The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-01-10

NlIlt low MNlN hNl Mt Hilittt wv az
Wood street there is nothing left but q
mass of broken brick and shattered tim
bers
TERRIBLE HURRICANE.
The signal officer says the wind-storm
on hurricane was the most severe we have
had in this section i'm years. The sud
dencss made it particularly destructive
and harder 90 Withstand than had the
wind risen gradually. The velocity was
forty miles am hour and the storm lasted
but ten minutes AT Weldin's store the
week beegared description. Firemen are
digging at the ruins and the moans OF
the victims who are encased under the
debris are heartrending. The cries Of
several men could be heard from the cell
lar. but it was impossible 10 get at them,
and they viii no doubt perish, as the
water is running i'm there in torrents
from q broken Waterman
Until the de5ris is removed there can be
no TELLING HOW MANY PEOPLE WE'RE
KILLED
and injured. Ii is known, however, that
40 least twenty-five men were at work in
the Wldin building and not one of them
had been heard from but the three taken
from The ruins, and the suppOsition is
that an the Others are under the ruins
still
Several other buildings in this and Al
leghanv city were unrOofed and damaged
by The storm, but so far as is known no
lives were lost
ANOTHER SECTION BLOWN DOWN.
About 4 o'clock another section of the
new building blown down by the cyclone
here to-day fell in Three firemen and
Rev Father Canavon were buried under
i. and it is believed that they were kill
sd Tie latest estimate places the mum
ler killed AZ j., injured 20 and > miss
ng
THE STORM ~ rENNsYLyANIA.
READING. PA, January "a silk mill
vas blown down in the storm Ii ~ re-
ported that 100 men were killed In an
.Xplosion in a railroad oil-house several
men were roasted 20 death
)THER DEgTRUCTlON BY THE HURRICANE
PlrrsBuRG. Pa. January 0.-The storm
which passed oyer this city this after
loon. and wrought such frightful de-
tuction To- life and property, had every
eature of tornado Just before IL
truck the city the velocity OF tho wind
ras fourteen miles an hour Five min
ties later il had attained twenty-five
niles. which rapidly increased in force
ntil the greatest velocity, that Of forty
niles an hour, was reached at l24j.
The new Iron City Nut Works build
1r at the corner of FOrty-siXth and
ladield streets was entirely demolished
" the wind, and William Heinz was in
family killed.
The historic Fort Pitt foundry at the
orner of Ena and Thirteenth streets
badly wrecked
Telegraph. electric-light, and telephone F.
ires throughout the city are badly .
roken and tangled
Several houses in the west end, and .
utside the city, were more or less dam +
ged The most serious being the des- .
-udion of the roof of the SOuthside .
larket house and part of the roof ON .
liver Brothers and Phillips mill.
Business In the lower part OF the city .
-as practically suspended this afternoon. /
M interest ccniered at the scene of the T
.rrible catastrophe, where the new .
uilding ON Wood and Diamond .
trects was blown down Crowds /
aronred the streets eager for news 4
r ready 20 assist i'm the rescue of the /
lanv unfortunate victims. Il is believed |
hat several persons are still beneath the
)ns ef brick, mortar, iron girders, and
eavy tlabers. as out Of thirty men en-
loved ON the Wildin building, but
even have been accounted Tor
Al 9.30 tonight the dead body of a
1lored boy name unknown was taken
M and removed 10 the morgue. \ few
.Oments later the elevatorboy, James
airing. employed in Wildin's store, was
moved lie was unconscious, and is
robably fatally injured. a rescuing
artv are now engaged in tear
10 away the foundation from
lder another part of Weldin's building. J
oices calling for assistance are heard at
eQuent intervals Samuel Springer [
as taken out of the wreck dead. sam
4 Brown. Jr., is lying dead under the
cam boiler Charles frich, apprentice
a barber-shop. was suilOcaied. VIII /
am Goettman is dead and his body is
IN covered by debris Two men, names
known. are at the mOrgue.
DIR. j. l.. Reed. one of the oldest physi-
ans i'm the city. was on the second floor
the Wildin building He was caught
the falling wall and is lying dead
der the elevator cage in the cellar
he elevator boy in Wildin's store was
80 pinned beneath the elevator For
)ng time bis agonizing cries for
lief could be heard His voice has not
en- heard for nearly an hour, and he is
ought 10 be dead
ONE or THE PITIFuL SIGHTS
be seen at the ruins are the feet Of the !
o men sticking up through the debris ,
is impossible 10 get 10 them until a
.mbling wall that appears ready to fall !
m breath, has been secured. The :
pFisoned victims are undoubtedly dead. ,
Is believed that there are three other
rsons buried under the same place.
A report has just reached the city that
Storm this afternoon struck