The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-16
Especial to the Press.1

ports of Trouble from All Over Maine.
Especial to the Press.]
BANGOR, Me-, June 15.-The cyclone
which struck eastern Maine Tuesday,
was probably the most severe ever known
here. The capsizing of the little steam
er Annie and the attendant loss of life
has cast gloom over the community.
Today, another body, that of Mrs. Jerry
Mcdonald, was found, and it is feared
there may be other victims as no one
know just how many were on the boat.
The damage at Maplewood Park, in
this city, is $4,000. The loss at Orono is
$4,000 or $4,000, and all through this sec
ton the losses aggregate many thou
sands of dollars. A loss of $4,000 by
fire at the American ice house, with the
cyclone, will make Tuesday remembered
as day unfortunate, by Hampden peo-
pie.
At Saltwater,
a bolt of lightning struck the chimney
in the store of Mr.. Granville B. Michaels
precipitating it onto the top of John J.
Quimby's store. The chimney, almost
without the loss of brick, went crash
ing through the roof, * sring hole large
enough to admit dozen men, smashing
lamps, store fixtures and goods, and
leaving Mr.. Quimbys store in perfect
mass of ruins. The damage amounts to
a considerable sum. Mr.. Quimby mad
recently remodelled his store. The
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windows of Mr.. Michaels's store were
broken in, and Mrs. Michaels was terri
bly, overcome.
The buildings on Main street. near
Bridge, owned by John Fox and occu-
pied as shop and storehouse, were lev
elled to the ground and entirely demol-
ished. Mr.. Fox had lately moved all of
his household effects to this shop, and
they are almost an entire loss. The
church chimney was blown down, and
two barns on the College road, one
owned by Mr. Spearing and the other by
Mr.. Pretto, were laid low. Many large
trees, of which the village felt proud,
were stricken.
AT Mariaville,
twenty-five miles east of Bangor, in Han
cock county, the hottest and hardest fire
the citizens ever had to fight broke out
A barn belonging to A. Fl. Buzzell & Son
was struck by lightning at about clock
during the heavy shower and in a short
time the flames had communicated fire
to two other barns. The large tannery
boarding house and the spool mill
owned by the same concern were next
ignited, soon burning beyond control.
The general store of James B. Kennison,
with nearly all the contents, next sue
cumbed to the fierce flames and it was
apparently but a moment before it was
laid in ruins. The last to catch was the
new blacksmith shop of Thomas O.
Hanscomb and that was burned flat.
The residence of MI. Hanscomb was in
imminent danger but by hard fighting by
the bucket brigade it was saved. Quite
an amount OF furniture was burned. In
one barn twenty tons OF hay. were de-
stroyed. The bridge near the tannery
was burned.
A Cyclone Visited Patten
in the early hours of Monday morning
and extended all along the Aroostook
road. Shade trees in Patten village were
practically destroyed. Daniel McDon-
ald's barn in Benedicta was blown down,
while miles of fences along the roads
were demolished. An immense balm of
Gilead tree near G. III. Merrills house
was blown out by the roots. The saddle
boards blew off the roof of Mr.. Crye's
house and passed with fearful force
through the window, just missing bed
in which two persons were sleeping. The
rain fall was very slight but the wind
was terrible. A house and barn in Mon
tague belonging to Mr.. Lancaster were
struck by lightning and consumed. The
hail at this place was the worst ever seen.
Some of the stones were q inches in di-
ameter.
At the pulp mill at Montague, 7sO
lights of glass were blown out and in the
mill at Hartland 800 lights We're broken.
The windows were all blown out of the
boarding house. A man named Jones
had new house nearly finished and one
side was blown in. A man who was
crossing the road was badly
Bruised and BATTERED by Hail
and narrowly escaped with his life.
Levant has suffered from nearly every
storm which has visited this region for
some years and its people are commenc-
ing to become discouraged. In yester-