Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-09-10
A TERRIBLE CYCLONE
Almost Totally Dsmolishss wash
ington, Ohio.
SIX KILLED AND FIFTY INJURED.
Every Hotel, Bank, Church and Business
House Wrecked and Two Hun
dred Residences Destroyed,
GREAT DEsoLATIoN AND SUFFERING,

/ WASHINGTON C. a., 0HIo, September g
The cyclone which came upon thistown last
evening at s o'clock almost completely de-
molished it. Not single store facing the
central square out OF forty is left in its
| place, and the uUjority Of them are levellsd.
About two hundred residences are destroyed
and the streets so filed with debris that it
is almost i'm possible to pass. Sheriff Ran
kin ordered out the militia, which took
charge and helped to get order oat Of con-
fusion. All the gas went out when the
storm came, and the works were destroyed.
Bon6res had to be built in the streets to
give light for the sesrchers. The total
known to be dead is FIVE and about fifty
injured. Oae Of the latter Of these
was the manager OF the telephone exchange,
who was hurled across the street aud had
one arm and one leg and collsr-bons broken.
Some houses we're lifted up and carried bod
lily several hundred feet and then dashed to
the ground with terrible force The shat
tered fragments were then vhirled in some
instances q quarter Of a mile. 4 relief COM
mi,tee is at work and all houses not de-
stroyed are thrown open to the homeless.
Farmers are coming in by dozens bringing
food and bedding. Every hotel bank, church
snd BUSH ess house in town is ruined. The
utmost desolstion prevails. People
coming IN report finding de-
5ris ten miles from town.
With daylight came the
Most DisheartsRing
spectacle. The fair town OF yesterday lay
torn and wrecked in disordered heaps, the
streets well nigh impossible from the trees
and parts of houses cast into them. The
worst OF sll was the sigh; of the poor who
had lost all, and who had no place to lay
their heads They wandered hopelessly
about as if they were Strangers. Of course
ueOple whose houses were not ruined began
at once TO care for their unfortunate fellow
sufferers, but the farmers began 70 pour into
town, drawn by curiosity, but at the same
time brirgiug with them substantial
aid. Before the day ended the council had
taken formal action by organizing q relief
committee, and by night much can De done
toward preventing actual privstiou. The
wonder is that no more lives were lost. 10
odd Fellows hall forty members were
Gathered at meeting when the storm came
The building was literally thrown down,
vet not one man was injured. Thirty-one
went down vita the ruins and escaped,
while nine Cluny 10 the walls Of an adjoin-
ing lock and were rescued by ladders.
The CommercislGazettes special says;
People were lot frightened until they heard
the rattle of signs threshing in the
Terrific
storm. Il kept getting. worse and worse
until the largts, and most Ibstautial brick
and stone structures beaved to and fro at
! the mercy OF the steadily increasing gale.
Bricks and beams roofs, fences aud almost
every conceivable hing that could possibly
| fe wrenched loose flew through the air
scattering death and destruction every
where. For eight long minutes, the dis
ss'rous work went on. Music Hall was
flied with ptople attending the Salvation
Army meetings and as portion
of tie root aud ceiling fell
in. a DISASTROUS panic Was prevented
wi,h the greatest difSlulty. The list OF
BILLED has already been sent and no Others
haze been tourd. Among the seriously
woun5ed are Ms ". P. Irviog badly iu-
'lred, Niltcn Hye- back injured; James
Srape. struck by falling telegraph pole;
Ms ". Tho,p, 6!oSn across the street and
lsdly injured: Miss Lulu Clifton, lover por-
ION Of body crushed; Herbert Tsggart,
bedly crushed; Charles Mercer badly iuiur-
,d: Mrs James Bench, Miss Sheets.
Following is the
List of Losses.
There was no insurance tor this kind OF
damage: GLADSTONE i Beaver, $4,000;
Gfo-re Melvin, $500; Rev. Norman Jones,
y OuO; Melvin Cotfmsn aud Hsdley L
SON. $1,000: Court House g. 500; c.
Burnett i Sons, q 900; N. Hs-
rev. 5000; Arlington HoTsa, 81 500;
II Hall estate. $1,000; a. Hilde5rIut,
y GOO: WILLIE, 81. 500; Dr.. Rush, $1,000;
Garrir ger i Baird, $1,000; Joseph Walton.
| $1,000: Or kennedy. $500, Mssonle
Hall $4,000; Rice, 81 0OD: Music hall,
- O,U. Hon Willis Gardner, $4,000; b.
| Kelly, -. .OOU; Stunsou Bros Co 800;
James Purcell. $4,000; j. ID. S,uekey \
| 60. -. 600: DAYTON and lrortJn Railroad,
= 900: NJ. >ager. $i,500; Purcell
X Bro, 3 coo; Bsrr i Co, $1,000
Redicords, 81 900; Craig Bros, $500; ".
| 4 Harlow, $500, !. p Robinson, $500;
IN Vaudeuan. $1,000, ". Y. Cslick,
- 0,0: l.. Hesgles, $500; George Dale,
/ $500; odd Fellows, 81 500, James Bragg,
- Gao: RF. Burke, $4,000; Baker and
Wsl,on. 5000; White sld Bollsnd' SEV,-
90. Cincinnati and NJ Vernon railway,
= coo. L. {. Goldman, $4,000; Dennis
Y Salesterr7. $1,000; otiuehAr., $1,000,
P;rg i Son, 81. 900; George Bailey, : 900;
y Shsnuop. Fl 100, c. o. Stevens. $1,000;
4, DeWite. s.. 800; Thomas Craig, 81 ,OO0,
9. c. LaWbead, $1,000; P. 5. Collins
81 800. ,
these Iosse, are uson buildings alone sre
ar from complete. Among the Incidents
- me disaster was the bsowing Of tue soase
- y. Thorp entirely to pieces, or ont OF
.i,N,. The thirty occupants were dropped
,Sr,.. the street, with only Mrs ThorP Sc
rs,sEr bruised. The o,hers Ss1 but slight
lurts' The house cannot De found
The INJURED DYING.
Tb, Ioss Est. mated At Not Less Than n
Million Dollars.
CINCINNATI. September "a Washing
ton Court HOc,e special to the Commercial
Gazette saws that Herbert Hasgsrt, tele-
phone operator, died st 9 stO-nishs and that
n.nv Of the ipinred will die within
= week. Gov. Hoadly was present today
and subscribed one hundred dollars for re-
lief BE returned to Columbas saying he
EonId issue AN appeal 10 the people of O5io
a.. s;5 for the sufferers. Ex-senator joan
Ti,tIs estimates the loss from the Storm 10
Ws.S;notou J5.. ana vicinity viii not fall short
oF a million dollars. Il was esumsted ma