Morning journal and courier., 1889-07-30
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. RAIN, WIND AND LIGHTNING Chicago Overwhelmed by a
 Terrific Storm. A CYCLONE IN MASSACHUSETTS,. Prof. OIdrieve Walks on the
 Water in a Fog. \ BLAZE IN EAST BOSTON. The Life and Morals of
 Alaskan Indians.
A BLAZE IN EAST BOSTON.
..,. wrNr AND LIGHTNING.

Chicago Overwhelmed By n Terrific
 storm-Over a Million Dollars Dam-
 aae-Fourteen Persons Killed and
 Twentv.Ftve njured-Inadeauacy of
 the City,s Sewer Systena-Thousand
 Driven Into the Street BY the Flood.
 ing of Their HOuses--Ss0rms Else-
 where.
 CHICAGO, July 29.-The storm of Satur- day night surpessed all records in this city. On every hand wreckage was visible to-day. On the west side buildings were demolished, trees uprooted and entire sidewalks disap- peared. Garfield Park was almost bereft of foliage. There the wind devastated patch four hundred feet in width. Four new brick buildings at Rockwell and Sixteenth streets were demolished, and the two msn who had sought refuge in the doorways were crushed to death in the wreck. Two large brick buildings on Twenty-First street col lapsed, fell on adjoining cottages and killed seven people, besides injuring six others Two families were almost obliterated in this disaster. James Lusk's cottage was blown to pieces, but the family miraculously escaped death.
 It rained for three hours, and the climax came at S:45, when all clements united and the very foundations of thecity were shaken. Water poured into every basement and drove thousands of poor people into the street. In the police stations prisoners were compelled to cling to the bars to escape drowning. The fires in the Palmer and the Grand Pa ci6c hotels were extinguished. Three feet ot water flooded the Clifton House base. ment. At the Chicago Opera house much of bo sSRIua Reard1 acenerv was rhine 5. Panics were narrowly averted in the theatres where the electric lights ceased to burn. Whole blocks beyond Western avenue were under water and the wooden sidewalks foated like rafts. Both the cable railways | were completely paralyzed and in the La | sslle street tunnel yves surging stream. Scores of instances were reported of casual ties mainly by lightning, and number ol | the victims cannot recover. John Hayes' house on Oakley avenue was demolished and one son fatally hurt, three persons being very | seriously injured Earnest Bloeter was | killed on 66th street.
 Fires were ianumerable and immense damage resulted from that cause. Of at ! Hammond the great packing houses suc' | cumbed to flames, caused by lightning. The ! report was current that the yacht Countess, having Millionaire Levi Z. Letter and family on board, had been struck by lightning and sunk in the inner harbor, but this was dis proved.
 The police reported IA persons dead and 25 injured, three of them fatally. In. the \ Tribune office yesterday morning the stereo ! typers worked in water to their waists. SC | much sewage was returned from the river by | the back current that the health commission
 CT has advised the boiling of water befor' drinking. The peeuniary loss is estimated a s1, ,00O, ,G0O.
 The records of the local signal service sta
 ton show nothing approaching this deluge | From 6:30 to 9:30 4.12 inches of rain fell ! Without going into figures it may be stated that the volume of water which fell insid the city limits would make lake on whicl
 could be doated the greatest navy in thu
 world. It is impossible to estimate tn
 damage with any degree of accuracy. Hardl,
 house in the city escaped the fury of tn | storm.
 The latest reports show that the storn
 was even more severe than had been sup
 posed. The unprecedented rain falb tn high wind and inoessant lightning caused loss of property that is difficult to estimate Fire, water, wind and hail combined, cause
 a loss of certainly s1,000, 900 and possibl.
 more. One fact WAS made clear by tn
 storm. The sewers of Chicago were unequa to the task of carrying eff the water tha fell. A result of the storm will probabl | be an agitation of the matter looking towar !, | a radical improvement in the drainage facili , |
 ties.
 ASHLAND, Wis, July 29.-Ths severes
 storm ever known here struck the cit
 Saturday afternoon. It came in the shap of towering cloud that seemed to burs over the city Accompanied by terrific wind which filled the air with all kinds of loos
 matter. Trees were torn up and twiste | from their roots. A house yves carried fror | its foundation and wrecked. The smok , ! stack of another mill was also wrecked l Nearly 200, ,000 feet of lumber wes blown O. the dock into the bay. Several sailboats o | the bay were cspsized, but there was no los | of life.
 FINpLAY, O., July 29.-A tremendou storm of wind, hail and rain swept over th | city last evening, blowing down fences, treel :, outhouses and unfinished buildings and dc | ing a great deal of damage of a general chal
 acter. The wind was terrific and the raj | fell tremendous, while hail as large es hick' " nuts fell. It was the most destructiy
 storm of the year, and the loss to property
 likely to be very great. .I KANKAKEE, Ill, July 29.-Saturday night
 storm damaged the oats and corn crop
 this section of eastern Illinois to greet e1 = tent. The lightning struck Q number {
 buildings. About an inoh and half of VI . ter fell in less than half an hour.
 IA CYCLONE IN MAssAoHUsETT! a North Wilbraham Catches e Terrif storm-ConsiderableD Damage Done
 Property.
 NORTH W1LBRAHAM, Mass, July D. . cyclone, followed almost immediately by
 terrific rain storm, visited this pla , late this afternoon, doing considerable dar q. age to property. A large number of app trees on the farm of Joseph Baldwin we 3s.. completely up rooted, while big. maple Ire N were broken down. A steam cider mill
 nartially wrecked and the earth torn u
 plouphinp e furrow fifteen feet wide for , long distance. The cyclone, which car
 from the direction of the Connecticut valle