Oxford eagle., 1889-01-17
THE CYCLONES PATH.
Terrible Devastation cauSe<t nv /.
Cyclone In Pennsytvania.
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The hign Wind shat struck the city at ts.af
hour compiesrly demolished the INrr,
brick building IN process Of construction
IN Diamond alley. Immediately IN the rear
of Weldon & Co.'S store. The building
vas Ns TAR up ~ the seventh story. The
building Is o complete wreck, and as IL
vent down ~ crushed IN In e.u
ne barber shop Immediately naxt TO IL
The torce Of the crushing building was
thrown agaiust Weldon & Co. = Ssor~. and
pushed out the front into Wood street
he whole street in front OF I.
Il Weldon & Co.'S is full Of debris.
Al least fire men ar. killed and
ten ~ affeen injured. There, wrr,,
af lesst twenty men working on the new
ouiiding- The rear Of all the stores on
" ood street As far up as the hat store OF
eanison Bros. were wrecked Six men
were IN the barber shop. two Of whom
nave been removed alive, two dead aud
tSo ar~ still under the debris. There
were at least fifteen printers in the rear
OF Weldon a. Co.'S. on the second door,
and many of them were badly injured.
As tast Is the inIure,i could be dug out
they were carried On str~tchers tn tbs.
various hospitals. One man. ON the top
Of the new building. fell into the base
ment. His skull vas fractured and both
legs broken.
The number Of killed and injured can
not be definitely stated az this time. As
many arr supposed tn be still in the ruins.
IL is beiievesi. however. that twelve have
been killed and thirty eight injured. six
OF them fatally. Among the injured were:
John H. Gearing. fatally hurr.
Miss White. q school teacher, fatnuy
hurt.
Jerry HoOkenstein. very serious.
William ssnkon. leg and thigh trac-
tured
Samuel Brown. very serious.
Rose Mccartney, a little girl. badly cut
and bruised
Hicharsi 4 Dabney. cut about the head
and body; serious.
Thomas AoKee, boy; layer; crushed 10
death.
Weldon Mason. very seriously hurt.
Charles Petticord. badly bruised.
Dennis Mccartney, probably fatally.
Owens Dounelly, serious.
Elmer AeKoewen. probably fatally.
Two lhborerS and boy. whose names
have not been learned. were badly in
lure<i.
Hundreds Of willing hands. Needless VI
danger tn themselves. went To work to
extricate the victims of the terrible acci-
dent To to this hour (s:D o'clockl
twenty persons have been taken
from the ruins. How many NOR.
are underneath the debris. which
Is piled fully twenty feet high
on Diamond street. can not be stated. but
II Is believed that at least a score mors
are still held prisoners or perhaps are
dead As fast as they are taken from the
ruins they are being conveyed TO the vari-
Gus hospitals in the city.
The storm lasted about thirty minutes
and was the heaviest known in this Sec
ton Tor years. The wind blew q hurri-
cane. while the rain and hail fell in tor
rents. A number NJ other buildings were
damaged by the high wind. A portion Of
the foundry Of Mcintosh. HemphiII & Co..
on Thirteenth street, was blown down.
out as Tar as known no one was killed or
injured
Up to 4 O'Clock p. m. twenfy-eig ght per-
sons had been taken from the ruins. OF
these four were dead and several 81 badly
injured that recovery Is almost impossi-
ble- A large number are still buried un-
der the debris.
PrrrsBuRGH. Pa, Jan. 1O.-Ths storm
which PASSED over this city yesterday
afternoon and wrought such crightful de-
struction to life and property possessed
every feature Of a tornado. United States
Signal Officer Stewart said that the storm
came from the southwest. II made its
first appearance in Texas ON Monday,
A. a
struck Chicago at eight o'clock Yesterday
morning. The storm then swerved in a
direct line for Pittsburgh. which. however.
escaped the greatest severity On the track
of its fierce strength, and the
storm lay Just north of the city.
when il struck this city the barometer
recorded Sos At half-past twelve
O'Clock the velocity Of the wind was four
teen miles an hour Five minutes later
it had attained twenty-five miles. which
rapidly increased in force until the great
est velocity, that Of forty miles an hour,
was reached at L: IS pm After the first
shock, lasting only five minutes. the fury
CT the wind subsidized. and ten minutes
later had decreased % thirty two miles an
hour.
Pittsburgh was never before visited by
a storm so furious. There was also re-
markable change IN temperature. Be-
tween twelve and two o'clock the tenn
perature changed from 54 degrees TO 10
degrees.
At the time the whiriwind struck the
building, most OF the men were on the
first floor, IL being the dinner hour. and
were sitting around the ire. eating. Thn
rear Of ]. Il. Gallingr's store was crushed
In.
The sight was hezrsrending and moved
many 70 tears IN the midst OF the work OF
rescue. There y nothing left standing
but the rear wall aud part OF the side
toward Market street. Toward Wood
street there Is nothing left but a mass OF
broken brick and shattered timbers.
The new Iron City works building.
af the corner OF Forry-sixth and HadfieId
streets. was entirely demolished by the
wind. VIM Heinz. shafting rigger, was
instantly killed. Loss On the building.
$1,000: insured
The historic Fort Pit Foundry, nj the
corner Of Etna and Thirteenth streets, is
badly wrecked. The Thirteenth street
side was blown ont entirely. Loss, 1000.
Telegraph. electric light and telephone
wires throughout the city are badly
broken and tangled. Several houses IN
the west end and south side Of the city
were mo~e or less damaged. the most
serious being the destruction of the roof
of the South Side Market-house. and part
Of the roof u Oliver Bros. & Phillips Mill
There was but little damage 70 property
IN Allegheny City.
The killed recovered up - eleven
O'Clock were:
Annie Reidnour.
Ella Long.
Amelia christmar.
Harry Crocksr foreman.
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