Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-07-18
FU4.IOUS STORMS.
They Cause Great Damage in
Various Localities.
The village of Princeton, o., Swept Away
by "a Cyclone-M Many Lives Reported
Lost-Fury of the Elements
in Other Places.
BLOWN AWAY.

CINCINNATI. July lo.-ADOub O'CLOCK
Sunday afternoon the village of Princeton,
six miles from Hamilton o., was visited by
a severe wind-storm Before reaching
Princeton it blew the roof off the barn of
Joseph Stinson, throwing it into a corn field
some distance away. The dwelling house
of Finley Whitehead, in Princeton,
was carried away, and his wagon-making
shop near by was demolished The large
brick school-building in the village was torn
down to the foundations aud RITTER of the
house was carried 700 yards by the force of
the wind and lodged in the top of a large
oak tree, while the desks and other furni-
ture were scattered in every direction, and
the blacksmith shop and barn of Gus KIN
near were.both leveled to the ground. The
houses of John Ienharf, Rose Miller and
Stephen Clawson were completely wrecked,
while Ash Walter lost every thing he pos
sessed The oats and corn crop were
ruined and the village was deluged with
water No deaths occurred Thirty build
ings were wrecked
HAMILTON, o., July l5.-It is said that
fifty lives wore lost in the cyclone which
destroyed the village of Princeton, o., Sun
day There is no confirmation of the re-
port, and it is disbelieved here. Parties
who came to this city for assistance deny
that any deaths occurred
MANY LIVES LOST.
BALTIMORE, Md, july IA water-spout
caused the small streams known as Herring
run and Moore's run, northeast of Baiti-
more, to rise TO an unprecedented height
Saturday afternoon, bursting two dams,
one called Reeds dam and the other
at Casper Bobb's place on the Bell
aire road The water rushed down
in wall twenty feet deep, sweeping
every thing before It, Several people
were drowned As far as known, two men
ON the Bellaire road, named Powell and
Scheillher, were drowned In Herring run;
George Lingenfelder. his wife and father
and a Mrs Seifert on Moore's run. Mr..
Lingengelder was coming TO market at
Baltimore, and tried to cross the bridge,
from which he was swept Mrs Seifert met
her death in a similar mannor Horses
and cattle were drowned in, large mum
bers, and property and crops are swept
away The damage done cap not be fully
estimated Nearly every bridge crossing
Herring run was swept away, including
the large iron bridge at Bobb's Fields of
grain were destroyed and trucking farms
ruined The roads are all wiped out. The
tracks of the Halls Springs horse rail-
way were twisted and turned into utter
ruin. A large country store on the Hart
ford road was swept away. There was a
washout on the Maryland Central rail-
road at Guilfords station, causing
suspension of travel John McCormick's
barn on the Frederick road was
struck by lightning and burned. Loss,
$4,000 Five people in it were stunned. but
are recovering. The Herring run race
track was damaged to the extent of $4,000.
John Colburn's house at Creek Neck was
Eryhf Ia .l,I.
family injured
FoRT ROBINSON, Neb, July Is "A cloud
burst occurred in Soldier Creek valley
about daylight Saturday Some of the
waves were six feet high. Four people,
Marsh Duncan and three of his children,
are known to have been drowned Ii is
feared many other lives have been lost.
Colonel Telford hes sent out a company of
the Eighth Infantry to search for dead and
carry assistance to the sufferers
HEAVY STORMS ELSEWHERE
PLATTsBURG, n u, July ia terrific
hail, rain and wind-storm passed over
Plattsburg, Burlington (Vt) and other
places along Lake Cbamplain Saturday
afternoon In this city electric light,
telephone and telegraph wires were
FRUSTRATED, trees were blown down
and many windows were broken
by hail-stones In the country farm
ers lose heavily on graip and fruit. At Bur
lington the Telephone Exchange was part
ly burned by lightning. Damage to build
ings wires and crops are reported from
nearly every place along the lake. Many
narrow escapes from drowning are re-
ported.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, July 15.-Mueh dam
age is reported from the lower Ohio on ac-
count of the copious rainfall since Thurs,
day afternoon. The water came down In
torrents, and it is asserted that within two
hours there was three-inch fall Saturday
morning. Growing crops were necessarily
damaged, and in some places immense oat
and tobacco fields were completely sub
merged and the crops ruined The stricken
section extends from Cairo to Smithland,
on both sides of the river.
BLooMINGToN, ILL.,, July 15.-The delugc
of Friday which did such great damage to
the oats, which were ripe for the sickle,
was followed by series of heavy storms,
which completed the havoc.
DAVENPORT, Ia, July Il. - The heaviest
rain-stOrm known in years visited this sec
ton Saturday night In this and sur
rounding cities considerable damage was
done by overflowed streets and eel
lars, while in the country wind and
water caused considerable destruction to
crops Corn and oats are both pretty gen.
orally moved down by the fury of the
storm, and, while the former viii probably
rise, this is not expected to be the case
with OATS concerning which farmers are
very much discouraged and fear great
losses.