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Show TnUNDER AND WINDSTORM. It Lasts Lch Than an Hour bat Does $200,-OOO $200,-OOO Damage. Philadelphia, July 26. Just before noon yesterday a terriflc thunder and windstorm broke over this section. It lasted less than an hour, but in that time did $300,000 worth of damage. It was severe in the northern parts of the city. At Twenty-ninth and York streets twenty-five three-story buildings build-ings in course of construction were wrecked. The storm advanced eastward over the citjr, leaving a wide swath of unroofed bouses until it reached the manufacturing districts of Kensington aud Richmond. Here th greatest fury was vented. A score of taU mill buildings were stripped of roofs. The roof of the North Pennsylvania railway tai-tion tai-tion was blown off and with it went over a hundred telegraph wires. This badly erpk pled the telegraph service for hours. The roof of the Catholic churc at Natwity waa ripped off. At Clearfield street the wharf repair shop" of the Philadelphia & Reading road 400 feet long and 70 feet wide was completely de," molished, the men having a narrow escape, six of them being paiufully cut and bruised by Hying debris. The los on that struo turc and contents is f50,000. In addition about fifty dwelling houses in the district were unroofed or partly demoralized. The suburban sections of the town also suffered severely. Three mills and fifteen dwelling beintr unroofed at Manaynut. After tu storm was over the mercury rose to 94 de grees and the humidity being excessive.; The heat was very oppressive, notwithstanding notwithstand-ing it, however, there were but few prostra- tions. - J |