Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-05-31
AN EASTERN STORM
Western Pennsylvania Experiences
an Electrical Storm.
The Heavy Wind and Rain Accom-.
panying IL Does Much Damage
Several Persons Killed.

PITTsBURa, May ga severe rair
and electrical storm passed over a large
section Of western Pennsylvania, doing
great damage to property and resulting
in the loss OF several lives. In the cas-
end OF this city houses we're blown
down, trees uprooted and small build
ings demolished. A house on Black
Horse hill, occupied by John Miller,
was lifted bodily from It's foundation
and blown 10 a considerable distance.
The family escaped with slight bruises.
AT least a score OF other houses in the
vicinity were unroofed. A large mum
Der Of persons received slight injuries,
but as far as known there we're no fatal.
tiles.
At McKeesport hailstones as large as
walnuts fell, while the rain poured down
in sheets for a half hour. Lightning
struck several buildings and consider
able damage was done. The greatest
injury was done by water, which came
down Whites Hollow in stresm sew
enty-five feet wide. The water was five
feet deep on Fifth venue and a num-
Der of houses below the grade were sub
merged.
At Greenburg, William Frye, a gar
dener at st. ~Josoph's academy, was
killed by lightning. The heavy rains
caused great damage in the low lands in
the vicinity. Lightning struck a num-
Der OF fine buildings, doing great dam
age in every instance.
Near Washington, Pa, lightning
struck a derrick on the Miller farm,
SCATTERING it and killing William Fur
man, seriously injuring William Gates
and stunning two others.
In Fayette county the rainfall was
extensive and did much damage to rail-
roads. A heavy landslide occurred at
Oakdale, as it was being cleared away a
still heavier n came down, blocking
both tracks. The food in Mouse creek
carried away many buildings.
At Layton station an immense amount
OF mud, rocks and trees came down on
the Baltimore and Ohio tracks. The
rain there amounted almost to a cloud.
burst.
At Scottdale the storm was particu.
larly destructive. The cellars along all
the principal streets are nearly filled
with water and goods in stores satur-
ated. The creek is rising steadily and
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dale and Fairchance endangered.
A dispatch from Oil City, Pa, says:
Heavy rains have fallen almost steadily
since last midnight and are raising the
water in the river and creek TO the
highest point since 1853. On account OF
washouts there are are no railroad com
munications with Buffalo or Warren.
The ground floors OF the lower portion
OF the town are flooded.
At Wheeling, w. Va, two and one
half inches of rain fell in twenty min.
utes, deluging the streets and flooding
a number of business houses. There
are apprehensions Of a big rise in the
river. In Pittsburg the heavy rain is
likely to swell the river to flood proper
tions.
A special from Erie, Pa, says: Long
continued rains have caused q great
deal of trouble on the railroads in this
section of the state, and there were
many ~washouts. A west bound freight
on the Nickel Plate went through a
bridge near Crayton. Three trainmen
were severely injured. twenty-five
cars went down into the food.