New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-07-17
Minor Casualties.

fire which broke out among some hemp
warehouses on the docks along the River
Pregel at Koenigsberg, Germany, caused a
loss OF half million marks. The English
steamer Tortona was burned.
disastrous cloudburst is reported from
Fort Robinson, in the northwestern part of
Nebraska. The food swept down Soldier
Greek. alley, carrying all before it, A wood
chopper named Duncan, who lived in the
valley with his wife and five children, was
drowned together with three of his children
The rest escaped. company of infantry
has been sent out from the fort to search for
bodies and to render all the assistance posi-
BILE. Food, money and clothing have been
provided by the people at the fort,
The village of Princeton Ohio was almost
wiped out by tornado and it is reported
that fifty people were killed Not house
escaped damage, and some OF them were
blown entirely away. Shortly before 4
o'clock a heavy black cloud passed eastward
and to one side of Hamilton, just missing
Cincinnati. Turning sharply in it's track the
storm came back and passed directly over
Hamilton. The high wind was accompanied
by a flood of rain and did great damage to
the village of Princeton. The most impos-
ing building in the village, the new brick
schooihouse, was swept away. There ale
some twenty or more dwellings, in the place.
with population of 200. Every house was
more or less wrecked and some of them en-
tlrely destroyed. In some instances not q
trace was left OF the structure that had stood
on the spot.
A waterspout caused the small streams
known as Herring run and Moore's run, half
dozen miles northeast of Baltimore, to
to an unprecedented height, bursting two
dams. The water rushed down in a wall
twenty feet deep, sweeping everything before
it. Several people were drowned Horses
and cattle were drowned in large numbers,
and property and crops are destroyed. 1t is
reported that there is a scene of desolation
and ruin along the streams named. The
damage done cannot be estimated. Nearly
every bridge crossing Herring Run was swept
away. Fields of grain were destroyed and
trucking farms ruined. The roads are all
wiped out The tracks of the Halls Spring
horse railway were twisted and completely
ruined. A large country store on the Har-
lord road was swept away. There was q
washout on the Maryland Central railroad
at Guilford station, causing a suspension of
travel.
A cable car accident occurred at Cincinnati
The grip loosened and the cable dropped.
The momentum increased every moment by
the grade and heavy load until speed of
eighteen miles an hour was reached. When
Eichler's garden, a pleasure resort, was
reached, a passenger requested theconductor
to stop the cars. In an instant the brake
chain broke and fell on the rapidly revolving
front axle. Becoming fastened to it. the
flooring of the car was knocked out, and a
panic ensued, everybody yelling to jump,
which the passengers did, and were tossed in
every direction, stunned and dazed After
the cars stopped it was found that Mrs Will
lam Telgate was killed by having her neck
broken and skull fractured; Mrs. S. Keller re-
ceived severe Commissions about the head and
body; Thomas F. Conbey Newport, KY, had
his left arm broken and was badly cut. An
unknown young woman had her eye gouged
out and received severe bruises.