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IT BEGGARs DESCRIPTION.

The scene was a narrowing one and
beggars description. The mill is stu
ated near the foot of Mount Penn, high
mountain overlooking the city. When
the people arrived everything was en-
veloped in darkness. Then huge bon
firrs were built, which cast q dismal
glare on the surrounding scene. The
fire companies left the burning paint
shop, and assisted in the rescue of the
dead and the dying. The entire police
force was called out. The ambulance
and relief corps and a thousand people
were in among the debris carrying out
bricks, pulling away timbers and assist
at the same time, but their
demand for the rescue of the victims of
the disaster. Here young woman was
taken out all bruised, suffering with cuts
and bruises. One body was noticed, as
it was dragged out. had its head cut off.
Others were i'll various postuves, the liv-
ing all suffering from the most terrible
wounds, and some almost scared to
death. A reporter entered What was
once the basement of the building, and,
cropping his way through the debris, no
5ced
FIVE BODIES OF YOUNG GIRLS
lying close together. He tried to pull
hem out, but they were pinned down,
and it was impossible to get them out.
hey were dead and beyond all human
aid.
The silk mill was built about four
sears ago. The builders were Reading
capitalists, and the cost of putting it up
vas $4,000. The mill was leased to
.irimshaw Bros, of Paterson, N. j.,
where they also operate similar mills,
md they have been running it ever
since. The machinery they put in the
mill cost $45,O0O. This is total loss.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1889-01-18

The query naturally suggests itself
II fspeaker Keith is so hopelessly in the
hands Of the railroad manapolies why
did he give the chairmanship of the
only committee in the house which can
affect their interests to Harry Hunter
of Sphinx who has record as rail-
road tighterp
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1889-01-18

Frank Pettigrew has joined the yis-
lung statesmen at Washington. If
Dakota's representatives now at the
national capital can sink all personal
and party differences and move on
congress as one man, something ought
to be accomplished at once.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1889-01-18

The lndicauons point very strongly
to Coy. Nlellette's appointment as
GoV Church's successor. All the
prominent Dakotans now in Washing
ton, regardless of politics, are said to
nave endorsed him-except Gen. Allen.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1889-01-18
Huron Will Have To Hustle.

Letcher Blade: The feeling in favor
of new vote on the location of the
state capital is growing daily. IfIInr-
on holds the capital of the new state oil
South Dakota, she will have to hustle.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1889-01-18

The query naturally suggests itself
In connection with the outrageous
state of affairs existing in the Indiana
Legislature what kind of people are
those Hoosiers, anyhow Were such
disgraceful proceedings to occur in
Dakota her fitness for statehood might
very properly be questioned.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1889-01-18
inaccessible, That's All.

Letcher Blade: 1t generally takes
about week to get paper from Hur-
on to Letcher. but we get the Sturgis
Record from the Black Hills in two
days. What's the ma t-r IS ith Huron
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1889-01-18
Complete Through the Country
Smaller Townsville LossF Up
in the

READING, Pa, Jan. ia death like
pail hangs upon the city as the result Of
the most horrible disaster in its history.
A hundred households are in mourning
as the result of one Of the greatest
calamities in Pennsylvania. A cyclone
swept over the northern section of the
city and laid waste everything within
its reach and with terrible loss of life.
The lives that hcve been sacrificed and
the number that have been injured can
only be estimated. The most reliable
computation at 10 o'clock p. m. is that
not less than eighty persons have been
killed outright and 100 injured.
When the cyclone first struck Reading
the Philadelphia G. Reading Railway
company's paint shop was unroofed and
in less than ten minutes the entire
structure was enveloped in flames.
Several gas chambers underneath the
passenger cars exploded and four per-
sons were killed and several others badly
injured.
The storm then continued eastward,
dealing out destruction in its path. Nine
dwellings on North Eighth and Marion
streets were unroofed and otherwise
badly damaged. The cyclone cut q
swath of about $50 feet and
EVERYTHING IN ITS WAY
was either levelled to the ground or very
badly wrecked. The next building in
it's track was the immense silk mill of
Grimshaw Bros, located at Twelfth aud
Marion streets. This building was filed
with several hundred operatives, and not
a single soul escaped uninjured. The
structure, which was four stories high
and 200 by 10 feet, is a mass of ruins
Not single brick remains of the beau
tiful building except the stock and en-
CINE room. The fire department was
called out and 10000 men, women and
children quickly assembled about the
wrecked mill. The cries of the wounded
and dying and their friends were heart
rending. Willing hands, however,
quickly set to work, and at $40 o'clock
some seventy persons had been taken
out. Twelve Of these were dead and
many fatally injured. Those who were
less seriously hurt were taken to their
homes, while those who received more
serious injuries were taken to the hos
pitfalls. 1t will take till morning before
all the killed and wounded can be gotten
out. Clerk Autenbach statG at
midnight that he believed that fully
eighty bodies were in the ruins under
the three floors. His list of employees is
lost, and owing to the confusion in tax
Ing out the injured he was unable to fur
nish list of the killed. But eighty is Q
conservative estimate of those who lost
their lives.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1889-01-18
THE AWFUL list.

