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Show By Telegraph. ERRIPIC STOHM IX SAX FKAS. CISCO. San Francisco, 21. Last night at eleven o'clock, a terrific southeaster burst on the city, accompanied with rain, hail, thunder and lightning, doing do-ing much damage. Hitherto the inhabitants in-habitants of California have been accustomed ac-customed to faint flashes of lightning and low rumbles of thunder, hardly recognizable, and at intervals of years. But last night the flashes were as vivid as those seen iu the western States, and were almost continuous accompanied accompa-nied by tremendous peals of thunder, producing more consternation than a 'icavy earthquake would in San Fran cisco. It commenced about midnight and lasted over an hour, the barometer falling lower than ever before known in San Francisco. It commenced about midnight and lasted over an hour, the barometer falling lower than ever before be-fore known in tnis latitude. At the corner of New Montgomery and Minna streets, a fire wall, twelve feet high and sixty feet long, was blown from the top of a brick building outo a three-story frame building adjuintng, crushing it into ruins, between which were buried fifteen or twenty people. AH were got out safe or not fatally in jured, except Mrs. McDonald, wile ol ihe watchman at. the Siiltfi nrisnn. her child ten months old, her daughter twelve years old, and Mrs. S. Logan, all of whom were instautlv killed and frightfully mangled. Many otherc-were otherc-were injured, but none fatally. Three alarms of fire occurred during the storm, which aided to make the nitrht the most remarkable ever experienced here. There were more thunder and lightniug in one hour than were ever before seen and heard iu Sau Francisco Francis-co altogether.- The shipping in the harbor generally escaped without serious seri-ous damage. The storm in the mountains moun-tains was severe, and the telegraph lines are damaged in all directions. |
