The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-06-22
Havoc at Muucy.
TERRIFIC VIOLENCE OF TIE STORM SUNDAY
EVENING.
READING DEPOT DESTROYED AND A hoy
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. At OTHER
POINTS.

A correspondent of the Williamsport
Gazette &c Bulletin gives the following ac-
count of the storm at Muncy on Sunday
evening:
The storm approached Muncy from the
north, dark and threatening clouds hung
heavily down to the ground, moving with
great rapidity. This was Il few minutes
before O'clock The wind blew Il perfect
gale the rain poured down in torrents,
and for Il brief time hailstones as large as
hickory nuts fell thick and fast. The
storm lasted with great violence for nearly
an hour, the course of the wind changing
to east and ending up from the south.
Hundreds of fruit and shade trees in Mum
cy were blown down, while everything in
the shape of vegetation suffered greatly.
Many windows all about the town suffered
from the effects of the hailstoncs. Glade
Run, which forms the eastern boundary of
Muncy borough, twas bank full in "A very
short time, washing away bridges and
overlooking and filling the cellars of the
residences in the northern part of the
town. So far as heard from there is re-
ported great damage to the crops all
through the Muncy valley.
DEPOT DESTROYED AND 4 BOY KILLED.
A small cyclone, shaped like an inverted
cone, struck the Philadelphia and Reading
depot and more complete wreck could
not well be imagined The roof was
niolyo1 M, opI corr;oJ oT ne ~ II ,yoo tbot
much paper, portion of it lodging in
hickory tree hundred yards away, and
other portions scattered through the lum-
Der yard of Noble IL Peterman. About two
thirds of the building, of the southern end,
was completely demolished, the brick
walls being razed almost to the floor. A
number of boys had sought refuge
from the storm on the west side
of the depot. When the roof was
unshipped these hoys started in the
direction of the canal. Robert Dykins,
a fifteen year old son of Squire Dykin 5,
was caught and almost buried among the
fallen debris. His legs were broken in
"A number of places, his body and head
crushed and he expired a few minutes after
without uttering word. John Ritter and
Sherman Hamilton, boys of about sixteen
years of age, were both badly cut about the
head and face. The wreck of the depot
| is almost complete, excepting that portion
| used rs II ladies waiting room and the little
Office occupied by the agent and operator.
The goods in the freight department were
I,,,pi i,I hal ~. 4
| stroyed.
FORCE OF THE WIND.
The force of the wind may be judged
| from the fact that number of piles of rail
| ties being carried hundreds Of feet. The
| railroad track near the depot was covered
| with ties and lumber. The lumber shed OF
| Lewis 5. Smith was upset. The brick yard
of jerome Shaw was badly damaged ant
the shed covering the kiln was completely
wrecked. The storm seemed to have reach
cd in the direction of Turbotville and nc
doubt later accounts will tell of great de-
| structiOn in that direction. The Southern
portion of the Keystone paint mill, near tn,
Reading depot, was completely demolished
and not particle left standing and thu
smoke stack fell into the canal The mail
building, containing the machinery, wa
not injured any. In the direction o
IIughesville considerable damage was don,
to the fluit trees, and the large barn OF
Wilson Opp was partly unroofed, The
storm had spent its fury before reaching
Hughesville,