Telegram-herald., 1890-03-25
A CYCLONES WORK.
4 Furious Hurricane Visits = Part
of South CarO1nA.
SEVERAL LnES REPORTED LOST.
tan1nssss Damage Mas DSas - PrSPsrty
"a Sbe Tr2ck q - stsEz CiDeinA.u
gbI-~tsEed AsSlH with .
Serious Fl0Sd

tHAHI ESIcN, y G., March Z4-A spe-
Ella - the Chronicle from Chester. =
C.. SAYS a destructive cyclone passed
ever the village OF Edgemoors. near
Chester, Saturday afternooa. fourteen
houses we're blown down. ani = negro
named James Miller was KILLED sna seF-
eral persons seriously Injured. Many
b-@ @ldlRgs Wcre wrecked.
NEw IoR1, M4reh 2A-A Columbia.
s g, special gives further details Of the
storm IL that Slate. The dispatch says
that ne fary Of the cyclone Was princ!-
pally felt In Sumter. Every house was
shaken 10 It's foundation. roofs were
carried away. fences demolished and
trees upeootSd. Ida Richardson was
killed BY falling house, t~o men.
names unkn0wn. were fatally iaJured
and many persons were badly bruised
and cut Many buildings were de mol
ished The bridge over Broad river, on
the spartanburg. Union 81 Columbia
railroad at Shell Ton, w&s blown OF the
piers into the river ana completely de-
molished. An unknown man standing
on the bridge MAS carried with -
In Chester County the tornado did
great damage. Several small villages
are also badly wrecked. Al Black
stock the academy building was
destroyed and several smaller struct-
ures blown down. One woman
and several ehildren are reported
fatally injured. In Orangeburg County
many houses were unroofed. In this
city the immense yentilating roof OF the
State penite ntiary vas torn from It's po-
sitiOn and thrown down upon an sdjois
ing building. a score OF conyicts mar
rowly escaped death. II is reported
that the town of Prosperity has been
swept away, but as the wires are down
nothing can be learned.
= A special from Camden states that the
cyclone struck house there, killing
Mrs. Eastorling, who was in the act OF
giving medicine 70 hor step-daughter.
The bed the sick child was on was torn
to pieces and the mother killed, while
the child, though thrown into the yard,
escaped without the slightest injury.
HIGH WATER AT CINCINNATI.
CINCINNATI, March 24.-At 10 o'clock
this morning the Ohio river measured
at the rate of two inches an hour. Even
with no moro rain a sixty-foot river
seems inevitable, but with the cloudy
sky and the mild temperature the
outlook for more rain puts a most Sc
riouS aspect on affairs along this mighty
stream. The most active work Is in
progress to remove goods from the mar
row strip OF the river front which is sub
ject 10 overflow. Cellars have already
been vacated, and first floors in many
! houses will soon be invaded by the flood.
| Many families in the tenement houses
| and cottages along the river front will
be compelled to go into upper stories or
vacate their quarters entirely. All the
railroads except the Chesapeake Il Ohio
and the Kentucky Central have been
compelled to abandon the Central
Union Depot, and to establish tempo
rary depots at points which can be
reached. Mill Creek valley is again a
/ lake; and for the second time the
gardeners find their spring work de-
stroyed by the water Railroad freight
traffic is greatly interrupted, and on
some roads must soon cease within the
city limits.
Covington and Newport are cut of
from the city now, SO far as street-car
/ traffic is concerned. The ferries also
are obliged to stop because they can not
/ find landing points. Newport suffers
more than any other suburb by floods
| Quite large district is already flooded
/ and residents are compelled to vacate
/ their houses.
! The casualty list began TO be made up
/ Sunday when two men and boy wore
I drowned back OF Covington by the cap
siz ns of skin. They were John
X, Peter McGinnis and William Kin
nsy.
The river is rising at ali points below
| Pittsburgh. There is a modicum OF
satisfaction in the fact that tie Kan
awaha river is falling both at Hinton
and AZ Charleston, bat the Little
/ KanswhaA river is higher than ever
/ known. Dispatches from Pittsburgh
state that the damage from food is