Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-11
AFTER THE STORM
Digging Bodies from the Wreck
 of the Silk Mill.
SAD SCENES AT READING.
Miraculous Escapes of Some of
 the Operatives.
THE DEATH ROLL AT PlTTSBURG.

Some of the Silk Mill Girls Were Carried Away and Safely Set Down by the Wind. Terrible Deaths of Some of the Victims, and Awful Anguish of Their Searching Relatives - Great Crowds About the Ruins-Many Remarkable Circumstances In Both Cases-Lists of Dead, Wounded and Missing.
 READING, Pa., Jan. 11.-These are the sad- dest days that Reading has ever experienced Everywhere there is desolation and mourn ing
 Tle black crape, denoting death, is sas- pended from the doors of nearly two score of houses. The ruins of the Reading silk mill disaster, by which over l15 young lady em- ployes were buried under an avalap che of brick, mortar, timber and heavy machinery, wers surrounded by fully 10000 people all day long.
 The Reading artillersts were finally called out to keep the crowd back The total death loss Is not so large as at first reported, but it is bad enough
 Some thirty bodies have been taken out and it is believed that more are in the wreck as not all the young women have been ac- counted for.
 Some of the saddest incidents that ever fell to human lot to witness were observed at the scene of the wreck Fathers and mothers were bewailing the loss of son a daugh ter. Large gangs of men continue digging for bodies and removing the piles of brick and dirt
 Every now and then body wes reached and pulled out. Several girls were almost uhclothed, their attire having been torn off their backs by the machinery striking them in its descent
 The business men of Reading subscribed $5,WO for the sufferers and a great deal more is promised.
 The storm cloud tore all through the Leba- non valley before reaching Reading. It laid everything low in its path Houses and barns were unroofed, and when it struck Reading it was at Its greatest fury
 The complete list of the Killed is: D. K. Becker, Saliie Harrison. Annie Fisher, Daisy Hrecker, George Nieman, Millie Christman, Ella Ridnauer, Henry Krocker, Eva Leeds, Annie Ridnauer, Lottie Sayler, Mary Evans, May Fitzpatrick, Ella Long, William Robe son, John Reber, Sophia Winkleman, Sallie Dicksl. Barbara Sielheimer, Sallie Bickel, Sadie Shade, William Snyder, Lillie Schaef- fer, Sallie Faust, Sallie farmer, Annie kershner, Matilda Grow and Emma Nestor The seriously injured are: Laura Wright,
 
 Ter, Emma Blumin, Mamie Kinsey, Katie Hepler, Howard Brickef, Annie Bricker, Sallie Young Mary Reese, Kate Hartman, Sallie Hasson. Ella and Jennie Salome Kate Cacen, Bertha Kuser, Annie Leeds, Annie Fry and Emma Rapenzahn.
 About ninety others were slightly hurt principally bruised by being thrown from the building by the wind
 Those whp escaped early In the evening hurried to their hopes, and as nothing as heard from them it was thought they had been buried in the ruins All of them re ported to the superintendent yesterday.
 When the crash occurred Foreman Raskop was on the second floor. He told a reporter that he beard the cracking of timber over head, and then a lot of brick and mortar fell on him. The next instant the floor beneath him sank. His first impression was that an earthquake had occurred, and he did not realize what had happened until he found himself ill the rain and unable to move
 When the cyclone struck the building some of the girls were lifted up and carried bodily through the air by the violence of the wind Among these were Annie Carl and Abbie Rissmiller. The latter was blown through the window and carried fifty feet into the ad- joining field, but was not injured.
 Three of the girls jumped from the second story window and escaped without injury. They could not tell how they got out. An other operative on the third floor fell out with the east wall, and landed on the oppo- site side of the street. Beyond few bruises she escaped injury.
 Some horrible scenes were witnessed dur ing the search for the bodies. One young woman was wedged in between two upright timbers, her clothes having been all torn from her body. Another, when dragged out, clutched pair of shears in her hand It is supposed that when she was stricken she was In the act of cutting something. The shears were wrenched from her hand with difficulty Another of the bodies was that of a girl not more than Is, in whose right hand was also clasped a small pair of scissors she had been using when death overlook her. Her breast was crushed ill by heavy beam and her face was bloody and discolored by bruises. The body was afterward identified as that of Lillie Schaeffer. The body of another young lady, Miss Sallie Faust, was identified by ring worn on the third finger of the left hand. When the crash came Maggie Rowe, aged IS, had the presence ot mind to get under a machine, and in this way saved her life
 The rescuers were disturbed in their work by cries coming up from the depths: ''pm fast, Fm fast; hurry up, for Gods sake , They searched two hours before they found the man, and when they reached him he was dead
 Following is correct list of the killed and injured at the Philadelphia and Reading paint shop, which was struck by cyclone and tht men enveloped in flames by the explosion o the gas chambers in nine passenger cars:
 Kiiled-Allen Landenbarger, head, leg and arms missing; John Foreman, crushed to death; John U. Kahler, carpenter heae crushed Sheridan Jones, burned to death George A. Schaeffer, legs burned off
 Injured-George Knabb, seriously; Aaro1 Dewald, arm broken.
 The loss to the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad company by the burning of its pain shop and passenger cars is probably $65, 900 and to the silk mill and machinery abou S1l0OOO
 THE PiTTSBURG CATASTROPHE. 1t Is Much Worse Than at First Supposed
 Eighty-seven Victims.
 PTTTsBURG, Jan. 10-This is the re cord of the disastrous collapse of J. c Willsys seven story business house in tn hurricane
 Taken out dead, 9; dead still in the ruins