The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1889-01-18

the vacancies in the list OF commission
ers as is made in the case of the election
of judges. The provision is made for a
complete and correct registration OF the
voters and the judges Of the election in
| countinr the votes are authorized to re-
iect II decided to have been fraudu-
iently voted. The board of commits
| sioners is given power to correct irregu-
| ~larities in the returns of the judges Of
elections and heavy penalties are pre-
| scribed for offences against the election
aw.
A TERRIFIC STORM OF WIND AND HAIL.
IL Sreeps Deer a Popufoms Pemmsvtpamia
CITY WiM Disastrous KesmIts.
/ A terrific storm of wind and hail, the
worst known for years, swept over Pitts
burg. Pa, shortly after oon on the 9th,
carrying with it death and destruction.
The storm, says a dispatch from that
city, was formed with a s%uddenness that
was overwhelming, and as the wind nc
%companied by hail and torrents of rain,
-wept along the streets, pedestrians
were hurled before it and barely es-
capped being crushed under the vehicles
passing along the thoroughfare. Sud
denly, in the center of the city,
there was a terrible crash, and it was
found that the cyclone had caught
a new building on Diamond street, near
Weed, owned by Q. L.. Wiley, and
hurled it to the earth, covering up two
score of mangled human bodies. The
building was in course Of erection. Il
was 40 by 80 feet in dimensions, and
was seven stories high. The front Of
the building had not yet been put in,
and the wind seemed to enter the high
| shell from the open end. The high
walls of brick and undried mortar were
parted, one falling each way, partly
wrecking nearly q dozen of the sur
rounding buildings. The crushed build
ing was thrown against Weldin & Co.'S
store, on Wood street, and the barber
shop of Fred Schumacher, at No. Al Dia-
mond street. The rear end Of Weldin's
store was crushed in and the front of
the building was forced out into Wood
street. The barber shop was completely
demolished. A leather store next to the
Wiley building, occupied by w. 81.
Thomas, was also totally wrecked. The
rear end of Watt & Co. s book store was
crushed in, while some of the falling
structure struck Joseph Richbaum's
buildings fronting on Fifth avenue,
breaking the windows and injuring q
number Of employees.
Within five minutes after the collapse
of the building the streets were filled
with an excited crowd, notwithstanding
the fact hat The rain and hail was pour
ing down in q perfect deluge. With the
arrival of the firemen the work of rescue
was begun. Ladders were run up to the
second story of the Weldin building,
and the first n taken out was a young
lady employed as a type writer, who for
tunately had escaped serious injury. at
the time of the disaster about twenty
five men we're at work IN the building
and not one escaped injury. In the bar
Der shop next door, seven men were i'm
%prisoned, while half q dozen more were
buried beneath the debris of the Weldin
building.
The hospitals were notified and q
short time after the clang of ambulance
bells and patrol wagons was heard. The
contractors had twenty-five wagons and
carts on the scene inside of an hour, and
private expressmen. were on hand with
their wagons and lent aid in helping to
rescue the victims.
In the meantime the crowd continued
to increase until finally it was found
necessary to call out the police and have
the streets cleared for "a square both
ways. The streets were roped in and
no one was allowed about the ruins ex-
cept those assisting in the rescue. Work
was continued all the afternoon, and at
10 o'clock tonight O number of persons
were known to be still underneath the
debris. Up to that hour forty mangled
and bruised bodies had been taken from
the ruins. Some were dead, others dy-
ing, and many were fatally injured. It
is believed that the list of dead will be
greatly increased before morning. Of
eight killed, only two have been identi-
fed so far. One was a little girl named
McGlone, who was walking along the
street with her brother when the build
ing fell, and the two were buried in the
wreck. The little girl was killed in
stantly and her brother fatally hurt.
The body of George Kirsch. the barber,
was found in the cellar of the barber
shop.
The velocity of the wind was fifty
miles an hour, the highest record for
years. It is still blowing hard tonight,
but is growing colder and the weather
is CLEARING.
The list of dead identified up to II
o'clock was as following:
Samuel Stringer, aged sixteen years
printer.
Thomas Jones, bricklayer.
Charles Fritch, aged sixteen years.
George Mason, carpenter.
A colored boy named Terge, boot
black.
George Kirsh, barber, aged eighteen.
The inspector of police stated tonight
that he was of the opinion that from
fifteen to twenty persons are yet IN the
ruins, and he would not be surprised If
the death list increased to fifteen or
twenty.
/ Al READING.
The storm at Reading was more disas-
trous than at Pittsburg. The walls of a
| silk factory at the former city collapsed.
One hundred and seventy-fve girls were
buried in the ruins. The number of
dead are estimated at more than eighty.
No list of the dead at Reading is yet
attainable. Many of the unfortunates
are buried below the fallen floors and
the brick of the; walls. All may not be
dead. Many of those who escaped from
the second and third floors were shielded
by the heavy machinery. Others deeper
down may be as fortunate, though all
must be injured.