The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-07-03
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Details Of tho Recent Tornado II
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TirrsvILLE, Pa, July 1.-The town Of
Coalyille, situated on the Shenauso e
Allegheny Railroad, in Butler county, was
visited BY d destructive cyclone at i:}O last
evening, and Bard's store, McAfee's drug
store and eight houses were blown down.
VIM. Barron, his wife and child we're
killed.. -L&T &TQLJI%It2 .at4t.
II. Hsndley and iM. Quinlun will not
live. 80
Fourteen others badly injured@seyeral
Of them seriously. E'GfGLy (
Outside OF the town q number Of houses
and barns were blown down, but no per
son killed. Telegraph wires arc prostrated
and great difficulty is. experienced in get.
ting news from the devastated district. / n
a. II. Steele, President Of f;the Shenasgo
and Allegheny Valley Road, sent special
train from Greenyille hearing surgeons
and supplies, who have done all they can
to alleviate the sullerings O: the wounded.
The storm extended over a large extent
Of territory, and the loss to property Is large.
1t is thought, that seven deaths will be re-
corded by midnight, and several arc ex.
pectet soon.a sYSS7 gcS .ffI2TS!
Coalville contains about one. thousand
inhabitants, and I: is! thesheadquarters iof
the Union Coal and Coke Company. The
town has been built within two year;,
A coppercolored cloud ,dropped to the
ground distance out OF town, and swept
everything before it., u house being lifted
into the nlr land dashed tOapleces. !. Gas
lights looked like electric lights through
the yellow haze OF the atmosphere. There
was rain with the wind aud sharp thunder
and lightning '''','l"''--''' r.
At Edenburs, Clarion county, several
houses were unroofed, and five people lin.
jured by dying debris.
4 PIlTsDuHGH,; July l.-CoalyiIlo. Butler
county, suffered from a,terribl0 lcvclone n
few minutes after7 o'clock last evening
The, iact that, the village is, located abo1t
forty miles east OF the Shenango & allie.
gheny Railroad, and there is no telegraph
station there, prevented the full particulars
OF the occurrence, ,frnmreaching Lereun,il
latc. this evening. Tho track Of tie storm
WIS only about one.qnurter OF mile wide.
and ton miles long, but in that territory
great damage was done, ,iln the country
adjoining the village, many houses were
blown down, but as far us can be ascertain.
ed, no one WAS hurt. J ''
The principal portion ofc;tle Hr,lin
wrought was in the town, ;,of Coalyille itself
A new frame store building and dwelling
owned by Frank Bard, wus completely
wrecked in an instant. MIR. Bard, lis sis.
tor.in.law md his clerk, Mr.. Cannon. were
badly injured; 1[rs. Bard was blown n
considerable distance, but .miraculonslv
escaped injurybeyond a few braises, SEire
hundred feet south OF this store. n dwell.
Ing house occupied by:Thomas Johnston
and family, was blown down, but all tile
inmates escaped without injury. :
The residence Of. 0lr. Wiliiam. Barnes
was completely swept away, not Il board
remaining. Mrs. Barnes was blown fully
three hundred feet, and lodged in II ience
corner she' was 80 badly hurt TINT She
died in thirty minutes. ia Child OF Mr..
Barnes was carried three Hundred feat
and received injuries from which it died
this evening.
The rssiaenCe Of; Mr.. John Kelley,iwhich
contained nina poopio'a ut the vtfne the
cyclone struck it, was completely ,lelnol.
ished, and all the persons III tic building
were more or less injured. Ono Of thrlin.
mates, Mr.: 1enly, has since died. I',I
In barbershop next door, Mr.. and Mrs
Mctluiston were SO seriously, hurt that
they are expected to de-, The, only
hotel IN the place, the Kelso' House, was
80 damaged that it will be necessary to re-.
build ii, and tho yillaga drug store is in
about the same condition. Altogether
about fifteen houses arcwrecked and from
twenty-five TO thirty persons KILLED and
injured. :;
In the track Of the storm there is scarcely
a tree left standing, grea. trunks being
twisted or like pipe stems, and in some
INSTANCES carried!hundreds of yards. The
loss will probably exceed $4,000. Ylt
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