River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-08-29
TEMPEST AND A DEUCE.
Terrific Wind and Cloudbursts Do
Great Damage in New
Jersey.
OTTER EASTERN STATES ARE STRICKEN.
Floods Undermine Dwelling Houses
and Only PrOvidential Intervene
ton Prevents Loss of Life-CycIone
and CIoudburst Do Damage at Gem
traIia, Ill.

New York, Aug. 27.-The country
from above Tarrytown to the center of
New Jersey and from eastern Con-
necticut to Mauch Chunk, Pa, was DEL
uged with a cloudburst whipped with
high winds and cut and torn with rush
ing rivers and cataracts of water from
leaden clouds which ohscured the
whole sky.
The rain fell in torrents, with only
two brief intervals when the clouds
seemed to pause to refresh themselves.
Every street car and railroad line in
this whole district was hampered, and
in some places traffic was entirely sus-
pended for the night.
Thousands of dollars of damage was
done to property. Trees and buildings
in Jersey City and Hoboken were
blown down. Houses were undermined
by water, and only remarkable good
fortune prevented great loss of life.
shipping Damaged.
New York city escaped the worst of
the storm. Across on the Jersey shore
the high wind swept down the bay,
snatching all the vessels except the big
ocean liners from their moorings.
In Jersey City the steeple of ST.
Mary's Roman Catholic church crashed
through the roof of the building. The
Biiou theater was partly wrecked and
panic was caused by the report that
several lions Gagged there had escaped.
Two other churches and the Union
League club suffered damage.
Hoboken felt the full force of the
windstorm. The Hotel Washington
was unroofed and the Hamburg-Amer
lean engine house chimney blown
down. Fifty or more huge trees in
the parks were uprooted.
Near Union Hill, under the palisades,
house was demolished by the cat
aract and the family narrowly escaped
with their lives.
In Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, Aug. 27.-Rcports re-
ceived in this city state that the heavy
rains which have fallen almost inces-
sanity during the last week through
out the state have resulted in the most
disastrous flood experienced in many
years. At Mauch Chunk the storm was
attended by four fatalities. Jesse,
Struthers. of Mauch Chunk, and three
boys, named McClaffery, Mckinley and
johnson, were standing on bridge
spanning Mauch Chunk creek when the
supports collapsed and the four were.
precipitated into the water and
drowned. The stream had become a
raging torrent by the bursting Of a
dam half mile above the borough
line.
Great Damage Done.
The Mauch Chunk creek is IS feet
above its normal mark, and the towns
in Carbon county along its course have
suffered much damage. Bridges, cul-
verts and arches are destroyed and
the loss to the borough and to the prop
erty holders will be many thousands of
dollars. Business is at a standstill.
At Wilkesbarre a landslide occurred
along the Lehigh Valley railroad at the
eastern approach of the Vosburg tun-
mel and traffic was suspended for sew
eral hours. A washout on the Sum
bury branch Of the Pennsylvania rail
road delayed traffic several hours.
In Shamokin, Tamaqua, Pittston and
other mining towns many collieries
have been flooded and work has been
suspended.
CentraIia struck by Cyclone.
Centralia, ILL.,, Aug. 27.-A cyclonic
windstorm and cloudburst did thou
sands of dollars of damage in Centralia
Sunday night. The Colored Baptist
church was wrecked, peach orchards
were destroyed and $4,000 bushels of
peaches are lying on the ground near
| town In the city the telephone and
electric light systems were seriously
! damaged and the streets are blocked
| by hundreds Of fallen trees. Many
residences were damaged by falling
| trees. The rainfall was one inch and
a quarter.
Remarkable shower of Hail
indianapolis, Ind, Aug. ga re-
markable shower of hailstones last
! ing five minutes occurred here at
| 1890 Monday afternoon. The sun was
shining a few minutes before the ice
| began to fall. Some of the hailstones
were the size of large marbles. The
streets were quickly cleared of people
| and horses were hard to hold. No seri-
| Gus damage is reported A steady rain
! followed the hail.