Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — SWEPTBY A TEMPEST. [ARTICLE]

SWEPTBY A TEMPEST.

WILD FURY OF THE STORM AT PITTSBURG. Advantage of Harveyi zed Armor Lost to This Country—Market Outlook for Cereal* in England—Farmer* Don’t Pay for Seed Grain. Storm at Pittabnrg. At Pittsburg three lives were lost by n stofm Sunday night and a score of persons were injured, while the property loss will foot up SIOO,OOO. At least twenty were injured more or less seriously'By Being; hit by flying debris. The storm struck the city about 10 o’clock and was’bver in about half an hour, but in that brief time death and widespread destruction was left in its track. The rain came down in torrents, and was accompanied by vivid lightning and terrific wind. Houses were unroofed, trees uprooted, and fences and outhouses demolished. So tremendous was the force of the tornado that the steamers Lud Keefer, Little Bill and Arlington were overturned, and many barges, coal boats and small craft torn from their moorings and sent adrift. Uncle Sam Was Scooped. Washington dispatch: The construction end of the Navy Department has at length impressed the higher powers of the administration that a piece of monumental folly was committed when the opportunity was thrown away of monopolizing the Harvey process of hardening armorplates for war vessels. As the matter now stands the United States is in the position of developing the ideas of Inventor Harvey and perfecting the most valuable of armor improvements and of neglecting to stipulate for the control of the process. No sooner, therefore, did this Government prove the great usefulness of the process than the inventor proceeded to sell it to all the great naval powers of Europe, placing each and every one on an equality, whereas this country should have held a distinct advantage over rival Governments. It may gratify the national pride to know that Uncle Sam now leads the world in excellence of its armor-plate processes, and also in the manufacture of projectiles. Six years ago this country was away in the rear. England Needs Corn. A London correspondent talked with several leading experts at the Baltic Exchange, the headquarters of the British corn trade, on the prospects of the British corn crop and the amount of American corn likely to be required. Some prominent brokers declared that the River Platte holds the key to the situation, and that reports from there promise a very large surplus crop of both maize and wheat. The Danube district also reports an immense crop, as against an abnormally small one last season, and the view generally expressed was that, however low the American prices may be, the Danube will undersell them. The British crop Is expected to be generally below the average, but brokers could not hazard an opinion on the probable amount of American corn that will be required. Last year the Imports of American corn Were only 25,507,755 bushels! This year there ought to be four or five times as much. Steamer City, of Sheffield Sinks. The steamer City of Sheffield, from St. Louis to Tennessee River, struck an obstruction in the Mississippi River back of Cairo at midnight Sunday and sunk. The water barely covers the boiler deck, and she lies straight and smooth and will be raised without trouble. Several hundred barrels of flour in the hold will be damaged. No lives were lost, and the passengers were taken off. The Sheffield had 100 passengers. The boat knocked a hole In her bottom twelve feet long, and filled and settled down smooth and square on a bar. Most of her passengers were asleep and knew nothing of the accident until morning. Blown Up by a Mine. The London Daily News has a dispatch from Vienna which says Trieste papers report an explosion destroyed the artillery barracks at Toula, Russia, and that 300 men were killed, including many officers. The barracks were found to be completely undermined. Many arrests have been made. Toula is the capital of the Government of Toula in European Russia.- It is on the River Oopa, 105 miles south of Moscow. It is a manufacturing city of 70,000 people. Cubans Meet Defeat. A severe engagement, it is reported from Havana, in Spanish official circles, has been fought at Ariliao in the Department of Santa Clara. It was officially announced that Lieut. Col. I‘alanca had routed the insurgents under the command • of lioloff and Serafin Sanchez. The insurgents left sixty dead and wounded cn the field, and twenty of their horses were killed. The trqops lost two killed and had eight wounded.