Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-01-11
HUNDREDS KILLED.
The Awful Work of Wcdnes,
days Storm.
DEATH RODE ON THE GALE.
The List Of Fatalities Is Terrible
to Contemplate.
THE DISASTER AT READING.
More Than 100 People Are Dead
THE DISASTER AT READING.
More Than 100 People Are Dead
or Missing.


silk Mill In which Nearly SEQ Opera.
tives Were at Work Crushed Like AN
Egg Shell by the Tornado, which ftad
Already Destroyed the Philadelphia aud
Reading Paint shop-The Whole city d
In Particulars ct the Pitts
burg Accident-An Inco'npiete list 81
Dead and InJured-sI essas e-f fisom Many
Points show the Great EH,snt % the
storm-An IL Not Y.t Told.
New YORK, Jan. IA careful study 81
all reports received here up Ia this hour.
show that the terrific windstorm which
swept through Pennsylvania 10 the Atlantic
coast yesterday was unprecedented in It's de-
Struction of life aud property.
Reading is in mourning At least loC
people were killed aud over 200 injured. The
tornado occasioned a loss Of property that
cannot yet be estimated. IL blew down the
Reading Silk mill, in which nearly 500 girls
and boys were at work, and also the Phila
delphia and Reading paint shops. which
caught on fire from an explosion OF gasoline.
In Pittsburg, according TO the latest re-
ports, ten persons were killed, fifteen are
missing and forty injured in the two demol-
ished buildings.
From many other points late advices iDdi-
cate loss of life and damage to property
which viii foot up millions OF dollars.
Like the blizzard of last March, the storm
appears to have come from the southwest.
Il made its appearance in Texas on Monday,
reaching Arkansas on Tuesday, and struck
Chicago at & o'clock Wednesday morning
Thence it swerved in direct line for Pitts
burg, which, however, escaped the greatest
severity, as the track of its force lay north
west OF that city. From Pittsburg the
storm came directly toward the seaboard,
striking Reading with full fury. Tt was an
offshoot of the same cyclone that created the
havoc in Brooklyn.
The hurricane which passed over this sec
tion has not been equaled in twenty-five
years.
The force was fairly spent before it
reached here, but it was strong enough to do
much damage.
Sergeant Dunn, of the United States signal
service bureau in this city, said that New
York city and Brooklyn came in for the
mildest part of it. The storm was central
over the lakes, travelling in a northeasterly
direction, and those sections of the country
just on the edge of the storm got the lions
share.
In northwestern New York the wind was
travelling at seventy-ive to one hundred
mile gait, making things hum wherever it
struck. From Binghamton to Buffalo houses
were demolished rain descended in torrents,
telegraph poles were tossed about like 50
many matches, and in that section the tele-
graph wires are all down. At Buffalo the
wind was tearing along at the rate of sew
enty-four miles an hour. When it is taken
into consideration that forty miles is consid-
cred by the service as being very high wind,
it can readily be imagined what time Buff
falo was having.
The center of the storm was moving in q
northeasterly direction over the lakes in the
morning. 1t would, according to the signal
service man, reach Canada in the afternoon
The weather prophet said it was increasing
in velocity as it Travelled, and reports of an
extremely disastrous nature, he said, might
be expected from Canada soon.
.Late Wednesday night said Sergt
Dunn about noon, 1.-THE rain turned to snow
and the lake regions are covered with it.
Pittsburg is having its share of it. 1t is
falling fast at Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit
and throughout Michigan, Wisconsin and
Indiana, while the New England states are
being deluged with water.
The lowest point reached by the barometer,
Wednesday, in this city was %. 2S just be-
fore the cyclone reached here the highest
temperature was So degs. This is said to be
the highest temperature during January
that the mercury has reached in years.
The weather is growing colder all over the
country, and reports show that it is freezing
all through the south, and it is colder at the
Gulf of Mexico than at New York
At the Western Union Telegraph Office it
was stated that their wires were down be-
tween Syracuse and Buffalo. The wires and
poles are also materially damaged from
Reading to Pittsburg and from Boston to
this city. No estimate could be given as TO
the probable damage, but it is said half their
facilities have been rendered useless for a
time. Gangs Of men are at work all along
the lines. The manager said he expected
everything would be in running order by
night.
The Postal Telegraph company likewise
suffered and is completely cut of from this
city TO Binghamton. From that city TO
Owego and west Of Elmira the telegraph
poles were blown down and the wires snapped
apart. Fully one-half Of the company's
facilities have been rendered useless.
Manager Flood said he had received an in
direct message from Binghamton that the
town was nearly inundated. houses blown
down and the people panic stricken. The
dispatch stated that the Postal Telegraph
Office there would be closed temporarily He
did not know the extent Of the damage. but
expected TO have everything IN running or
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