The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-07-16
SEVERE STORM In OHIO.
Cincinnati Visited by FOrty-Two- Mile-an-
Hour Gsle-SeveIal Persons Hurt.

CINCINNATI, July 15.-At 500 O'Clock
this afternoon q wind which registered
forty two miles an hour by the United
this city. If came from the west and was
accompanied by rain which fell to the
depth of two-fifths of an inch during the
time the storm lasted, which was
not over fifteen minutes. The
full extent of the damage done
cannot be learned at this hour. 1t was no
tornado. 1t blow straight from west to
east and kept up steadily during quarter
of an hour. carrying the rain along in hor-
Izontal sheets, peeling tin roofs off innum-
erable buildings. carrying of roofs bodily
from many houses and playing havoc gen.
orally with shade trees. signs fences and
plate glass Windows
The works for the show called "a Night
in Pekin," on the old base ball grounds on
fence of the Cincinnati baseball grounds
was blown down. and part of 1t was hurled
against q passing street car, injuring
several passengers more or less seriously.
William +. Ward, senior proprietor of the
Architectural lrOn-wOrks. at No. 495 Cen
trail avenue, was standing on the sidewalk
when the roof of his factory was blown of.
Bricks detached from the building were
hurled to the sidewalk. One struck Mr..
Ward on the head. fraoturing his skull. 1t
is feared his injuries are fatal. Half dOz-
en- other houses on Central avenue, In the
same vicinity. were unroofed. On Walnut
street, near Twelfth, the roof of Myers's
veterinary hospital was torn Oft and
hurled bodily against the roof of the
Bunner Brewing Company, on Canal, near
Walnut, taking that roof Oft also.
At the river landing the great chains
holding the New Orleans wharf boat, be-
side which was the steamer Mary Houston,
full of passengers ready to starr. were
snapped like yarn thread, and the boat
blown nearly half mile up the stream to
the Newport bridge.
At Hamilton, twenty-five miles north Of
here. the storm came at about the same
hour as it did here. 1t TOOK Oft half the
roof of Snider's Sons wood-pulp mill blew
down the west wall of it and injured
five workmen-One very badly, one quite
seriously and the other three painfully, but
not dangerously. 1t blew down four iron
smoke-stacks OF the Sniders Sons pulp
and paper mills; also the smoke-stacks of
the Niles rool-works and Black * Claw
sons factory In Hamilton. 1t also demoi-
ished the smoke e-stack of Snider's Sons pa
per-mils at Fairview, mile north of Ham,
ilton.
There were numerous narrow escapes
during the storm. Ernest West was blown
quite distance from the top of q lumber
pile Oh West Liberty street and severely
hurt A tree fell across the horses at
tached to o street car. and killed
one horse. gentlemen crossing the sus-
pension bridge in a street car saw two
Covington women clinging for dear life TO
q cable. their clothing torn to shreds bv the
wind. He rescued them and brought them
over to Cincinnati. Four circuits of the
fire-alarm wires were prostrnted. All the
telephone wires on Harrison avenue aud in
Farmount and Lick Run are disabled. In
Covington and Newport the damage was
slight. At Reading. fifteen miles north of
here. the Union vinegar works was un-
rooted.