The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-09-10
FURY OF THE STORM.
Much Damage Caused by Flood
and Lightning.
SEVERAL FATALITIES REPORTED.

Small Towns In Illinois Fired by Light
ming and Completely Wiped out-The
Storm Especially Severe In Eastern
Pennsylvania.
BETHLEHEM, Pa Sept. 10. An area of one
square mile suffered from Saturday
nights cloudburst. The cloud was TRAN
gular In shape and emptied its contents
right over Monocacy valley, In the very
center of the three Bethlehems. The
flood reached the second story of houses on
Goeppe street, Spruce street, Old Bethle-
hem; Spring street, West Bethlehem, and
Second street. in South Bethlehem. The
damage to private property is estimated at
$4,000 and to sewers and highways $l0,-
OOO That no lives were lost Is a miracle.
The people In the flooded district are
very poor and are suffering for want Of
assistance. During the storm lightning
struck the residence of President Wilbur,
of the Lohigh Valley railroad, the NUM-
cipai building and Troxelfs furniture
store, doing little damage, however.
The funeral cortege Of the late Mrs.
William Sinner was caught in the storm,
returning from the grave The horses
took fright at the peltng rain and ran
away. Mrs. Jacob I. Sinner, of West
A'ctuicuoDi, ndu utT arm ana BnOulucT
fractured, and Mrs. Curtis, who was
picked up unconscious, is in a precarious
condition.
De KALB, Ills, Sept. 10. - Lightning
played havoc among the various small
towns of this section on Saturday night.
As result the business portion of Malta,
small town of 600 inhabitants, is In
ashes with losses aggregating CSC, 900. The
little settlement Of Henrietta was also
visited by lightning and completely wiped
out. The loss will not prove very extern
sive. At Caledonia four buildings were
struck at different times and each de-
stroyed. At Elmhurst a big barn was
struck and totally destroyed. The people
had hard work to save the school house,
situated near by. Rockford came in for
its share OF the flames, and In that town
three fires were caused by lightning. At
Belvidere n physicians stable was struck
and consumed, together with two horses.
Huntley suffered the loss of three build
ings, one of which was stable. In the
latter instance four horses were cremated.
At Herbert two buildings were burned
NEW YORK, Sept. l0.-The rain storm
here was unusually severe. The Third
avenue cables gave out and an accident
delayed travel on the Brooklyn bridge.
The rainfall was the heaviest of the year,
amounting to LII inches. William Smith,
q fisherman, was killed at Newark Bay
by lightning. lightning also struck the
Monmouth while the steamer was en- route
from the Atlantic Highlands to this city.
Captain Martin was slightly injured, and
the passengers were greatly alarmed for
few minutes.
TRENTON, Sept 10.-The heavy rain
storm here was accompanied by very Sc
we're lightning Two houses, those of
Frank Creed and William Smith, were
struck and considerably damaged, but
the inmates escaped. Two mules which
were being driven by Charles Pope, in
Morrisville, Pa, just across the Delaware,
were killed, but Pope escaped injury.
CHICAGO, Sept. 10.-nuripg the heavy
rain storm which prevailed in this city
lightning struck steam dredge stationed
near the Fifty-sixth street pier, killing
Charles Ritter, and probably fatally in
juring Fred Simons, who were working on
the dredge. A couple of residents were
also struck by lightning but no other ia
talities are reported.
PLATTEvIILE, Wis, Sept. 10.-Never
has Platteville been visited by such a Sc
we're hailstorm as struck this city, Hail
as large as walnuts fell for about an hour,
breaking window panes, completely de-
molishing sky lights and leaving orch
ards and cornfelds devastated as though
a cyclone had struck them.
READING, Pa, Sept. 10.-During the
heavy storm of Saturday night new two
story school building in this city was un-
dermined by the rush Of water and col
lapsed Mrs. James Sallade and John
Graull were struck by lightning, and re-
manned In n state of total paralysis for
two hours. They will recover.
GREENsBHRG, Pa, Sept. 1o,-During the
heavy thunderstorm lightning struck the
porch of house at Jeanette, fatally in
juring Mrs. Mahoney, her daughter Mag
gle and Mrs Krept, visitor. The women
are still living, but are completely par
alyzed.
R1CHLAND CENTRE, Wis, Sept. 10.-The
big Muscoda bridge over the river at
Muscoda was wrecked by a cyclone Satur-
day night. Several houses were blown
down and unroofed