The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-23

killed outright, three dangerously hurt,
and a number slightly injured by the
falling timbers.
| LIST OF KILLED:
Charles hweitzenberg, Charl es
Beavicamp and wife, Laura Alphaus
August Goetes, wife and two boys and
Rosie Gould. The storm demolished
many houses barns were swept clean
and ali the orchards in the vicinity,
and the dwelling of William Willis
were crushed. Willis Was fatally in
jured. The storm came from the
southwest, swept across the State
dIagonally in q track two miles IN
width. The houses and barns were
crushed and growing crops were swept
away.
AT PITTsBURG.
PITTsBURG, August 22.-The food has
almost reached the limit here. 1t did
not reach disastrous height. The low
lands, however, were submerged and
the damage will be quite heavy. The
rain in the moAntaiIs and up
the Monongahela River was almost
unprecedented. Burgetstown was
partly submerged. Reports from
adjoining districts state that valleys
are ali overlooked and the damage to
crops can scarcely be estimated.
Bridges, stables and outbuildipgs were
whirled away before the rushing food
and the scene this morning is ore of
great devastation. At McKeesport the
fats are flooded and one person was
drowned.
The hungarian camp below town is
submerged and many of the Gungar-
ians
BARELY ESCAPED DROWNING.
At jeanette, where the big glass works
are being erected, and have just gone
into operation, two-thirds of the plant
is under water and it is reported
that eighty houses are under water.
The towns of Laramie, Shifton and
Pennor are partially under water and
many OF the inhabitants are living in
the upper stories of their houses.
In the mountains the head waters OF
all the streams are swollen beyond all
bounds. In the city the water got up to
the fly pits of MANY mills and factories,
and caused the suspension of work.
The Polish inhabitants of Shantytown
were again compelled to move their
goods and are now encsmped on the
banks o. the river. The railroads
are the gre attest sufferers in this
section. No trains arrived or de-
parted over the B. d O. since
yesterday. At Osceols station, on the
Eastern division, they have seven acres
of land slide, while every bridge and
culvert on the Wheeling division has
been washed away.
AT BOSTON.
BosToN, August Pit is difficult to
estimate the damage caused by the dis
astrous rainfall of last night. A hun
dred cellars were flooded. Two large
plants in Roxbury alone suffer an ag-
gregate loss of nearly $50 600. The
Boston Betting Company suffered $685.,
600; Towers oil cloth works, $50 QUO.
The New York & New England railroad
is at standstill.
AT READING.
READING, August 22.-The Schuylkill
river is twenty feet above the ordinary
stage, the highest since 1869.
SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
SPRINGFIELD, O., August 22.-Early
this morning a serious accident oc-
Cured on the Columbus, Springfield &
Cincinnati Railway east of this city. A
train consisting of eight freight, tw o
passenger cars and two sleepers struck
broken engine and every car was de-
rallied. She sleepers, both carrying
passengers, we're thrown down an en-
bankment and several persons injured.
A STEAMER GoKs DOWN,
SAN FRANCISCO, August 22.-An IN
known steamer was sunk by the
steamer Oceanic from Hong Kong and
Yokohama, at 10 o'olock this morning,
off Fort Point, just inside the entrance
70 the harbor. 1t is almost certain that
the steamer sunk Is the City Of Chester, |
which sailed for Eureka, California. |
this morning, with large number of |
passengers on board The Oceanic had |
her boats out saving passengers. The |
steamer San RCfdeI and tugs have gone |
to the assistance. Several lives ale re- |
ed lost.
FIFTEEN PRRsoNs WERE DROWNED.
The probabilities are that the loss of |
life will be considerably above that
figure. The steamer City of Chester left
uer dock here shortly after 8 O'Clock
this morning. She had seventy-one
cabin passengers on board, number of
steerage passengers and the crew,
number not known. There must have
Deen more than hundred people on
The steamer. A thick fog wac prevail
ing on the bay this morning, and it is
the two steamers were unable
to see each other. The Oceanic was
coming into the harbor at the time of
the collision.
LATER REPORT.
1t is now certain that the steamer
sunk is the City of Chester, but no boats
lave come ashore yet, and the full ex
tent of the disaster is not known. A
arge number of boats have COLE to the
assistance. Every effort is being made
O save the passengers. So far as
nown the Oeeassic is not seriously in