The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-06-08
Weather of All Sorts.

ST. Lotus, May 3l.-This has been the
hottest day OF the year. the mercury at p.
m. marking 81 degrees. -Four cases Of sun
stroke were reported before noon. John
Foster, 4 negro, who was overcome by the
/ heat, fell under the wheels of his wagon and
was crushed to death.
Dispatches from more than fifty points in
southern Iowa, eastern Kansas, Missouri, Ar
kansas. Indian Territory. and northern Texas
say that heavy rain has fallen in those sec
tons during the last twenty-four hours. In
some places the rainfall was the first in six
weeks. In southern Illinois and Indiana the
drought remains unbrOken and scorching
hot wind has done great damage TO wheat,
oats. and corn. Unless rain falls soon the
crops in these sections will be a total failure.
DENVER, May 3l.-The storms in Colorado
yesterday were the worst in years. The entire
country has been soaked with heavy rain for
nearly thirtv-six hours and ii promises to rain
all night. There is four feet ofSnow at Dillon,
"A mining camp in the mountains. Water is
50 deep in the streets of Holyoke that rowboatS
make regular trips in the streets. Small lakes
have formed near Akron. and all the streams
are swollen.
OMAHA, May 3l.-A cyclone mile wide
struck near Chapman yesterday and demol-
ished everything in its path The house of A.
Baior was blown to pieces, and Mrs. Baior
and her TWO children were injured fatally.
The children ; clothes were torn from their
bodies by the force ofthe wind. Many build
iugs were damaged.
At Hamburg, Germany. on MAY 81. during
a thunder storm lightning struck and set fire
10 a number of sheds CONTAINING 40. 900 barrels
OF petroleum. on the Island Of Williamsburg.
The entire stock of 300 tons of oil, in four
tanks and 1900 barrels. was consumed. The
loss Is e500. 900; insured.
destructive hailstorm visited parts of
PENNSYLVANIA ON Saturday last Several per-
sons and stock were killed hy lightning. and
dwellings, barns. crops. etc. were destroyed
lay the heavy wind. In Berks county. on
Monday afternoon, two men were Instantly
killed by lightning aud six rendered uneon-
Scion>. The storm was very destructive in
other counties.
\ severe gale and haistorm at Bethlehem.
New Hampshire, on Sunday night, demolished
the new Roman Catholic church. uuroofed
harE> and bridges and wrecked hundreds of
window paues
tornado and waterspont swept over the
southeastern portion of Minnesota on Satur-
DAY night, doing great damage at Farihault
and other points The tracks ofthe Chicago.
Milwaukee and st. Paul At Hastings we're
badly washed ouy. Portions Of Colorado.
Kansas and Nebraska were flooded on SUNDAY
aud Monday. Live stock. crops and farm
bindings were swept away. railroads and
county roads damaged almost beyond repair.
There were seven deaths from heat in Phila-
delPhia. Pa, on Monday, and many severe
prostutionS. IN New York city there were
eleven deaths.
The heat vas so intense al Sapnemin. Hi
nois. an SUNDAY. that 100 feet Of the Wabash
track was so warped out OF shape that it was
impossible for trains to pass over. and traffic
was DELAYED au hour and a half
During a recent thunderstorm in Berlin an
interesting effect on an electric train was
noticed at night. All the electric lamps in
side and outside the carriages were extin-
gui>hed every time it lghtened. and the pas
,engers remained few moments Ia complete
darkness. Then the lamps rekindled.
A cloudburst struck the railroad yards al
Curtis. Nebraska. on Saturday, cutting its way
through Ia the river valley below, aud made
. breach 100 feet across and p feet deep.
Five lines Of the track are suspended over the
breach. MANY cattle in the vicinity we're
drowned in the Hood.
A waierspoui near Hillsboro. Texas. on
Thursday night Of last week washed away
about Geo feet of the Missouri. Kansas aud
Texas Railroad tracks. The Cotton Belt road
va, also badly damaged The Santa Fe
was also washed ont between there and
Temple Several hundred cattle WERE drowned
in blackberry hoitom, and one man was
drowned.
During the storm at Hammouton, New
Jersey. ou Monday, much damage was done
hy lightning. The Methodist Episcopal Church
sIeeple was struck and badly damaged. A
bot, Knocked down the operator ia the Postal
Telegraph Gable office, aud he WAS unable 10
work Tor nearly al hour. The lruii crop was
badly injured by hail. and thousands Of quarts
DESTROYED