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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. jifUiMTA, GA., TUESDAY MAY 18 1886
SWEPT BY A STORM.
A TBPRIFIC CYCLONE VISITS CIN
CINNATI AND OTHER POINTS.
IWilIrtIToniH into Darknaaa Dj tun Blank Cloud.
-a...r Down-Pour of Sola, Aoooapoalod t»
Bun wind.. Dolnff Oront Domodo to
rroponr-Sonroi Pooplo xuiod.
Kanfah Citt, May 11.—A fearful atom of
wind and rain swept over this city today, eon-
tinmen from 11 o'clock until noon. The
eourtbonse, on Second street, was totally de
molished above the second story. TheLethrop
school building, on Eighth strut, was partially
wrecked and many children wen caught In the
nina An overall factory, on Second street,
was blown down. The old waterworks build
ing, near the conrthonso, was blown down. At
the Western Union telegraph office bat ons
wire is working ont of the city.
- Orleans and Ifcmph's. One span at the north
end of the railroad bridge across the Missouri
river was blown Into the river, blocking the
Hannibal and St. Joseph, Bock Island, Wabash
end Kansas City and BL Joe and Connell BlulFs
road.
Eight girls hare been taken ont of the overall
lkclory, four of whom are dead. Many others
are In the rolnr. but there is scarcely hope for
tbek lives. In the confusion It is Impossible
Tbe disastrous fury of tho storm was confined
to the north end of the city, except In the de
struction nftboEathrop school bnlldlngon
Eighth street; the buildings generally, except
ing those mentioned, withstood tbe fory of the
At iatbrop school eleven schoolchildren are
reported dead. Of the fonr buildings wrecked
all were more or leu nnsonnd. Tho school
building hu been twice condemned and the
eonrt bouse by many was considered unsafe.
No one wu killed excopt In them four houses.
The storm, although entailing eurh heavy lou
of life, wua nothing of the nature of the torna
do that visited the city three vcarssgo. It
was a violent wind accompanied by a flood of
water and some hail which turned many of
the streets Into rivers. Signs and shutters,
chimneys, etc., were blown with the gale, and
a number or vehicles were overturned in the
stmts, lllsck clouds that rolled over the
city created almost tho darkneu of night and
made tho timid ones cronch lit terror In cel
lars. The streets were entirely deserted, and
in tone instances horses were seen wandering
aroond attached to vehidu and seeking re
fuse from the pelting storm.
The Eathrop school bulldiog was surmount
ed by a tower with a heavy bell. This tower
wet blown over and the liell went through the
roof, carrying down tbe dltferent floors to tho
basement. Tho house was crowded with chil
dren. Twelveof thcao have been taken out of
the ruins dead. Many others were injured.
The overall factory was leveled with the
ground.
Kour girls were taken from the wreck dead
and a number wounded and others are still
missing.
Deputy Sheriff Dougherty was killed In
the courthouse. Judge Stover bad adjourned
court only a minute before the bulldiog was
wrecked. A portion of the roof fell upon the
chair he had just vacated. Frank Smith, of
Smith A Moffett's spire mills, was killed In
tbe ruins of his establishment, and his part
ner, Msffatt, was hurt. A good many people
are reported missing who may yet turn up.
I.Ut of the dead, so far as known, Is eleven
children and one teacher of the Lethrop
schools; tlx killed at tbe overall factory; four
killed at Smith A Maffat'a spice factory, in
cluding Frank O. Smltb.one or the proprietors.
Deputy Sheriff Dougherty, and Deputy Ito-
corder Hedges, killed at the courthouse.
Thirty persons am known to bo Injured at tho
fculldun named, somo of whom are fatally
hurt. Mayor Livermore and Lieutenant T,
n. Young, United States engineer,' were both
hurt.
The
small, compared with — — —
damage Is roughly ortlinatod at (150000, a por
tion of which Is covered by storm Insnrsnoes.
The storm is generally considered a hurri
cane, not a tornado or cyelone. It was a tre
mendous gale of wind with a flooding
rainfall. Meagre reports indicate that a num
ber of places In Kansas were more or less
damaged by the storm, though but little loos
of llfo or peraooal Injury occurred.
The same tornado visited Leaven worth and
did an Immense amount of damagu, hut so far
aak known only one life wae lust.
11KATH AT A t’AMl'MEBTIWO.
I-Awnurcx, Kansas,May II,—A largecarap-
meeting lout wu blown down In Johnson
county Sunday, whllo services wore In pro-
■rru. Two hundred and Afty people ware In
the tent. Three were killed, a man and wlfo
named Jackson and tholr balm. Hi
Injured,
dbownkdat A may.
