Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-07-26
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From All Quarters.
TEE COUNTRY SWBLqBRS
Thermometers Range From
go to ITO Degrees.
HOUSES UaROOFED IN PHIL lDELpHIi
Railroad Shops Blown Down
by the Storm.
Bay CITY, MICHIGAN, IS IN ASHES.
$1,0OO,OOO Worth of Prop
erty Destroyed.
Bay CITY, MICHIGAN, is IN ASHES.
TRAIL OF UNRooFED HoUsEs

A Storm Sweeps Over Philadelphia.
| Tearing Down Houses-The Repair
Shop ofthe Philadelphia and Read.
Ing Road Blown Down The One
Hundred and Twenty Men Escape
Under Trucks-The Damage on This
Building s5O,OOO-Fity Buildings
Unroofed Roof of Catholic
Church Destroyed.
PHILADELPHIA, July 25.-At II 80 q. m,
the Thermometer at the signal Office regis
tered 81. Just before noon q violent thun-
der storm broke over the city, and in fifteen
minutes the mercury had been driven down
to 81. The duration of the storm WAS
not above forty minutes, but in that time
it did nearly 100000 worth of damage.
The southern section of the city escaped
with heavy downfall of rain, but wide
swath of demolished and roofess houses
marked the path of the storm iE the north
ern section. There the rain and lightning
were accompanied by heavy wind. At
Twenty-ninth and York streets row of
twenty-five three-story houses in the
course of construction were levelled to the
ground. A two-story stone stable at
Thirty fourth and Harold streets met the
same fate. The storm advanced eastward
over the city, leaving trail of unroofed
houses in its wake until it struck the great
manufacturing districts of Kensington and
Richmond Here its greatest fury was
vented. The tall mill buildings furnished
a good mark, and a score of them were
stripped of their roofs. At Ridge avenue
and Gaul street five small houses were al
most destroyed. The roof of the North
Pennsylvania railroad station at American
and Berks streets was blown off and with
it went over hundred wires of the Phila-
delphia and Reading Telegraph company.
The state service of the telegraph companies
was badly crippled, and it was several
hours before they got any of the fallen
wires in working order. The roof CT the
Catholic church of the Nativity at Allie
ghany avenue and Belgrade street was rip
ped off. At Clearfield street wharf one of
the repair shops of the Philadelphia and
Reading road was located. The building
was 400 feet long, 70 feet wide and 90 feet
high. The one hundred and twenty men
employed in it were eating their dinner.
AS the wind struck the exposed side of
the structure it began to sway. A man
cried out: 1.-THE building is falling! Under
the trucks, boys"
4ue ueu nhu Darely tl1ne TO follow the
advice when with crash the mass of brick
and wood that formed the building fell.
With the exception of six men who were
somewhat cut and bruised by flying bricks
all the men escaped uninjured. The cars
beneath which they TOOK refuge were re-
duced almost to kindling wood. There
were seventy cars in the building and the |
loss upon them and the struc-
ture itself is estimated at $4,000.
In addition to the above damage
nearly fifty dwellings were unroofed and |
partly demolished. The suburban Sec
tons of the city also suffered heavily. At |
Manayunk three mills and fifteen dwell |
ings were unroofed. After the storm the |
GOODNESS that had come with it passed and /
the mecury and humidity rose together. |
At o'clock the thermometer marked SO |
degrees, the highest of the summer, and |
the humidity was 80 per cent. Tonight |
the thermometer marked SO and the hu- |
nudity g.. There were no cases of sun
stroke.
AN ENTIRE FAMILY KILLED BY A CLOUD
BURST.
WHEELING, w. Va, July 25.-A severe
storm passed over this portion of the