The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-10


both in Olneyville also; but we were unable to
learn the names Of either of the parties. The
Union Railroad Company has suffered severely.
The car house at the Cranston Print Works was
partially demolished, iniuring three cars.
About sixty feet of the barn Mt Elmwood was
blown off; and the South Providence barn was
also partially unroofed. Travel was much
impeded by the broken trees, and
three were left out all night, because of this
embargo The cotton mill of Hon. James Y.
Smith, in Elmwood was partially unroofed, and
a frightened girl jumped from second story
window and was badly sprained.
A boy named Hughes was killed near the
Bristol Railroad depot, Fox Point, by gate or
fence being blown down upon him. A man
named Murty Sullivan was severely injured at
the same time. John Shehan, man residing on
Fremont street, was struck by falling CHM
ney, and so badly injured that there is little hope
OF his recovery.
A house on Bellevue avenue, owned by Bel
lows Bros. and lately erected Mt cost of 10000
was completely demolished. There were four
men engaged inside the bnilding when it was
blown down. One of the men, John g. Clark,
was crushed by the falling in of the roof and
very badly injured in the spine. He can hardly
recover Ezra Walker, employed at Horace
French's paint shop on Benefit street, while at
tempting to shut large outside door in the
second story of the building, was taken, together
with the door, by the wind, hurled into an adj
joining yard, and severely it not fatally in
jured. He was about thirty-five or forty years
of age. Cornelius and George Mahoney, father
and son, No. 81 Front street, were severely in
jured by the blowing down of barn belonging
To the former portion OF the building fell
upon them rendering them insensible fora time
The father received several bruises and quite
severe cOntusions, but escaped without any bones
being broken. The son, George, was the most
severely injured.
A two and one-half story wooden tenement
house on Republican street, near the railroad
bridge on Atwells avenue, owned by DR.. New
hail. was blown entirely from its foundations,
tI,n, lntn
house was occupied by three families, though at
the time of the fall only one woman was in the
house. She was considerably hurt by the falling
plastering though how seriously we did not
ascertain. portion of the tower of the Catho-
lie church, on High street. was carried off
That portion of the spire of the Chesnut Street
Methodist Episcopal church above the clock
was blown down, carrying two faces of the
clock (Which stopped at five eXactly), and fell
on the roof of the church, breaking it in. and
then on to the roof of shed in the rear of w. II.
Greene's drug store, which it crushed. por-
ton of the roof of the Central Baptist Church,
on Broad street, was blown off.
There were scores OF roofs torn from build
ings, and a large number of persons injured, in
addition to those we have mentioned, but a want
OF space limits to these extracts only.
The COmmOtion In the Harbor OF Providence.
During the height of the gale the vessels were
in great danger, and it appeared almost impossi-
BILE for some of them TO escape shipwreck, but
fortunately no lives were lost that we have heard
OF, and no very serious damage was done to the
vessels. The little steamer Adela was coming
up, and was blown into Hills wharf and made
fast to a schooner, Just in time to save
her from going ashore. The schooner
Lizzie Major broke adrift from the
the schooner Harmonic mt the Worcester Rail
road wharf, staving in her stem and carrying
away davits. and doing other injury, and losing
her own jib-boom; schooner Nellie Treat broke
adrift, ran afoul of other vessels, lost lib-boom
and davits: schooners Anna Shepard, Helen Mar,
and British schooner Britannia, were all adrift,
afoul, and received more or less damage; the
Helen Mar ran into the stern OF schooner George
Fales, and both were badly chafed; schooner
Paragon broke from her anchorage and drifted
afoul of the other vessels in the streams schooner
c. =. Brooks, lying at Gas Company's wharf,
west side, broke from her moorngs and fouled
with other vessels, receiving considerable in
jury.
The steam tug Charlotte and Isabella arrived
up from below about O'Clock. and reported
seeing a sloop go ashore on Conimicut Point and
break to pieces, and two schoOners ashore
between Gaspee and Fields Point but could not
ascertain the names of either vessel. There are
indefinite rumors of other vessels being ashore
below, of which we have yet received no au-
thentic account.
A man from the schooner VI. B. Mahoney,
from Baltimore bound for this port, reports that
his vessel fell in with a schooner outward bound
off Fields FONT yesterday afternoon, about
o'clock, flying flag of distress. His captain,
he states, sent II boat to the distressed vessel,
when il was learned that her commander, whose
name we are unable to learn as well as the
name of the schooner was struck on the head
during the gale by the lib block which laid
open his skull for several inches. The injured
man fell under the blow, and up TO the time of our
informant's departure for this city in quest of
surgical aid, he had shown no signs OF life.
Incidents.
Many cases of narrow escapes and of slight
personal injury are related which we cannot
this morning particularize. One old man was
blown down and his head came under the wheels
of Pawtucket horse-car, which was stopped
lust in time to save his life, but he was badly
| bruised. A woman had child blown from her
| arms down embankment in the Fifth Ward
| but it was picked up by a young man and re-
| turned to the mother without great apparent
! Injury
The Hurricane In Pawtucket, Conn.
| The fearful storm of wind and rain of yestcr-
| day did n large amount of damage in this viii
| lagc. The steeple of the Universalst church on
| High street, from the bell deck upwards, was
| blown over and in its fall crushed in portion
| of the roof of the house of Mrs William Perry
| which adjoins the church; the inmates of the
| house received warning soon enough to vacate
| il before the steeple lel and escaped uninjured.
| The remains OF the steeple fill Mrs. Perry's
| yard, and are Il shapeless mass of ruins. The
| bell in its fall, struck one of the front corners
| OF the roof of the church. crushing that in. and
| landed in the church yard right side up.
| The steeple of the Central Falls Congrega-
/ tional Church was blown off level with the roof
i and is a total wreck. The machine shop of Col
| lins Brothers. near the old bridge in Central
| Falls is entirely demolished. The building was
| a long one and two stories in height; the wind
! blew the walls apart and the roof fell between
| them, burying materials, machinery, etc, in
| general confusion. The inmates, who had been
| at work in the shop, succeeded in getting out in
| season to prevent personal injuries. AT the
/ II ftct M hI tbn