Furious Storms

BLOWN AWAT. Cincinnati, July 15. - About 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon the village of Princeton, gix miles f rom Hamilton, O., was visited by a severe wind-storm. Before Teaching Princeton it blew the rooi off the barn oí Joseph StinKon, thro wing it into a corn field Bome distance away. The dwelling-house of Finley Whltehead, in Princeton, was carried away, and nis wagon-making 6hop near by waa demolishert. The large brieksehool-buildinginthe village was torn down to the foundations and a rafter ofjth house was carried 200 yards by the force of the wind and lodged in the top of a large oak tree, while the desks and other furniture were scattered in every direction, and the blacksmith shop and barn of Gus Kinnear were both leveled to the ground. The houses of John Lenharf, Bose Miller and Stephen Clawson were completely wrecked, whfle Aeh Walter lost every thtng he possessed. The oats and corn erop vere ruined and the village was deluged with water. No deaths occurred. Thirty buildings were wrecked. MANY LIVES LOST. Baltimoee, Md., July 15. - A water-spout causcd the 6inall streams known as Herring run and Moore's run, northeast of Baltimore, to rise to an unprecedented height Saturday afternoon, bursting two dams, one called Reed's dam and the other at Casper Bobb's place on the Bellaire road. The water rushed down in a wall twenty feet deep, sweeping every tmng öeiore it. everai peopje were drowned. As f ar as known, two men on the Bellaire road, named Powcll and Bcheillner, were drowned in Herring run; George Lingenfelder, hds wiie and father and a Mrs. Seifert on Moore'B run. Mr. Lingenfelder was coming to market at Baltimore, and tried to cross the bridge, f rom which he wasBwept. Mis. Seifert met her death in a similar mannor. Horses and cattle were drowned in large nuinbers, and projuerty and crops are swept away. The damage done can not be fully estimated. Nearly every bridge crossing Herring run was swept away, including the large iron bridge at Bobb's. Fields of fráin were destroyed and trucking farms ruined. The roads are all wiped out. Th tracks of the Hall's Springs horse railway were twisted and turned into utter ruin. A large country store on the Hartford road was swept away. There was a washout on the Maryland Central raüroad at Guilford's station, causing a suspension of travel. John McCormick' barn on the Frederick road was etruck by lightning and burned. Loss, ♦3,000. Five people in it were stunned, but are recovering. The Herring run racetrack was damaged to the extent of $2,000 John Colburn's house at Creek Neck was partly wrecked by lightuing and bis wholo famlly iniured. Fort Koeinson. Neb.. Julv 15. - A burst oecurred in Soldier Creek valley about daylight Saturday. Some of wie waves were six feet high. Four peojue, Marsh Dunoan and three of, his childrefl, are knowa to have been drowned. It is feared many other lives have been lost. Colonel Telford has sent out a company of th Eighth Infantry to eearch for dead and carry asslstance to the sutïerers. HEAVT STOKMS ELSEWHERE. Plattsbubg, N. Y., July 15. - A terrino hall, rain and wind-storm passed over Plattsburg-, Burlington (VtJ and other places alons Lake Champlain Saturflay afternoon. In this city electric Hjfjit, telephone and telegraph wires were prostrated, trees were blown dowa and many Windows were broken by hail-stones. In the country farmers lose heavily on grain and fruit. At Burlington the Telephone Excfyange was partly burned by llghtning. Damage to buildings, wires and crops are reported from nearly every place along the lake. Many narrow oscapes from drowning are reporte d. Evans ville, Ind., July 15.- Much damage is reported froni the lower Ohio on account of the copioüs rain-fall since Thursday afternoon. The water came down in torrents, and itis asserted that within two hours there was a three-inch fall Saturday morning. Growing crops were necessarily damaged, and in soine places immense oat and tobáceo fields were coinpletely submerged and the crops ruined. The stricken section extends from Cairo to Smithland, on both sides of the river. Bloominoton, 111., J.uly 15.- The deluge of Friday which did such great damage to the oats, which' were ripe for the sickle. was followed by a series ot heavy storms, which completed the havoc. Datenport, Ia., July 15. -The heaviest rain-storm known in years viRited this section Saturday night. In this and sur. rounding otties considerable damag was done by overflowed streets and oellars, while in the country wind and water causeo considerable deetruction to orops. Corn and oát are both pretty generally raowed down by th f ury of the storm, and, whii the former wlll probably rise, this is not expected to be the case with oats, concernlBg which farmers ara very much discouraged and fear great lossea Mattoon, 111., July 16. - During the three hours of rainfall Sunday the precipitation wasfour inches in three hours, and tbe electric storm was very severe. John Moor's barn, containing seven head of horses and much other valuable property, was ftred by Hghtning and oonsumed near Hum. boldt R. H. Williams' barn wa burned flve miles southeast of Mattoon. A farmer near this city named Cartwrlght was prostoated by a thunderbolt and many others were shocked. The Ókaw rivar rose at the rate of a foot per hour Sunday afternoon, and all other streaims are at high tide. Much damage will resúltto oats and hay, but corn and otter arowing cropa, all of whlch are very luxuriant in growth at present, are safe. Reading, Pa., July 16.- Itom early yesterday morning an unusually heavy storm of rain prevalled throughout the Lebanon valley. Creeks overflowed their banks, submerging rields, and the crops whieh had been left out were swept away. At Avon, Myerstown and Lebanon numbers of the lowet floors of houses' were flooded and many occupants had their household ooda destroyed. At noon the Schuylkill river at Eeading was seven feet above low-wateï mark andieleven feet above at Spring City. Lanoastee, Pa, July 16. - In the northern part of Lancaster County tho stormg oí Baturday and Sunday nights were the heaviefft in years. I?1ve mili darus wera carried ayay along Homner and Muidle creeks, and five bridges were destroyed in, Ellzabeth township. A large ameunt of fencing and growlng cropa were swept away. The oreeks are higher tban ever belore known.