The Yale expositor., 1896-07-24
FLOOD, WIND AND LIGHTNING.
Cincinnati, Pittsburg and Numerous Other
suffer Heavy Damage.

Suffer Heavy Damage.
A rainfall of ~ inches in 50 minutes
washed away many houses in Pittsburg
and Allegheny, Pa, and caused losses
of at least 81 900, 900. No lives were
lost. The storm came very suddenly
and gave little warning. The water
came down in sheets and in few min
utes the streets were like running
rivers. At Forty-eighth street, Law
renceville, probably the most destruc-
ton was wrought. Every house on
the north side of Butler street, from
Forty-eighth street east. was flooded,
many of them being entirely ruined.
Quite number of families were rem
dered homeless in this district. In AL
legheny, Perrysvillc avenue was flooded
from one end to the other, undermin-
ing the new street railway, rendering
it almost a total loss. Seven miles of
Saw Mill Run plank road is destroyed,
the planlSs being carried away and the
roadbcd ruined. The water went rush
ing down Madison avenue and East
streets four feet deep. The sewer on
Compromise street gave way and the
water plowed its way right through
houses in its track. and deposited
boulders and gravel in front of the
Twelfth ward schoolhouse eight feet
high. The soap factory of George
Harley Il Son, on Madison avenue, has
three feet of gravel on the ground
floor. The house of John Mueller, on
Spring Hill, was washed down the hill
with three children in it. They were
all rescued. A landslide on Toboggan
street carried with it into the streets
below 1000 tons of earth, rock and
gravel.
Cincinnati, Covington and Newport
had a storm of unusual severity. The
rain came in binding sheets that over
taxed the sewers in the lower part of
Cincinnati and flooded streets. Bust
ness was practically suspended. In
CovingtOn the roof of the Ledger To-
bacco warehouse was blown off and
SO, 900 worth of tobacco ruined. The
West Covington opera house roof was
taken off as also were the roofs of sew
eral dwellings, in Newport.
The storm in Ohio.
At Portsmouth Ed Duruid was killed
by lightning and several companions
were badly hurt. In the sand Hill oil
field near Marietta several tanks were
set on fire causing a loss of $1,000 and
six men narrowly escaped with their
lives. Besides destructive cloudburst
near Winchester several places were
damaged by lightning, James Rodder
man suffering $500 loss. James
Rice and John Hill each lost barn
and A. w. Cochran is looking for part
of his home which was formerly near
Fremont. Bundy's creek. near Wells
ton, became so flooded that it burst
into Wellston Mine No. /, compile tcly
filing it with water and putting 100
men out of work for time. The
Presbyterian church at Cumberland re-
ceived a bolt of lightning and the dome
isn't as pretty as it used to be, and
Homer Horen knows what CREASED
lightning is now. A train came near
plunging into washout on the the T.,
c.. G. 81 st. l.. railway near Dcnnison,
but was tagged just in time. Lightning
struck an oil tank near Newport caus-
ing serious blaze. The home of
Robt. Little. of Lisbon, was struck by
lightning and Little was instantly
killed and his wife badly shocked. Miss
Taylor. IA neighbor, was also seriously
injured