The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-28

ham, farmer near Marshall, was fatally
injured by having his barn blown down
on top Of him
The loss of fruit blown from the trees
in West Michigan fruit belt, is immense
and many frame buildings in that part
of the State were destroyed. Heavy dam
ages from lighting are reported from
several towns, but no loss of life
TERRIFIC WIND STORM.
Cleveland, July 81. Much damage was
done last night by the terrific wind storm.
AT Beulah Park just east of the city,
eight or nine houses were completely de
stroycd and large tabernacle blown
down The loss is estimated at many
thousands of dollars. Major Stockman.
of the local bureau, reports that the
wind reached II velocity of GA miles an
houl.
ALMOST y FLOOD.
Dubuque, Ia, July 27-.-A fierce rain
STERN swept this section last night, the
fall being 4.S2 inches The streets were
full tc the curbs, while these up the hills
were tern out and the debris carried down
and lodged on the street railway tracks,
blockading the roads for hours. The Hi
nois Central has not had train in since
midnight. AT Durango. on the Chicago
Great Western. where five persons were
drowned during the flood last May. the
creek was again at food height and the
bridge that stood the tide then was swept
away. y bridge on the Milwaukee line
ut Catfish creek, south of the city, is
gone. Reports from all points in this.
section are OF serious damage to railroad
property and county bridges, but no loss
Of life has yet been reported.
FATALITIES AT .PITTSBURG.
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storm of unusual ficrceness visited here
at $50 clock, causing the loss of at least
three lives and doing immense damage to
property. Several dwellings, were com
plctely demolished and others partially
wrecked Eight or ten churches had
their roofs blown OF and were otherwise
damaged Telegraph. telephone and
electric light poles We're snapped like pipe
stems mixing the wires in an ineXtricable
mass IN the streets making travel in many
sections of the .city impassable. Fierce
lightning and high wind accompanied the
storm or rather two storms, for Pitts
burg and Allegheny was the meeting
place of one storm from the West which
came up the Ohio valley and another from
the east which followed the course of the
Allegheny river. Such battle of the
elements is rarely witnessed. In East
Pittsburg and Wilmerding hail fell in
large quantities, some of the stones being
quite large. In the first five minutes of
the storm five-eighths of an inch of water
fell and the wind reached IA velocity of
thirty miles an hour.
At ) p. m. another storm almost as
fierce as the first one, came up and six
elghths of an inch of rain fell, making il
total of 1.33. The rivers are now rising
and another flood is expected
Il,
accident To the camp of the Eighth Ward
Hunting and Fishing Club, of Alleghe-
ney. The club was at its camp in Sugar
Grove, about four miles up the Alleghe-
ney river when the storm came up. The
members say it was Il genuine cyclone
The trees in, the grove were broken and
twisted rs though they We're weeds and
one large sycamore thirty feet in circum-
terence was snapped near the ground and
fell upon the camp killing almost in.
stantly John Figus, breaking the back of
George Miller who will die, and seriously
lnJuring Thomas O. Connell, Charles
kosack Jacob Metz Frank OFT and Har-
ry Haddle.
On Greenfield avenue, in the east end,
Joseph Ashfielder was killed by sign
being blown down. striking him ON the
head In Sharpsburg, W. l.. Norr was
killed by the roof of house being blown
onto him.
AT MckeeS Rocks. where Prof Gero-
dete, curator of Carnegie Museum. had IL
gang OF men ut work digging an old In
dian mound in the intere st of science,
lightning striking. the shed under which
The party had taken refuge. shocking one
of the laborers into uncon seriousness, also
young man by the name Of Pool, son of
college professor, both OF whom will
probably die
The result of the storm in property
damage has not all been gal hered AT mid
night but it is known that all through
Allegheney, the south side and the east
end, many houses were unroofsd signs
blown down and windows broken. Along
pennsylvania avenue, toward Homewood.
the splendid lawns are completely de- ,
stroyed andthe beautiful shade and orna-
mental trees Tnined. 1t is estimated that |
800, will hardly cover the loss in this |
locality alone. Reports from outlying |
towns tell of much damage to houses and !
other property.
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