Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-25
THAT FE4RFUL EAsTERN STORM.
The Damage 1t Did ON Its northeastern
Journey.

| NEW ORLEANS, August 21.-NewS iron
Morgan City is to the effect that dozens Q
houses were wholly or partly unroofed ant
fully fifty buildings are off their foundations
The float elevator, George Gilchrist, wa
destroyed.
Among the heaviest loser OF propeIt,
along the river are the coal dealers, who's,
total losses are $4,000. The steamel
Keokuk at Baton Rouge was wrecked
valued at $40, 900.
At Pass Christian, trees were .uprootee
and bath houses blown down. At 0aklawr
eight cabins and sugar houses were wrecked
At Householder plantation only thret
houses were left standing. At Frankiin
eighteen dwellings were unroofed.
In the Teehe country the damage to cane
will exceed one-third OF the crop. The
steamer Ward, from Truxillo, encountered
the storm last night when within four miles
OF the pass, and was driven seventy-fiye
miles beyond Mobile Bay.
DISASTERS IN MARYLAND.
BALTIMORE, August 21.-The SUM- has
dispatches from various points In South
ern Maryland, giving particulars OF the
severe storm that swept both sides OF the
Chesapeake Bay. Houses and barns were
demolished, and two schooners overturned
but no loss of life is yet reported. Entire
fruit orchards are destroyed, and corn
fields were in many instances swept clean.
THE STORM REACHES MASSACHUSETTS.
BosToN, August 81 The storm this day
struck Boston with great fury at about
8 p. u., and three and half inches of
water had fallen at midnight. In the
Journal press room water is within two
inches OF the press blankets and further
rise will prevent the issue of that paper.
IT'S A CYCLONE IN DELAWARE.
WILMINGTON, DEL, August 21.-A cyclone
passed across tine state this afternoon
about six miles below this city. cutting :,
path 900 yards in width, leveIing trees,
orchards and outbuildings and doing a
damage estimated at $780, 600. One per
son is reported killtd.
In this city the buildings of Mablow Bros
iron works were wrecked in an instant.
Huge timbers were wrecked and tossed
about as though they had been straws. A
workman employed in the works was killed
by flying debris.
IN NEW JERSEY.
SALEM, N. j., 21.-A cyclone passed over
this section this afternoon. Nearly all the
at the Salem brick works were
swept away. Orchards and growing crops
we're badly damaged.
LATER REPORTS OF THE STORM.
BALTIMORE, August 22.-Reports OF the
storm in the southern portion OF the state
show that the storm has been very severe
cyclone struck the village OF Sill Pond,
Kent county, with particular severity.
Houses were blown down and ten people are
'eported killed.
PTTsBURG, August 22.-The food has
Utmost reached its limit here 1t has not |
cached disastrous height; the lowlands, |
however, are submerged, and the damage
will be quite heavy. The rainfall in the |
Mountains and up the Monongahela river |
vas almost unprecedented. Burgettstown /
vas almost submerged. Reports from the
.dioining district state that the valleys are
ii overhowed. The damage to crops can
carcely beestimated. Bridges, stables, and !
were whirled away with the
ushing food and the escene this mornings
ONE OF GREAT DEVASTATION.
At McKeesport the flats are flooded, and
ne person was drowned.
The Hungarian camp below town is sub.
,erged, and many OF the Hungarians
arely escaped drowning.
At Jeanette where big glass works are
eing erected and have just gone into opera
ion, two.thirds of the plant is under
be water. and it is reported that eighty
I the houses are also under water.
The towns of Larimer, Chapton and
irwin, Pennsylvania, and Manor are par
ally under water, and many of the in
are living in the upper stories OF
ouses. In the mountains the headwaters
all the streams are swollen beyond all
ounds.
In this cty the water got up into the
y-pits of many mills and factories, and
fused
SUSPENSION OF WORK.
The Polish inhabitants OF Shanytown ,
ere again compelled to remove their
,ods and are now encamped on the :
anks of the river.
The railroads are the greatest sufferers
this section. No trains have arrived or {
,parted over the Baltimore & Ohio since {
,sterday. At Osceola station, on the | E
astern division, they have seven acres OF
nd slide, while every bridge and culvert n
] the Wheeling division has been washed :.
way.
DAMAGES AROUND BOSTON. r
BosToN, August 22.-It is difficult to esti- G
ate the damage caused by the disastrous g
infall OF last night. Hundreds of cellars
IRE flooded; two large plants in Roxbury .
one suffer an aggregate loss OF nearly !;
10000. The Boston Betting Company
ffers $25, 900 and Towers Oicloth Works =
10000. The New York an New England :,
abroad is at standstill.
Pa, August 22.-Tbe Schuylkill
twenty feet above the ordinary stage. a
lis is the highest since 1869. +
lTTINGS FROM THE VEST SLOPE. i,