The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-11-01
II Terrible Wins Storm.
SEVERAL LIVES LOST AND GREAT AMOUNT
OF PROPERTY DESTROYED IN EAST
ERN PENNSYLVANIA.

ERN PENNSYLVANIA.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. "a. A tempestu
Gus gale of unprecedented severity swept
over the city yesterday morning, commen-
cling bout 2:30 q. M, reaching It's height
between and 7:3O, and subsiding with
heavy rain toward 9 n. IN. During these
brief morning hours incalculable damage
was done by the wind, which ragged with
the fury of a hurricane. Not in many
years, if eveT before, has there been so
much damage done in the streets, public
squares, and along the river fronts,
Many public school buildings are dam
aged, and public squares are devastated.
Over forty churches, of all denominations,
were more or less damaged by the demol;-
tion OF steeples, etc, several of which are
expected to fall at any moment. The
Walnut street Presbyterian church was
badly damaged. The spIe, which is $50
feet high, was blown down, and in its fall
. struck the ToOfO building and very bad
! ~ damaged it. In its fall a portion of the
church roof was carried with it, and the
vestibule of the church and organ loft fill
ed with debris. The organ was deano!is b.
ed. The damage to the church amounts
to $35 600. The steeple of the First Bap-
tist church, 100 feet high, was blown
DOWN. In its fall the spire doubled up, the
! base falling into the chuTchyard, and the
top, with the bell, fell into the street,
. The damage is 500, 600. In its fall the top
OF the spire struck houses opposite. dam
aging them considerably. The spiIe of
/ the Emanuel German Lutheran chnrch
222 feet high, was also among the many
church steeplcs blown down yesterday 4
| great many market bouses and passenger
! railway depots were badly damaged. and
/ hundreds of dwellings, chiefly in the
/ northwestern section of the city, were un-
( roofed-some of them entirely demolish-
ed. Ibe shed for departing trains at the
Pennsylvania railrOnd depot in West
! Philadelphia, was demolished. involving a
! loss of between forty thousand and fi.ty
/ thousand dollars. The whole eastern end
/ of the Twelfth and Sixteenth street mas
senger railway depot was Ieveled to the
/ ground. ShOemacker's lpian forte fac
/ tory, Eleventh and Catherine streets, was
damaged to The extent of 10000
lhe two western spans Of the Falls of
the SchuylkiH bridge on the Reading rail
ROAD fell into the river and stopred all
trains IN that direslion. \ long the Della
ware river frOnt TO less than twenty
warehouses are without roofs The Read
ing railroad ferry house and slip above
South street were demolished, The tide
was tue highest known for twenty-seyen
years.
Several fatal casualties are reported.-
Morris Dinner, a watchman was killed bv
a large beam falling ON him at tho Read
ing abroad Company's machine shor,s.
AT unknown man was killed at a bridge
on the Holmesburg pike by the roof OF a
stable falling upon him. John Atling was
instantly killed by the roof of the Read
ing railroad shop falling upon him. An
unknown man was killed il Cedar Hin ce
metery by falling tree. An unknown
man was killed at the Reading Railroad
COmpany's coal sheds, Iehich aveuue
\ II al yf,AKE 1
roof on Ridge avenue. A negspaprr
carrier was struck by falling tree at ihe
Naval Asylum and killed. 1t :ssIouchlv
estimated that the injured will number
seventy five.
At Camden the storm was very severe.
causing great damage TO property. Pas
sengerS who came up on the West Jersey
railroad state that in that locality nunleT
Gus barns were destroyed, cattle killed
and fences blown do~n. while uprooted
trees were scattered in all directions
At BOtistOwn, Pa, the nail mill of the
Pcttstown Iron Company was blown down.
The loss is SO, COO The Madison bridge.
spanning the SchuylkIH river, was almost
completely destroyed
In Scranton and Wnkesbarre builaings
were dismautled, Trees uprooted aud roofs
blown off. Advices from the surrounding
towns report great damage To property.
IN chester seventy dwellings aud stores
were uhroOied. Nineteen buildings were
blown down altogether. Three churches
are partially destroyed, and eleven mann
fac'urng places SO much damaged that
work will have to be suspended for
while, and number OF people thus
thrown Unt uf employment.
Ia harrisburg buildings were unroofed
sewers choked up, cellars flnuGed. and
trees aud shiUbhery blown down. Trains
ON All the roads we're DELAYED several
hours by washuuts Y bridge ON Ihs
Northern Central railroad at Go!dsboro
was washed away. Reports from the sur
rounding country show great damage has
been dime.
The sCauer Express plying between
Baltimore and the Potomac Iiver, fouudey-
ed near the mouth Of the Potomac. and
twenty to twenty five lives were lost. Tho
steamer Matilda, with a crew of sixteen.
besides passengers, which left FrederIcks-
burg, Virginia yn Monday evening. has
not been beard of since, aud portIous Of
her wheel house have been picked m,
Tie pilot steamer Maryland is also miss
ing. The ship \. 5. Davis, of Searspori
Me, Was totally wrecked eight miles souil,
oi Cape Henry. and all but one of he,
crew of nineteen perished. Ten lives
were lost III Delaware river and bsv dur-
ing the storm.