STORMS AND FLOODS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 300, 19 September 1888, Page 4

STORMS AND FLOODS.

i)e-patche-> ot August 2lst fiom wuiou* |),uU of the I'inted .States ?peak of the dcfctiuclh c oilecti of btoim^ and floods. I The damage in the Olno Valley will be more than half a million dollar.-. Four lailway blidges ha\e been washed out ii one count} alone, and 15,000 people weic without a supply of purj water, owing to the fall of the great -tone bi ldge across Whirling deck. Jn Bo ion, Mas-., the lainslo.m was ahno^t unparalleled. Sewers biu-t in all diieetions, doing particular damage in the \icini'"y ot Howtloin Square. Hunched- ot people were di hen from their homes in the lioxbuty di^uict, by the o\ei How of Stony Brook. In Pennsylvinia railway bridges wore washed away by the do/en, and sjoics ot f.imilie.- li\ing in the vicinity of ri\cis weie forced to fly for their lives by the booming water.?. The btoim A\ar^ pui ticulaily ss t \eie in Louisiana, and Ihe coal lleet on the Mississippi was all wrecked, besides steameih at Baton Ronge, and several other towns alone- the banks of the nvei. From Southern Maryland, the repoit is to the eflbob that houses and bains were demolished, entire fruit oichaids destioyed, and cornfields -wept clean, besides \es&els capsized in toipe of the small poi ts. In New YOIU city, vinn fell all day on the 21s-fc, and was the heiMC-t known. The Everett Uousc restaurant was deluged, tiic tide bein^ r ?o hi»h that sewcis were pieventcd diseha < y thcii contents. The fiuit ard vegetable dealeis in Washington Maikct sustained a loss of ft 15,000. The libhing ttcan ci Montana, valued afcSsojooo, was .sunk ofl (Jaidnei's inland. The Cohasset yacht squadron was nearly annihila'ed. In Philadelphia, the damage to city propert\ is estimated at !?100,000. For the thiid time in m\ weeks a flood visited the Ujiper Ohio VaHey, canpiiit' a damage of over one million dollais. The tusrbcat Cain w a1;a 1 ; cauglit in u watcrppout ofTChe-tcr, and her decks swept fore and aft, carrying the captain overboard. The tornado tunelled through Kent County, Md., lea\inif a path ot destruction about lifty feet wide. Several coloured men were killed in the village of Cecilton. ' Nine peisons who took lefuge in Krebb's cannciy at Stillpond, Md., weio killed outiight and many othein veve injured. The building was blown to pieces.