Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-05-16
WONDERFUL WEATHER.
Intense Heat in the East, while Colorado
and Wyoming Enjoy Snow Storms.
TOREADOES END THE DBYIE THE EAST

TOREkDOES END The DBYIE THE EAST
NEW YORK. May 10-TO-day is the hot
test 10th of May in eighteen years. Al
records fail 10 show that on any previous
10th of May within the period named the
temperature reached S. by noon. as it did
to-day. The weather officers are puzzled
at the peculiar meteorological condition
that prevails. Storms, according to their
calculation. should be raging where clear
skies prevail.
In places where it was warm to an IN
comfortable degree yesterday it IS SNOW
ing today At points within only few
hundred miles Of each other this morning
{ the temperature has varied from freezing
( to summer heat. Vt 5 \. ". nearly two
1 inches of snow had fallen at Denver. Col.
In Wyoming snow fell nearly all night
/ Two hundred miles to the Northwest of
| Denver the temperature was I6 , and in
the Lake Region. Whe.e it is Fashionable
( to wear furS and sealSkin Sacques until
June. the weather was just as warm as at
| Key West. Both regions had clear skies
and even temperature at ~.
The predictions Of fair day to-day We're
/ early fulfilled. and. as the earth rolled over.
| the sun and heat became binding. sitting,
I diScOmfOrting. The mercury swelled un-
Z til in the thermometer tubes Ii reached
928 in the shade
The sky had a braSsy hue. the air was
mOtionless, human and quadruped ami
mails suffered At ~ o'clock leaden col
alg f1Tft off hRr
( Zon. and. sailing high moved toward the
| city \ little later the whole eXpanSe OF
/ leaden cloud began to show its edges in
the West. and rose upward maSsiyely and
solid. without break or rift in its slate
.hued banks. The sun was sinking. The
premOnitOTy scud had sOfteningr with
| out checking them. but the uprising cloud
mass shut them off from the city. chOked
| them back. shadOWed the interlying cOUn-
| try more rapidly than an eclipse could do,
and produced that OminOuS sense Of hush
i'll which the leaves upturn their white
sides before driving storm. The loom
/ ing darkness came up from the South and
| West and rapidly spread one wing out and
/ touched the ocean Of the Jersey coast and
| thus came sweeping on. Meanwhile per
SONS at high points in the city paused to
watch the spectacle. Lightning burned
bright Streaks through the towering black
mass. and on the still air came the sound
of rumbling thunder within its bowels.
When the rushing storm, of which no
| breath had been felt here. reached Jersey
| soil it leveled an engine house Of the Penn
sylvania railroad. at Burlington. Trees
were torn up and fences and telegraph
poles blown down.
At 5 O'Clock the dense black cloud bank
| had reached New Brunswick, ~ J.. where
! the mercury rapidly fell 25e, and. though
miles away. seemed towering and reach
/ ing as though to blot out this town. The
| spectacle was assuming fearSome grand
eur to those who watched il from high
! places here. While sweeping over Jersey
| the tornado, blowing fifty miles an hour,
/ had WhITled up volumes Of red dust from
/ the soil. 1t was sucked up before the tor
nadO and spread like a mantle before the
/ black breast of the OnruShing storm. At
| ten minutes after > the first scud. frayed
! off the central storm, had led the way over
/ the city. aud daTkened the refracted light
| in the East and North: the dusk of tWi-
| light had come down: people rushed from
| their houses to learn the cause of the early
darkness. Thousands OF shop girls and
women were on the streets going home
. u.
were filed: but people paused looked each
| into the face of his neighbor and inquired
the meaning of the cOpper-tinted twilight
| that was deepening so early. Women
were frightened men were grave. And
over all "a silence of the air so dense il
I oUUIITUd a 5UJTIItt.
Like a gust the storm swept the bay and
the river. and upon the city that was sort
of huShed and waiting for the onslaught.
In an instant the lower city was charged.
Wind rushed between the tall buildings
at speed of fifty miles an hour, licked
the streets clean of dust at one moment
and drifted them at the next with the re
fuse of the city and the red sands Of Jer-
sey. There was over all deep monotone
of roaring wind. and against it the st9c-
cato effects of wOmens' ShTiekS, the hOarSe
shouts of men, the neighing OF scared hOr-
ses, the sharp pelting of sheets OF sand on
window panes, the jingle of broken glass.
the crash of broken signs, and the faint
sound of distress whistles Oh the river and
bay.
Persons in the storms course struggled
and suffered from 5.l5 for nearly half an
! hour. when rain began to fall, the lurid,
livid atmosphere began to clear, the dust
was laid. and men and women began to
Up. NJ. the rain had ceased. the air was
pure and cool and the storm had grown
| to be only dark brown on the sea.
And ever since the reports of the dam
age have been pouring in. The area Gov
cred by these reports is Southern New
| York, Eastern Pennsylvania Maryland
| Delaware, Connecticut and MaSSachu-
sets. No deaths are reported in the city
] hut many n9iDful casualties
At Fair Haven Ct, men were buried in
the wreckage of a new house, while others
working outside were hurled through the
air with fatal results to some and severe
| injury to all.
| At Point of Rocks, Md, twenty-five
men who were at work on railroad tres
tie over the river at that point We're swept
off into the water sixty feet below, and at
Palmyra. Pa. many houses are in ruins
and the inmates homeless.
READING, Pa, May 10.-A terrific wind
and rain storm passed over the city about
4.30 P. NJ, unrOofng number of houses
and pr)strating trees and fences.
The storm is reported to have done
great deal of damage in the Lebanon Val
lev particularly at Palmyra. where many
houses were blown down. Wires are all
down and details lacking.
PoTTSyILLE, Pa, May l0.-A terrible
wind and rain storm damaged many build
in this city about P NJ. \ panic occur
red among the girls III the silk mill. and
FSallie Reichart was thrown down flight
of stairs and seriously injured. Work had
to be suspended for the day.
At Newport. Perry Co., Pa the County
Fair exhibition building was demolished.
and other buildings damaged, by a lorna
do, at 4PM. Charles Myers, aged eight,
was killed
BELvIDERE, Ill, May 10-A most ter
rife hail. wind and rain storm visited this