Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-13
Wrecked by d Cyclone.
Three States Visited by a Ter
 rible Wind Storm.
GREAT DAMAGE TO SHIPPING.

Buildings Unroofed and Blown Down.
 Three Paper Mills Leveled-Rsports of
 Disaster from Lake Ontario and the St.
 Lawrence River-A Missing Yacht.
 PTTTsFTELD, Mass, July 13-Passengers reaching here from the west report that Wednesday nights cyclone created terrible devastation between here and Albany, sweeping clean path from the state line to East Chatham, leveling three paper mills and many houses barns, etc. It is supposed there has been some loss of life, but it is inn possible to obtain particulars
 BOSTON, July 1S-Boston and every one of Its suburban towns suffered more or less damage, but is not known that any lives were lost The greatest havoc seems to have been done in Waltham and vicinity. The whirlwind uprooted shade trees, felled tele- graph poles, unroofed barns and houses, tore down marble gravestones in cemeteries, smashed window panes, demoraliZed gardens, hen houses and mills and terrorized the slum- bering thousands by vivid streaks of light ming and the crash of thunder. Brookline, the Newtons, Cambridge, Watertown, Ded- ham, Brighton and Winthrop were all vis- ited by the storm, with more or less disas- trous results
 At Winthrop a cottage, with @ man, his wife and three children, all asleep, was lifted from it's foundation and dropped down fifty feet away. None of the inmates were in iured.
 At West Medford the lightning burned Brooks stock barns, causing a loss of $2o,- 900. The yachts in the neighboring harbors were many of them cast adrift The yacht Great Scott, at Winthrop, after being beached, made an unsuccessful attempt to mount the embankment and cross the street. The storm in the city proper accomplished but little damage. Capt. Colby, a Boston pilot, reports when coming up Boston harbor I in charge of steamer Balder, from Baracoa, ' during the storm there appeared to be several S balls of fire continually playing about the Y steamers topmasts, Q sight common in lower l attitudes, but rare in this vicinity. The lightning played curlous freaks al Plymouth, and ill the house of the chief oi \ the fire department rang bogus fire alarm \ out of the box.
 A Chatham dispatch reports that the \ schooner F. H. Odiorne, bound for New \ then sprung 0 leak.
 PROVIDENCE, R. l., July 13-During ths ' gale the schooner Nellie D. Vaughn, o Provincetown, with coal, struck a rock of \ Watch Hill and began leaking badly. Ths | crew, fining it impossible to keep her free  beached her. All hands gained the shore il safety.
 OswEGo, N. Y, July 1S.-The wind blev sixty miles an hour on the lake, and sent yes
 sels scudding for shelter in all directions The rainfall was very heavy in this neighbor
 hood. Anxiety is felt for the steam yach Mary Stewart, of Rochester, which left fo
 St Lawrence few hours before the storn
 broke. No disasters are reported as yet
 Severe hail storms swept over the easter1
 part of the county, doing considerable dam
 age to crops
 WATERFOWL, N. Y., July 13.-A terrif
 wInd storm ragged along the St. Lawrenc
 river. At Cape Vincent the Islander am
 Annie Laurie, boats which are run on pas
 senger routes, were damaged to the extent o
 $500 each, and two Canadian barges wer
 sunk. Two or three barns on Wolf Islam
 are reported to have been blown down \ There was no loss of life.