The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-01-12


With three vast bounds on "Wednesday
/ cyclone swept over that portion OF
Penrsy l'aHia l5ing just north of the
MARYLAND and Virginia boundary lines.
1t first broke over PIttshnrg, demoiIsh
ing "a building in course of construction,
and hurying between 30 and 90 persons,
of these were taken out dead, over
score injured. q ut them fatally, aud
about 20 are still III the wreck.
Then the storm bounded INTO the AR
again and next t"uchad the earth with
terrific violence in the Cumberland Valley
oI Pennsylvania. Tue worst work OF the
cyclone was in Reading, where car shop
vas demoliSh. d aud buru-d, costing at
least four lives, and TIM an immense
silk mill. where 200 or 200 girls were at
work, was completely wrecked Hero 1t
IS estimated that so were killed outright
md over 100 were mapgled. many of
whom will die. At Snnbury, IA, big
pudding null was demolished, iour or hve
male persons We're killed and many hurt.
A score more OF Pennsylvania towns re-
port lesser casualties.
READING Pa, Jan. "a irighttul
calamity occurred here shortly before b
o'clock this evening, resulting 10 great
io'' W ''.S' - ~ ~iD''~ -.
part of the tcwa, and the wind blew
gale Tor few minutes when 1t increased
70 hurricane. The paint shop OF the
Reading Railroad Company was the hrst
building struck, aud Was uurooied and
destroyed by tire, many OF the workmen
being shocking!y burned by an explosion
of gasoline. Eleven dwellings on North
Eighth and Marion streets were all more
laSS do m I'D nj
pletely wrecked.
Grimsnaw " Brothers silk mill, a
large four story brick building at the
corner OF lweiith ana Marion streets,
was the next oniiol"S TO suecuino' anu
IN few seconds the whole structure was
| one mass of ruins, the walls having co..
| lapsed. Abont 260 persons, mostly Young
| women. were emploAed 10 the mill, and
| out OF this number 66 wounded ana tour
dead were gotten out up to I O'CLOCK.
| Most OF the victims are buried IN m ISIS
oI brick and nachin"ry. The entire hre
department Was called out aud 5oo men
are now clearlngaway debris and re'nov'
Ing the dead ana wounded. Inc mill is
located in section of the city which is
sparsely built up and the fireman exper'
fenced great trouble III getting to work,
| oWluS W Iuc lHtcbSo 'di n SoS, ehoio po
ing no light except those used by the
fireman. Later bontres were started on
the open lots adjoining the wreck Tbs
proved of considerable assistance, and by
10 about ninety persons hao ueeh re-
moved, many of whom we're dead and
others fatally injured.
| PITTsBURG. Pa, Jan. IA terrific
storm OF wind and hail, the worst known
| for years, swept over the city after noon
to day, carving with it death and des
truction. The storm was formed with a
suddenness that was overwhelming, and
as the wind, accompanied by hail and
torrents of rain. swept along the streets
pedestrians were hurled before it and
barely escaped from being crushed under
| vehicles passing along the thoroughfares
Suddenly in the centre of the city there
was a terrible crash, aud few minute
later the central ire alarm bell sounded
a call from Box IA on the corner of Dia.
mond and Wood 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 c. L. Wiley, and hurl-
ed it to the earth, co,eli, up two score
OF mangled human bodier.
The building was III course of erection
| 1t was 30xS0 feet in dimensions, and was
seven stories high. The front of the
| n ,d NOT yat haan rut in an6 In