Farsons, Kansu, May II.—Fonr persons
were drowned yesterday In the Nevaho river
at Naquin's ferry. They all belonged to one
ftmily. They Insisted on being ferried over
dyy
r reman. The Utter wu
wind tipped tho ferry boat
at a sudden auglo. The wagon, turn and peo
ple all went over, and Kllnu, hts two children
and brotheMn-law, named Cos, were drown
ed. The Ibrryman rescued Mn. Kllas and
on# child.
CAM Blown PSOM TUX TRACK.
Fittsui'ko, May It,—A heavy windstorm
last night In Oovemaogh valley blow a num
ber of freight care from the side track of the
Transylvania read upon the main track. A
heavy westbound freight train of twonty-flvo
cars going at the rate of thirty mllu an hour
came along ahont midnight and
cruhrd Into an obstruction before the engi
neer had time t> revalue his engine twenty-dve
cars were totally demolUhed and the wreck
strewn along tho tracks a distance of several
hundred yards. Thu conductor, engineer and
firemen were killed InsUntly, Tho balance
of the crew escorted with alight inlorisa.
ConxxxaviLLB. Ind., May 10.—A tornado
passed through Warns county, thirteen miles
north of here, last night dgstroylni everything In
lie truck. One womsu and two uieu, names un<
Cbicauo,
cago and All
. Passengers on the Chi-
lion train which arrived tonight,
had s remarkable experience with the cyclone.
At l'onliac. 111,, a storm clond wu soon gath
ering in the steal, and moving in s northeast
direction. At the train sped on, tbe storm
kept coming nearer every minute, and the
passengers Iwgan to roallm that they were
Doing chased by the cyclone. Just
as the train nulled into Odell,
111., tho storm struck tho town and the
air wu fksll of debris. In a moment mv«q
•tores and the hotel worn unroofed; and one
large brick building wu nearly dcatroyed.
Under the wreck of the etiuetare two children
were buried. Tho telegraph wins la that vi
cinity are reported down. --s-waffi
Specials from Streetor and Rockford, HI.,
and Peru, Ind., tell of a terrible wind and ball
storm at thou points. About 530 p. m. heavy,
roaring cloudi from tho south and east mot
Just over the city of Kockforsl, and daylight
wu suddenly converted into darkness A
downpour of immense hailstones followed,
neatly damaging treu and breaking windows
1“ Use country anmunding Strestor rain and
hail raged for an hour and a half, and tna
destruction visited upon groin, fruits and all
vegetables la very great. From Peru, Ind.,
telegrams are received to the effect that houses
were unroofed, trees uprooted and whaat
•elds blown down. A large amount of stock
if reported killed by the lightning.
JOUXT, Ills, May IS.—A most destructive
cyclone is reported thorn Odell, a village forty
miles tooth of Joliet, on tho Chicago and Al
ton. This afternoun shout four o'clock the
dorm burst. The delegatee to the State 8tb-
hsth-echool convention returning on tho train
arriving hern at six p. m . state that at tbe
train neared Odell they saw a cyclone ap
proaching. First they asw the roof of aa eleva
tor raise and uil off in the air. and the build
ing collapse. Then a hotel aod houses
raised op. tumbled over like feathers and
were shattered to pieces Both brick and
torn* and all sixes from shan
ties |0 two - story be tidings,
weak Tho train wu itonped
but u tbf wind wu blowing pareUd with tho
track It waa not upect^ though brirVs and
sticks broke tbe windows. Considerable time
waa required to mote the debris from the
track before tbe train coaid proceed after the
cyclone. People bualcd themselves looking
under rained houses for those missing.
Later-One of tbe severest storms ever
known here struck Joliet about 8:30 this eve
ning. A deluge of rain, thunder and hail in
undated tbe earth. Tbe thunderbolts were
deafening and the electric display unparalleled.
A circus show was having a performance
here and In the midst of performance the
storm struck the tent and turned th« whole
show npeide down. A general stampede en
sued, amid sheets of lightning, drenching
rains and resistless gales of wind/ Three per
sons were seriously Injured bjr falling poles.
A number wero hnrt slightly.
Bloownoton, III., May 12.—The Panto-
graph** special from Odell is aa follows:
At .3:45 p. m. today a terrible cyclone struck
this Tillage, which demolished one brick block,
wrecked three warehouses unroofed the ho
tel, Masonic hall and fonr store buildings; also
the upper story of the Angel 1 block, in which
was the Odell bank and Odd Fellows* lodge.
Scarcely o store In town escaped injury.
The loss will amount to fifty thou
sand dollars. Houses, barns and sheds were
twisted off their foundations a »nd completely
destroyed. Trees n foot in diameter were
twisted np. The storm did not last over five
minutes Ten minutes before the air seemed
to get green. The clouds seemed to advance;
one frcio southeast and one from the southwest
and met over the town forming n monstrous
whirlwind. The large livery barn of Hord
Brothers, a large three story mill and the two
tory brick hardward store of 8. 8. Cole are
all wrecked. The hotel is injured badly: not
a whole window remains in the ballaiog.
