Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-01-16

pressmen went with Laelr wagons emo
their AID In helping to rescue the vistiua
Up 70 ~ o'cl OK p. N. forty mangied aEd
bruised bodies had been tax n from the
ruins. Some we're dead, other, were d.
ing, and many were fatally injured. One
or two ed on the way to the. hospiti.
From the best information obt1,inab bic sev
en- were killed outright Or died in u ebert
t me and thir y-six others were injured.
It Is believed that the list Of dead via Re
greatly increased.
Inspector Of Police IcAleose said alta
late hour that ne was OF the opinion that
from fifteen to twenty five persons wsre
yet in the ruins, and he won not be sur
pr. sed if the death list would be increased
to fifteen or twenty. DR.. j. L. Keod.
prominent physician Of Allegheny, was n
Weldin's at the time, and he is still naiss-
ing. 1t is feared that he is dead
Early in the evening the voise Of . hoy
named Gottman was heard issuing from
the debris. but the rescuers could not To-
cate him. He said be wa, all rightK they
cou d get at him. At IL O'clock, howevex
he had lot been reached and no ssu.d
could be heard It II feared that be
died Of exhaustion. Young Goehring
was taken out about O'Clock. His no
sition was such that he could net be res
cued sooner. and he was kept alive hy
feeding beef tea whisky b him
through rubber tube A nu0ber Of
narrow escapes were reported. Beveu
men were thrown from the seventh
story to the ground md escaped with
slight injuries Adolph Herman sanght
on the telegraph wires and was rescued
uninjured.
AT wILLIAMsPORT Pa
W1LL1AMsPoRT. Pa, Jan. l0.-Ths STERN
was very violent here. A large nambeH
Of buildings were damaged and . portion
OF the new Demorest sewtng-machioe
factory was blown down and the re-
ma.nder partially unroofed. Several
building were blown down ana StbeSs
were damaged. The loss at the Dtnosest
works is over SO 600.
All kinds Of theories have been adj
vanced for the collapse Of the build az. In
some instances the respons bility ie placed
on the contractors, while in Others the
building inspectors arc bl med. Nothing
definite can be known, however, until an
invest ton is made.
nut factory owned by Bontreger & Go,
in the Seventeenth ward was blown down
during the st rm and man nameu Hines
killed. The loss was S13, OO0
The cyclone wrought terrible destrso-
ton in other Parts of s'le city and out along
the railroads centering here A portion OF
the foundry of Mcintosh, Hemph IL b Co
on Thirteenth streee was wrecked, as was
also house in Allegheny. At Walls
station, on the Pennsylvania rail-
road. large brick building, srned
by the Westinghouse Air Brake Con
pany was partially demol shed. and at
Wi.merding, Pa, a coal tippie v..s
wrecked. At MeKeesrort houses were
unrcored, trees blown down and windows
SMASHED. Three houses in course Of ereo-
ton were blown to p eces. On the rivers
moorings and cast about like cork4 but
they were secured before much damage
was done.
DISASTER AT sUNBVRY, PA.
SUDBURY. Pa, Jan. IA rain and
" nd-storm sme up suddenly Wednesday
evening and blew over two Of tie stacks
OF the sunbury nall mill The mill il stu
ated between the Reading and Pennsyl-
vanla railroads on the outskirts Of the
city. The first is the pudd ing Mill with
six furnaces Stack No. 2 was thrown
over on the roof. carrying with it stack No.
& They crashed through the roof aud
demolished the pudding department Of
the mill Thirt:-five men were e1slsyed
in this department, and half Of them were
bruised in the debris The tire alarm was
sounded and soon hundreds surrounded
the mill. Men were carried cut half
nakel, and men are at work yet It IL
suppo>ed several others are in the ruins
c. c. Showers, of Milton, and an unkn Wa
tramp were killed. The wounded number
nine. There are four persons missing
IN OHIO.
CLEVELAND, O.. Jan. l0.-A wind-storn
ragged here all day Wedn esday with terrific
violence, blowing down trees and signs,
partially unroofing some dwellings, nd
breaking good deal of glass. About 1:a
a. N. tremendous gust Of win /, appr. Ii
| mat ng the violence Of a cyclone, swept
from the lake t the city, passing in
southeasterly direction. The violence d
the gale was such that buildings rccixed
and great alarm was felt for their safety.
At Columbus the wind blew for couple
of hours, and at one time reached We
locity Of forty-eight miles an hour. A
huge chimney at the pen Tertiary was
roof of the secretary's Office, demolished
the desk which E T. Harper but a moment
before left to look at the havoc bang doas
by the storm in the penitentiary yard
IN ILLINOIS.
CHICAGO, Jan. 10.-Chicago experienced
queer weather yesterday. Starting in with
steady rain all Of Tuesday night. it bega1
showing early in the morning and con
tinued through the day. A vesit.,ble biiz
card prevailed, the wind increasing ir
velocity during the day from eight K
forty mi es an hour. The thermomete,
fell from IS to IS degrees, and the baron
eter reached 1885, the lowest point eve,
known here. From all points in tbs State
come reports of heavy snowfall, in s, MT
localities traffic being almost entirely sus
pended. Trims on all roads are delayed
d spatches from the Signal Service Oh
servator .es in Mont ma and Dakota inti-
cate that q bowling blizzard is tear ns
things upthere and sweep ng across the
country toward Iowa At many Of the sta
ons the thermometer reg sters from
10 TO Is degrees below zero, it being al
the former figure at Fort Buforo
and at Is below at points not far distant
Geographic communication has been in
terfered with, the wires Icing down on
great many lines. Should the storm con.
tinue the trans in the extreme Northwest
on the Northern Pacific line will be showed
up.
IN INDIANA.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 10.--Yesterda
proved to be the stormiest, coolest day G
the winter. Snow began falling st day