The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1902-06-19


toll lines of both companies were
out of service last night and the
only wire that was working out of
this city was between here and Co
lumbus.
lightning struck the steeple of
the Maple street chapel, tore a
number of shingles and piece of
cornice off and ripped hole in the
ceiling of the belfry.
At 3 o'clock this morning light
ming struck the new Mallable Iron
Works of DR.. Stuckey on the old
Logan road and tore out IL foot
section of the brick work. The
ground around the building is
flooded and all the lumber and
timber that was on the ground for
the completion of the work has
been swept away. The amount of
damages done to this building is
considerable. The water from the
sewer at the Mithoff House corner
backed up into the building and
flooded Lou Smiths barber shop
to the depth of two feet
Frank Meeker, one Of the line
men for the Bell Telephone Com
pany, was returning from Canal
Winchester when the storm broke.
He says it was unusually severe in
the vicinity of Carroll and Hooker
and at the latter place the railway
station looked like a lighthouse in
the center of lake, as the water
had come in over the road near the
bridge and flooded the tracks and
the station platform.
A Columbus automobilist was
overtaken by the storm near Car
roll, his machine broke down and
he was obliged to abandon it and
seek shelter in barn.
North Broad street in the vicinity
of Fifth avenue was flooded to the
depth Of two feet and was impass-
able for hours.
The water backed down from
Maple street, near the railroad
crossing and at s o'clock last night
the cellar of the Ohio Flint Glass
factory was flooded to the depth
of three feet.
Officer Lee Hankinson, who livs'
on East Mill street, reports thai
his back yard was flooded to sucf
an extent that twenty of his choic
est chickens were drowned. He il
going to raise ducks hereafter.
A break occurred last night il
the city's four inch gas main be
tween the infirmary and the chill
dren's home and Superintendent
Trimble had to turn the gas off un
til repairs can be made. TIL,
break occurred at point wher,
the pipe crosses a creek. The
stream was turned into a torrent
by the rain and drlftwood broke
the pipe just where the pipe en-
tered the stream.
A tree in Mithof' yard on North
Columbus street was struck by
lightning and badly damaged.
The small bridges along the
creek in South Lancaster were all
swept away and carried across the
road into the fields. The water
is higher in this locality than has
been known for years. Knott's
grocery on South Broad street, was
flooded last night.
In West Lancaster Will Souder' e
house, Charles Carpenters stable
and Will Carpenters stable were
flooded to the deepth of 13 inches.
Train No. 43, on the G. & M. ",
which is due here at I :45, last
night was stalled between McLu-
ney and New Lexington and the
wreck train left here at o o'clock
this morning with seven cars to
get her out. There was a wash
out ahead of the train and when
the crew attempted to back down
to McLuney it encountered another
washout and has been stalled there
since.
The work crew worked all night
at the stock yards, east of the Ma
pie street crossing, where 100 yards
of the track was washed away.
A train was made up here this
morning to 60 west on the G. q M.