Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-08-02
SEVERE STORMS IN THE WEST.
A CLOUD BURST IN WISCONSIN
DOES GREAT DAMAGE.


severest storm ever known here
struck the city abOnt 2 O'Clock
Saturday afternoon. 1t came in
the shape of a lowering cloud that
seemed TO burst oyer the city, ac.
companed by terrific wind, which
filled the air with all kinds of loose
matter. Trees were torn up and
twisted from their roots. A house
was carried from its foundation
and wrecked. The Superior lnm.
Der compsny's refuse burner was
blown down and the smoke stack
OF another mill wrecked. Nearly
200, 900 feet of lumber was blown
of the dock into the bay. Several
sail boats in the bay were capsiz-
ed, but there was no loss OF life.
KANKAKEE, Ills, July pa
storm of unusual severity visited
this city Saturday night. The
rainfall was extremely heavy and
was accompanied by terrible light
ming. Several buildings, including
Grace VI. +. Church, were struck
by lightning, and orchard and
shade trees were damaged. The
loss to crops is heavy, corn and
oats having suffered badly.
FINDLAY, OHIO, July GA ire
mendous storm of wind, hail and
rain swept over this city yesterday
afternoon, blowing down fences,
trees, Outhouses and unfinished
buildings, and doing great deal
of damage Of general character.
The wind was terrific and the rain.
fall tremendous, while hail stones,
as large az hickory nuts, fell in
showers. IL was the most des-
tructlye storm Of the year, and the
loss Of property is likely to be
great.
CHICAGO, July 29.-The storm
of Saturday night was even more
severe than had been supposed,
great as was the uprOar of the ele.
ments and visible the effects. The
unpre cedented rainfall, the high
wind and the iDcessant lightning
caused loss of property that is
difficult TO estimate. All kinds of
property sufiered-gOods in cellars
and Easements, streets, shade trees,
sidewalks, lawns, shrubbery, drive.
ways, unfinished houses and dwell
lings. There we're forty.fOur
alarms of fire, many from lightning
aud most from the destruction OF
the insulation of the electrct light
wires. Fire, water wibd aud hail
combined caused loss probably in
excess of 81 100000, and possibly
as much again. One fact was
made clear by tue storm the sew
ers OF Chicago were unequal TO the
task of carrying off the water that
fell. a result of the storm will
probably be an agitation of the
matter looking toward radical
Improvement in the drainage fac
ilities. The sewerage system OF
the city was originally planned with
view TO the necessities OF pop
ulation OF not more than 100000
With a population nine or ten
times as graet 1t is vastly oyer
taxed. In some of the principal
streets IN the business center the
sewers are only II inches in diam
eter. The fat character OF the
ground makes very slight tall
necessary, aud as a consequence
the sewers soon become clOgged
with sediment. The matter will
be bruoght up in the city council
to night, and it is thought probable
that an entire reorganization OF
the sewerage system may result IN
the end.
PoUGHKEEPsIE, y. Y, July 30.
AT about o'clock this morning
a ,arnado struck Ellis Corners,
Ulster county, four miles west Of
Highland, destroying large
amount of property and iniuring
number of persons. The tornado,
which was accompanied by a roar
ing sound which terrified the peo-
pie, seemed TO come from funnel.
shaped cloud. Matthew Hart.
courts 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 Charles
Nelson we're struck and completely
demolished, broken timbers being
carried hundreds OF feet. Mr.. Mel.
sou and his wife were blown out of
the house along with the flying
timbers, and both were seriously
bat not fatally injured.
Two barns belonging TO Patrick
McGowan were totally destroyed.
Mr.. MCGOWAN, who is so years old,
was so badly iDj 1red that no hopes
of his recovery are entertained.
There being no more buildings IN
the path of the tornado, no other
serious damage was done. Bed
quilts and dresses belonging to
Mrs. Nelson we're found IN a pond
four miles from the scene of tue ac-
cident. Huge timbers were also
found stuck up in the mountains
some distance away. The loss will
be very heavy.
Lightning struck in this city and
various places throughout the
county, but no serious damage is
reported.
In the Hudson river valley the
rain today was very heavy. There
was a wasbout on the Hudson River
Railroad track at Riverdale which
delayed trains about an hour. Tel
sgraph wires were interfered with.
NEWARK, y. j., July 50 The
most disastrous storm that has
visited this vicinity occurred This
afternoon aud evening. i'll this
city cellars were flooded aud sewers
bursted. Work had 10 be suspen.
ded in the factories in The lower
srctlOu.
A wasbOut occurred OH the Nor.
fs and Essex Railroad at South
Orange, aud trains were delay ed
ier many hours. In South Orange
several OuIldlngs, Including the