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

| ouaolue were 'nund dve bod ca OF young
girls lying ogelher. Ihe finder tried to
pull them out, but they wero iuned down
and 1t was impossible to get them out.
1hey were beyond all hmm N aid Up 10
1880 O'Clock p. m. twenty-one dead bodies
had been taken out.
1t is lmpos ,ible to tell how many may be
under the ruins, as the managers are miss
ing: The number may not be over forty
kn' wn to be dead are:
Henry Crocker, foreman OF the silk mill ;
Laura Kershner, Eva Leeds L llsc G ow,
Kat Bowman, Kate Leas. Amelia Christ
man, Sophie Winkleman, ella Long, Willie
! Snyder, William Reteson, kebecca Pouse,
| Kate Re dCnauer, Rose Cemmer, John Reher,
eng ueer, head cut of Us with sword: Charles
Retou'er, Harry Cro1hers, Harry Jones, Sally
Hickel, John Foreman Jane Settle ner
These are all the dead who have been
taken out Clerk Autenback said at mid
night tina: he believed tina fully eighty
bodies were in the ruins. His list Of en-
ploves is lost. Eighty is the con ervAtive
| estimate OF those who lost their lives
! The wounded W II number about 100
The silk mill was built about four years
! ago. The builders were Reading capital
SITS and the cost of putting up was $685.
OOO The m II was leased to Grim haw
Brothers, of Paterson, N. J.. The ma
| chinery cost $4,000 This is q total loss
! Augustus E. r soup was the foreman of
| the first aud second floors of tho silk mill
! He tells the following story:
"1t was about $50 o'clock when I went to
the second story to turn the electric lights.
After had done this stood looking about tho
! room for about ten minutes. Suddenly heard
| rushing noise, which bought was cyclone
7 uo u,
! the southern end OF the room, and before
could look out OF the window
| felt the building sink Duck Us
lightning the portion OF the room that was
| in went down. Tho girls rushed about me
crying and screaming and calling for help.
my q ont realize what was taking place. 1t
seemed TO me as n the center Of the blu lding
was struck first lean not describe the scene
1t was awful l could not do any lbing
and coud not think Of what should do Our
end OF the building went wn first, and
VIII lie the floor was sinking 1t seemed to me as
| II the girls IN the Other part Of The room we're
on top OF hill That was the way It impressed
| me. While We werc going down saw the other
! portions OF the floor fall. In minute oil was
over. Tho screaming OF the girls was heart.
rending. I was Knocked down under heavy
| tlmbers and Leld fast by my foot. I could
/ move every other part OF my body excepting
| my logs. I reached down with my knit
| I became loosened and managed 10 arise.
Amid The screams OF the girls and falling
beams aud bricks I succeeded in escaping. I
got out OF the ruins on the eastern 6 de of
the bu lding, but how do not know I called
| TO the girls as loudly IS could They were
oil tori bly, excited and neve: witnessed any
thing SO awful N all my life. Many of them
heord me and worked themselves toward me-
At some places It seemed as II the dooe was
| closed ns solid MAS, and the girls
! would creep around this. crawl over the ma
| chimes hid creep On their hands and knees un-
til they got to the opening where ! was. The
machines saved many from oeing crushed to
death. by leaving space between the floor
and debris through W ich to crawl out. I be-
,ieve that fully 100 people escaped with me- I
remember see ng them run across the COM
| mons In different directions to their homes,
terrified naturally.
"Some ran o short distance and then re-
turned 10 the ru MS. The entire building was
| down. Tho girls came back to look for their
brothers and sisters or friends. We coul l
bear the means and shrie1s OF those impris-
oned tn the ruins. The rain was pouring down,
and all around was dark. was badly bruised
andhurt about the body, head and limbs and
went home after saw could do nothing. Be-
tween $50 and 800 operatives were in the build
liz. About clock allowed six cen girls to
60 home. Ali the floors were in operation.
! The report that 1Us went home at O'CLOCK is
not true.''
LIVES LOST AT PITTSBURGH.
PITTsBURGH, Pa, Jan. lO-A terrih' q
storm Of WIND and hail, the worst known
for years, swept over the city shortly after
mon Wednesday, carry ng with it death
and destruction. The storm was formed
with asuddenness that was overwheim ng,
and as the wind, accompanied by hail and
torrents OF rain, swept along the
! streets, pedestrians were hurled before it
| and barely escaped being crushed under
| vehicles passing along the thoroughfares.
| Suddenly, in the center Of the city, there
was terrible crash, and q few minutes
! later the Central fire alarm sounded call
! from box four zen, on the corner of Dia-
mond and W God streets.
Hundreds of people with blanched faces
hurried to the scene, when it was found
! that the cyclone had caught the new
| building on Diamond street owned by G.
]. W LEY, and hur.ed it to the earth,
covering up two scores Of mangled human
bodies. The blu lding was course Of erec-
! ton. 1t was forty by eighty feet in
dimensions and was seven stories high
The front of the bu lding had not vet been
put in, and the wind entered the high
shell from the open end ; the high walls of
bricks and undried mortar parted, one
falling each way, partly wreck ng nearly
dozen build ngs. The man force
| OF the crushing building was thrown
! against Weldin & Co.'s book store on
Wood street and the barber shop Of Fred
| Schumacher at fl Diamond street The
! re- Of Weldin's store was crushed in and
the front Of the building was forced out
into Woo street. The barber-shop was
| completely demolished. The leather
store next to the Wiley building,
occupied by w. Il Thomas was also
| wrecked. The rear end of II. Watt & Co. IS
! bookstore was crushed in, while some
| of the falling debris struck Joseph Rich
| baum's building, fronting on FIT
! avenue, breaking the windows and
| injuring a number Of employees. A por-
| ton Of the wall Of q millinery store next
| to Thomas was broken in and tn. windows
| and doors in a number of surrounding
buildings were broken. The building Of
Rea Bros. & Co., stock broker, on the cor
ner Of Diamond and Wood streets, was
| partly wrecked and the occupants barely
escaped.
Within fveminutes after the collapse OF
the building the streets were filled with an
| excited crowd notwithstanding tue fact
that the rain and hail was pouring down
! in u perfect deluge. With the arrival of
| the tiremen the work Of rescue was begun.
| Ladders were run up to the second and
| tn I'd stories of the Weld huildinr