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Show A TOHNADO. Thunder, LlithnlnK, KHin and Ulud. j Terrible Loss ol I.ile and Destruction De-struction ol I'roperiy. Bo3ton,9. A succession of showers, accompanied by heavy thunder and sharp lightning, visited this section to-day, and conaiderable damage was done. At Rye beach, N. H., at noon, a terrifio storm is reported. It was ouite windy, aud in some places in its path whole sections of woodlard were blown down. The bridge of tht bathing beach was swept away; chimneys chim-neys wero demolished; dwellings were Hooded and wrecked and less sub Istantial builJingi levelled. A bjard-lim- bouse near tbe bathing beach was blown down, and N. II. Galen boarding house split in two. Acres ot woodland have not a standing stick and few chimneys in the track of the storm renmin. At Cape Vincent, N. Y., in the storm ol last night, tbe Presbyterian and Catholic churches, railroad ware house and a dwelling were much damaged by lightning. The storm ou the dt. Lawrence was terrible. Telegraph lines were all 1 prostrated and no trains arrived today. to-day. Barns filled with grain were burned. At Belleville, Ootario, to-day, Ibe wind and lightning did much damage to houses, barns and outlying grain, while in Toronto three houses were con-iUeraDie injureu oy ngniuius. Hartford, Coun., 9. This afternoon about 6 o'clock, a tornado struck the village of Vvallinford, demolished ibe old Catholic church on the plain and then levelled some twenty bouses in Wallace's row. Other houses (vere moved and injured. Going up tbe hill tbe tornado dashtd to the ground a $o0 000 brick school house and then pissed over the hill, snapping big elm trees as if they were mere reeda nod laying prostrate telegraph poles. Several persons have bean killed and many wounded and the village authorities autho-rities have sent to Meriden for doctors. Meriden, Conn., 9. Ibe severest storm of thunder, lightning, rain and wind ever known in Meriden occurred occur-red this afternoon between 5 and 7 o'clock. The new shop ot Bradley & Hubbard was badly damaged about ihe root and many chimneys and tress were blown down, but no lives lost. Watertoii, N. Y., 9. The trains over the local roads hereaiouts, stopped by the storm last night, are not expected to be running again be fore to-morrow. The turnpikes are impassable owing to the destruction of ' bridges. Whole fields of grain, corn and other products are ruiued. Grain harvested and Btacked was swrpt away by the flood. One man ot ibis city, awakened by his bed bo coaling wet, found the front door of the house open and water two feet deep on the floor, and the cradle, containing con-taining the baby asleep, fbatiog around. In some places live n'ock was swept away and lost. The lightning light-ning was almost continuous and painfully pain-fully vivid. Last night's storm pre vented the meeting this morning at Thousand Ialand Park camp. At 6 o'clock, while men were leaving the factories, a gentle rain1 began to fall aud soon increased to a perfect deluge, while almost continuous contin-uous aud vivid lightning illuminated the darken' d Bky as bright as day and the thunder rolled with increasing and deatening roars. Without warning a tornado, wilh hail aud rain, swept across the northern part of the town from the west to the east and everything movable in its track was carried away. It seemed to last a moment but its results were frightlul. Afterwards a light rain fell and this booh ceased, anil at b o'clock the moon Bhone brightly down upon Ihe BCene of desolation. By actual count forty dwelling h-iuses were demolished and fully filly barns. The majority ol those killed io&t their lives by falling houses, and iu schools dead bodies were louod ou the deskB. 1 Waliiugford, Conn., 9. A terrible tornado passed over Wallingford about 6 o'clock this afternoon and blew over houses, uprooted trees and caused the greatest devastation. It is estimated the killed will number, at present, at least twenty, while the wounded will reach twice that num ber. Telegraph wires and pules were blown down, makine it impossible to communicate wilh New Haven on the south or Meriden or Hartford on the north. Word was finally sent by the up 7 o'clock train to the two latter places and on the next down j express, which leaves Meriden at 7.30, came physicians aud help. The greatest excitement prevails, and wildest rumors are afloat as to tbe loss of life. The tornado was confined con-fined to a belt of territory about half a mile wide, and the whole lo;S of life look place on toe sauu piain. about a quarter of a mile north of the railroad station, near the line ot the Ne York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. |