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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1884
Page
8
A March storm wrecked Nashville and nearby areas with heavy rain hail and tornado damage. At least livestock and property suffered across Tennessee Georgia Colorado Wyom ing. Cities reported shattered windows flooded streets collapsed roofs and several fatalities and injuries.
A March cyclone struck from the southwest, hitting Lenoir Newton and near Charlotte Statesville. In Newton thirty houses fell, a church wrecked, several homes swept away, and one death reported Mary Hussucker. Fourteen injured. Lenoir devastation, potential family deaths, and many trees snapped along a 500 yard wide Atlantic Tennessee and Ohio railroad corridor leaving a forested, mangled trail.
ONTOs Tornado at Dayton March 31 wrecked five houses in the city and razed Shakertown seven miles away. Residents fled in rains. cattle stampede. trees uprooted. farms, cabins, and colored settlements near Harveysbourg ruined. Track extends to Spring Valley and South Charleston. Poland Poland: cyclone obliterates earth along ten rod-wide path. Ballard road mansion ruins. barns scattered. sheep killed. widespread destruction.
Born Kentucky March 31. Cyclone damage may be revealed days hence with incalculable losses of life and property. In Colematsville 300 residents were injured or killed as 75 buildings were demolished. Mount Nebo Conroy and Antioch Mills were swept away. Across the countryside nothing remained standing in the tornado path as stock, barns, dwellings, fences, and forests were destroyed. Two boys fishing in the Licking river were blown through a tunnel mouth to its opposite opening.
A cyclone wrecked a region leaving bodies along roads and in cellars, cattle slaughtered, a church lifted from its foundation, crumpled buildings, and homes blown away. Survivors report flying debris, saved babes, and a five mile distance organ find after the storm. A hail storm followed ten minutes after sunlight returned.
Beaver brook in Derby, near the Naugatuck river, surged into a destructive flood that wrecked three large factories and many dwellings. Dam walls failed after weeks of rain, sending 250000 gallons and debris downstream. Heroic rescues saved a mother and children as homes collapsed and workers faced large unemployment.
Reports from Laurens county Georgia describe an earthquake that woke residents, rattling houses for about two minutes. Witnesses compare the tremor to a heavy freight train, with thunderlike sounds and distant detonations but no visible flash or explosion.
James Pratt, sole survivor of the brig A G Jewett of Belfast Maine, tells how the crew perished after the cargo shifted and the ship sank in a southeast gale off the Gulf Stream. He was rescued by the Edward Cushing near Aspinwall after fifty four hours adrift in a leaking boat. Pratt left Aspinwall aboard the Acapulco for New York.
The New York Norfolk and Charleston railroad contract goes to American Contracting Company of New York. The line links a Boston New York through Philadelphia route via the Delaware Peninsula road and Hampton Roads. The 840 mile air line will shave 180 miles and seven hours between the northern cities and the Southern ports.
In a New York sermon, Mr. Beecher emphasizes Christ’s teaching to please one’s neighbor for uplift, urging ministers to push missionary work beyond pulpit walls. He calls for wandering ministry, house visits, and broad sympathy, urging support for Brooklyn City Mission and noting plans to preach in Indianapolis and Chicago next Sundays.
The page presents chess problem notation with White to move and draw notes, solution lines, and variant results credited to Elmer W. Spiller of Brooklyn and L. M. Stearns of Derry Brooklyn. It lists multiple position numbers, king placements, and “B. wins” outcomes across variants.
A Brooklyn Eagle item recounts how a foundling girl named Jennie Dubois traced an ancestry lead to a Boston born young man. After exchanges arranged by a Boston postmaster, they met and fell in love but fear they may be related. They pursue proof of non relation while seeking family ties.
Dr. Al Watts explains breed preferences as fashion trends in dogs. Pugs remain favorites of ladies and children while black and tan varieties and King Charles spaniels draw interest from stylish buyers. Various breeds like St Bernard and setters symbolize the sportier, noble image.
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