The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-07-18
Minor Casualties.

William Biekle, Philip Herbst and his son
were drowned in the Ohio at Portsmouth,
Ohio, by the boat capsizing.
Mrs. Terry of Salt Lake City attempted 10
light fire with coal oil. An explosion oc-
cured, and the burning oil caused the death
OF herself and thirteen-yeur- old daughter.
Collision occurred at Grenoble, France, be-
tween passenger train and goods train
on the Paris. Lyons 4 Mediterranean rail
road. Twenty persons were killed or IN
jured.
Violent storms, accompanied by whirl-
winds, prevailed throughout Austria Hun
gary. Heavy losses of life and property are
reported. Many bridges were destroyed and
railway traffic seriously interrupted.
disastrous cloudburst is reported from
Fort Robinson, in the northwestern part of
Nebraska. The flood swept down Soldier
Greek valley. carrying all before it. A wood
chopper named Duncan who lived in the
valley with his wife and five children. was
drowned together with three of his children.
The rest escaped. A company of infantry
has been sent out from the fort to search for
bodies and to render all the assistance posi-
bic. Food, money and clothing have been
provided by the people at the fort.
The village of Princeton Ohio was almost
wiped out by tornado and it is reported
that fifty people were killed. Not a house
escaped damage, and some OF them were
blown entirely away. Shortly before
O'Clock heavy black cloud passed eastward
and to one side of Hamilton, just missing
Cincinnati. Turning sharply in its track the
storm came back and passed directly over
Hamilton. The high wind was accompanied
by food of rain and did great damage to
trees. 1t was this storm which demolished
the village of Princeton. The most impOs-
ing building in the village. the new brick
schoolhouse, was swept away There ale
some twenty or more dwellings, in the place.
with population of 200. Every house was
more or less wrecked and some of them en-
tirely destroyed. In some instances not q
trace was left Of the structure that had stood
on the spot
A WatersDout caused the small streams
known as Herring run and Moore's run, half
a dozen miles northeast of Baltimore, to
to an unprecedented height, bursting two
dams. The water rushed down in a wall
twenty feet deep, sweeping everything before
it. Several people were drowned. Horses
ana CaLLIe were ufO Wneu IN large numOeFs,
and property and crops are destroyed 1t is
reported that there is a scene of desOlation
and ruin along the streams named. The
damage done cannot be estimated. Nearly
every bridge crossing Herring Run was swept
away. Fields of grain were destroyed and
trucking farms ruined. The roads are oil
wiped out. The tracks of the Halls Spring
horse railway were twisted and completely
ruined. A large country store on the Har-
ford road was swept away. There was O
washout on the Maryland Central railroad
at Guilford station, causing suspension of
travel.
A cable car accident occurred at Cincinnati.
The grip loosened and the cable dropped.
The momentum increased every moment by
the grade and heavy load until a speed OF
eighteen miles an hour was reached. When
Eichler's garden, a pleasure resort, was
reached, passenger requested the conductor
to stop the cars. In an instant the brake
chain broke and fell on the rapidly revolving
front axle. Becoming fastened to it, the
flooring of the car was knocked out, and q
panic ensued, everybody yelling to jump,
which the passengers did, and we're tossed in
every direction, stunned and dazed. After
the cars stopped it was found that Mrs. Will
lam Telgate was killed by having her neck
broken and skull fractured Mrs. S. Keller re-
ceived severe contusions about the head and
body; Thomas F. COnbey, Newport, KY, had
his left arm broken and was badly cut. An
unknown young woman had her eye gouged
' out and received severe bruises.