The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-05-26
STORMS.
Four Drowned of Chicago and 3
Narrow Escape.


CuUCAco. MAY 2t.--Four more victims
were added to the death list from the
Lake Michigan storm, which has not
ended vet, by the finding of u rowboat
on the beach Sunday morning. The
dead men were young mechanics, who
were out of employment and hired the
boat to go fishing Thursday afternoon
just before the great gale came upon
them.
Two moro lives were saved Sunday
from the ,nerciless storm-tossed lake
by the brave crew of the life-boat sta
toned at the mouth of the river. 1t
seems almost miracle. but it is
true nevertheless. that Steve Myers
aged eighteen. and John Gelsner, aged
fourteen, the rescued youths. had been
on the north pier. off Illinois street,
since last Thursday morning without
food and exposed to the waves and
cold
PIrrsBuRGH. Pa, May 2i.-Train
crews Sunday night on the Pennsyl-
vania road reported that they had not
seen the Concmaugh river so high as it
is now since the great flood. When
they passed Johnstown a wreck train
was located on the big stone bridge.
The company feared the debris would
pile up against the structure and wash
away the banks at the end.
There is no danger of the bridge go
ing. just above Conemaugh the coal
tipple which supplies the engines with
coal was washed out. a venturesome
boy got out too far, and was carried
down the stream and drowned. The
Kiskimentas river is very high.
The lower part of Johnstown il
partly flooded, and merchants had grea'
work in removing their goods to higher
places. The Conemaugh Lumber Co
had about $4,000 worth of timber car
carried away. This tore away two
bridges, and did considerable otheI
damage.
BRADFORD, Pa, May 21.-The rain
have turned the streams in this section
into torrents. The east and Yves
!: branches of the lula are quarter of ;
mile wide Houses here are flooded
and many families and their good
have been rescued with slliffs.
, Thomas Potter leaped into the Eas
branch Sunday afternoon and rescued
. an eiehteen-months-old child that wa
being swept away. The railroads hav
! been holding down their bridges witt
y loaded cars
On the ground floor of the Henderson
: house there is six inches of water, ant
, twenty business houses on Main stree
are in worse condition. Sixty feet o
the b., r. & P. railroad track has beel
washed out, and the trains came j,
over the Erie tracks from Limestone,
) HUNTINGTON. Pa. May 21.-The grea
!. flood here has been exceeded only one
in the history of the Juniata valley
the last four days rainfall having raise
.he Juniata river and Raystown branc
/. twenty-one feet above low water mari,
C entailing great destruction of proI
erty.
:, In this place the waters flooded tn
c lower streets, driving the people froI
+ their homes. and in the lower farmin
. districts whole families are impri!
y oned in their houses. unable to be re:
cued owing to the turbulence Of th
!. water.
J: Three bridges spanning the Juniat
= and Raystown branch have been swer
8 away. The destruction of scores c
o mine bridges and washouts on publ
= roads have closed all rural approaches
= this place. The Gas Coz plant here
i submerged, and the lower floors {
# many business houes are flooded.
t Mr.. Jacob Miller was drowned &
Saxton while trying to save some prol
u ! erty.
. a landslide at Ryde station on til
), Pennsylvania railroad covered til
'e south track for distance of nearly
e mile, and portion of the track W.
v washed away. Great damage to pro-
d erty and farm lands along the Raystow
IS branch is reported.
n WLLIAMspoRT, May 21.-At ocloc
Sunday morning the great boom wit
s. it's 81, 100000 worth of uncut lumb.
u. gave way, and Williamsport awalsene
u at daybreall to a sense of great tinal
II cial disaster.
0, At 1880 it was not certain that tn
.. Bay boom had broken. 1t was prol
8 ably section of the upper portion {
- ~ the main structure or the Linde
If boom.
n A TRAMP SIGNS AWAY