The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-26
STORMS IN THE EAST.
Much Damage at Philadelphia-Loss Of
Life in West Virginia.

PHILADELPHIA, July 25.-Just before
noon today terrific thunder and wind
storm broke over this section. 1t lasted
less than an hour, but in that time did
$20O,OO worth of damage. 1t was Sc
we're in the northern part of the
city. At Twenty-ninth and York
streets row of twenty-five three
story buildings in course of construction
were demolished. The storm advanced
eastward over the city, leaving wide
swath of unroofed houses, until it reached
the manufacturing districts of Ken
sington and Richmond. Here
the greatest fury was vented,
a score of tall mill buildings being stripped
of their roofs. The roof of the North
Pennsylvania station, at American and
Berks streets, was blown off, and with it
went over hundred telegraph wires
This badly crippled the telegraph
service for hours. The roof of the Catho-
lie Church of the Nativity was ripped off
At Clearheld street wharf the repair shop
of the Philadelphia and Reading road,
400 feet long and seventy feet wide,
was completely demolished, the men
having narrow escapes, six of them being
painfully cut and bruised by flying debris.
$4,000
In addition, nearly fifty dwelling houses
in the dstric: were unroofed and partly
demolished. Suburban sections of the
city also suffered severely, three
mills and fifteen dwellings, being un-
rooted at Manayunk. After the storm W as
over the mercury rose to 81 degrees, the
humidity being excessive and the heat
,Is,s,
ever there were but few prostrations.
WHEELING, w. Va, July 25.-A severe
storm, which passed over this portion of
the country last night, was disastrous in
its results. In Marshall county "a few miles
south of Wheeling, an entire family of
nine persons is reported to have been
swept away by a flood following 4 cloud
burst. The family consisted of William
Doty and five of their children, Doty's
father and mother. Mrs. Doty's mother
and a servant girl. The house was situ-
ated in a ravine and was swept away by
the torrent. Not one of tie sleep
ing occupants was left 20 tell the tale.
The first known OF the disaster was
finding of the body of servant girl in the
yard of a neighbor some distance below
this morning. 1t is also reported that the
bodies of Doty and children have been
found at the mouth of a creek which
empties into the Ohio river. Another
house was swept away by the same tor
rent, but all the occupants are believed to
have escaped. At Proctor, on the Ohio
River railroad long trestle was washed
out and freight train wrecked. Two of
the crew were badly injured. At Parkers-
burg today another storm played havoc
with the state encampment of the militia.
The stable of the Shattuck stock farm was
struck by lightning and several blooded
horses were killed.
CLEVELAND. July 25-The news of last
nights storm is coming in. At Barberton.
near Akron, part of the Nation
al Sewer Pipe Company's great plant
was blown down. James Peterson was
killed and others injured. At Salineyille
the lightning struck the house of John
George. instantly killing his wife At Kent
considerable damage vas done by the wind.
In this city the damage by bursting
sewers and washogts in the streets
amounts to thousands of dollars. The
heat OF today was intense, and several
persons were Frustrated.