Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-08-07
THE STORM IN CINCINNATI.
Railroads Seem 10 Have Been the Worst
Sufferers.
ROOFS LIFTED AND WIRES FRUSTRATED.
Suburbs Feel Enects Of the wind---
Two Men Knocked Unconscious BY
Mshtning---Latonia Grand ssaad'
and Club House Damaged.

and Club House Damaged.
Four rain and hail storms, with the
wind at sixty miles per honr and ac-
companied by terrific thunder and
lightning, visited Cincinnati, Saturday
afternoon. The first storm came ct
1890, when the clouds made the city
as dark as night The other storms
followed with intermissions averaging
half hour. The rain continued until
Saturday night, Telegraph and tele-
phone communication was out OF for
some time, but was soon resumed Re-
ports from the railroads indicate that
the storms extended many miles north.
Numerous barns were destroyed BY
lightning or blown down. Trees were
blown across the tracks, and there was
much damage from the wind as well g
from washouts.
The sewers in the city were made
quate. At some street Intersections :.
the water was very deep, and at mQf'
of the intersections pedestrians 90 -.
not cross, In the city nearly t@'t
buildings in process Of cons4achine
suffered and many others ". .e,,;.os
rooted. Chimneys were blow
and other damage sustainefofid arc
Irwin brick works were demoHpRhKgS
Near the Irwin brick works d
and buggy was carried from the q
into an adjoining yard. The cd
pants we're only slightly injured.
The suburbs of Madisonyille. Oak
ley, Norwood, Hyde Park, Clifton and
Mornington suffered most Numerous
houses in process of construction in
these suburbs were blown down and
many houses which are occupied were
damaged. The grand stand, club
house and other buildings at the Oak
ley race track were badly damaged.
Forest trees in some localities were cut
down like grass.
At Clifton the family of David f..
Fletcher had narrow escape when
their house was unroofed. The fami-
lies of William Harscher and Edward
Kroetsch had similar experiences at
Oakley. The Elmwood Methodist
church was badly damaged. The
steeple was blown off. Nunlist's livery
stable, Hesshols Bros. shoe store and
Fred Mouthes' lumber sheds, in the.
same locality, were blown down.
At Anderson's Ferry VIM. Lewis was
blown of bridge and afterwaFd taken
to his home on Dorsey street by the
patrol. The Cincinnati baseball park
fence went down. The scaffolding OF
st. Francis de Sales church blew down
Just after dozen workmen had aban-
doned il.
At Camp Washington and along
Spring Grove avenue the hurricane
was very destructive. It unroofed the
Eighteenth district school house at
Camp Washington, blew the roof OF
the Cincinnati abattoir, the Davis
Packing Company and the Specially
Carriage Company buildings into
Spring Grove avenue. The third
story of two three-story houses, one
belonging to James Zacharis, the other
to Henry Schmitzler, we're blown of
near Spring Grove avenue. Many
dwellings thereabouts were unroofed.
One hundred feet of the new hide
house of McOsbe & Marienthal on
Poplar street was blown down. -Four
dwellings in this vicinity were un-
rooted. On Main avenue in Avondale
all telephone wires and poles are
down.
On Walnut Hills, Henry Stasger-
ber's large carpenter shop was un-
rooted. Cooks carriage works in Mill
Greek valley, Hoffner's tannery at
Elm street and Oolersin avenue were
unroofed and part of the roof of the
Cincinnati Hospital at Twelfth street
was blown of.
Edward Zeizer and John Hollinger
were in Q wagon together at Columbia,
when both were knocked of uneon-
scious by flash Of lightning. Their
condition is serious
Charles Bauhe was killed by attempt
ing to throw q telegraph wire out OF
his door-yard- The wire was crossed
with trolly and was deadly.
The greatest water tall was near Gin
cinnati, where the railroads could de-
tour to other tracks, so that they were
able to get into the city with their trains,
although all suffered. The damage to
property in Oakley lie over $4,000. II
is about the same in adjoining subnrbs
and much greater at Elmwood and
Norwood.
Reports from up the Ohio river are
of heavy rains.