The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23
At Home and ABROAD.
The Latest News by Telegraph
and Cable.
& Resume of the Havoc Wrought
by the Great Storm.

Dy the Great Storm.
Many persons were killed during the re-
.ent storm, and an enormous amount OF
property was destroyed in New York, Maine,
Vermont, Michigan, Pennsylvania and In
LLAMA. The Lake Champlain Hotel, at Bluff
Point, sustained about $4,000 worth of dam
age.
During the storm on Lake Champlain the
steam-yacht Nellie foundered at Rouse's
Point, and Captain George Clark, his son
and one Hill, the engineer, were drowned.
At the Hotel Champlain a man who was
out in small boat lost his life.
A number of narrow escapes but no fatal
tiles are reported from other points.
A valet named Vallay was out on the lake
fishing when the storm struck him, overturn-
ing his boat and drowning him. A man
named Ryan had one leg and one arm broken
icehouses are total wrecks. Camp 1dlewild,
on Grand ISLE was demolished and its occu-
pants narrowly escaped.
Crews of men are busy clearing away the
wrecks of the nights storm at Winthrop,
Me. The damage will be more extensive
than first reported. Mrs. Palena B. Shaw,
injured by the falling church belfry,
Harvey Foster, akssaa-sixtT.. of Walden,
Vt, was instantly killed in c9e> STORM.
While shutting the barn door the wind bie"'
the door in his face, striking his temple.
A tornado swept over Waldo County, NE.
Itwas most violent at Thorndike, Me-, where
the railroad station was moved from its
foundation and other buildings damaged.
The water tank was blown on the track, and
a man named Leonard had his leg broken.
The bark Carib was blown from her moor
ings but was saved uninJured.
a terrific wind, rain and thunder storm
passed over Vergenres, VT, doing great
damage Hundreds OF shade trees were
blown down, the new shed OF the
Shade Roller Company was destroyed,
the lumber shed OF Smith q
Ketcham ruined, the chimueys on the
Stevens House blown off and tne buildings
badly damaged, II. T. RothrS windmill was
leveled.
One hundred barns in Maine are reported
DESTROYED and damaged by the storm.
A wind-storm, one of the most severe on
the season, swept over Central and Western
Indiana. The wind was very strong and
considerable damage was done to property
and crops.
Michigan was visited by a terrific westerly
gale lasting from 10 o'clock until midnight.
Rain fell in torrents and lightning flashed
necessarily. A dock 400 feet in length be-
longing to an ice company was torn away at
Mackinaw City, and several other local mis-
haps occurred.
Destructive Drouth in the Southwest.
A dispatch from Topeka, Kan, says:
Gall through New Mexico, Arizona, some
parts of Colorado, and also in old Mexico no
rain has fallen for months, and thousands
upon thousands Of range cattle are lying
dead in the parched valleys, and thousands
more are dying for want of grass and water.
The extreme drouth Of this year in; tins
country has dried up the grass, and what IT.
tie water there is is so remote from the graz
ing districts that tae cattle cannot get to it.
Your correspondent, in riding over the
Arizona and New Mexico Railway, counted
one thousand of these dead cattle lying along
the track in distance of two miles, ard that
only on one side Of the road. Water ana
grass are also dried up to great extent IN
the Pecos Valley, in New Mexico, the Whole
valley being strewn with dead cattle. THESE
range cattle are being shipped to the kansas
ranches. where there is plenty of grass and
water. as fast as cars to transport them can
he obtained. The Atchison has every avaia-
BILE car in use carrying these cattle East"
Seven Hundred Persons Killed.
A most destructive cyclone has swept over
a portion of Arabia, resulting in an appalling
loss of life. Many buildings were destroyed
in Muscat and the inhabitants buried In the
ruins. 40.
The greatest damage was done in the
country districts, where whole hamlets were
swept away. Many plantations with the
farm houses were leveled to the ground and
the peasants killed in their frantic efforts &c
escape the fury Of the storm.
Survivors who are struggling into Mus
cat report the destruction complete IN the
path of the tornado, which extended IN
zigzae direction for a distance of forty
miles
At least 700 persons were killed, and thou:
sands were injured by flying timberS and
falling trees which were uprooted or TWISTED
off by tho force Of the wind.
Muscat is a seaport of Arabia, and has
population of 10000.
A Drowning Catastrophe in Japan.
At Osaka, Japan, fifty-nine people were
drowned during the launching OF new sail
ing vessel. The launching excited consider,
able interest, and about 250 people crowded
on board the boat The owner,
Mr.. King, however, became apprehensaVe
md ordered 100 OF them ashore. Wneh Cne
launch began it was ebb tide, and,: as the
ropes used in securing herwere't e'too Short the
vessel keeled. The people on. board lme
mediately rushed to the other side, which had
the effect of turning the vessel completely
over, and those on board were thrown into
the water. A terrible scenefollowed.: Those
on shore gave every assistance possible. but
their efforts were, generally rnavalilng
Fifty-fve bodies were recovered. About
twenty persons were more or Less injured.
Five Persons Killed in O Smash-up.
A fatal collision occurred on the Louisville
and Nashville. Railroad, forty miles south
of Birmingham, Ala, between the
regular passenger accommodation train
and an extra freight train. The
two engineers, the two firemen, both
colored, and white boy. age seventeen, were
killed and nine persons were injured. Both
engines were completely ruined. The con-
ductor Of the passenger train, whose dis
obedience of orders caused the disaster, fed
and has not yet been arrested.
His Entire Family Burned.
The family Of Mr.. Watson, consisting Of
his wife, their eight-year-old son and an
eighteen-months-ol infant, were burned to
death near Harmony, KY.
Mr.. Watson had been away from home,
and on his way back from the TOP. of a neigh