The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-08-07
FREQUENT HEAVY STORMS.
Central States Continue to Suffer from
the Furious Elements.

SpflngnelQ III SUruck tDe northwest
portion of the city, tearing up trees
and unroofiing houses. Mrs. Kinney's
residence and Schafcrs grocery were
demolished. Telegraph and electric
street car poles were snapped off,
throwing the city in darkness and par
alyzing street car traffic and telephone
service. The First Presbyterian church
steeple was blown away and part OF
the Thomas Manufacturing Co.'S plant
was unroofed and several houses were
damaged. At Milford lightning de-
stroyed three barns with loss of
$4,000 and injured three of John
Schafers family. A number of houses
were unroofed at Sydney, o., and crops
badly damaged. A Touring mill and
two barns were burned by lightning
at Athens. Portsmouth and South
Charleston report enormous loss of
crops.
In Indiana the damage was heavier
and in the vicinity of Bluffton the
storm swept everything before it.
Robert Cavin's huge barn was crushed,
killing cattle and horses. Dwellings,
were overturned and the Methodist
church was unroofed at Liberty Cen
ter. At Petroleum II dwelling was
blown to pieces. Upton lost 100000
school house; Jesse Welchel was
browne ed trying to save his live stock
in his barn. and hundreds of head of
stock persisted. Elwood, Muncie and
Huntington and surrounding country
suffered severely
And Still Another Big Blow.
Three storms within one week is the
record of portions of Ohio, Indiana and
Pennsylvania. The damage to prop
erty has been heavy and loss of life
has occurred in each case. The third
visitation of the wrath of the elements
did much damage about Pittsburg and
three persons were killed by lightning,
us follows: James Ellis, West Overton;
John Schuler Homestead; unknown
woman, Duquesne. James Foyle's
family, consisting of mother and three
children, of Duqucsne, were shocked
by lightning. The storm in and around
Duquesne assumed the nature of u cy-
clone, destroying six residences and
two stores besides unroofing others.
"a Houses Wrecked at Steubenyille.
The storm took the character of
cloudburst at Steubenville, O. Par
mars and Fishers runs became mighty
torrents with a few minutes and peo-
pie had to flee from their homes to save
their lives, many wading through
water which was above their knees be-
fore they reached the hills. During
the flood on Parmars run William
Bush and wife took refuge in Il tree.
The water came down the creeks 20
feet high, sweeping before it barns,
houses. bridges. trees and outbuildings.
The houses that were washed away
and completely wrecked were occupied
by the families of Mrs. Philabaum,
Robt Richie. VIM. RiSdon. James Bur-
CESS, Andy Albaugh. benjamin Wise,
Grant Stroud, John Hart and Henry Il.
Bowman's store. The houses of -
others were wrecked or damaged by
the water. Two hundred people are
homeless as Il result OF the food. The
damage will aggregate S200,000.
A destructive cyclone visited Glous-
ter, a mining town. Several houses
were smashed and IL number of others
wrenched from their foundations. J.
l.. Dougherty was killed by flying tim
bers. The house occupied by james
McClelland and family of six was
crushed like an egg, but the occupants
escaped injury. The tornado lasted
scarcely a moment, but the rain fell in
torrents for an hour. Thousands oi
dollars worth of damage to growing
crops resulted. Another heavy storm
of rain visited Glouster soon after; no
serious damage was done, but Mrs.
Chas. Smith died Of fright. At Scott
dale and Derry several houses were
struck by lightning. Other Ohio towns
report heavy loss-Chillicothe, jackson,
Wellsville, Salem, Martins Ferry and
other points.
About ParkersbIrg, w. Va, over
$50, 900 damage was done and the Il. d
o. railroad says this seasons storms in
West Virginia and western Pcnnsyl-
vania have cost them 81 ,000.0 Sew
eral localities in Kentucky and Indiana
report severe loss and one or two ia
talities