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Show fiVE DEAD AND ; MILLION LOSS IN EASTERN STORM Heavy , Rain Has Been a Boon to Cities Short of Water.- NEW JORK, June 12. Five dead, five persons missing and a property loss of nearly $1,000,000 is the result of a two days', storm which has raged in-termitently in-termitently ia Nw York and environments. environ-ments. Weather prediction! '. indicate that th storm may ontinu today. The torrential downpour has been a boon to th depleted reservoirs, tea days', supply having beea accumulated la tba CratoB watershed. The lightning light-ning plaved a strange prank at riasin point, on the sound, last night, striking a revolving fcrris wheel. The big wheel, which carried several passengers, passen-gers, was throws from its axis, and stuck fast. The lightning blinded, the passengers and there was a panye. Several women attempted to leap from the wheel, but they were restrained. re-strained. The passengers were taken dowa en ladders rigged together. -- Heveral silk mills in Peterson. N. J., ' were unroofed. Street were flooded in several New Jersey towns, trees uprooted up-rooted aad cellars filled with water. |