Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
Cyclones and Floods DemOlish Hun
dreds of Thousands of Dollars
Worth OF Property.
Family of Nine Killed and Many
More Perish or Are
Missing.
Lightning Does Fearful WOrk-BOd-
les of Victims Being
Found.

PHILADELPHIA, July 25.-Just before
noon today terrific thunder and rain
storm broke over this section, 1t lasted
less than an hour, but in that time did
$500, 900 worth of damage. 1t was most
severe In the northern part of the city.
At Twenty-ffth and York streets row
of twenty-five brick buildings in course
OF construction were demolished. The
storm went eastward over the city, leaving
a wide swath of unroofed houses until it
reached the manufacturing districts |
Kensington and Richmond. Here its
greatest fury was vented on a score of tai
mill buildings, they being stripped of
their roofs.
The roof of the North Pennsylvania
railway 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 Catholic church of Ma
tivity was ripped off.
At Clear6eld street where the repair
shop of the Philadelphia x Reading road,
four hundred feet long and seventy feet
wide was completely demolished, the men
having narrow escape, six of them being
painfully cut and bruised by flying debris.
The loss on this structure and contents is
$4,000.
In addition nearly fifty dwelling houses
in the two districts were unroofed and
partly demolished.
Suburban sections of Erie also suffered
severely, three mills and fifteen dwellings
being rnroofed at Mrnayunk
After the storm was over the mercury
rose to 81 and the humidity being excess
sive the heat was very oppressive.
Notwithstanding, however, there were
but few prostrations.
WHEELING, w. Va, July ga
severe storm which passed over this por-
tien of the country last night was disas-
trous in its results.
A few miles south of Wheeling an entire
family of nine persons are reported to
have been swept away by the sudden food
following a cloudburst.
The family consisted OF William Doty
and wife, three children, Dotys father
and mother, Mrs. Doty's mother and
servant girl.
The house was situated in a ravine and
was swept away by the torrent. Not one
Of the sleeping occupants was left TO tell
the tale.
The first known Of the disaster was the
finding of the body of the servant girl this
morning in the yard of neifhbor some
distance below.
1t is also reported that the bodies of
Doty and the children had been found at
the mouth Of the creek which empties in
to the Ohio river.
Another house was swept away by the
same torrent, but all the occupants are be-
lieved to have escaped.
At Proctor, on the Ohio river railroad,
long trestIe was washed out and a
freight train was wrecked and Two of the
crew badly injured.
At Parkersburg today another storm
played havoc with the state encampment
of the militia.
The stable of Shattuck's stock farm was
struck by lightning and several blooded
horses killed
AsBURY PARK, N. j., July 25.-A
small cyclone swept over Asbury Park and
Ocean Grove this afternoon. Rain fell in
torrents, accompanied DO thunder and
lightning, and much damage was done.
A stage containing VIM. Morris was
blown over and Morris was badly cut and
bruised
Several buildings were struck by light
ming.
One boat run into the Ross bathing es-
tablishment, stunning the inmates. Miss
Lizzie Bynum is in a critical condition
and Mrs. Joel Clayton is still uncon-
scious.
Some barns were struck bp lightning
and destroyed by fire.