Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-05-11
WIND AND RAIN.
RavaSes Of the severe Cyclone Lass
Night.

Night.
HOUSES BLOWN DOWN, TREES UPRooTEp AND pAn-
AGE OF EVERY KIND DONE By TEE KIENExTs-
SEVERAL DEATHS REPoRrkp on ACCOUNT %
THE sroRM-REv. Nh. HICKS PREDICTED IT.
PrrrsBrRo, Pa, May 1.-The storm Of last
night in this vicinity beat the record for sew
eral years pastin severity. During yesterday the
mercury had reached 90 degrees, causing much
sssssEaae= Many mills were compelled TO cease
work, and feN prostrations from heat were re-
ported Abo ut O'Clock the storm burst with
q succession of lightning bolts. Rain fell
heavily Tor an hour. About O'Clock the storm
began again with increased fury. lasting until
about 1880 o'clock. Rain fell in sheets. hail
almost covered the ground and the lightning
flashes and peals Of thunder were terrific
Damage to property and streets was general
throughout the city. Traffic on all the rail-
and wsshouts. The street railways were block
AIDED for hours. Telephone. electric light
and telegraph wires were badly tangled and
prostrated in all directions. The lower part OF
Allegheny City was Hooded out-buiidings and
fences were carried away. Several residences
were moved from their foundations and the
occupants compelled to fee for their lives.
TWO CHILDREN DROWNED.
Two children OF Conrad Schaefer, residing on
Spring Garden avenue, we're drowned in the
food, which broke down the doors Of their
dwelling Mr. and Mrs Schaefer and two other
children narrowly escaped with their lives.
At 1890 o'clock the large stable and sheds
owned by Frederick Hampke. on Mt. Oliver.
were struck by lightning and wholly destroyed
by the fire which followed. Fourteen horses
and several head of cattle were burned to death
Loss, $4,000.
Reports from the country districts are mes
ger, owing TO washed out roads. interrupted
IL
thentic reports are rife of barns and dwellings
struck by lightning and swollen streams Great
ing havoc.
The signal Office reports the rain fall during
the time of the storm at 8 feet
REV. IRA HICKS PREDICTIONS.
In this connection it will be Of interest to
read the predictions for May of Rev. Ira
Hicks, of Kansas, as published in Word aud
Works. "From the 9TH to the 18th inclusive is
a regular storm period, with danger days on or
very near the 9th. 10th. and 1lth. Unless Wa
miscalculate, there will be much rain attended
in various places with violent developments Of
electrical atmospherical phenomenon. The
period will wind up with almost a continual
high barometer and very cool days, until the
reactionary movements about the 18th cause a
higher temperature and detached, scattering
storms. From the 18th to the oath is the most
pronounced period for the month, with days OF
greatest violence about the 10th, 2lst, 22d, and
Esd"
FUNERAL PROCESSION WRECKED.
New YORK. May ll.-when the storm was at
its height yesterday the widest confusion took
place on the road leading to Calvary cemetery,
in Long Island City. Coaches in funeral pro-
cessions were wrecked, and one was blown OF
the road down a 4-foot embankment into the
meadows. The driver jumped of and got the
occupants, three women and a man, out Of the
coach just as it went down the hill The
horses. almost frantic with fear got out of their
harness and ran wildly about the meadows.
Police Captain Cavanaugh saws that the frame
of a new house at Broad Chancel, during the
wind storm, was carried up into the air fully 20
feet and out in the ocean about 200 feet before
it fen. Later the debris was washed ashore.
BRIDGEPoRr, Conn. May 11.-In some places
in the Houstanic valley hail stones as large as
hickory nuts fell during the storm yesterday,
causing considerable damage.
DISASTROUS FALL OF DERRICK.
CARBoNpALE, Pa, May 11.-During the great
wind storm OF yesterday big derrick, ll2 feet
high, at the works of the Herdrick Oil Works,
tottered and fell with crash that was heard
several blocks away. In its fall il badly dam
aged the dwelling of Thomas Joyce. on the op-
gosite side OF the street. The Delaware and
Hudson company is also a very heavy loser by
Rocket Brook coliery. A section of the large
mule barn blown down. but luckily no
mules were in il, being at work in the mine.
At Croft Brook coliery the wind got under
the inclined plane, running from the mine to
breaker. and tore il up. Some barns were
blown down and unroofed. Telegraph poles
and wires are broken.
At Forest City, hail fell as large as eggs, and
there is scarcely an unbroken window on the
west side OF house in the village. In the
| country the hail did much damage TO fruit
trees. The storm lasted but fifteen minutes.
HUNDREDS OF TREES BLOWN DOWN.
GENEVA, Ills, May ia heavy wind ac-
companied by tremendous rain fall passed
over this section last night. Hundreds Of trees
were blown down and many orchards ruined.
Several windows in the business part OF the
! city were broken. II was the heaviest wind
known here for years and has ruined the
nrosDect for a Dromisinp fruit cron