Show HE IU STORM I > MISSODKI I SOillChi nnd Children CarrIed Awn lo I tcnpc Uronnlnir SrniNontLU Mo May 7One of the heaviest rain storms ever Known m this section sec-tion t took place yesterday afternoon doing a vast amount of damage both in the town nnd tlio surrounding country iho rain was preceded by bail which fell thick nnd fnst for about fifteen minutes homo of tho hailstones being from OSfc IULF TO TWO INCJltS IN DIAMETER Ham began to fall soon after noon and continued con-tinued to pour down in torrents for nearly threo hours causing all the creeks and branches to boom nnd were much swollen tearing away fences end Inundating tho bottom lands Je badly damaging I wheat and corn Jordan creek which runs through the village rose very rapidly driving forty families from their homes Some women nnd children avers carried out ON IIOIUSLB1CK AND MESS SHOULDERS To cscapo drowning the water jel places rising to Ohio second nlorics I of dwellings About half n mile of Iho Gulf railway track within Ohio city limits was submerged nnd tho grade so demolished that trains cannot pass ihreo of the cuVs wooden bridges were washed nn at besides sections of the sidewalk nnd tho basements of a number of business houses averts filled with wnler |