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Violent Storms

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Day
25
Month
August
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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Pabis, Aug. 17.- A hurrlcane swept orer Bordeaux, ruining crops and killing many ïheep. Two excuraion-trains colllded in the storm at Archacon and seventeen persons were injured. San Feancisco, Aug-. 19.- The steamer New York, from China, brings news that in a thunder-storm and gale in Ham river, not many days ago, a number of boata brok adrlft and were swept down by the ourrent, breaking away other boato with which they carne hito collision, until tha masa Of Junks and boata was driven lnto Yang-tse and piled up against th ooean steamers at anchor in tha river and carried away down the atream. Many were cap6ized and all more or less injured. The loss of lif e was enormous, as the ocourrenca took place in the night The, Bothwell Castle drew up twenty-flve Chinese from the confused mass of boats caught on her bows, but it will never be known how many were drowned. The river is described as haring been thick with boata tloating down, nnmanageable and disabled, and with no one lef t alive on them to bring them to shore. Kepublican Citt, Neb., Aug. 20.- A cyclone from the north struck here about f our o'clook Thursday evening and every brick building in town is a wreek. The brick sohool-house being built was blown down, burylng seven workmen. J. J. Lanulng and a man named Allen were killed outright, and fivothers were injured, two of them fatally. H. H. Wetherell's house was blown away and hls wif e and two children burled in the debrig, all being more or less injured. Several other buildings were carried away or wrecked and several persons badly hurt The damage will reach $50,000. Hailstones an inch in diameter feil during the storm. : London, Aug. 19.- The damage caused by Wednesday's storm is very serioua In London three persons were killed and a number of churches and houses were struck by lightning. In the country also there was much destruction of property, and many persons are reported to have been killed. Bestcleman, Neb., Aug. 17.- A cloud burst near here yesterday, and a great many oattla oaught ín the canyons by the sudden rise were drowned. It is reported that a t amily of six immigrante camping on the bank of the Eickaree river were drowned. Atchison, Kan., Aug. 22.- A terrino haüBtorm swept over this city at four o'clock Saturday afternoon. Hailstones measuring nine and ten inches in circumf erence f elL The wind was from the north, and half the Windows in the city on the north side of the houses were broken. The heavy plate-glass in the lower story of the Daily Champion building was struck by three large hallstones and broken Into plecas. Twenty 'or more heavy plate Windows along Commercial Btreet wera broken in a similar manner. Nearly every wlndow on the north eide of the Byram House was broken and several handsome 11lominated wlndows in the Baptist and Episcopal churches were destroyed. The loss ia broken glass will aggregate $4,000 or $5,000. The storm appears to have been general throughout Northern Kansas. The cars on th lncomlng passenger trains on the Central branoh of the Union Pacific and the Omaha extensión of the Missouri Pacific traína had their windows on the north sida broken by the hail. Fassengers report tha rain as very heavy. H. C. Patcher, a printer, ■was struck by one of the hailstones, and the bridge of his nose was flattened. Hls injuries are severe. Advices from outside places say that the storm was two miles wlde and that the damage will amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars, much stock being killed, fields of corn lald low and trees stripped of their branches. Chableston, 8. C., Aug. 22.- Extremely unfavorable accounts have been received here from the rice plantations in the South Sumpter district of this State. The freshet of last week has not yet eubsided, and another freshet is looked f or daily. Many of the plantations are now under water, and great destruction has resulted. Another flood now is feared, which, if it comes, will completely ruin this year's rice erop. Janes vuxe, Wis., Aug. 23.- Sunday night's rains caused serious rallroad washouts in Wisconsin. The Chicago and Minnesota mails are cut off, and several culverts along the Chicago & Northwestern road are entirely destroyed. öti of Mexico, Aug. 23.- The rains of Sunday night left this city almost entlrely under water. Pedestrians could not make their way through the flooded thoroughfares. Monday the shops were being: pumped out

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