Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-05-29
An Electrical Storm Does Much DAM
age in the East.
Lives Lost and Buildings Demolished
in Few Moments.
Rain and Hail Fill In All the Gaps
Left Vacant.

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resulting in the loss of several lives. In
/ the east end of this city houses were blown
/ down, trees uprooted and small buildings
/ demolished A house on Black Horse hill,
occupied by John Miller, was lifted bodily
! from its foundation and blown a consider
! able distance. The family escaped with
slight bruises. AT least a score OF other
houses in the vicinity were nroofed. A
! large number of persons received slight
/ injuries but, as far as known, there We're
no fatalities.
At McKeesport hailstones as large as
walnuts fell, while rain poured down in
sheets for half an hour. Lightning struck
! feveral buildings and considerable damage
was done The greatest damage was done
! by water, which came down Whites Hol-
| low in a stream seventy-tve feet wide
The water was FIVE feet deep on Fifth av-
enue, and number of houses below grade
we're submerged
At Greensburg, VIM. Fry gardner at
! st. Joseph's academy was killed by light
ming The heavy rains caused great
damage in the low lands in the vicinity.
Lightning struck a number of fine build
ings doing great damage in every in
stance Near Washington Pa, lightning
struck derrick ON the Miller farm shat
tering it, killing VIM. Furman, seriously
injuring VIM. Gates and stunning two
| others.
In Fayette county the rain fall was ex-
tensive and did much damage to the rail
road A heavy land slide occurred at Oak
dale, and as it was being cleared away, a
! still heavier one came down, blocking
both tracks The food carried away many
buildings. At Layton Station an inn
mense amount of mud, rocks and trees.
came down on the Baltimore a Ohio
tracks. The rain there amounted almost
to cloud burst
At Scottdale the storm was particularly
destructive. The cellars along all the
! principal streets were nearly filed with
water and the goods in the stores were
saturated The creek is rising steadily
and the safety of the bridges between
Scottdale and Faircbance is endangered,
A dispatch from Oil City, Pa, says
Heavy rain fell almost steadily since mid
night, raising the water in the river and
creek to the highest point since 1888. On
account of the washouts there Is no rail
road communication with Buffalo or War
rem. Ground floors in the lower portion
of town are flooded.
At Wheeling, West Virginia two and
one half inches of rain fell IN twenty min.
utes deiuging the streets and flooding
number Of business houses. There are
apprehensions Of big rise in the river.
In Pittsburg the heavy rain is likely to
swell the rivers to flood proportions
ALLIANCE, O., May % George Pater-
son, wife and two children, Of Salineville,
were killed by lighting while standing
under tree during the storm this after
noon.
ERIE, Pa, May 23.-The long con
tinued rains have caused a great deal OF
trouble on the railroads in this section OF
the state, and today there were many wash
outs. The west bound freight on the
Nickle Plate went through bridge near
Crayton Three train men were severely
injured Twenty-Five cars went down into
the flood.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, May o3-A rain
storm, much in the nature Of q cloud
burst, swept over northwestern Pennsyl-
vauia this morning, doing great damage.
! AT CORY the streets were converted INTO
rivers, ia some places two feet feet, tear
ingup sewers and washing out roads. The
railroad yards are completely inundated.
! The merchants also sustained heavy losses
| The valley from Cory to lryington, dis
lance of twenty miles, Is complete lake
Of water from one to three miles In width.
The loss will probably reach 100000 orr
more The public highways IN the sur
rounding country are nearly Impossible.
! At Meadville, the lightning struck several
/ buildings, but none were severely
! 4 -, a. 10 Il an III
extensive damage resulted in the lower
portion of the city from the rapid rising
French creek Three bridges slaugh-
ter house and numerous small buildings
and sidewalks were swept away Reports
all directions indicate that the damage IN
this vicinity was very heavy The rail
roads also suffered from washouts.
JomEr, Ill.,, May %. "A Terri fc thun-
der and rain storm visited tins section
last night The rain fell in torrents and
reports from outlying suburbs are that
there was a cyclone on the west side and
that a couple of residences were blown
down with no serious injury to the IN
mates The storm took b course directly
toward the massive building OF the
Joliet penitentiary, bat no damage was
done
OTTAWA. Ill., May 23 "A terrific wind
storm accompanied by sheets eff lightning
and rain, swept up the Illinois valley
Hast evening at aboat z O'Clock Great
tree5 we're twisted and blown down and
considerable damage was done TO property
ID the city.
HAMuoND. Ind. May % A cyclone
swept through here hast evening at 6l5
doing much damage The east wing u
the safe and lock works was demolished
and the building Of the team brick yard
unroofed.
LooANspoEr. Ind. Nav ga tele-
phone message received from Marion. Ind,
say. the flint glass works at that place
we're struck by lightning last night and de-
ytroyed by the fire that followed The
loss is about 100000.
BAPTIST CONVENTIONS.
Average Number Of Converts During the
I aaf Forty Years large.