The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-31
TORRENTS FROM THE SKY
DISASTROUS DOwNPoURs IN THE
VICINITY OF NEW YORK.

DISASTROUS DOWNPOURs IN THE
VICINITY OF NEW YORK.
Mllburn Terrorized By the Possibility
OF the Bursting of Dem-People at
Orange Valley Compelled to Swim
For Their Lives-All Lower Floors
! Flooded
NEW YORK, July 3O-Unusually severe
rains prevailed here and in this vicinity to-
cay and this evening, at times partaking of
the nature Of cloudourst The following
! telegrams have been received:
AT YEwARL.
| NEWARK, n. j., July 30-At Newark
| the most disastrous storm that has visited
tnls vicinity occurred this afternoon and
evening. In this city cellars were flooded
| ana sewers burst. Work had to be sus-
! pended in the factories in the lower section.
- A washout occurred on the Morris and
Essex railroad at South Orange, and trains
We're delayed for many hours
| IN South Orange several buildings. in
| Guiding the postoffice, were carried away.
and 30 barrels of -four were washed out of
| one store house
IN Orange Valley the water is up to sec
ond story windows, and great damage has
been done TO the stock in the numerous hat
factories there. The people were compelled
70 paddle around on planks and to swim in
order to go to places of safety on the high
| grounds.
Bloomfield and Montclair also report a
great deal Of damage to property. No lives
are known to have been lost
The greatest alarm prevails around Mill
burn Above it is the Orangewater reser-
| Vlor dam which is not regarded as safe
Should it burst it would overflow
Mlllburn and other small towns
along the Railway river, which
Is Its source, and the damage would reach
as far as Railway. At 10 o'clock tonight
| the dam was reported as all right, but the
inhabitants of the towns were preparing to
move to the high grounds. Nearly every
road III the country is impossible, as all the
bridges have been washed away.
CYCLONE NEAR POUGHKEEPsIE.
PoUGHKEEPsTE, N Y, July 3O-At
about z O'Clock this morning a cyclone
struck Ellis Corners, Ulster county, four
miles west Of Highland, destroying a
large amount of property and in
Juring a number of persons. The
| cyclone. which was accompanied by
a roaring sound which terrified the people.
seemed to come from a funnef-shaped cloud.
Matthew Hartcourt's vineyard was COM
| pletely ruined, and every tree in his apple
orchard was rooted up, trees being carried
away as though they were mere
feathers. The house dnd barn
of John Nelson were struck and
completely demolished broken timbers
being carried hundreds of feet. 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 belonging to Patrick McCowan were
totally destroyed. McCtowau, who is 81
years old, was SO badly injured 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 belong
ing to Mrs. Nelson were found in a pond
bOur miles from the scene of the accident
| Huge timbers were also found stuck up il
the mountains some distance away. The
loss will be very heavy
BIG FLOOD AT PLAINFIELD.
PLAINFIELD, N. j., July 30-The great
est fload ever known here followed the un-
usual rainfall this afternoon. Washouts
| and broken dams are the result. At 4
| O'Clock the dam at Stony Brook, above
! Green Valley mills, gave away, carrying
| with 1t Covington's ice houses and many
barns seriously undermining the mills
At $40 p. m. the dam on Green brook in
the heart of the county gave way and
| caused much damage. Many wooden build
ings were carried away Somerset was
washed out in many places, and number
| of the largest business buildings in the town
were threatened with total destruction.
| French's mill and carriage factory were
badly damaged Shortly after 6 o'clock
the immense dam at Westfeld back of
Scotch Plains collapsed and an additional
| body of water was thrown into the valley
below. Green Brook could not contain
it and the water rushed across to Cedar
creek and thence through the finest residence
| g DI.,s,, ALI :
| very great, two or three square miles of
thickly settled territory being submerged.
There were many gallant rescues of life.
RISE IN THE PRICE OF BRICKS.
CHICAGO, July 30.-One Of the after
effects of the great storm of Saturday night
has been to put up the price Of brick about
| 81 per 1000. Vast numbers of fresh nodded
and unburned brick were melted down into
| heaps of mud by the fiood, and the damage,
| it is said will run up into hundreds Of thou
| sands Of dollars.
PEACHES INJURED.
WILMINGTON, DEL, July 30--The re-
ports of the damage by last weeks storm
in Sussex county, Delaware. and Wicomico
and Worcester counties, Maryland, say the
prospective peach yield in western Sussex
will be reduced nearly one-half while corn
on the lowlands is almost ruined. A Laurel
Md dispatch tells of farmers wading in
water up to their knees to pick peaches.
Purnells mill, near Snow Hill, Md, was
washed away and much damage done to
railroads and county roads.
FEARFUL LOSS IN ARKANSAS.
LITTLE Rock, July 3O-The damage by
the storm already heard from in johnson
county alone is over S500,000 in houses,
bridges and lumber washed away at Oar
nell The river has risen 10 feet in four
| boi1rs and is still rising