The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-18
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OIoud-Bursts Find 8 Number of Ylcta,ns Il
Maryland and Nobraska = Dlsastroua
storms Elsewhere.
BAI11MoRE, Nd. July is "A water-sno,n
caused the small streams known o Hofrfne
run and Moore's run, northeast Of Balti.
moro, to riss 70 IN unprecedented height
Saturday afternoon, bursting two dams
one called Reeds dam and the other
at Casper Bobb's place on the Beil-
afro road The water rushed down
In wall twenty feet deep, sweeping
every thing before 1t Several peonIe
were drowned As far as known. two rsan
on the Bellaire road, named Powell ma
Scheillner, were drowned in Herring run:
George Lngenfelder. his vito and father
and Mrs. seifert on Moore's run. IA.
Lngenfelder was coming to market e
Baltimore, and tried to cross the bridge
from which he was swept Mrs. Seifert met
her death in q similar mannor. Horsas
and cattle were drowned In large nnm-
berA and property and crops are swept
away. The damage done can not be fullv
estimated Nearly every bridge crossing
Herring rum was swept away, Including
the large iron bridge at Bobb'A Fields 81
grain were destroyed and trucking farms
ruined The roads are all wiped out Tho
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
washout on the Maryland Central rail-
road at Guilford's station, causing
suspension of travel John McCormick,a
barn on the Frederick road was
struck by lightning and burned. Loss
$1,000 Five people in 1t were stunned, but
are recovering. The Herring run race-
track was damaged to the extent Of 5000
John Colburn's house at Creek Neck was
partly wrecked by lightning and his whole
family injured
FORT 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. It liz
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 STORMS ELSEWHERE
Petersburg, Va, July ia wind-storm
which assumed almost the proportions of q
tornado passed over Dinwiddie County in
the vicinity of Darvill, which did an i'm
mense amount Of damage Trees were
uprooted and barns and fences lev
eled to the ground The storm
was accompanied by 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 l. Western railroad,
where one boy was killed and another prob
ably fatally injured by falling tree. The
oat crop was literally ruined.
PLATTsBuRa, N. Y. July ia terrific
hail, rain and wind-storm passed over
Piattsburg, Burlington (Vt) and other
places along Lake Champlain Saturday
afternoon In this city electric light,
telephone and telegraph wires were
Frustrated, trees were blown down
and many windows were broken
by hail-stOneR In the country farm
ers lose heavily on grain and fruit. At Bur-
ington the Telephone Exchange was part
ly 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 15-Much DAM
ege is reported from the lower Ohio on ac.
count OF the cop1ous rainfall since Thurs
day afternoon The water came down in
torrents and 1t is " serted that within two
hours there was .e-inch fall Saturday
morning Grow ops were necessarily
damaged, and in some places immense oat
and tobacco fields were completely sub.
merged and the crops ruined. The stricken
section extends from Cairo to Smtthland,
on both sides of the river
DAVENPORT, Ia, July 15.-The heaviest
rain-storm known in years visited this Sec
ton Saturday night. In this and sur
rounding cities considerable damage was
done by overtlowed 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 TIA
storm, and, while the former will probably
rise, this is not expected to be the case
with oats, concerning which farmers arc
very much discouraged and fear great
losses