A number of residences were
badly wrecked. The streets are
filled with timbers, board fences, tin roofs
and prostrated trees. Tbe new school build
ing Is partly unroofed. The fatally iqjured
are: Lottlo Bwiete, a ten-year-old girl,
waa carried over 200 feet (n the air and
fell on tho railroad track, smashing her
sknll. George and Charles Hoke, livery men;
8. 8. Cole, hardware merchant, and two child
ren of John Miller, are seriously hurt. The
telegraph wires were all blown down, and
communication with the outeide world was
completely cut off. The damage in the sur
rounding country is comparatively slight.
WiKcnrsTm, May 12.—Fearful storms
parsid over this place this evening, lasting
fifteen minutes. Two clouds of a greenish
cast barging low, one from the northeast, the
other from the southwest met and bursted
immediate over the cit. The wind attained
great velocity and hail stones tho size of wal
nuts fell to tho depth of from two inches to
three feet. Trees were stripped off their
foliage, and the rain foil in torrents, filling the
streets and cellars. Every house with n
western exposure had all the window glaae
deitroved. Carriages wero overturned on the
roads leading to city, the occupants narrowly
escaping with their lives. Fortunately the
atorm did not extend moro than a mile on
either side of tho place. The people wore
greatly alarmed during 1U prevalence.
Kvakbviu.k, Ind., May 12.—The loss from
the tornsdn last night is abont IlfiO.OOO. One
man was killed In the street bv a falling tree.
Wilmamspobt, Ind., May 12.—A cyclone
struck this place this evening, destroying
everything In its track. Several bouses and
barna In the north end of town were carried
away. It seemed to have formed about two
miles northwest of the town, and took a
southwesterly direction, traveling about
thirty milea an hour, striking the extreme
north end of this place.
Cincinnati, May 13.—There Is no telo-
graphic communication with Xenia and Dayton,
but from tbe railroad officials it la ascertained
that the rain fell ao rapidly that the culvert
under the railroad choked up, creating au
immaase reservoir, which finally broke the
embankment and raahad through Xenia, tear
ing down trees and washing away houses,
here baa been au unusual electrloal dia
ls for tho put three nights. On
bouses, occupied mostly by colored
people, were here swept away,dozens of houses
were lost, aod railroads leading out of the city
were swept away, ao that it is impossible to
hear from outside points. At leasts dozen
trains are here, sad within a few miles of the
city. The telegraph wires are down and busi-
ness la suspended. One entire finally of seveu
persons, (white) named Morris, waa swept
away. The last seen of them was at Swaim
street bridge, when a manwis seen at tbe
window by the terror-stricken crowd waving
alighted lamp. In the next instant tbe house
collapsed and they were gone. On If
one boy. thirteen years of age, hu been foam
Another CsmUy or seven (colored) persons wei
similarly swept away. The work of Andie
the bodies still continues tonight. The mayor'i
office hu been turned into a morgue, and
there are now twenty-two bodies there. The
turbance here for f
Monday night tbe
rupted lightning f
’ raptedlightning from 11 p. m., until 6 a. m.
Tuesday night a similar oonditlon existed,
accompanied by heavy rains and hail, tbe lat
ter being of very narrow range. Lost night
there wu another electrical storm with wind,
heavy rain and hail.
The Xenia storm, howover, wm much more
farious. Tho counties of Montgomery, Clarke,
Butler, Warren and Greene, lie adjacent iu
Ohio and form an elovsted plateau with but
shallow vallejs and low hills. In theso coun
ties are the towns of Dayton, Npringfleld,
Hamilton, leohauon and Xenia. In the east
ern county of Indiana, adjoluini
is Conriersville. At all these pi
of last night wu the heaviest volume ever
known. At Dayton It moMurcd I! inches in
abont threo hours. Xenia wu situated so as
to get the worst results. Tho Shawnee river
traverses a portion of the eity adjacent to tho
Little Miami railroad, which Hu lower than
tbe main portion of the city. The rail-
road embank ment rises above the general level
and tho stream Hows through Tt In a largo
culvert. Lut night's rainfall wat
eutlreljHtoo much for the capacity of that cal*
low lands, and without wanting, bore them
from their foundations.
At Npringfleld the flood wu nearly of equal
volume but the drainage wu better. The East
High street bridge wu undermined and is a
mass of ruins. In the eastern and aoutheu
tern portions of the city many families are
driven from their houses by tho encroaching
flood. Dozens of bridges are washed away.
The (owescannot be estimated but will be ox-
church, the Isehanon house, grist mill, Wat _
hens, anil serersl residences were unroofed.
