The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-13
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Two Persons Killed and Many Injured by
storm at Cape vincent, N, Y.-several
Houses WreelSed-Damage Also Done al
waterfowl.
Watertown, N, r., Sept, ia terrific
tornado swept over this section at about
. o'clock last night, causing much dam,
age to property generally and eulmin.
ating in a serious disaster and fatality
at Cape Vincent, at the foot of Lake
ontario.
Thomas Arniel and George Godfrey
of Cape Vincent have since died from
internal injuries received from the
wrecking of the depot, and others were
injured as follows
J, M. Anderson, New York city, frac
ture at base Of the brain
Miss Maude Walshe, Kingston, Ont,
severe scalp wound.
Miss Lille Wilson, Cape Vincent
fractured clavicle.
Mrs. John Aiken, Hamilton, Ont.
fractured limb and internal injuries.
David Andrews. Plerrepont Manor
hand cut.
Mrs. Eugene Fitzgerald of Cape Vim.
cent, severely injured internally.
In the following all of Cape Vincent
Miss Addie Dennison.
Willie Rives.
Fred Strong.
Miss Addie Durham.
Miss Adele Seymour.
Miss Lizzie MCGOWAN.
Miss Rose Stumpf.
Miss Grace Augustus.
Eugene Fitzgerald.
Steve Oudine.
Though it continued only a few min
utes, it was the most severe wind storm
that has visited this section since its
settlement by the whites. The rair
came as if from a cloudburst, and thai
continued half an hour, but the vino
which wrought the destruction was like
| a tremendous gust, coming so suddenly
and passing so swiftly that it seemed
not to have lasted more than a min
ute, and yet, in that brief time, show
ing power before which almost every,
thing movable gave way.
The depot at Cape Vincent, which
was wrecked, was an immense shet
capable of sheltering great crowds O.
and Canadian points. 1t seemed like 6
straw under the force of the wind.
A large hay storage barn belonging
| to the Rome, Watertown and Ogdens
| burg Railroad company was smashed
into kindling wood and piled up on the
tracks. The roundhouse was knocked
| down, damaging an engine.
A lumber yard was emptied Of 1t:
contents and the boards scattered
throughout the town, in the streets, OF
the roofs and on the lake and river
| Two men were driving in a carriage
They We're struck by the flying boards
their carriage was capsized and ONT
| man was knocked insensible and blown
| into vacant lot.
The number of victims of the acciden
at Cape Vincent is small compared tx
what might reasonably have been ex
pected from such wreck
The evening train had just arrived
with about 200 persons on board fo
Kingston, Ont. The boat succeeded il
getting away from the dock with mos
of her passengers. With hardly an,
warning the depot was fairly SMASHED
in but fortunately for those inside, tn
windward side raised, and thus man.
were saved from serious injury,
AS soon as the building had collapse,
the call for assistance was given, AM
in a very few minutes medical aid wa
| there.
i The tornado was preceded and accom-
| panied by a remarkable electric storm
As night approached after a very sultr,
afternoon the clouds gathered ominous
| ly and flashes of lightning glimmere,
along the horizon in different directions
During the early evening the NANTES
| tations of electricity increased, and b.
7:30 the whole heavens, hung wit
leaden clouds, were one continuou
glare, and for two hours or more
would have been easy to recognize per
sons on the streets at almost any in
slant, so nearly uninterrupted was tn
| illumination.
Frequent rumblings were heard in tn
distance, and occasionally a seriou
sharp clap of thunder like an explosion
until about $50, when the storm broke
| Accompanying this was a downpour O
rain, continuance of the electrical
discharges, and rumble and roar a
continuous as the lightning flashes.
In ST. Lawrence county, particular
in the vicinity of Gouverneur, the storr
took the form of flood, accompanie
by the terrifying electric display.
Several fires are reported, in whic
farm barns were struck by lightning
and harvested crops and stock de
stroyed.