p. 56 | Disastrous Storms

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 12, 1875

Disastrous Storms.

ANOTHER CHAPTER OF GLOOM.

CINCINNATI, Aug. 2.—The rain of last evening was the most disastrous of this season, in less than two hours overflowing all low places, washing away railroad tracks, and ruining the crops. The Ohio, Miami and Whitewater Valley lowlands are completely inundated, and the loss cannot be estimated.

In and around this city the destruction is terrible. Every railroad is more or less washed out, and hardly a train is on time to-day.

On Eastern Avenue the mud from the hills is washed down, completely covering and filling up the streets below; eleven houses were washed from their foundations, and the streets are damaged many thousands of dollars worth. In many of the houses on Eastern Avenue the water is two feet deep, and in some it rose high enough to rush in torrents through the windows, completely emptying them of furniture.

This immediate locality and Cairo, Ill., are the only places struck by this storm, it being clear at all other western points.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—The railroads have sustained immense loss through the loss of bridges, the giving way of embankments, and the washing away of tracks. In many instances they have been completely blockaded by water. In a large portion of the other flooded districts the crop prospects are worse than for many years past. Corn is seriously damaged, and barley is beaten down, and all the crops have suffered extensively.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 2.—The damage by the rain storm is very severe in Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois. The railroads east are considerably damaged by floods, and trains cannot run on time. The roads in other directions are also greatly damaged. The rivers in this section are rising rapidly, and the heavy rains have been very destructive to crops.

THE ENGLISH FLOODS.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—The following is received by mail: The rains and floods in the midland, eastern, and northern counties of England, have ceased. Hay-making and other agricultural works are at a standstill in many places. The low-lying portions of the country have been covered by water, it being in many places five feet deep. St. Ives was partially flooded, as also were Swansea, Rugby, Bedford, Warwick, Walsall, Birmingham, Leicester, Wolverhampton, and a large number of other cities and towns.—Detroit Daily News.