The shade trees wore nearly all uprooted.
Day ton Is isolated,no trains or mal’s arriving
. J or ont, telegraph and telephone wires are
all down. A storm, wind, rein and hail struck
Dsyton and vicinity lastnighL Small streams
became rash lag torrents, and tho Miami river
bream. ■ mighty floral, rising nine foot in
three hours, inundating fifty acres, many
house, in th« Fourth xrard, and drowning
bores, and cows, and doing much other dam-
age.
Fairmonnt In a total wreck. The church at
Beavertown, where prayer meeting was In
progress, wm demolished, bat the panic
stricken worshippers wore not seriously hurt.
The dwellings there wm twisted from
their foundation!. At Shaker village, threo
mile, east, many buildings were unroofed,
haras wore blown down and cattle were in
jured. A special train with Superintend
ent Tucker wu wrecked near Osborae.
Mr. Tucker and six others were injured.
Thry were brought to Dsyton. The north
bound (knight train on tho Cincinnati, Hamil
ton and Dayton dashed iota a washout at
Fossum Ban, flvo miles south of Dayton, and
a thirty ton locomotive wu carried 150 foot
down a Blighty torrent before sinking. It
then relied over and over. At daylight a
farmer a mile acres, the waters noticing the
signal of distress reorued the freight crew
from tho tree tops, Engineer John McCutcheon
and his fireman being eerlonsl
rein fall wm fonr and one-half
lean.
At Xenia, about 7 o'clock last evening, ter
rible clouds were seen gathering end terrific
clap of thunder seemed to open the gates
the rein felt In torrents. People living in
hoates on Water street creased by every
way possible. The spout seemed to vent its
fury on that portion of tho city. For e stretch
of 150 yards, the Little Miami tail road is
swept sway. Tho snoot struck houses on
Water steet and tore them to pieces aa If they
were sheila A resident of the street states that
within two mluntce after the clap of thunder
he stood In water to his waist, ho being abont
25 yards from th. creek. When tho water
reached the residence of Aaron Ferguson it
WSJ swept nwty with nine inmates end lodged
against e bridge, where they were afterwords
rerewed. Tbs next damage wu U the cool
yiid of Samuel Clark. Ib whicn wu located a
tenement house occupied by a family named
Howell, hint in number. Up to 0 p.m. not
one of them hod been hoard ftum. The next
■traction wu In what
Ufi "hot terns.” A doaoa
point ot
W known
bio. Forces of men ere busily on'
gaged clearing nwny, and hundreds
of people surround the places. Strangers,
hove begun to poor Into the eity
from every direction. Tho council hu appro
priated $1,000 for Immediate use In tho burial
of the victims. Private subscription have
already reached Into the thousands. A com
mittee I* canvassing the city for clothing and
bedding. The rink hu been turned into
reftige for tho homeless, who ere many. A
eld possible is needed from every source.
Among tbe louu ere McDowell ft Torrence,
lumber, (10,000; Miami Powder company,
(25,000; Little Miami railroad, (125,000;
private individuals, (50,000. The city
engineer plecu the ctty'i loss at (75c
000. The Little Miami railroad ha
abont sixteen miles swept ewey. In addition
to tho above two more bodies wero found this
evening, being children, and they ere not
Identified. The complete number of deaths,
whore bodies hu been found, in twenty-five
with eleven still missing.
ClIKAtio, III., May 13.—Dispatches from
Mount Carroll, GUcsliurg, Rockford, Merehull,
Tuscola end 8f ' ...
western Iowa,
era Indiana Indicate that the storm of last
evening wu general throughout tho localities
named. In erery place it is reported u n
severe electrical storm, accompanied by
s furious gale end e heavy fall
Istge ball stones. Great damage
was done to buildings in the towns end the
crept end fruit In the country. No lives were
lost except such u hove already boon re
ported.
No fbrtber particulars of yesterday’s storing
In Indiana and Illinois ere obtainable, owing
to the Interruption of tologrepbie communica
tion. Wires ware swept down by the score.
In one place In Illinois over a hundred poles
were blown down.
Lanark, III., May 13.—Yesterday’s extra
ordinary rain >torm brought a cyclone und
wlchcd between leu destructive portions. For
»space of fonr rods wide everything above
while on either side
wsgon nndor e shod for shelter. The shed
wu blown away end n flying stone killed tho
batcher.
Wasbin(iton, May 14.—Among the trainer-
out dispatches concerning Wednesday’s storm,
tho following ere gleaned:
A cyclone one hundred end fifty yards wide
end six miles long passed close to Danville,
111. Four persons were killed, and the earth
wet swept clean.
Tbe magnitude of the disaster at Attica,Ind.
constantly grows. The money lou Is now es
timat'd u high u (350.000, end two or threo
more deaths of Injured people ere expected.