One Hundred and Twenty Killed or Still
Entombed Beneath the Ruins.
READING, Pa. Jan. 1.-THE work of
clearing away the debris at the wrecked
silk mill was continued throughout the
night without interruption. A large
addition was made to the working force
and some twelve additional bodies have
been removed. The following is COM
plete list Of the missing and killed,
handed to u1 Press reporter by
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1889-01-18
DEATH AT Pl11sRuRa.

A Seven-Story Building Completely De-
molished and Several Persons Killed.
PITTsBURG, Pa. Jan. 11-There was an
awful catastrophe at 1890 this after
noon. The high wind that struck the
city at that hour completely demolished
the large brick building in process of
construction in Diamond Alley, imme-
diately in the rear of Eldon & Co.'S
store. The building was as far up as the
seventh story. The building is COM
plete wreck, and as it went down it
crushed in its fall the barber shop inn
mediately next. The force of the crush
ing building was thrown against Weldon
& Co.'S store and pushed out the front into
Wood street. The whole street in front
Of j. r. Weldon & Co.'S is full of debris.
At 9:so p. m. the dead body of col
ored boz, name unknown, was taken out
and removed to the morgue A few mo-
ments later the elevator boy, James Gar
ing. employed in Weldon's store, was
removed He was unconscious, and is
probably fatally injured. A rescuing
party are now engaged in tearing away
the foundation wall from under another
part Of Wel.ion's building. Voices call
ing for assistance are heard at frequent
intervals. The following is list Of the
killed as reported at police headquarter,
| up to q O'clock:
Samuel Il. Springer, taken out of the
wreck dead, lived in Allegheny; w. w.
McKeow, still in wreck, supposed to be
dead; Samuel Brown, Jr., lying dead
under steam boiler; Charles F. Ritch, ap-
prentice in barber shop, suffocated: Viii
liam Goettmann, body still covered by
debris, lived in Allegheny; two men,
names unknown, at morgue; Thomas
Jones, single, brichlayer, Allegheny;
George Mason, residence unknown, at
morgue; Hill (colored aged 10; unknown
man.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1889-01-18

Senator Cullom, who has proven
h'hself oae of the atlest of the newer
senator's, has just received the COM
filheit OF 'Hu unanimous renomina-
llon at the hands of the republican
legislature of Illinois.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1889-01-18

Plankinton is entitled to copgratula-
tion on the fact that she has been able
to retain the home office of the F. M.
y. a. in spite of the efforts Of Aber-
deem, Watertown, Huron and Fargo to
remove it. The efficient officers of the
past year were reelected, and the as
sociation is in a most prosperous con-
djtinn
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1889-01-18
Fortunately Only Musician Killed.

foftunately only Musician Killed.
New YORK, Jan. 1.-THE big storm
struck New York last night and for fif-
teen minutes regular cyclone prevailed.
navy yard in Brooklyn, where one-half
the roof of the main barracks was blown
off. Fortunately no one was killed but
Musician Woods.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1889-01-18

P1TTsBURG, Jan. 1.-THE official list
of those killed or injured swells the total
number to sixty-seven persons. At this
hour, ii a. M, eleven are dead, eight
fatally injured, twenty-five seriously in
jured and eight missing. It is known
positively that there are other bodies
under the ruins and all possible effort is
being made for their rescue, but scarcely
hope is entertained that any more viii
be removed alive, Street Commissioner
Finn and Chief Steel, Of the fire depart
ment, think there are at least twenty
men buried under the building. There
are at least that many missin
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1889-01-18
Inside of Thirty DAYS.

