Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-08-12
IN NEW TERRITORY.
A Cyclone Spreads Death and Ruin
Along the Banks of the Delaware Riv-
er-Buildings Torn in Pieces and YES
sells Wrecked in the River-Many
Killed and Injured.

A terrific cyclone, sweeping up the
Delaware River, on the afternoon OF
the Sd, struck Philadelphia, near
Greenwich Point, demolishing a por-
ton of the works of the Pennsylvania
Salt Manufacturing Company, and in
iuring several employees. 1t then took
a course across the river, wrecking the
steamer Maj. Reybold and the ferry
boat Peerless. The storm blew the
pilot, Emery Townsend, and Capt.
Eugene Reybold, of the steamer Rey-
bold, into the river, drowning the
former and painfully injuring the cap
tain. The Peerless was swept almost
to waters edge. When the Maj. Rey-
bold left her dock for Salem, n. j., she
had on board about fifty passengers,
although, as no tickets had been sold
it is impossible to ascertain the exact
number There were also about four
teen officers and deck hands. Of this
number of people upon the wrecked
boat, it does not appear that any
lives werelost, except that of the pilot,
although it is not impossible that
some of the passengers we're washed
off and lost without anyone knowing
of the facts.
On the Jersey side the storm struck
John Dialogues shipyards below
Haign's Point and destroyed the build
took q course along the New Jersey
River, demolishing all the buildings in
its path up to Bridge Avenue, Cam
den. At this point the cyclone took
an easterly course to Fifth Street,
Camden, embracing in it's path all that
section of the city between Second and
Fifth Streets to Delaware River, which
was the northern section of the city.
Passing over the river, skirting Pitly's
Island, the storm passed over to that
part of the Twenty fifth Ward Of
Philadelphia, known as Richmond.
Short & Harbs' three-story hosiery
mill, 3O39 and 3O41 Salmon
Street, Richmond, was complete
ly 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
number jumped from the second-story
windows, and were only slightly in
iured, while others were hurled to the
ground with the falling walls and
struck by pieces of flying timber and
bricks. Before the storm the air was
filled with flying debris, and people,
seeing the awful sight, fed in terror by
the hundreds to their cellars. In its
ravages in Camden scores of dwelling
houses were unroofed and some of
them thrown down, and the damage
to the business property along the
river point is enormous. Hundreds Of
families are rendered homeless, and
one victim, Chas. Daley, was killed
outright at the American Dredging
Company's wharf. Another, Harry
Stevens, had his leg cut off by flying
piece of timber ard will probably die.
The cyclone lasted between four and
five minutes and was marked with
terrific puffs and roars. It is q sin
gular fact that fat-roofed houses sui
fered the most; the wind, with the
greatest ease, catching them under the
cornice, lifted them as though they
were sheets Of paper. There was hard
ly an instance where g. mansard-roof
building was wrecked.
So far as known only three persons
were killed outright, and twenty
injured.