In Mlgga county, Ohio, many bnlldlngs were
demolUhed, two persons wore killed end three
liedly hurt.
From Tipton, Ind., comu e similar story.
Tho tornado swept e largo section ot country
clear of building* end trees. Ono member of
e family named Gates, wu killed, end five
others ere likely to die. A dozen others ere
hart, more er leu seriously,
At Wilkinson, Ind.; tho cyelone hffad only
five minutes. Bat two persons wore killed,
end s dosen or more Injured.
St. Lome, May 14.—About tlx o'clock to
night the heaviest rein and wind storm of tho
year, end perhaps the huvlest rein fell that
has occurred hero for e number of
years, passed over the city end swept on to
the eutwsrd. Tho rein was almost a deluge,
and all tho streets in the city wero rnnning
streams of water, varying In depth from two'
to six Inches. All depressions in the city wore
flooded and cellars and basements ware par
tially flllid, doing great damage to their
contents. The specific losses are not ob
tainable at thU writing, but the general
dsmsgo will amount to many thonunda of dol
lars. The wind seemed to be a straight one, ol
high velocity, but so far no material damage
from it hu been reported, Tho rain wu u
heavy that It went through tho roof of the
Wetlcrn Union telegraph office immediately
over the great switchboard and by wetting tbe
insulation of the wires and tho croa'
currents actually disabled tho office for
Cincinnati, <>., May 14.—Nows of damage
by tho storm of Wednesday night eontlnuu to
come. Madison county, Ky., suffered to the
extent of more than (200,000, Streams in
that county are generally low-banked, and an
unprecedented flood caused nearly all the
bridges to lie carried off. In Fayette county
the water spout so pronounced that a flood of
nrreased until In fonr hours It had
rlren eighteen feet, the highest over known.
Forht, 0., May 15.—This place and vicin
ity wu visited by a tornado lut night abont
eleven o'clock. The sir wu fillod by bolls of
Are, which exploded with e load snapping
sound. Thu storm come from tbo southwest
and tended to s northeuterly direction. Par
ticulars, except thou brought by farmers liv
ing near tho truck of tho storm, cannot be
obtained. There ore known to have bun flvn
persons killed and a number injured, two
probably fatally. The residence of Mr. He-
Elvee wu blown down, killing Mr.
McElvee end his mother-ln-Uw.
A house near by wu destroyed,
killing a men whose nemo wu not given. The
house of Thomu Moore wu rued to tho
out of town, ere destroyed. Samuel Hnckerd
was fatally hart and his wife injured by the
blowing down of bis rsnidnnce. Tbe Center-
pool hoau, one mile west of town, wu leveled
to the ground. In Blanchstd river valley
fences, telegraph poles, trees and
houses were laid low.
Dayton, Ohio, May 15.—Edward Moore-
house, a railroad man, walked from here to
Xenia and hack yesterday, being anxious abont
hts relatives who live in Xenia. AtTrebetn
station, while being ferried icrau the Little
Miami river he end the oarsman discovered e
living hoy child In e drifted tree top. They
rescued the child, who hod an arm and leg
broken, lie had drifted fear mllu down
Shawnee creek from Xenia Into the Little
Miami. The child died before they reached
Xenia.
Fobt Way**, May 15.—Ahont midnight e
yelone eroued the track of the Pittsburg,
Injuring 1
onsly, his 1
scrapes.
leg being h
ont. The storm eua
O. It blow down true which
of tho Out express, nut bound,
or twelve pessengere, one serf-
broken end one eye pat
Mb
end between fifteen end twenty injured. Bov-
ilcces end
Blanchard river. The town
wu struck by e storm and fonr persona
»y U
many
nil citizens are ont hunting for tho deed
wounded.
rxort.x xlyino in rnx ait.
Torrxa. Ka-.May 15.—A detractive cyclone
struck the northern part of this county yea-
today, and swept sway a portion of tho town
of Meriden About ten o'clock iu tho morn
ing s very black clond com# np suddenly from
the southeast, sweeping through the eastern
rtion of the town and did Its foarful work
almost a moment, A large number of
bn lid ings were destroyed. Eighteen or twen
ty persons were hurt, two or three probably
fatally. Several persons whs were out doom
went sailing through the sir. One of them
were dropped against e barbed wire fieoee end
acnecsJj injured. Nothing wu left above ths
ground in the path of the storm. Trees were
torn np by tbo roots.
Heavy Winds In Georgia.
Macon, Ga., May 15.—[Special.]—'The
storm this evening wss pretty severe. Friend-
ship church, south Macon, was blown down,
and s chimney on Msatcrson’s residence was
Mown down. The telephone snd telegraph
wires arc broken npjSnd a great many trees
fell In the city. Tbo wall of Ralston hall
fell, snd a man narrowly escaped death by the
AI'ocbta, Ga.,May 15.—[Special.]—Augusta
wu visited at six o'clock this afternoon by a
heavy wlndBtorm followed by a steady rain
which promises to fall throughout the night.
