The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-06-04


house four miles from Independence, Kansas,
was wrecked by "twister," on Tuesday, and four
year old child was crushed to death in the ruins
The Maaritims Hurricane.
Last week we published an account of the storm
the Island of Mauritius, the 29th of April.
Following the details received on May 81
The signals from the mountain observatory ON the
day of the great storm were TO the effect that no
high winds were TO be expected The wind was
from the northwest, and in Manritus hurricanes
seldom come from that direction. AT about noon
the light wind suddenly increased and the sky
darkened as if by magic The people in Port Louis
heard furious kissing and the swapping of trees.
moment later the storm was upon the city,
whiring objects from the streets, crushing or lifting
fragile buildings and ripping of roofs of the more
substantial structures People who were outdoors
were thrown to the ground or pinned against
buildings by the strength of the wind Windows
and doors were pushed in and long rows of trees
snapped off and laid fiat in the streets.
The storm ragged undated for an hour and half
and then ceased as suddenly as il had come The
sun shone, and people began to leave their houses
and look over the scene of ruin. They found the
sea far up in the city; waves beating against
the walls of buildings formerly well back from the
Shore and structur es that had stood few feet
from the docks were either gone or were mere
wrecks. The Post Office the Custom House, and
the Oriental Hotel were in the midst of the flood.
On the roofs were dozens OF persons who had been
driven from the lower floors by the sweep of the
water through the buildings. While preparing for
the rescue the people of Port Louis, without mo-
ment's warning, found themselves enveloped by
another storm, which burst upon them from the
southwest with stunning force. The wind came at
the rate of III miles an hour and showed pressure
ofseventy-three pounds to the square foot.
The second storm broke at 3 O'Clock and lasted
until 8. 1t cut its way through the upper part of
tine city. leaving the other quarters untouched.
The streets which felt the full force of the wind
were hattened as If struck by giant hammer. St |
Georges rampant was levelled. Houses and shops
were piled together and then blown to the ground.
There was no time for the inhabitants to escape
from the buildings even TO start for the cellars.
A single deadly blast leveled La Bourdournais |
street. and the groups of pedestrians were crushed
in heaps under the debris.
After two hours the hurricane stopped abruptly, |
and people from the lower quarter hurried to the |
scene of death and ruin 10 begin the work of |
rescne. The number of wounded was not estmat |
ed. Hardly soul in the whole upper part of the |
city escaped uninjured. The total number of dead |
was about 1900
In the country the storm wrecked many Indian |
sugar houses and several villages. The loss of life
outside of Port Louis is thought to have been abont
500.
The well known military school at Media,
Pa, has been closed on account of judgments /
filed against it.
Intense heat has prevailed at Berlin, Ger !
many, for several days this week and several |
sunstrokes have occurred.
William l.. Wright, Deputy Prosecutor at
Rockville, Indiana, has been arrested for
To ba Of
GOO.
The first car of a movement of seven thou.
sand carloads of Georgia melons was shipped |
June from Pelham, station on the Savan-
nah, Florida and Western Railroad destined
for Chicago.
Miss Maud Morgan, said to be the pioneer
woman reporter in the United States, died on
Wednesday in Jersey City. She was attached
to the New York Times as a cattle market
reporter.
On June Is Roanoke, Va, will celebrate
its tenth anniversary by trades and military
display which will be the largest ever seen in
southwestern Virginia. Excursion rates on
all railroads indicate large attendance from
nearly every section of the country.
When Mr. Charles Block opened the grave
of his wife, in Lakewood Cemetery, at Mon
tezuma, Iowa, ON Tuesday, he found the coffin
to solid stone. 1t took FIVE men to lift the
coffin ont of the grave The womau's flesh
was fair and her hair black and glossy as in
life. A bunch of roses in her hand had be-
come solid stone The body had been buried
eight years.
Miss Lillian Norfolk, aged % years, dangh
ter of DIR. George FL. Norfolk of Flatbush,
n Y, was found dead in the bath tub at her
house on Tuesday morning. There are two
theories, one that she committed suicide, and
the other that she had been drinking heavily
and had fallen into the tub, being strangled
to death by her hair, which caught in the
faucet and wound around her throat. Il is
said that she was disappointed in love.
Heck Willis, colored, was hanged at Camp
bellsyille, Kentucky, on Tuesday morning, by
a mob from Adair county. The negro was
charged with attempted rape, had been taken
40 miles away By the officers and put in Jail at
Lebanon for safe keeping. The mob took
him from Jail and intended to hang him where
the crime was committed but daylight over
took them and they hung him at Campbells-
vile.
General R. d. Mussey died at his residence,
in Washington, d. c., on Sunday, aged 81
years. Right Rev. P. T. O'Reiily, Bishop of
the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield,
Massachusetts, died on Saturday in the 59th
year of his age; he was native of Ireland,
but came to this country in his l4th year, and
was ordained priest in Boston in 1857. Rev.
j. n Stansbnry, Dean Of the Episcopal Dies
eese of Newark, New Jersey, died on Saiurs
day; he was one of the founders of st. Bar
nabas's Hospital, and author of several re-
ligious works. Gen. Ralph p. auckland died
in Fremont, Ohio, on Friday evening of last
week, aged 80 years. In 1861 he organized
the Seventy second Ohio Regiment, and was
its Colonel; he was afterwards placed by
General Sherman in command Of the Fourth
Brigade ofthe Army of the Tennessee; Gen.
Buckland was a Representative in the Thirty
ninth Congress- A. w. Armour, one of the
chief stockholders of the Armour Packing
Co, died on Saturday last.