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Show I STORMS ARE GENERAL. Great Damage to Telephone and Telegraph Tele-graph Companies. NEW YORK June' 12. Electrical r storms, such as have raged lntormlttcnlly over New York and vicinity during the last forty-eight hours, with great dam-! dam-! age from lightning, wind and flood, were reported to tho Immediate west and west J of here tonight. I A terrific storm struck Baltimore at J fi:3Q o'clock, and half an hour later both ; thK Western Union and Postal Tele graph companies reported the loss of all wires between Philadelphia and Baltimore. Balti-more. The exchange of news between eastern and western points had to be made by ' roundabout routes and then was 'carried f on only with great difficulty. |