Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-07-10
TERRIBLE STORMS
Great Damage Done to Property, al
Many Lives Reported Lost.

Great Damage Done to Property, and
Many Lives Reported Lost.
New YORK, July 9th.-Reports from the
interior of this State from the New Eng
land States and Virginia, Pennsylvania
and Ohio, and also in the Southwestern
States, are that the intense heat has been
followed by severe and damaging storms
of wind and rain. Many houses along
Lake Champlain were injured. Several
lives were lost at Plattsburg in this State
Debris covered the streets. In Western
Pennsylvania and Ohio roads were block
AIDED by trees which were blown down in
every direction. At Cleveland, Ohio,
freight cars were overturned on the rail-
roads and the great BOOSTING machines at
the ore docks were completely destroyed.
Many houses were badly damaged and the
losses will aggregate 100000 At Win
throp, Maine, 1.-THE thunder and lightning
were incessant for hours, and heavy gale
was blowing last night. A severe down.
pour did damage to the Custom house at
New Orleans
The manager of the Hotel Champlain al
Blurf Point, Lake Champlain, telegraphs
to the Associated Press that reports of the
storm ravsges at the Hotel Champlain are
very much exaggerated. The damage will
not exceed $500. G.. S. Griffin, of Buffalo,
n. Y, was drowned from the capsizing of q
boat.
RousE's POINT IN ", July 9th.-At 8
P. NJ. yesterday this place was visited by
the worst wind and hail storm ever known,
demollshing houses and trees and upsetting
things in general A few moments before
the storm, which came without warning,
the steam yacht Little Nellie left for the
Vermont side When one mile out the
storm struck her and she went down.
Captain George Clarke. his son and eng-
neer Hall were drowned. 1t is feared that
there were other casualties, as several fish
iDg parties were on the lake and they have
not yet put in an appearance.
WHITE HALL IN. Y J, July 9ih.-The
cyclone did considerable damage at Platls
burgh last night. No details have been re.
ceived YET, as the telegraphic communities.
ton is entirely cut off.
IN VERMONT.
VEReEHYEs (Vt), July 9th.-A terrific
wind, rain and thunder storm passed over
Nergennes last night, doiog great damage
At Balls Bluff, n. Y, nine men are re-
ported drowned in the storm. The damage
is very large.
LEWISTON (Me(, July Carbohydrates
from Somerset, Oxford Franklin and
Waldo counties indicate that last evening
storm was one of the most disastrous that
ever visited Maine. There is great damage
to property, but fortunately few casualties.
IN OHIO.
CLEVELAND. July 9th.-The wiud.storm
which swept over the city last evening was
the most severe ever experienced The
advance of the storm seemed 10 be in q
number of sharp quick gusts that wrecked
cbimDeys, blew down trees aud sent every.
thing movable through the air Its coming
was shown by cloud of dust one hundred
feet high which obscured the sun and
made the streets as dark as midnight Not
single object could be discerned at dis
tance of fifty feet The fine dust filled the
eyes and sifted into the clothing, and
breathing 20 these or the streets was i'm
possible without handkerchief pressed TO
the nostriis. Then came the rain in rush.
ing, swirling sheets. that beat down many
plants and caused exceedingly heavy loss
to the crops. IN every part of the city large
trees were uprooted.
The damage on the ore docks along the
old river bed will amount at least to $50
0o6. The telegraph and telephone COM
panies lost a number of wires, while the
service of the Fire and Police Departments
were nearly wrecked. Half dozen yachts
inside the breakwater were blown adrift.
Several houses in course of erection were
SO badly twisted that it will be necessary
to rebuild them.