The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1860-05-24

Two men were killed by the falling of
new building on Fifth street, nea. Hoadly.
in which they were engaged erecting stairs
1T the time the storm struck the house
The names o; them. the master STAR bua-
der, was NJ, Brenkmeyer. at rman, whose
residence was on Belts street. He leaves
wife and two or three children. The other
was a young man about nineteen years OF
aye. named Heinrich Kisshen. He boarded
with a family on Belts street, between Carr
and FIRE. man.
Two Others, working in the same bnilding
narrowly escaped death by jumping into the
street as the building fell, one of them only
being in any way injured. The other work
men had left the building only five minutes
previous to tie catastrophe. Brenkmeyer
and kissken were buried beneath the ruins
and their bodies were removed after the
storm and carried TO their homes. 1he
house was three story brick recently roof
ed, ard was owned by q Nr. Foremeyer-
Loss about 81 200.
Thomas Cole ard Mr.. Grey were stand
ing in q brickyard OF lark street. on the
bank of Mil CIR, ek. as the storm approach
ed. The wini blew timber from the she'd
on to them, hearing them to The ground AMI
covering them with brick. They were
killed instantly. They were both married
men.
In the Eleventh District School House
the children became possessed with the idea
that the building was unsafe. and during
the height of the storm, like herd OF UNI
tanned buffaloes. they rushed TO the wind
ows, and iranticaly essayed to preeipltate
themselves to the gro1nd. The teachers.
together with several workmen employ ed
t,I 81 ha-
fore the windows, and prevented the little
ones from rushing to instant death.
Mr.. T. S. Royse informs us that trees in
his yard we're blown down, one to the east
and the other to the west
Miss Mccormick. teacher in the First
Intermediate School. when the storm was
raging in lis greatest fury. gathered her
scholars together and made them sing a
hymn. No doubt the young lady thong hit.
with many others in the city, that the final
ity of all earthly things had come. Mr..
Hancock of the same house. assisted by his
other teachers. were calm and firm.
In the Eighth District School, We under
stand that one of the teachers. after the
storm, moralIzed to the scholars upon their
safe passage through the danger. This was
wrong, as the scholars will "a, any similar
occasion ia the future be inundated by the
remarks.
We have endeavorcd so far as possible in
the above account, to convey an idea OF the
exten. Of the damage. bat spreading over
such vast area of territory, our report Is
necessarily very impt rice. and circumscri-
bed Hundreds and thousands Of shade
trees in and around the city were blown
down. and after the storm, vehlcular travel
was impeded on many of our streets from
the trees that laid across the thoroughfares.
Scarcely a house in the city escaped
damage, and where roofs were not carried
away, or chimneys toppled over. broken
window glass was the substitute. We have
accounts from the country adjacent to Gin
cinnati and are able from the reports to
state that storm equal in its damaging eff
fects, was never before known; and in tile
State, and in this city especially, the after
noon of the els, of May. 1860, viii! form a
most memorable epoch in the future mete-
geological history Of the country.
We learn, from a passenger on the c. IL.
& D. Railroad. that at Hamilton the roof
was blown off large three story house.
and the gable end blown in. small frame
building and broom factory were blown
down.
II was reported that much damage had
been done a, London, in this State, aud at
Loyeland