Huronite: We are going to be ad-
mitted. And we are going to be ad-
mitted inside of thirty days.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1889-01-18

Loss by the storm in Brooklyn.
BROOKLYN, jan. 1.-THE total loss in
this city by the storm, including that
saused by the explosion of the gas tanks
# the Citizens Gas Light company,
amounts to $104,65O.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1889-01-18

Harry Krocker,
Katie Alspach,
Clara Alspacll,
Katie Yeager,
Sallie Baum,
Ella Blucher,
Carrie Hartman,
Emma Deemer,
Lizzie Martin,
Irene Dickinson,
Dollie Haines,
Mary Hartman,
Amelia Christnan,
Annie Sayler,
!, Charles Hoyer,
Wellington Lengle,
James Finn,
Fred Reif,
James Nevin,
Harry Fisher,
Harry Templin,
Lena Snider,
Gertie Shick,
Sophia Freese,
Philip Seidel,
Frank Mohr,
Willie Grow,
Jacob Seidel,
Carrie Meyer,
Mary Fay,
Howard Lees,
Emma Eichner,
Katie Coxen,
Gertie Bickel,
Alice Long,
Katie Link,
Mary Scheif1er.
Katie Guinfler,
Annie Dreibelbis,
Daisy Becker,
Pauline Alt,
Annie Kline,
Ella Lamb,
Maggie Nagle,
Minnie Detrunk,
Emma Coxen,
Harry Lesher,
Jennie Hartman,
Tillie Grow,
Mary Schaefer,
Kate Suender,
Lizzie Barrett,
Alice Eisenbauer,
Dora Dietch,
Katie Hippler,
Carrie Kershner,
Mary Rerstler,
Hannah Cleaver,
Emma Nester,
Kate 1ebo.
sodies have been 70
lOught that at leas
9 ruins. The dwell
{ the storm present
ortunately, however
in any of the latter
nsiderable damage il
# the county, but tn
d it is impossible Il
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1889-01-18

This White Lake Times intimates
that partisan practices still continue
in the United States land office with
referenceto the placing of final proof
notices, but consoles itself with this
reflection:
3 All right, We believe there is God
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1889-01-18

mill, up to l0 a. m
Eva Leeds
William Snyder,
Celia Ritner, ,
Mildred LANCER,
Lizzie Owen,
Sallie O'Neill,
Laura Gehret,
Barbara Zilheiner,
Sallie BickIe,
Mary Wooten,
Emma Presser,
Laura Hoffman,
Sallie Hassan,
Ida Miller,
Henry Hofmaster
Hester Sneider,
James Salmon,
Charles Dapler,
Ed Brockway,
Charles Finn,
Howard Shrader,
Amelia Bossler,
Maggie Rowe,
Emma Plum,
John Nevin,
Clayton Ludwig,
George Herman,
Harry Fidler,
Benton Fidler,
Annie Rowe,
Charles Reide,.,
Daniel Flick,
Paul Lengel,
Annie Shade,
Mary Alt,
Clara Fox,
Laura Kercher,
Name Hedley,
Celia. Hecker,
May Reeser,
Sallie Young,
Minnie Merkle,
Ida Rollman,
Clara Stoudt,
Lydia Presser,
Katie Bowman,
Abbie Risniller,
Minerva Gift,
Nellie Salmon,
Mary Melon,
Bertha Harmon,
Celia Erlacher,
William Snider,
Cliff Firestine,
Sallie Faust.
Aggie Hovator,
Annie Enes,
Bertha Kuser, =.
Sallle Berstle,
Name Kinsey,
About thirty b
moved, and it is ii
sixty are still in tn
ings in the track o,
terrible sight. F.
no one was injured
The storm did col
the northern part {
wires are down an
furnish details.
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Text of the Lesson, Mark ., s5-45-com-
init Verses 40, 41-Go1den Text, Mark
t. 42-Commentary by the Rev. d. NJ.
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Ohio and Pennsylvania of
TornadOes Ever Known History
of the Country.
MOTH STRUCTURES IN READING AND P1TTsBURG
BURIED IN THE RUINS.
Nearly 200 Girls Read
ing Silk Factory Alone. More than of Whom
Missing.
COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED AND HUM

