Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-01-24
STORMS AND FLOODS.
Billiards and High Water In
Several States.
MUCH DAMAGE DONE IN OHIO.

Serious Storm Reports Also Come From
Pennsyivania-The Ohio and Mississippi
Rivers Threaten Dangerous Stages.
Blizzard In Michigan-some Lives Lost.
CLEVELAND, Jan. PA fierce gale
has been raging here The wind reached
velocity of Il miles an hour, but re-
coded to As miles an hour No damage
has been done by the storm aside from
the blowing down Of shade trees and
the demolition of signs.
The car ferry, Shenango No. /, from
Port Dover, Ont, for Conneaut, o., was
caught III tee gale and drifted helpless
for half 81 hour. She was then run
into Erie harbor for shelteg. The
captain says the barometer was very
low during the blow, and he feared for
a time that the boat would founder. 1t
was the worst gale he ever saw ON Lake
Erie
At Mount Vernon, O., the roof was
blown from the Raymond building and
IJlStlDlC III,
crashing big hole III the roof.
At Bucyrus flat cars were carried
from side tracks on to the main line and
blown several miles. Trees were up
rooted and roofs of several buildings
carried away at Coshocton
At Chillicothe the heaviest windstorm
ever known there unroofed the Foulke
block, the largest building in the city.
Telephone and electric light wires and
poles are down. The Scioto river is
rising fast and doing much damage.
At Bradford Junction the Christian
church was unroofed, barns and trees
blown down.
AT Wooster the county Jail and three
factories were unroofed. Baltimore and
Ohio railway tracks washed out in two
places.
AT Lima a school building was un
rooted. Many oil derricks were blown
down in Hume, auckland and Spencer
vile districts.
AT Fremont, trees and telegraph poles
have been blown down and several
buildings unroofed. The Sandusky
river is rising rapidly.
AT Akron, windows were blown in,
chimneys toppled over and the roof
blown from the Cascade mills. The
Cuyahoga river is OVERLOOKING it's banks
and the valley railroad tracks are sub
merged III many places
A terrific windstorm struck Batavia
and great damage was done to several
new buildin which are under con-
struction, also to outbuildings, etc. Re
ports indicaCe that considerable damage
has been done throughout the county.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 24.-Reports re-
ceiyed from various parts of Eastern
Pennsylvania and South Jersey indicate
that windstorm of more than ordin-
airy velocity passed over those sections.
The principal damage consisted in the
uprooting OF trees and blowing down of
telegraph and telephone wires. In a
few instances houses Were unroofed.
Heavy winds prevailed along the coast.
but up to a late hour no disasters to
shipping were reported.
CINCINNATI, Jan. "a. - A hundred
thousand bushels of coal was sunk at
Flemilg's landing, III the Ohio, in the
Yves. IN part of the city, by waves
roie up by tho winds. All losses here
thus lar are insignificant All business
men whose cellars would be inundated
at A feet of water, which is predicted
here, or at lower stage, are busy remov-
Lily tAICi1 WtbLcS Out Ol OtUSeT.
MEMPHIS, Jan. 24.-The Mississippi
river from Cairo to New Orleans is ris-
ing rapidly, and there is enough water
in sight to send it above the danger line
from Cairo to Nlcksburg.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Jan. 24-Riyer-
men report the worst storm in 20 wears.
George Atkins and two daughters per-
ished from exposure in a slxiff, in which
they took refuge when their houseboat
was swamped.
LOUISVILLE, Jan. PA flood equal
to the ones of 1888 and 1884 are pre-
dicted here.
DETROIT, Jan. PA blizzard has
been raging throughout Michigan.
Saginaw street cars We're completely
tied up. Trains were stalled ON the
Mackinaw division of the Michigan
Central and on the Flint and Pere Mar
quette road. At Bentor Harbor consid-
cradle damage was done by blowing
down of smokestacks, store fronts, etc,
and nearly the entire sheetiron roofing
of the courthouse was blown off.
PITTsBURG, Jan. PA stiff north
western gale blew through Western
Pennsylvania at the rate of 40 miles an
hour, increasing to 45 on the rivers and
in the open country. Some DAMAGE was