Great Rain Storm.
{"character_count": 2207, "word_count": 374, "ccnet_language_score": [0.963100016117096], "ccnet_perplexity": [1397.9000244140625], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
The Washington Union of Friday last notices
tremendous Rain storm which visited that reg ION
Thursday night. twill be remembered that


,had a heavy rain here on Thursday night, ac-


snpanied By lightning and thunder. That pa.


ear says:


this region Of country was visited last night


rith terrific sJorm. causing considerable desfruc-
Vu uc property, and, we learn, loss of life. The
hin accompanied at Intervals by severe claps
II thunder and flashes of lightning and il is said


ia TWO persons were killed by the lightning stroke
|n the Capitol Hill. The railway cuiverts on Ell


ier side of the village of B.adensburg, this vi
unity, with portion of the railway embankment


sar it, have been washed away, the water stand


y in The village streets up to the second story Of
houses The food in and about FredeTicks-


Rg, Virginia, is said by telegraph to have been
Issrious. In Georgetown, Of this District, much


,luable pFoperty-hOur, wood, &c.-has been
nshed into the Potomac; and this morning, in
lie attempt to rescue some portion of The floating


Iss, three men "a white person aud two negroes)
re said 10 have been drowned. The Chesapeake
Ind Ohio canal is more or less injured ia George


wn and above-the injury AT its terminus being
nneipally confined to the basin. Our commuRi-
aion with Baltimore is completely stopped for
he time being, either by telegraph, railway, or
yer the ordinary roads. So we have received no


pail from the north today, nor any further account
IDm the late elections" 40.
The Richmond Enquirer of Saturday last says:
There was, no communication with Washing-


to-day by railroad. There was a tremendous


rm last night, and the fall of rain was great
bal the railroad bridges were swept away. The
1il- dams on the Patapsco and Patuxent have been
lried off! SevelaI streets ia this cry were inun
lted, and there has been much damage sustained


The Eeighborhood. d


Last evening we received no mail North Of
Fashingron. We unders tand from Mr.. Martin,
fhof yh1In
undated by the heavy rains on Thursday night
ndges on Baltimore Railroad washed away, &c.
The Rappahannock at Fredericksburg isthigher bv
fleet than ii has been since 1884 and still rising"