANS, Aug. 22.-Further reports
from the region of the storm show the
damage to property and crops to be very
large. The small steamers W. G.. Little,
Laura and Barataria were sunk The
loss on coaLbarges sunk is esti-
mated at 100000. The crops along
UuO 1lVCl IOI d uloLctuCC VI ONCI
twenty miles have been destroyed A num-
Der of vessels overdue and undoubted-
| ly encountered the storm in the gulf. A
sugar-house on the Vigienies Magnolia
plantation was demolished. Five sugar
houses in the vicinity Of Jeanette are re-
| ported to have been badly damaged.
On the Teche, at Linnwood plantation,
owned by Walter O'Neil, near Charenton,
a portion of the sugar house, the cane shed
! and chimney and owners dwelling were
leveled by the wind. A house occupied by
negroes opposite the mills was blown
away. At Oaklawn plantation, owned by
Colonel Robert e. Rivers, eight cabins,
sugar houses and rice shed were blown
down and wrecked. At Tom Schaffers
Anna plantation only three of the houses
were left standing. At Franklin eighteen
dwellings, were unroofed. All through the
Teche country the cane has been blown
down, but it is not estimated that the total
damage will exceed one third of the crop
| of that section.
BALTIMORE, Nd, Aug ga waterspout
passed over the Eastern shore Of Mary.
land doing great damage. 1t is reported
that several lives were lost. The storm
was very severe at Annapolis. Houses
were blown down and crafts in the bay
capsized.
To Establish a Western Branch.
CHICAGO, Aug. 22.-Chairman Brice, OF
| the Executive Committee of the National
Democratic organization, is expected in
the city this week. It is thought that a
/ Western branch Of the National head
quarters will be established in Chicago
NIillionaire's Narrow Escape.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. Aug. q. Joseph Rich
ardson, estimated to be worth SIP, OO0, 900
came near being killed in the long tun
mel of the Harlem railroad, in New