The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-01-12
AT LEAST EIGHT KILLED.

AT LEAST EIGHT KILLED.
Tine work was continued all the after
noon and at IL o'clock tonight a num-
Der 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 were diving and
many were fatally injured. From the
best information obtainable, eight were
killed outright or died in Il short time
and thirty-five others were injured but
il Is believed that the list of dead will
be greatly increased.
The cyclone wrought terrible de-
struction in other parts Of the city and
on along the railroads cepterin9 here.
A portion of the foundry of Mcintosh,
Heinphill Il Co, on Thirteenth street,
was wrecked, as was also u house in
Allegheny.
AT Walls station, on the Pennsylva-
mia railroad, a large brick building
owned by the Westinghouse sirbrake
company wa partially demolished and
at Wilmerding, Pa, a coal tipple was
wrecked. At McKeesport houses were
%unrooied, trees blown down and win
dows smashed. Three houses in course
of erection were blown TO pieces. On
the rivers q number of boats were torn
from their moorings and cast about
like corks, but they we're secured be-
fore much damage was done. TIC
velocity Of the wind was fifty miles an
hour-the highest recorded for years.
After the first shock, lasting only
five minutes, the fury OF the wind sub
sided. Pittsburg was never before
visited by II storm so furious. There
was also u remarkable change in tem-
perature. Between IL and | O'Clock
the temperature changed 1 ON 81
to 10 degrees. The new Iron City mt
works building at the corner of Forty
sixth and Hadtield was entirely demo
lished by the wind. William Heinz,
a shattIng rgger, was instantly killed.
The loss OH the building was $40 900;
insured. The historic Fort Pitt foundry,
at the corner of Etna and Thirteenth
streets, Is badly wrecked. The loss
was 81 900 Telegraph, electric light
and telephone wires throughout the
city were badly broken and tangled.
Several houses in the west end and
south side of the city were more or less
damaged, the most serious being the
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market house and part of the root on
Oliver Brothers and Phillips mills.
Inspector of Police McAlees stated al a
late hour tonight that he was OF the
opinion that from fifteen to twenty five
persons were yet in the ruins and he
would not be surprised if the death
list would be increased to fifteen or
twenty.
The strom also did much damage in
Cincinnati, Columbus, IrOnton, Ports
mouth, Bellaire, Cleveland aud all
over northern Ohio, Blowing down
houses, %nprooting trees, killing horses,
cattle, Sc, and generally demoi7hing
everything III its track, which cxteDted
also into Pennsylvania. The money
value of the property destroyed will
amount mp into the hundreds of thou
sands of dollars.
AT READING.
Reading, Pa Jan. This was the
saddest night in tho memory of Read
ing IA the result of The most horrible
disaster IN its history and n hundred
hOuseb-+f5 are in mourning as the
result OF the calamity. a cyclone
swept over the nCrtheru section of [ c
city this afternoon and laid waste to
everything in its reach with a terrible
less of life. The death and injury list
can only be estimated, but the most re-
liable computation at 10 O'Clock To-
night was that not less than sixty per-
sons were killed outright and 100 In
jured 1t was raining very hari all
morning, but about nOon it ceased al
most entirely, and by / clock there
was every indication thar there would
be an entire cessation of the rainstorm,
Half an hour afterward the sun made
every effort 10 penetrate the clouds, and
the rainbow was seen in the eastern
|, sky, while there was Il clear sky over,
head. This continued for half u hOnr,
Then the scene changed with - sudden,
ness that was appalling The ticCCy
} clouds gave way to the Ominous sign.
OF n coming storm. DalE heavy banks
/, of clouds marshaled themselves toward
tie town, and soon a gloom seemed t.
have settled over the city. There was
, a stiffness as of coming danger. lheI
the wind whistle'i, roarcd and tore IN
I mad confusion The storm clouds grew
heavier still and louder rOaTcd iht
wind, In the western sky the storm
was seen approaching with a thunder
ing noise. The sWath that the storm
] cut was narrow, but IFS effect was ter.
, ribie. Persons residing along the ira
. of the storm say that they saw the frs
signs of dang r in a funnel shapcC
maelstrom, which seemed TO gather ~
everything within its reach and east i
r right and LETT. Ont in the country Ou-e
a and barns were uurOoted, farm bui'd
ings overturned, crops rooted up aut
l destruction spread in every direction
The track of this destructive oIc,ucn
!. was not more than 200 feet wide, ant