One Sevenstory Building Psburg Carry
ing With It Death and Agony to Two Score
of Human Beings.
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| Mr.: Grimshaw, one of the owners Of the
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1889-01-18

very properly be questioned.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-24
What Mine Host SAYS.

1t is a mistake to suppose that our
register books are open to the public
as a right. It is simply as q matter of
courtesy that we permit any one to
look at them, as we are not obliged to
show them. If a person calls at the
house in order to see friend or find
out if he is stopping there, it is his
place to inquire at the Office; that is
the only proper way. Our books are
always destroyed now as soon as they
are full. Hotel-keepers have been sub
iected to much annoyance by being
frequently ordered to produce them in
court as evidence in complicated law
suits. In order to avoid so doing we
always destroy our books, and can say
to the court that we have nosrecord of
any such parties as the ones in ques-
ton having been at our house at any
time.
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Devices OF the ImprOyident to Keep
from Getting Broke.

Two young crooks were arrested some
time ago on suspicion of committing
highway robbery by knocking down a
drunken man and rifing his pockets.
When they were searched before being
sent to their cells, the halves of two
one dollar bills we're found in pocket
of one of the young men, and the natu-
raj inference was that the bills were
torn in getting them out of the drunk
ards pocket. After the young men
were lockedSup, another of the same
gang heard of the arrest and hunted
up one of the detectives. He learned
about the finding OF the bills. "Were
they like these ?" he asked, taking the
other portions of the same bills from
his pocket.
"Yes," said the detective, ''and
guess [ want you, too"
Hold on" said the crook. "Come
with me into this saloon and I'll prove
to you that this is dead straight"
The detective accommodated him
and reaching the bar the young man
said to the cashier: What did I say
this afternoon when I tore them bills in
half and gave half to Eddie ?"
''You said, as near as can recollect,
Take them and keep them until you
meet me in the morning. There will be
one Sunday that we won't be broke :"
CHATS what I said, said the crook,
"and there's lots of fellows to prove
it."
There was no reason to doubt the
story, and the cashier said he had seen
1t done before by fellows who were
afraid to trust themselves with money
for fear of spending it too quickly. He
said there was one customer of the
place who tore bills in half in this man
ner and left portion of them in his
care occasionally .-Nea0 York San.
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save his love for Lois. and this his uncle
refused to accept.
Co." he said. You are the son of my
only brother, ana / loved him well, bit /
hope heaven will spare me the pain Of ever
hearing your name again.
An hour later Henry Drayton had left his
uncle's house for ever, and IL few days later
sailed for Australia, accompanied by Rose
Ellis. the guilty partner of his villainy.
Arthur Hazard was eager to inform Major
Hartwell of the happy turn affairs had TAX
en-, and rode into Westhoit at once to dis
patch telegram to him.
Come at once" he said. Il have faith
omed the mystery. AMI your presence is
earnestly desired"
At noon the next day the Major was at
Westholt,where Arthur met him with car
riage, and gave him full and complete his
tory of all that had occurred.
The Major listened in silence. too deeply
moved to speak, as he realized all that Lois
had suffered for his sake.
She is in the parlor waiting for you,
said arthur as they drove up the broad
carriage road.
The Major entered the house with hur-
ried. anxious tread. put his hand on the
knob OF the "a lor door. hesitated moment
as if struggling TOR self control. and then
pushed it open.
There was cry.
Cyril oh. Cyril! Cyril"
Lois! Oh, my poor darling! my poor
little grill"
Then the door closed. and Arthur heard
no more
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-24
COMPOSITE NOVEL WRITING.
One authors Story Wound Up Suddenly by
AMother

