The Indiana State sentinel., 1885-08-05

ines of the establishment. 1t then took a |
course along the New Jersey River front, |
demolishing all the buildings in Its path, up |
TO Bridge avenue, Camden. At this point |
the cyclone took an easterly course TO Fifth |
street, Camden, embracing in its path all |
that section of the city between Second and |
Fifth streets, TO the Delaware River, which |
washes the northern section OF the city. Pass |
ing over the river, skirting Petty's Island. the
storm passed over to that part of the Twenty |
fifth Ward OF Philadelphia known as Rich |
mond. In its ravages in Camden scores of
dwelling houses were unroofed, and some of
them thrown down. and the damage 10 the
business property along the river front is
enormous. Hundreds of families were rem
dered homeless. and one victim, Charles
Daily, was killed outright, at the american
Dredging Works. Another, Harry
Stevens, had his leg cut off by flying
picce of timber, and will probably
die The path of the storm through Rich
mond was marked with death and destruc-
ton. Its track was almost due north from
the Port Richmond coal wharves. About
80 dwelling houses were wrecked or so
badly damaged as to be rendered unfit for
habitation, and 200 families were driven
from their homes to be cared for by their
neighbOrs.
number of people were seriously and
some fatally injured. girl OF ten years,
Lizzie McNeigh was killed at her home, /. I'D
Melvin street, in sight of her mother, who
was herself pinned to the floor by fallen
rafterS few feet from her dying child. Ii
| is impossible yet TO estimate the amount
/ of damage done. Following are the names
| of the killed and injured as far as can be as
! certained: Dead-EmOry Townsend, of
Salem, y. J., pilot of the Steamboat Major
ReybOld Charles Daily, aged forty-nine,
| ship carpenter, killed instantly by flying
| timbers at the wharf of the American Dredg-
| ing Company, Camden; Lizzie McVeigh,
| aged ten, crushed to death between timbers
at her residence, 1,722 Melvin street. Phila-
delT1ia.
| Injured-On steamboat Mayor Reybold:
| Morris Doyle, engineer, slightly; Captain
| Reybold, seriously cut; Welch, adecl1hand,
| severely cut; w. Gessner, a passenger, tenn
pie artery severed, injuries serious.
| Iniured-At Camden: Harry Stevens,
| aged twenty-one, probably fatally injured,
| his right leg severed below the knee by fly
ing timbers; Stewart Johnson, colOred, of the
| dredging tug Pacific, severely injured about
| the face and body; John Wetcher injured
seriously about the head; Benjamin
Smith, right arm broken and in
| aged sixteen, injured by falling walls;
Charles Thompson, Manager of the Camden
| Tool Works, in jured in face and neck by
| falling walls; Jacob Miller, leg broken; John
Silk, head badly cut; Elmer Locke, bruised
| about body; Mrs Josephine Me Sinley, cut
|
| in Philadelphia Annie McVeigh, aged fifty
| (mother of the dead child, Lizzie McVeighl
badly cut about the body; Annie Me
| Weigh aged fifteen, cut about the face
and limbs: Michael Kent, aged tfty-five,
| back broken; William y. Harb (of Short 4
| Harb, hosiery manufacturersl struck by
| falling bricks, cat ing depression of the
| BRAIN. 1t is thought he will die.
| The following employees at Short IL Harbs
| mill were also injured Annie Bots, aged
| sixteen, arm broken; Annie Rarcp, aged six
| teen; Emma Power nineteen; Emma
| Thomas, eighteen; Emma Michner, nine
4 teen; John Thornton. fifteen.
| Mr.. John Dialogue, of Camden, whose
| works were destroyed, says: Looking out
| the door upon the river, saw the tornado
| approach. | could see the buildings of the
| Pennsylvania Salt Works, on the Philadel-
phia side, going off like chaff. Then the storm
/ struck the Major Reybold which was
partially abreast of my place. Portions of
| her upper works were whirled fully 400 feet
| into the air. A tremendous roar preceded
| ii. The moving fury resembled dense mass
of rolling black smoke, and it travelled with
| in ten feet of the surface of the
/ water in the river A singular phenomenon
| was witnessed, not only by myfelf but by
Others. Thif was huge ball of fire. fully
| ten feet in diameter, which swiftly accom-
| panied the storm cloud. After playing
| sad havoc with my establishment
] saw this ball of fire explode about
| $50 yards north of me, with
report so terrific as to shake the very foun-
dations of the buildings in my yards. Fol-
| lowing this came a number of explosions,
| but of less force. All the sky to the east
ward was unusually bright and had sort
of rainbow appearance. In fact, this
was one of the most remarkable
ever seen. The ball of fire. which was ex-
ploded, l am satisfied, played the mischief
! at the American Dredging Company place"
Short 4 Harb's three-story hosiery mills,
on Salmon street, Richmond, this
city, was completely wrecked, and
| scattered in all directions. There were
about eighty people employed in the mill,
most of them young girls, and the effect was
! to throw them into panic. A large num-
Der jumped from the second story windows,
and were only slightly injured,
while Others were hurled to the
struck by pieces of falling timber
| and bricks. Before the storm the air was
filled with flying debris, and people seeing
! the awful sight fled in terror by the hun
| dreds TO their cellars. The cyclone lasted
| between four and five minutes, and was
| is singular fact that fiat rooted
| houses suffered the most, the wind with the
utmost ease catching them under the cor
nice, lifting them as though they were sheets
| of paper. There was hardly an instance
| where a manSard-roof building was wrecked,
so great was the violence of the wind that
the fronts and sides of houses were mashed
| as though they were egg shells. Roofs were
| carried hundreds of yards away Shade trees
| were moved down like platoons of soldiers
| on battlefelds. Great monster trees that
had stood the storms of years were uprooted
or broken off like pipe-stems. Buildings
| which it would seem that an ordinary
storm would demolish, and which were in
the direct path of the storm, were spared,
| while their neighbors, modern structures of
| brick, would be gutted or wrecked out
| right.
| shocking Accident.
New YORK, July 31.-Nine men got into
bucket to-day to be hauled to the top of
shaft connecting with the new Croton Aque-