The Washington critic., 1889-01-10

out was young lady employed as type
writer, who fortunately had escaped
serious injury. Crowds of willing hands
eagerly took up the work of rescue, and
every little while fresh localities, where
men had been caught. were found
THE KILLED AND WOUNDED.
From the best information obtainable
eight were killed outright or died in a
short time, and thirty-fve others were
injured. 1t is believed that the list of
dead will be greatly increased before
morning. OF the eight killed only two
have been identified One was a little
girl named McGlone who was walking
along the street with her brother when
the building fell and the two were found
buried in the wreck. The little girl was
Killed instantly and her brother, it is
thought, fatally injured. The body of
George Kirsch. barber, eighteen years
old, was found in the cellar of the barber
shop. Five unknown men and one boy
are now at the morgue awaiting indenti-
ficaton. DIR. j. l.. Reed, prominent
physician of Allegheny was in Weldin's
at the time and he is still missing. 1t is
feared that he is dead. =.
The following is the list of the wound
ed rescued: Daniel Courtney and Eugene
Il. Davis.
The list of dead identified up to II
O'Clock, is as follows: Samuel Stringer,
Thomas Jones, Charles Fritsch, George
Mason, a colored boy named Tergge and
George Kirsch.
The little girl. McGlone, is not dead,
as previously stated, but is in serious
condition. The remains of one man has
not yet been identified.
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that he was of the opinion that from If
teen to twenty-five persons were yet in
the ruins, and that lie would not be sur.
prised If the death list would be increased
to fifteen or twenty.
THE FINANCIAL LOSSES.
1t is difficult at this time to fairly esti-
mate the total loss, as many outlying dis.
tricts have not been heard from. The
cyclone wrought terrible destruction in
other parts of the city and out along the
railroads centering here. Aportion of
the foundry of Mcintosh. Hemphill &
Co., on Thirteenth street. was wrecked,
as was also house in Allegheny. At
Wallis Station, on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, a brick building owned by the
Westinghouse Air-Brake Company was
partially demolished, and at Wilmerding
a coal tipple was wrecked. AT McKees-
port ho0ses were unroofed, trees blown
down and windows smashed. Three
houses in course of erection were blown
to pieces.
On the river number of boats were
torn from their moorings and cast about
like corks, but they were secured before
much damage was done. The velocity
of the wind was fifty miles an honr, the
highest recorded for years.
AT sUNBURY, PA.
AT $3.50 yesterday afternoon a terrific
rain and wind storm came up suddenly
and blew over two of the stacks of the
Sunbury Nail Mill. The mill is situated
between the Reading and Pennsylvania
railroads, on the outskirts of the city.
The first is the pudding mill, having six
furnaces. Stack No. 2 was thrown over
on the roof dropping with it stack No.
3. They crashed through the slate roof,
completely demolishiug the pudding de-
partment of the mill. Thirty-fve men
were employed in this department, and
half of them were buried in the debris.
The fire alarm was sounded, and soon
hundreds surrounded the mill. Men
were carried out half naked, and men are
at work yet, as it is supposed several
The following is theslist of killed and
wounded:
Killed--A tramp, name unknown; C. c.
James Faust, William Genther, James Nc
Donald, Albert Williams, John Respion,
Robert Beasley, two boys, Walter Israel and
Harry Fasold. Thereare four missing. IL
THE sTRoM ELSEWHERE.
AT Harrisburg, Pa, the wind blew at
the rate of seventy-fve miles an hour,
and carried away the thermometer cups
on the weather observatory. A large
school building in East Harrisburg was
| unroofed, and three or four hunderd
children in the building were thrown
into a wild panic. They rushed into the
main corridor leading to the street, and
| the smaller ones were trampled by the
affrighted pupils from the second floor
as they dashed down the stairway. Peo-
pie gathered at the scene and removed
the boys and girls as fast as possible.
None were seriously injured. Three new
houses were blown down, and others al
most completed were much damaged in
the same locality.
At Wheeling, w. Va, the storm did
a. great amount of damage and also
throughout the surrounding country.
| Many buildings were unroofed or other
wise damaged, and telcgiaphic communi-
cation was seriously interfered with.
AT Wiliamsport, Pa, n vast volume of
water fell, and n furious wind prevailed
for some time. A large number of build
ings were damaged, and portion of the
new Demorest Sewing Machine Factory
was blown down, and the remainder
partially unroofed. Several new dwell
ings were blown down, and others were
damaged. The loss at the Demorests
works is over ten thousand dollars. A
number of very narrow escapes from loss
of life were made.
At York, Pa, the handsome new brick
Eastern market-house. just outside the
eastern boundary of the city, was en-
tirely demolished Literally speaking,
there is not one brick standing upon an.
other The building cost between
eleven and twelve thousand dollars to
erect.
At Carlisle, Pa, the wind and rain
storm caused fully $40 600 worth of dam.
age. The Government Training School
for Indians, the Goblin Guards Armory
and a number of dwellings were un-
rooted. Barns and outbuildings were
blown down in the surrounding country.
AT Philadelphia, Wilkesbarre, Wan.
annie, Nanticoke and all other towns in
the path Of the terror to the west
ward suffered seriously but sustained nc
loss of life.