River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-07-18
DROWNED IN A pELuoE
Cloud-Bursts Find a Number of Victims In
Maryland and Nebraska - Disastrous
storms Elsewhere.

Storms Elsewhere.
BALTIMORE Nd, July ia water-spout
caused the small streams known as Herring
run and Moore's run, northeast of Balu-
more, to rise to an unprecedented height
Saturday afternoon, bursting two dams,
one called Reeds dam and the other
at Casper Bobb's place on the Bell
aire road The water rushed down
in a wall twenty feet deep. sweeping
every thing before it Several people
were drowned As far as known, two men
on the Bellaire road, named Powell and
Scheillner, were drowned IN Herring run,
George Lngenfelder, his wife and father
aud a Mrs. Seifert on Moore's run. Mr..
lingenfelder was coming TO market at
Baltimore and tried to cross the bridge.
from which he was swept Mrs. Seifert met
her death in a similar mannor Horses
and cattle were drowned in large num-
bers, and property and crops are swept
away. The damage done can not be July
estimated Nearly every bridge crossing
Herring run was swept away, including
the large iron bridge at Bobb's Fields of
grain were destroyed and trucking farms
ruined The roads are all wiped out The
tracks OF the Halls Springs horse rail-
way were twisted and turned into utter
ruin. large country store on the Hart
ford road was swept away There was a
washout on the Maryland Central rail-
road at Guilford's station, causing a
suspension of travel John McCormick's
barn on the Frederick road was
struck by lightning and burned. Loss,
So Five people in it were stunned. but
are recovering. The Herring run race
track was damaged to the extent of $1,000.
John Colburn's house at Creek Neck was
partly wrecked by lightning and his whole
family injured
FoRr RoBINsoN, Neb. July IA cloud
burst occurred in Soldier Creek valley
about daylight Saturday Some of the
waves were six feet high Four people.
Marsh Duncan and three of his children,
are known to have been drowned II is
feared many other lives have been lost
Colonel Telford has sent out company of
the Eighth Infantry to search for dead and
carry assistance to the sufferers
HEAVY sToRfs ELSEWHERE
PETERSBURG. Va, July IA wind-storm
which assumed almost the proportions of
tornado passed over Diuwiddie County in
the vicinity of Darvill, which did an i'm
mense amount of damage. Trees were
uprooted and barns aud fences lev
eled to the ground. The storm
was accompanied by n heavy fall of
rain and hail, and the crops suffered terri
bly,, especially from the hail which cut TO
pieces oats. wheat, corn and vegetation.
The storm was also very severe in Sussex
County, in the neighborhood OF Waverly
station, on the Norfolk & Western railroad,
where one boy was killed and another prob
ably fatally injured by a falling tree. The
oat crop was literally ruined
PLATTsBURG, n Y. July ia terrific
hail, rain and wind-storm passed over
Plattsburg, Burlington (Ntl and other
places along Lake Champlaiu Saturday
afternoon. In this city electric light.
telephone and telegraph wires were
Frustrated, trees were blown down
and many windows We're broken
by hail-stones In the country farm
ers lose heavily on grain and fruit. At Bur
lington the Telephone Exchange was part
" burned by lightning. Damage to build
ings, wires and crops are reported from
nearly every place along the lake. Many
narrow escapes from drowning are re-
ported
EVANSVILLE. Ind, July l5-Much dam
age is reported from the lower Ohio on ac-
count of the copious rainfall since Tn Irs-
day afternoon The water came down in
torrents, and it is asserted that within two
hours there was a thrce-inch fall Saturday
morning. Growing crops We're necessarily
damaged, and i'll some places immense oat
and tobacco fields were completely sub.
merged and the crops ruined The stricken
section extends from Cairo to Smithland,
ON bo,h sides of the river
DAVENPORT, Ia, July II. 49, The heaviest
rain-storm known in years visited this sec
tion Saturday night In this and sur
rounding cities considerable damage was
done by overtiowed streets and Gel
lars, while in the country wind and
water caused considerable destruction to
crops. Corn and oats are both pretty gen
orally moved down by the fury of the
sJC~m. and. while the former win probably
rise, TINS is not expected to be the case
with oats, concerning which farmers are
very much discouraged and fear great
losses