Baring the blow, clouds of dust and sand were
so severe u to put a stop to travel and undos*
tnanism. Trees on upper Broad and Greene
were stripped of foliage, shutters broken sod
frail fences laid, but no serionu damage hat
been reported u yet, though It is feared that
reports from beyond tho und hill, whence
came the storm snd accompaniments, may
■how s deal of destruction.
Tlie Cyctone's Devastating Course In Spain.
Hadxid, May 13.—A terrible hurricane hu
Jnst swept oerou ths middle of Spain. In tho
city seventy persons are known to have been
instantly killed and 200 others have been seri
ously injured. Tho wind struck the city with
thesaddenness of lightning. A train of cars
and cabs were overturned and broken into
splinters, roofs were dislodged and telegraph
wires everywhere were torn from their poles.
The parks in and about tho city were devut-
uted and In some cases were entirely denndnd.
One church tower wu blown down. A num
ber of booHS In the suburbs wore entirely
wrecked and of many cottages on the out
skirts of the capital which were blown from
their foundations and wrecked, some were so
completely and quickly broken up and scatter
ed by the wind that thay may. bo uid to
have simply vanished before the storm. Tele
graphic communication hu been so complete
ly ent off that it is impossible u yet to obi
itein
news from the provinces bat it is believed
that tho rain wrought by the hurricane hu
been widespread
Madeid. May
ricana here will* . .
sente sum to the relief fund. Animals even
exhibited the wildest terror daring tho hurri
cane. Farm crops snd villages were destroyed
in tho country districts, the working clue
Madsid. May 14.—Tbo damage by the bur-
"l exceed (1,250,000. Thoqnoon
ntry
■offering the heaviest losses. Many washer
women were blown into tbe river Manssrares,
and twenty-eight drowned. The largest tree
in Madrid, which stood in front of tho parlia
ment building, wu blown down. Tho hospitals
are crowded with sufferere. The storm wu
preceded by several days of extremely hot
weather.
In this city thirty-two persons wore killed
and (120 injured by the hurricane Wednesday
evening.
Tho hurricane lasted only ton minutes.
Government architects have examined e large
number of buildings situated in the track of
the itonm and have pronounced most of them
unsafe. Tbo town eoancll hu appropriated
(8,500 for tbe relief of sufferers, end the queen
hu given (800 for tho seme purpose.
London, May 14.—Tho lacosunt rains fatt
ing In the north Is causing rlren to overflow
their banks, Sheffield, Attorietoffo, Lancaster
and other townx ere partly inundated. At
Rotherham tbo railway steel works, many
honscs and thonunds of acres of land ore sab-
merged and 2,000 workmen ere temporarily
out of employment.
A largo part of Derbyshire Is submorged
id many of the public highways are today
Impossible. The railway bridge over the
river Severn, near Shrewsbury, weskenod at
III foundation by tho floods, fell last night
ghtofa passing freight train,
under the weight or t passing might I
jtreclpltatlug it into the river. No lives
London, Mar II
cold and squally,
throughout Fraud
yards have been do
0,000 francs. A hurrlcaao passed over
snd tmrtlslly destroyed it. Several
rero killed snd a number were In-
persons
jured.
Several galu have been experienced in
Germany. Two Ship# that were lying in the
river Oder foundered snd flvn persons were
drowned.
do ,
i Lombardy, destroyed e large nauibor
of houses. Five persons were killed.
THE CHURCH IN THE HOUSE.
▲ Service of Home*Worship for Every Bunday [In
the Year.
By Bit. Charles F. Decks, D. D.,
Pastor of the Church of the Strainers, New York.
THIRD BUNDAY IN MAY.
When the household shall have Msemblod, let
tho head of tho family, or some other person ap
pointed bjr him lead theserrtee, by a short
[It will promote attention and roverenee If. at
[The lesson from the Old Testament* The leader
should announce the place of lesson, so that each
worshipper may open the Bible and follow the
Isaiah xl., 1-17; Hymn. Prayer.]
should be several In each household.!
(The Epistle and tbe <Jospcl for eacn day should
be announced so that all the family may turn to
the passage andaccompany the reading,J
rotor 11., 1-17. The Gospel. Luke
[Tbe Epistle. I.
xl., 14. Hymn.]
TAX DISCOCME.
short discourse. The reader may enl_..- r
sentence, er Introduce other .matter. The para-
graph divisions and Italics will assist:]
Text: "Return, O my soul, unto thy rest”
—P*. cxyi., 7.
What has disturbed thee, O my soul, that
thou needest rest?
