Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1896 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

' The American berk Jofta D,’tfrMt’fr, from New York for Zanzibar, is' iuhore at. Pitt slpi rg, J 'a., juryon ly forty TSonw WTO *£*•“<*• mttlon that if he returns the stolen money ta •h*n b< lined and not imprisoned. If

the court agrees to this it will raise a. vigorous protest from the people. A rainstorm that proved to be the-most destructive that has visited Western Pennsylvania for years swc'pt over Pittsburg and surrounding country Wednesday night. It was practically,a.gtoudburst. It is estimated that the Jp|?,will reach sl,OOO.odb. The weather bun.-int officials report 1.77. inches of rainfall during fifty minutes. * The storrrt edmirtg so early ip the evening doubtless saved many lives, as few people had retired. No lives are thought to have been lost. The most damage was done over in the AlleghenyButcher's Run district. Houses on Howard street were floatetFaway and ruined. In South Pittsburg, all the houses along West Carson street wore flooded' 1 arid many of them moved .from’their foundations. • Every cellar on: Main afreet- contains front four to eight feet of wafer. The massive stone wall that .fgjTounds the Allegheny cemetery 'on the Butler street side, which was built; to stand a deluge, was swept away. '’'St/ifies weighing many. tons were flashed I Kc‘ross i ßittler street, where they crushed housed like, eggshells. ~, ■_ ■