The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-08-09
ELEMENTAL WARFARE.
DESTRUCTION nv EASTERN AND
SOUTHERN STORMS.

and New Jersey surfer Severe Damage
by Wind and Rain An Electric Storm
sweeps Over Arkansas.
A Poughkeepsie, N. Y, dispatch says:
A cyclone struck Ellis Corners, Ulster
county, four miles west Of Highland,
destroying . large amount Of property
and injuring a number of persons. The
cyclone, which wa accompanied by a
roaring sound that terrified the people,
seemed to come from a funnel. shaped
cloud. Matthew Ha%rcourt's vineyard was
completely ruined and every tree in his
apple orchard was rooted up, the trees
being carried away as though they were
feathers. The house and barn OF John
Nelson were struck and completely demol-
ished, broken timbers being carried hum
dreds Of feet. Mr.. Nelson and his wife
were blown out Of the house along with
the flying timbers and both were seriously
but not fatally injured. Two barns be-
longing to Patrick McGowan were totally
destroyed. Mr. McGowan, who ia 30
Years old, was SO badly injured that no
hores of his recovery are entertained.
There being no more buildings in the
path of the tornado no more serious dam.
age was done. Bed quilts and dresses
be'onging to Mrs. Nelson were found in q
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storm. Huge timbers were also found
stuck up in the mountains some distance
away.
A Newark, N. j., telegram says that place
has just experienced the most disastrous
storm that ever visited that city. In the
city cellars were flooded aud sewers burst.
Work had to be suspended in the factories
in tho lower section. A washout occurred
on the Morris 81 Essex railroad at South
Orange and trains were delayed for many
hours. In South Orange several buildings,
including the postofflce, were carried away,
aud 25u barrels of flour were washed ont
of one storehouse. In Orange Valley the
Water is up to the second story windows
and great damage has been done TO the
numerous hat factories there. People wero
compelled to paddle around OIL planks and
to swim in order to get to places of safety
on high ground. Bloomfield and Mont
clair also report great damage to proper
ty. No lives are as yet known to have
been lost.
The greatest alarm prevails around
Millburn. Above it is the Orange water
reservoir dam, which is not regarded as
safe. Should it burst it would overflow
Miilburn and other small towns along the
Railway river, Of which 1t is the source,
end the damage would reach as far as
Railway. The dam is still reported all
right, hut the inhabitants of towns are
preparing to move to high ground. Near
ly every. road in the country is impossible,
and all tue bridges have been washed
away.
A Plainfield, N. j., dispatch reports that
place suffering from the greatest flood aver
known there. Tho dam at Stony Brook,
above the Green Valley mills, has given
way, carrying with it C%oddington's ice
houses and many barns and seriously UNI
dermining the mills. A dam OH Green
Brook, in the heart of the town, has also
given away and caused much damage.
Many wooden buildings were carried away.
The immense dam at Westfeld, back of
Scotch Plains, has collapsed and nn addi-
tional Lody of water was thereby thrown
into the valley below. Green Brook could
not contain it and the water rushed across
TO Cedar brook and thence through the
finest residence portion of Plainfield. The
damage here is very great, two or three
square miles of thickly settled territory
being submerged. There were many gal
liant rescues of life.
In Tho South.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark, July 31.-This
section was visited last night by the most
terrible electric and rain storm over seen
here. Yesterday was the hottest and most
oppressive day of the season. About mid
night the clouds seemed to come up from
every point of the compass and met over
this city, where they hung for three hours,
during which time the rain fell in torrents.
The residences of Moses Mock, Moses Boum,
j. V. Walker, Mrs. E. E. Wade, Rev. Y. N.
Ragland, Judge Brown, aad the livery
stable Of Kell Il Hungen, in which one horse
was killed, were struck by lightning.
The large barn of Copt. Thomas Brooks,
edition of the Fayetteville Republican, was
set on fire and destroyed, together with a
large quantity of grain and five fine
horses. The residence of Thomas Holland,
three miles from here, was blown to atoms,
and that of i. Graham, in tho same
neighborhood, was partly destroyed. A
number of streams are higher to-day than
we before known. The Frisco railroad
bridge over White river is washed away,
and crops along the river are generally
de stroyed The loss to the farmers of this
county will be many thousand dollars.
At GAINESVILLE the streets were flooded
aud the town was in danger of being
swept away by spadra creek, which was
out of its banks. Many people took to
the hills and did mot return until after
daylight, when the stream had gone down.
All the creeks wore out of their banks and
OVERLOOKING the bottoms adjacent, running
the crops, and it is feared the Arkansas
river will overflow its banks and ruin the
fine cotton crops in the bottom lands.
AN AWFUL PLIGHT.
Three Americans Abandoned ON a Barren
Island without Provisions.