Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-04-10
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TWO INFANT BODIES FOUND.

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TWO infant BODIES FOUND.
The Work Of Our National
Lawmakers.
PENNSYLvANIA'ST TURN.
Heavy Rain In Western Pennsylvania
Swollen Streams - A Building Set
Ahre by LightninE-Brid9es Washed
Away-Railroad Trame Suspended
High Water Mt JOhnstown-Serlou
Cyclone In Ohio.
P1rTsBURe, Pa, April 9.-Western Penn
| syivania was visited by an unusual rain wind
and electric storm this morning. Great
damage was done and at least two lives were
lost. In this city number of houses were
struck by lightning and several persons stun
ned, but not seriously injured. The rain fell
in torrents for several hours, flooding cellars
and causing small streams to overflow. At
Elizabeth two children of George Beattie,
boy and girl, aged seven years, were drowned
on their way to school. While crossing a
| log over Lobb's Run the little girl fell into
| the water, and her brave little twin brother,
in trying to rescue her lost his life also.
At Indiana, Penn, bolt of lightning
struck the three story frame -four mill of
| Wegley & Wilson, and in half an hour the
building was burned to the ground. Loss
| SIS, 600.
In Westmoreland county great damage is
reported. For two hours the rain fell In
torrents and nearly all the streams over
| a <ho{v bopLa woahsoo owov hridOAa
| fences and everything that came in their
| way.
| At Penn Station, a number of families were
| compelled to vacate their houses and seek
shelter on high ground.
Up the Manor valley, the greatest damage
streams were carried away. The Manor Vail
| ley railroad at Claridge, its northern ter
minus, was badly damaged, fully three
hundred yards being washed away and traffic
entirely suspended.
In Greensourg the high school building
was struck by lightning and slightly dam
aged. In sections of the country the road
beds are nearly washed away, rendering
| travel dangerous and very difficult.
At Tyrone the Juniata is away over it's
banks, houses and lots are inundated and
people have been compelled to move to
higher ground.
| In Cambria county the rain storm was
| PARTICULARLY bcNoICs LILO SoA0AA"A6H AAsSH
and Stony creek are again on thigh" and
the lower portions of Johnstown are under
water. Several bridges have been washed
away and operations suspended at the mills
| situated along the banks of these streams.
| At O'Clock tonight the water was two
feet deep around the telegraph offices here.
| THE STORM IN OHIO.
| CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 9.-Later reports
from Norwalk, Huron county, says that the
damage by last nights Cyclone will amount
to about So, O0O., Besides Dora NJ. Palmer,
who was killed in the collapse of the UNI.
brella factory, no other fatality Is reported
there Reuben Emerson and q Miss Coma
dine are believed to have received serious
| internal injuries, however, and may die. At
| Townsend and Collins the storm did more
damage than in Norwalk. At Collins, Mrs.
| Hoff and daughter received what are thought
to be fatal injuries. Arthur Bly, had three
ribs broken and his wife's arm was shat
tered. Several members of the Mead fami-
", L. D. Vining and wife and Mrs. Adam
| Kyle received serious injuries. About TWEEN
| ty houses, two sawmills, cheese factory and
| a dozen barns were demolished, trees blown
down and fences destroyed. The storm con.
tipued for seven hours and was the worst that
| ever visited that section.
FORMED BY CLOUDS.
AKRON, O., April 1.-TWO clouds came
together Tuesday evening about two miles
northwest of Sharon, Medina county. They
soon began to revolve in tornado fashion aud
to bear down upon the village. The torna-
dos progress was marked by roaring and
| grinding sounds. In ten minutes 1t had
levelled everything in its track, over six
miles of farm land, for width of thirty rods.
demolished dozens of buildings, killed one
man, fatally injured q man and woman and
seriously Injured several others.
FORESTS MOVED DOWN.
Forests in which were trees two feet In
diameter were cut down as If corn stalks.
The first building caught up was the barn
of James Hartman, northwest OF Sharon: 1t
landed several rods away and was torn into
kindllng. Then in turn were taken the house
and barn of Uriah Woerster, the house and
barn of Isaac Brown and Frank Lecroix,
the barns of Richard Brown and O. Crane.
These are located just north of Sharon.
Then after moving down q mile or 90 OF
timber land and fences the swirling
the farm of Christian Wall, east of
Centre. The large barn was torn into little
pieces, which were strewn along over mile.
The large two story house of Reasonable
Wall was blown from its foundation and
tipped over on Its eide, and q horse barn
near by was demolished. The bank barn of
Matthew Bromley, just across the road was
then given q whirl. Mr.. Bromley was caught
up and deposited several rods away, badly
crushed. He was unconscious to-day and
cannot recover. His son landed on the con-
tents of hay NOW.
BURNED WITH ITS CONTENTS.
The house or Frank Bromley, quarter of 6
mile farther on, was blown several rods from
its foundation, and taking fire, was burned
r up with all its contents. The family escaped
: by taking refuge in the cellar. An orchard
of apple trees back of the house was moved
clean. Just q quarter of mile south eas
of Bromley's house was that of Hugh Franks
Here destruction was most complete not 9
stick of timbsr that q man could not easily
carry being left. About q hundred and ftty
feet from It's foundation Mr.. Franks dsat
body was found with the brains oozing from
and his legs and arms broken. In Glove
field, twenty rods from the house, lay Mrs
Franks unconscious, with her collar BON
1 and several ribs broken and serious interna
> injuries. She is not expected to survive tn
day. The family dog lay dead beside her
Z About $500 in paper money and silver tina
was in the house was strewn over the nelo
o for half mile. Nearly half of 1t was found
At the end of six mile sweep through
Sharon the tornado evidently rose high Il
the air and jumping over the southern par
of this city dropped down upon Springfield
township, just southeast of Akron.
wH1RLED FROM IT'S FOUNDATIONS.
The house of Scott Sweitzer was whirle
from It's foundations and scattered over to
acre lot Sweitzer, who had laughed at hi
wife's fear for going to the cellar with he
baby, was pitched down the cellsrway head
long and the family escaped injury. A pc
q full of pigs were hurled to their death. {
e. two carriages in the barn only few spoke
;, could be found. AS Frederick Harwicks WI
tn trying to unhiteh his horse at 6:45 when til
tornado came on he was blown away wit
the horse and wagon and received serious II
juries. Daniel Brown owned five acres I
timber, ON which not a tree was left stan'
ing. George Wise's ten-acre forest was oil
moved down. The houses Of Robert Call
y han, John Robertson, Elias Kuntz and Z
Funk were riddled and their barns blow
=, away. The storm srailed along into Sta,
county, leaving the debris scattered over
stretch Of fifteen miles. The loss amour
~. to tens of thousands.