The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-10
A TERRIFIC blow.
A Number Of Build
ings Destroyed.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE,
Pittsburg, Pa, the Scene of a
Sad Disaster
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE,
AWFUL CALAMITY IN READING.
y Silk Factory, Containing Two Hum
dred Employees Blown Down
Chaos Everywhere.

MONTREAL, January 9.-The damage
by a sleet storm between here and
Toronto will not be much less than
100000. Wires are down and forest
trees were uprooted throughout the
whole region.
CHICAGO, January "a furry of wet
snow, melting as it fell, began here this
morning; at noon it continues with in
creasing severity The signal service
weather map for the day shows Chicago
at the center, with an extremely wide
area of low barometer extending in an
irregular circle from Omaha to New
York and from the northern shore Of
Lake Superior to Knoxville, Tenn. the
barometer here marks % IS inches, the
lowest on record for this point. The
Temperature here is "a, with a light
wind. It is showing or raining
throughout the area of the low barom-
eter. IeiegraphiG communication is
almost paralyzed.
A cold wave. accompanied by
blizzard developed in Mon
Iana and Dakota. 1t is expected
here within twenty-four hours.
PITTsBURG, Pa, January g.
A terrific storm of wind and hail, the
worst known Tor years, swept over the
city shortly after noon to-day, carrying
= Tiih it death and destruction. The
storm formed with a suddenness that
was overwhelming, and as the wind &C
companied by rain and hail swept along
the streets, pedestrians were hurled
before it and barely escaped being
crushed under the vehicles that passed
along the thoroughfare. Suddenly, in
the centre of the city there was ter
rible crash, and a second later an alarm
was sounded from the corner of Wood
and Diamond Streets Crowds of people
hurried to the scene, when it was found
that g cyclone had caught the new
building on Diamond Street, owned by
G. L. Wiley, and hurled 1t to the earth,
covering up two scores OF mangled
human bodies. The building was IN
course of erection. 1t was 40x80 feet in
The front Of the building was not yet
put in, and the wind seemed to enter
from the open end and the nigh trick
walls of
THE BUILDING FELL
with an awful crash, which was heard
many squares away, and although the
people at q distance could not under
stand what was wrong, the ominOus
sound sent a thrill of horror through
their hearts. The force of the falling
building was so great that the rear
walls of two other buildings-those OF
Rea Brothers and J. r. Wider & Co.
crushed as if they had been made Of
paper and their front walls fell upon
the pavement on Wood Streets burying
several people in the debris, mangling
some horribly. Of these two were g
girl and boy, and one man unknown,
ali of whom were taken 10 the hospital.
A barber shop in the rear was also
demolished and its six occupants buried
in the ruins. The top story in the rear
of Eichbaum's building on Fifth
Avenue was also knocked in,
and three printers working there
injured; how severely cannot be
learned at present. The number
KILLED AND INJURED
cannot be definitely stated now, as
many are supposed TO be still in the
ruins. It is believed, however, that
twelve have been killed and fifty eight
injured, six fatally. Among the IN
jured are John II. Gearing, fatally;
Miss White, school teacher, fatally;
Jerry Hookensine, very serious; Will
liam Sandon, leg and thigh fractured;
Samuel Brown, very serious; Rose Nc
Cartney, little girl, was badly bruised;
Richard R. Dabney, cut about the head
and body, serious; Thomas Mckee,
brickiayer' crushed to death: Weldon
Mason, very serious; Charles Petticord,
badly bruised; Dennis Mccartney. prob
ably fatally; Owen Donnelly. serious;
Elmer McKoeWn, probably fatal; two
isborers and boy whose names could
not be learned are badly injured The
falling walls crushed in the buildings
on Diamond Street occupied by George
Trexler, a barber, and w. Thomas, shoe
findings, and badly damaged portions
of the buildings occupied by Joseph
Eich baum, printer. On Fifth Avenue. j..
r. Weldon & Co., booksellers, and Rsa
Bros stockholders, on Wood Street.
The catastrophe
CREATED INTENSE EXCITEMENT
and in few minutes the streets sur
rounding the fallen building were black
4 with people; hundreds of willing hands,
! needless of the danger to themselves,
went to work to extricate the victims
OF the terrible accident. Up to this
hour (2.21 p.m.) twenty persons have
been taken from the ruins. How many
more are under the dtbris, which is
piled twenty feet high on Diamond