The soul, In answer to this question, recalls
Its intellcctnal perplexities. What ii God?
What doe* Ho intend to do 7 What are my re
lations to Him 7 A thousand such questions
in regard to the Great Creator and tho moral
nnivena perplex tho looL It plods In dark-
nesn and discovert no path to the light.
Every thought of itself, every reflection upon
tho world around It, starts it on s tiresome
quest.
Where is tbe net?
God Is in Christ answering slltheie ques
tions. Without Christ His existence, His
nature, His ways would constitute e madden
ing puzzle. Ib Christ He reconciles apparent
contradiction end gives th* tool rest
Wbst distal be thee, O my soul ?
The aonl’s answer to this recalls the stings of
contcienco; conscience, making the real own
Itself e sinner; conscience, making tbe soul
acknowledge the evil* of sin; conscience, tor
menting it with on apprehension of tho con-
sequent*, of sin. No rest!
The soul boa been rnnning ewey from God,
knowing that at any moment God. could over
take it. It could only ran from God or to
God. How could it ran to God? Against Him
it hod tinned; and yet the toul'e net is in Him.
He, only, can forgive; He, only, con grant
prare; Ha, only, can protect us eo that none
ran invade; He, only, can give ns everlasting
life. Tbe tool returns to God In Christ
O my soul, return onto thy rest in God I Ho
deals bountifully with thee. He bath so dealt.
Slid will so dost If thou do not And thy rest
in Him, there lino rest for thee in earth or
Heaven !
(The lord’s Pro
each icrrtc.. snd
the "Gloria'' or other nosology.I
AFTERNOON TALK.
A service may bn held and tbe rollotrin, dis
cotine lead :J
rr.IVATR DEVOTION.
By Rev. Canon McCormick, England.
No greater mistake can bo mode than to
suppose that we can command s spirit of
eraver whenever wo like, or that ‘‘private de
votion” is an cosy teak. Hence it is that at
our stated times of prayer wn ahonld not hasti
ly, or inconsiderately, rash into God's
presence. One of the most essential aids to
rivatedevotion la reflection. Yet, alee! it is
leg into onr closets, shutting the door, end
praying to our Father in secret. Bat too fre
quently, no sooner are we alone with God than
we fall upon our knees without a moment 8
n fli c ion concerning the solemn work wo
have, as a habit, or as a matter or course,
undertaking; and when the U»k is over our
spirits arc not refreshed and we are thorough
ly dissatlfffed With ourselrcd and ashamed of
our formality. It might, and in most caves It
would, be different ifi when the closet door
were shut, we paused for a little serious medi-
tation about our holy Clod, and tho nature of
th« prajers and praises we intended to present
to II im. Kay, this very meditation would not
merely be an introduction to prayer, but it
would form a most essential element of
“private devotion.” Sometime* the principal
part of communion with God is the holy silence
ind .dotation cf faith. Just to sit down and
quietly snd reverently to think about onr
HcuTenly Father it often as beneficial to the
soul as tho most earnest supplicatloii Tho
greatest Mints tho world hi* over known
found and made tirao for that reflection which
we properly connect with the fellowship of
GodT Wo hive so mnrh to do, and are oven so
religiously busy, that it hu not inch proml-
nonce In our devotions as either to be worthy
of us or to do us reel good. If e time tost were
applied to our private devotions, the remit
would, In many cases, be most onsatislhctory.
Wo seldom really enjoy that which costs us no
trouble, end which we do In a hurry. If God
b», as we ere ready In theory to admit that He
is, an invisible Friend, whoso societv is a Joy,
it isa strange proereding to give Him only a
few minutes at a time—a few short minutes In
a day—perhaps to a whole week.
This peuso snd calm reflection, to which we
gather ourselves together for * grant work, are
calculated to give a definite character to the
devotion. If we hastily and thoughtlessly
rashtoprey.ru s dnty to be is quickly as
possible accomplished, our * minds dreams Its
way through e dialect of deed words,” aod
“floats on the current of * stereotyped phrase-
ology” after e languid end Indolent manner.
There are no solemn obligations and no press
ing necessities, and the consequnncc is that ths
S reyer Is vague, pointless, a parrot-like relati
on, without (motion, wif'
ithont unorgy, with
ont agony, withont reality. "Private devo
tion” ia s great bnsineu as well as* great
privilege, and all who engage to it should
know definitely what they have to view.
“Study your preyen" waa one of the vory best
of McCbeyn.’a valuable exhortations. It is
foolish to expect definite answers to requests
which can only be characterised os vogue
E enrrmlitfe*. Our Lord might often use now
> His followers tho words He addressed ts the
woman et the woll. “If thou knowest. . . .
thou wauldit have asked, end He would have
given.”
There is a reflection which ahonld always be
in eld to devotion, and that la our filial rela
tionship to God.
