Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07
FLOODS IN new YORK
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brought down from the surrounding hills.
The electric light plant is under water and
the village is in darkness. The city water
supply for FIRE and domestic purposes is cut
of.
Railroad Tracks Washed Out.
BATAVIA, N. Y, July 6.-scores Of
houses on West and South Main streets
were entirely surrounded with water and
rowboats were plying in the thorough
fares at Q o'clock tonight. Both the Erie
railroad and the Attica branch OF the
Central are under water most Of the dis
lance from Batavia and Attica and are
badly washed out. Several barns and
houses were struck by lightning and
burned
W~ELLsvILLE, N. Y, July 6.-shortly
after midnight this morning Wellsville and
vicinity we're visited by a cloudburst. The
water In all the streams is running rap
idly. Madison street was a raging food
all the way to the Erie tracks, which were
soon covered with water and mud. The
water on Main street was one foot deep.
Damage to property is estimated at $780,
900. All cellars are flooded, doing great
damage. There was said to be several
cattle floating down the river at daylight
anu u team dhu Na6Ohs NO IuAhc al
running on the Erie or the B. & s. rail-
roads. The turnpike bridges we're carried
away and crops in this vicinity suffered
severely.
CIOudburst at CanandRigua.
BOLIVAR, N. Y, July Gone OF the
heaviest r~ainfalls that has occurred In
years took place last night and early this
morning. Two inches Of rain fell in two
hours. The main streets were under a
foot and a half Of water at noon today
and at 8 a. m. the water was six inches
deep in the city building.
CANANDAIGUA, N. Y. July GA $780,
600 cloudburst lie the extent OF the storm
that burst upon this section Of the country
along the west shore Of Canandaigua lake.
At Changers point a barn was carried
halfway into the lake. The vineyards are
under from two to three feet Of water.
On the beach from Black point to Wood
Vile the landslides have formed many
points and peninsulas large enough to
build cottages upon. At VIM Valley the
bridge connecting the pier with the main
land was borne down into the lake.
Gale strikes milwaukee.
MILWAUKEE,, July s.-After a swelter-
ing hot day Milwaukee was visited tonight
by a fierce wind and rainstorm. Consid-
cradle lumber in a yard located at North
Milwaukee was scattered about and many
signs were detached and trees broken OF
! around the city. The wires Of the Wis
consin Central railroad, leading from MIL
yankee north. are demolished and the
storm is reported as severe In the northern
part OF the state.
A special from Phillips says: A tor
Hado passed just north Of this city Sat
urday night. wrecking a portion Of thu
mammoth tannery OF the United Safe.
Leather company. One resident was Sc
riously injured during the storm.
At Evansville. Wis, tonight, during
fierce storm, lightning struck the spir'
Of st. Patrick's Catholic church and thu
edihee was destroyed.
HOPE Idaho, July "a cloudburst a
Ellisport. east OF Hope. swept away twelV'
or fifteen houses and washed out two mile
Of track on the Northern Pacific. Their
was no loss OF life. For q considerable dis
lance around Ellisport the country 1
flooded. The creek u wide and swift an
all the ~trestles are gone from Clarks Forl
TO Hope. Passengers eastbound are trans
ferred from sand Point by boat to Hope an
west from Hope to SAINT Point. There ar
several slides along the road each way.
WELLS. MINI, July 6.-A wind and rain
storm passed over this section last night
doing great damage. -Four miles west o
town IL demolished one Of the largest barn
in the county. killing Z. r. Cook. its owner
His wife and son were also In the barn an
were pinned dow by timbers and unable
assist Mr.. Cook. A number Of horses an
cattle in the barn were also killed.
WICHITA, Kan. July "a very heav
rain. amounting at Anthony almost to
eloudburst. fell over ten counties In eentrs
Kansas today. It will delay harvest to
I Ereater or less extent