The herald., 1897-03-06
Inundates Towns and Brings
Death to People
UNPARALLELED IN EXTENT
And Also Ia Amount of Water Pre-.
cipitated
The Territory Visited Extends Prom the
Lakes to the Gulf and From the
River Almost to the Sea
Associated Press Special wire

Associated Press Special Wire
CHICAGO, March 5.-The storm which
ragged throughout the middle west
Thursday night stands unparalleled not
only for the extent of territory over
which it ranged, but for the amount of
water precipitated.
At Cincinnati the rainfall reported by
the weather bureau was 5.3S inches and
floods are reported from almost every
telegraph station from Pittsburg in the
east to Kansas City in the west and from
the lakes to the northern boundary OF
Tennessee. In some instances the wind
reached the velocity of hurricane and
much damage to dwellings, barns,
fences, etc, has been reported from va
rious points throughout the district.
Throughout southern Illinois, Indiana
and Ohio the damage to railroad proper
ty in the form Of washouts, making traf-
fic impossible. and in the wrecks caused
by the softening of the roadbeds is i'm
mense.
A not inconsiderable loss to the people
as whole will be caused by the wash
ing away of bridges and roadways which
have been built up in the several dis
tricts at a cost of millions of dollars and
which in many cases have been totally
destroyed
Owing to the decentralization of rail-
way traffic the mails local to the deluged
districts have been greatly delayed,
while the through service over the
trunk lines west and north have been
badly crippled, greatly to the annoy
ance of business interests involved.
IN OHIO
CINCINNATI, March 5.-The unex-
pected and unprecedented rainfall here
has given rise to disagreeable fore
bodlngs of another flood. The rain be-
gan to fall at $3.50 last night and at
a. IN. it is about inches. Lockland. o.,
is inundated. At Cummingsville the flood
is doing more harm than the recent high
water The Ohio river is rising seven
inches an hour The rain is general
from the Missouri river to the Alle-
gheny range, and the heaviest in Him
ois Indiana and western Ohio. Great
loss has been caused throughout the
country around Cincinnati from the
overfiowing of small streams.
From pm. to IL m. the rainfall here
was 4S9 inches. All bridges across Mil!
creek are in danger. Comminsville. Win
ton place and all suburbs along Mil
creek are under water, and hundreds
| of families are homeless Telegraph
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| to landslides. Some railways, whose
general offices are here. have been una
| BILE to communicate with other points
| on their lines. The flood extends up the
| Miami valley, Dayton, Springfield, Ham
| ilton and other points suffering the
! same as the city. The Ohio here is ris-
! ing ten inches an hour. The rain stopped
| at noon.
Early today during the rain the Mid
land branch of the Baltimore and Ohio
| Southwestern railroad was stopped by
| a landslide near Hills station. five miles
west of Loveland. A heavy freight
| train came laundering along in the fog
and crashed into the sleeper, whose oc-
| cupants were all in the berths. 1t tel
escoped three-fourths the length of the
sleeper, throwing the occupants out of
| their beds and pinioning them in agony
| in the debris of seats, broken glass and
| splinters. Rescuing was prompt and
| energetic OF the occupants injured
beyond slight bruises, two were hurt
| fatally, two very seriously and two pain
| fully, but not dangerously.
| The fatally injured are r. II. Warder,
superintendent of parks. Cincinnati: P.
D. Bobbins. Wheeling, w. Va. scalded
ard right leg crushed. The seriously
injured: G. H. Rispe. Richmond, Ind,
sca.ded and injured internally, and L..
Myers, St. Louis. legs and head bruised.
| MT. DODDlnS, tne man WHO was kllltu,
| was cashier of bank and was just ap-
pointed a member of Governor Atkin-
sons military staff.
| G. H. Rupe of Richmond, Ind, is re-
ported dying at midnight.
AN AWFUL THUNDERSTORM
CAIRO. March 5.-A heavy thunder
storm with rain and wind struck this
section at $50 a. m. today. Roofs were
torn off, plate glass windows smashed.
4 frame church under construction was
destroyed. One house was blown down
and the wreckage burned Eight persons
were injured and one killed and burned
in the ruins. The wind had a velocity
of So to so miles.
The storm struck Cairo from the south
west, accompanied by rain and heavy
thunder with continuous flashes of vivid
lightning. The residence of James Dar-
danell was demolished and all the occu-
pants more or less hurt The ruins were
burned. The badly injured were: Mrs.
James Dardanell. back broken; Mrs.
Cary, injured internally will probably
Gle; Sol Pettis. child, burned to death.
Others in the house escaped with slight
Injuries. A great deal of damage oc-
CURED through roofs and skylignts being
blown off. The principal buildings DAM
aged were Douglass high school. Luth-
eran church. Gilbert block and First
Buckeye State came into port with the
tops of both chimneys blown off. The
wind at the signal office for five minutes
registered sixty miles an hour.
IN MISSOURI
ST. LOUIS, March 5.-The storm ex-
tended through the state into into South
ern and Central Illinois, where the con-
dtions are similar. Mail from the east
west and south is delayed five to twelve
hours. Western suburbs were partly
inundated by the most severe floods ex-
perienced in thirty years. Acres of land
were covered, houses undermined and
property destroyed. From north to
south across the city limits, water COW
cred the low lands. Many families were
hammed in. Policemen on horseback
released many from the water-bound
prisons. Great damage was done rail-
road property, the plant of the fire brick
companies and street car tracks. Sewer
contractors as well as the city suffer
heavily from a cave-in Of the sewers The
sewers were unable to carry off the i'm
m.nse amount of water which backed
up and flooded the cellars, causing much
damage.
IN VIRGINIA
HUNTINGTON, w. Va, March g.
A hurricane lasting four minutes visited
this section of the state at o'clock this
afternoon leaving destruction in its
path.