It should never he forgotten that the first
words onr Lord taught His disciples to use in
ptayer were “Onr Father.” He Hlmsclfln
Bis own preyen used the endearing title
“Father,” “O My Father.” He know HU
filial relationship, snd m a Son He always
placed Himself before God, Alter the work
of redemption wu accomplished, and he bed
brought mankind into* new end blessed con
dltion before God, be not only said, “My God
snd your God," bnt also “My Father and yonr
Father." The glory of nU Father was the
mein object He had in life, end, sa we ahonld
expect, ft lsone of the definite subjecU of Hii
own praycn. It was Just because tho only-be
gotten of th* Father knew the sweets or HU
own holy end blessed reUtionship, that He
bad supreme Joy In bringing ns into * similar
kind or relationship, in giving ns the Spirit of
Adoption, and enabling us, poor sinners, to
stand before the eyes of Him who U too pure
to behold Iniquity, and to my “Oar Father,"
“Abbe, Father,” Wo may go into onr “private
devotions" “weary and worn and sod," sinful
and desponding, and unworthy to bo csllod
God’s sons, hut when we reflecton the love and
perfection! of God, and know that HeU ready
to fall on onr necks, end to plant the kisses of
forgiveness and reconciliation upon onr lips,
tho kits may open our mouths tor .confession,
for it precludes us from saying, “Make us
hired servants.” We ore sons; and, even
though It U with sighs, end sobs, and team, wo
nevertheless do breathe tho sweet titlo
“Father," and to so doing we hare hope and
comfort. And m tho perfoct Son pre-eminent
ly sought HU Father’s glory in prayer, so
shall we, who are exhorted to follow HU
exaroplp. ThU raises private devotion into
the vety highest region. ThU takes out of it
all merely selfish elements. If God give to us,
if Ho withhold from us, if He calls us to ser
vice or to suffering, that wo. His chtidrcn.'mty
glorify Ilia name, He confers upon ns the very
greatest of all fuvon. So moro splendid
destiny Unlaced before ns than to bo to tho
S nlic of the glory of HU graro. Tho private
svotlon most always be beneficial when from
first to lut it it permeated with the petition of
our Lord, “Father, glorify Thv name.” Let
ns never forgot tho words, “Whatsoever yo
shell ask to My name, that will I do, that tho
Father may be glorified to the Son.”
(An appropriate poem U added, which may be
committed to memory by tho young people.)
Return, O wanderer, return;
He
I-IUSAJ, V vvmiaucjui. (Uluru ;
He hears thy humble sigh;
e sere thy soften'd spirit mourn,
When nojonc else U nigh.
Return, O wanderer, return;
Thy Saviour bids tore live;
Como to HU Cron snd grstef
How freely Ha'll forgive.
Return, O wanderer, return,
thc
Return. O wanderer, return;
Retain thy long-sought rest;
The Saviours melting marries;
muting mercies yearn
—Convex,
To cusp thee to liu breast.
FIOHTINO THE INDIANS.
Captain MatfloM Routes the Geranium's
Hand of Indians.
Tccson, Ari., May IG.-A special from
Huschuca says: Captain Hatfield, with a
troop of cavalry, struck Geronimo a heavy
blow ycatarday morning, at* point ton mile*
southeast of Santa Crus, bnt a few hours later
received * heavier blow to return. Friday
afternoon the hoetiles, abont seventy
strong. struck Miles Pisa renche,
rounding np thirty horses. Cap
tain Hatfield arrived half an hour later
and followed tbo trail till dark. Yesterday,
morning he anrnrUed and stampeded the
hostile*, captured their hones and tho entire
ramp outfit. He then started for Santa Cra2,
bnt while passing through Box Canon, on
the way thither, a galling fin suddenly pour
ed upon hU little baud. The men dismounted
and mod* a gallant fight, which lotted
for ui hour. Twoof the command wore kill
ed and three wounded. Many Indiana fell,
bnt the number is not known. Captain Hst-
flcld finaliy reached Santa Crux, where he
willb* Joined by Lieutenant Cook, with
Dorati troops.
Major Rule, with a large Mexican force,
reached Santa Crus lost night, and joined in
the pnnuit this morning. General Miles,
Captain Scbo, Lieutenant Davis, with the
troops of Governor Torres, of Sonora, and Pre
fect Rivera, of the Magdalena district, are. In
consultation.
Governor Torres hu jnst received s dis-
patch from the prefect of (luajamaa stating
that General Martinez routeU.the Yaquia from
their stronghold in the 8ierr* Bacatche on tbo
13th, killing one hundred and captaring tiro
hundred of the band. The Mexicans lost
twenty killed and fifty wounded. C*jenne
escaped, lut is being punned by the troops on
land and gunboats on the rirer. This vir
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