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Show T E LEG RAMS. Fierce Storm In Ohio and lull lu-ll iu mi. Cincinnati, o. Tho torinn of the iv.Xbt three days have nckiom if ever! wen equaled in the Slates of Ohio! and Indiana. Hurric;me.s and tor-' undoes with floixls of rain have followed fol-lowed each other in rapid sua-cion. Tlie city and its immediate vicinity: have escaped Ihc fury ofthesestonn.,; but tlie country north of this parallel, i j in rndiana and Oliio, has suftcrwl severely. se-verely. Furious .storms liavc passed over it on tlie 2d, od and 4th hista. (The teletrranh wires have been utner- jally prostnttcd at yiiringfu-ld, O., and jit was reported that tbe telegraph poles had been blown across the turn-! turn-! pikes so thickly in some places an to J entirely obstruct the travel. Kat ol i Springfield, on the Pacific, and Atlan-I Atlan-I tic telegraph line, thoro were one hun-I hun-I dral poles down. Some of them were struck by lightning and others were 'prostrated by wind. Passengers from I Ixigansport say the storm leveled the ( trees nearly all tlie way from Logans-port Logans-port to liiehmond, Ind. In Kich-I Kich-I moiul the trees were blown down in the streets. One fell across an ex-' ex-' press wagon, breaking both legs of the driver and crushing the wagon. ; At Troy, 0., the large eonlage factory was unroofed. On this side of Troy, on the line of the Dayton and Michigan Michi-gan railroad, houses were seen tumbling tum-bling down, fences were prostrated, trees uprooted, fields of grain leveled, corn fields flattened, nnd in some cases the corn was uprooted. Everywhere tlie , fields seemed like lakes of water. On the Zanesviilc road five bridges were washed away, and no trains will go cast of Circleville before Monday, A : number of feet of railroad track have been washed away. The same prostration pros-tration of trees, and destruction of crops are reported from this section of country as from that further west. At 1'ort Washington, Ohio, about seventy miles east of Columbus, the storm of wind and rain la.it night, uprooted trees and unroofed houses. At Washington, Indiana, the storm was cxceetlingly fierce. Sheaves of wheat were scattered about widely, and carried many feet in the air.! Everywhere in tho belt north of the city is ivflectcd by the storm, whose centre seems to be a few miles south of the latitude of Columbus. Tlie testimony tes-timony agrees as to its severity ami desiruetiveness. The general prostration pros-tration of telegraph poles is without a parallel in the history of the telegraph company. An alarmingly large number num-ber were shivered to pieces by lightning light-ning and totally destroyed. |