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Show HEAVY STORMS. During the latter part of last week, rain fell in unprecedented quantities in a number of the middle Atlantic states, occasioning damage greater and more widespread, probably, than ever before occurred from the same cause, in so short a time, in this country. Towns, cities and villages have been flooded, streams swollen to enormous proportions, mills, bridges, buildings and other property, to the value of millions, have been swept away or destroyed, and, in some instances, people have been drowned. The storm set in on Thursday night and extended from Massachusetts to North Carolina, along the Atlantic coast. It does not appear to have extended inland more than 150 or 200 miles, with any considerable severity. At Raleigh, N. C., nearly eight inches of rain fell in a few hours, and at Patterson, N. J., about fourteen inches fell during the storm. Railroads have suffered severely, through washouts, the destruction of bridges and other property, and the detention of trains. New York and New Jersey are the States that seem to have suffered most. |