The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-01-17
A MID WINTER CYCLONE.
Wind Which Crushed Brick Walls
Like Egg Shells.


1890 to-day during heavy storm o
wind and rain the new four-story build
ing on Diamond street, near Wood
and in the rear of Rea Bros and Wei
don & Co.'s, on Wood street, fell witt
a crash that was heard for many
squares. The force of the falling build
ing was so great that the rear walls O.
the two other buildings mentioned
were crushed as if they had been made
of paper and their front walls fell upor
the pavement on Wood street, bury
ing several people in the debris and
mingling some horribly. Of these two
were girl and a boy and one a man
unknown, all Of whom were taken in
a patrol wagon to their homes or the
police hospital. The falling walls
crushed in buildings in Diamond Street
occupied by Geo. Freaxter, barber, and
W. G. Thomas, dealer in shoe find
ings, and badly damaged portions OF
the buildings occupied by Joseph
Etchbaum, on Fifth Avenue, and ].
R. Wadon & Co., book sellers, and Rea
Bros, stock brokers, on Wood Street.
The catastrophe created intense excite
ment and in a few minutes the streets
surrounding the fallen buildings were
blocked with people. Hundreds OF
willing hands, needless of the damage
to themselves, went to work te extrl-
cate the victims ofthe terrible accident.
Upto 4. p. m. 42 persons have been
taken from the ruins Of the Diamond
Street building. OF thsSe four were
dead and several so badly injured that
recovery is almost impossible. A large
number are still buried under the de-
bris. Martin Hitler, just taken out OF
the barber shop, said 'there are four
more in there and then became un-
conscious.
The storm last about thirty minutes
and was the heaviest known in this
section for years. The wind blew a
hurricane while the rain and hail fell
in torrents. A number of other build
ings were damaged by the. high wind.
A portion of the foundry Of Mcintosh,
Hemphill & Co., Oh 13oth Street, was
blown down but as far as known no
one was killed or injured there.
PITTsBURG.-LATER.-Up to ten
O'Clock tonight forty-three persons had
been taken from the ruins, and there Is
no doubt that others are still buried.
All were promptly carried home or to
hospitals, so an exact statement can
not be made, but the facts seem to be
that eight were killed outright or died
shortly after being removed and thirty
five others were injured, number OF
them fatally without doubt.
READING, PA cyclone passed
over this city this evening doing con-
siderable damage and causing heavy
loss of life. A silk mill in which 25O
girls were employed blew down just
before the hour for quitting work.
Everything is in confusion. About
the same time there was an explosion
and fire in the same neighborhood by
which eight men were burned to
death.
READING, Pa LATER-The storm
was cyclone, and its track was only
two hundred feet wide. The explosion
referred to in q former dispatch oc-
Cured in the car shops Of the Reading
Railroad Company. In the paint shops
were nine passenger cars ready to go
out. Their gas tank, building of
brick, was demolished. The cars over.
turned and some otthe gas chambers
exploded and the gss took fire. Other
gas chambers also exploded. The cars
were burned and all that the storm left
was burned.
Thirty.men were caught in the ruins.
Four of these were burned 10 death and
the remainder crawled out, some Of
them badly hurt.
The silk mill when struck by the
storm cloud crunbled as though built
of children's toy blocks. Up to the
present writing the extent Of human
injury there is not known, but it is
aappalling to contemplate. A great
ery other buildings were demolished
;ohole or in part, and other casual
ENssNssare reported to human life; but the
)! ffter at the silk mills dwarfs every
. Trig else at present.
.~CSBURY, Pat $50 this even
ng rain and wind storm came up
nsuddenly and blew over one Of the
stacks of the Sunbury Nail Mill. The
mill is situated between the Reading
and Pennsylvania railroads, on the
outskirts OF the city. The. first is s
pudding mill having six furnaces.
Stack No. was thrown over on the
TOOL, OIOpplAiS Will ~ SNS-NE> ->N' 20
They crashed through the slate roof,
s;completely demolishing the pudding
department of the mill. Thirty-eight
s len were employed in this department,
Md half of them were buried in the
epbris. The fire alarm was sounded and
!: .>on hundreds surrounded the mill.
9S1ehe men were carried out half naked
sInd men are at work yet as it Isl sup
, posed several others are in the ruins.
Two men were taken out dead, nine
are seriously injured and four are miss
ing, supposed to be dead in the ruins
of the mill.
DIRE .DeUL DETAILS OF THE CALAMITY
AT READING.
READING, Pa, January l0.-The loss