The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-05-05
A TERRIBLE STORM.
1t Sweeps Over New Cork, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania.
WRECKS ON THE JERSEY SANDS.
Ohio Towns Inundated ~ EisiDg Rivers
-Dissstrous Results CT She South
Carolina xern ADO.

NEW York, May IA haaTy Tainstorm
last night and this morning passed of,
but reports from surrounding sections in.
dictate that It LETT an Unpleasant mark, the
whole territory north o. Eastern New
York having been dnepched by .
heavy rain and all the streams being
swollen above their banks. The storm
ragged through Pennsylvania, and the
town OF Shenandoah was greatly excited
by the discovery today of iarye cracks in
the dams situated about the Kelby Run
colliery. The people we're alarmed during
the forenoon and Immediately mmenced
to move their goods and He'd 70 the hills.
The collieries along the creek ordered
the men out and hoisted o., their mules.
The streams throughout the Schuylkill
coal region are much swollen, and it 10
feared that work xiii bave to cease at
many mines. In tbe Sas:nokin region
most of the collieries ceased work this
morning.
OFF Atlantic City. Il. j.. . thres-masted
schooner sank. Nothing IL known of the
fate OF the crew, although it il believed
that the men managed to rssch boat near
by. Trainmen OF the Ft.chburg road
report eleven bal tsradsIides and
AoaA WdSucGtS. on INC WAlcS 8IC
down and no trains haya been running
since midnight. Much apprehension is
felt along upper Deerheji valley on the
break of Newton's dam r.. i,eedsboro. A
t~o-masted schooner west ashore about
one-third of nsie north Of
Knobs life saving station, on
Blue island, today. Attempts at
rescue were futile. and eoon after tho
spars fell and with them feur men, who
are supposed to be all on The boat.
At Rutland, Pa, ardly aiwelling house
escaped injury, blinds, windows, CHM
neys and roofs being destroyed.
WINNIPEG, May 4 This RIVER banks are
full and the water IL still siaing. The river
front is submerged. South of here there
are several ice jams and large tracts of in
undated country. Farmers have left their
homes in many cases, tsSiag their stock
with them.
PORTSMOUTH o., May 1.-The food in
Scioto river has reached its limit. The
levee At Davis, miles above this city.
broke this morning, but enc extent of the
damage IS unknown.
BELLEToSrAINK. q, MAJ 4.-The break in
the banks OF the Levi stOn re servoir 10 under
control and. should no more rain fall or
no openings occur, it Is Eoped that the
worst 10 over ana the appalling danger
past. The greatest dafaage 90 far re-
ported WAS done in this eoanty on many
miles Of iowlands, crop. ard small build
ings being inundated. Ths loss to crops
and live stock has been excessive.
RALEIGH, n. G., Nav "A cyclone
struck the town of Oaft,rd, forty miles
south of this city. late yesterday after
noon, doing great damsgs in q swath 400
yards wide through ne town from
southwest to nor theasi. Frame houses
were blown down, briex ones unroofed
and lighter structures of oil kinds
destroyed. The town sss in total dark
ness. The storm was accompanied by
rain and hail OF unusual size. which fell
to . depth of four inches treaking almost
all the windows in toxn, A number Of
people were injured, ora colored man
fatally. The monetary aamage 10 esti.
mated 1t s2O0,oGl. Tie tornado swept
on with width If quarter
to half mile from Oxford to Hen
derson, twenty-five miles away. The
railroad track beyond Lsra looks a. if it
had been burned ana swept. At Grey
stone, a small Eailrond station, all the
houses were blown down. A number of
convicts who work near tEs granite quarry
were hurt. At Hsnder$or: there was the
same experience IS at NIiord. ten people
being injured. four sc9onsIy. There are
indications Of another t.lo,v in this vicin-
ity, but the telegraph wires are down and
no particulars are obtaiaa sle.