Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1889 — TERRIFIC WIND STORM [ARTICLE]

TERRIFIC WIND STORM

Rages Along the Atlantic Coast, Doing a Vast Amount of Damage. A terrific •wind storm, followed by a heavy rain, visited Southern New York, eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut and Massachusetts late Friday afternoon. Many buildings were wrecked and telegraph wires blown down. At Fair Haven, Conn., men were buried in the wreckage of a new house, while twenty-three working outside were hurled through the air with fatal results to some and severe injury to all. At Point of Rocks, Md", twenty-five men who were working on the trestle over the riveT were swept off into the water sixty feet below, and at Palmyra, Pa., many houses are in rains, and the inmates homeless, if alive. At Williamsport, Pa., Barnum’s show was stampeded. Three cages of animals were overturned, an antelope was killed and the trumpeting of elephants caught under falling canvas caused intense fright and confusion. Many of the performers, men and women, were shockingly hart. Ther6 are many stories of barns wrecked by lightning and numheni of animals killed. Several churches in the trail of the storm have been ruined. In New York the wind played havoc with signs, and on the crowded streets there was a panic among the pedestrians, many of whom were severely injured. Woman Sum-age In the Woolly Veit The woman suffragists are making a hot and Vigorous campaign throughout Wyoming Territory for the purpose of having a clause inserted in the new State Constitution by the Constitutional Convention favoring ballot by the women. Noted speakers are stamping the Territory to this end, bat thus far the primaries have gone against this idea. The Constitutional Convention meets in Olympia, July 4.