Aaother.
Major Calhoun, one of the most pro-
life of modern story writer's, and Louis
Neuman, who is the author of three
composite novels, adapted from the
German, Spanish and Italian, were
comparing experiences a few days ago.
II once Lad a rather exciting passage
with Ned Buntline." said the Major
HE was writing story for weekly
paper, on which we were both frequent
ly engaged, when he took sudden va
cation. The publishers were in di-
lemma, as they had but singular in
stallment ahead. I was sent for and
told to read the chapters already print
ed, and then to set to work and finish
up the story in one or two INSTALL
ments.
The multiplicity of characters puz-
zled me. Finally [ resolved to get rid
of some of them, and [ adopted very
original method. / put number of
them on board an excursion steamerIand
then exploded her boilers, sending
them to kingdom come. With the rest
I worked out a plot to climax and
wound up the story"
"That reminds me-" said Neuman,
"of somewhat similar incident that
occurred in Paris A highly sensational
story was running in one of the daily
papers, and the chief had few INSTALL
ments on hand when the brilliant young
author took it into his head to go off
and get married Then he set out on
wedding tour, which was to last a week.
The installments were soon used up,
and another member of the staff was
directed to wind UP the story. He sent
the heroine to o watery grave in the
River Seine; he poisoned the hero;
slew the able who was the sole witness
of the marriage, and closed the tale in
most tragic and narrowing manner. 1t
was a dark and weird success. you
may believe. At the end of the week
the author showed up. He had with
him several installments which he ten
dered to his chief
Your story is finished NJ said
the editor.
Pardon me, said the undaunted
novelist, it is not finished. have here
the continuation, and there is more to
come. Indeed, the best part of it is
here
'Tchut, exclaimed the chief why
insist? say it is finished M had
to do it in your ABSENCE
Z am aware that he wrote several
chapters, said the unblushing roman
Ger; but if you will kindly read this
manuscript, am sure you will agree
with me that am right
"The manuscript was passed over,
and to the chiefs surprise it was re-
markedly dramatic sequel to the story.
The heroine, instead of being drowned,
was rescued by some fishermen on the
river below Paris; the hero was saved
by a medical friend who applied the
stomach-pump in time, and the able re-
covered from his wounds and was on
hand to bless the nuptials Of the happy
pair
"My friend" said the composite
novelist, as he turned to the contem-
plation of q Portuguese book on short
horned cattle, which he was translat-
ing for Mexican ranchero, there is no
obstacle that true genius cannot over
come"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-24
WHATS in a W0rd2

A New York pastor, who, though a
Scotchman, had lived in America for
over forty years, was one day taken to
task by his daughter for the broadness
of his accent in the pronunciation of
the word difference.
"How do I pronounce u" he asked.
"You say difference.
"And what do you say?"
Difference"
Looking at her for moment, and
getting her to repeat, he continued,
well, M, will you just be SO kind
as to tell me the difference between
difference and difference 2"
The daughter gave up her hopeless
scholar to gang his ain gail" in pronun-
citation henceforth. = Harper's Maya
zine
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Some Other Game.

A man with his left arm in sling
was telling passenger on a Fort street
car what allied him and how it happen.
ed. Said he:
"My boy Henry likes to go hunting,
and SO last Soonday I takes my gun
und goes oudt by der Norris road NIT
him to Kill some squirrels. Poorly soon
we vhas separated, und [ goes along
by thicket, ind Henry shoots ne nit
his shotgun"
accidentally, of course ?"
"Of course. He sees me creeping
along, uLd takes me for wolf.
"A wolf Why, there isn't q wolf
within 500 miles Of Detroit"
dot vhas SO, but Henry doan' know
it until we comes back home. He feels
very bad aboudt it. Henry vhas
good boy, und next time he doan' make
sooch a mistake-he shoots me for
woodchuck Detroit Free Press.