St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-10
hurt and have broken limbs and several
internal injuries.
HORROR UPON HORROR.
Terrible Loss of Life and Destra9c-

ton of Property at PittsburA
/ PITTsBURG, Pa. Jan. "a terrific
storm of wind and hail, the wrist
known for years, swept over the city
shortly after noon to-day, carrying with
it death and destruction. The storm
was formed with suddenness that was
| overwhelming, and as the wind accom-
panied by hail and torrents of rain
swept along the streets, pedestrians
| were hurled before it and barely es-
capped being crushed under vehicles pass
ing along the thoroughfare. Suddenly,
| in the center of the city, there was
| terrible crash, and few minutes later
| the central fire alarm sounded call
from box II, on the corner of Diamond
and Wood streets. Hundreds OF peo-
| pie with blanched faces hurried to the
scene, when it was found that the cy-.
clone had caught the new building Oh
Diamond street, owned by G. l.. Wiley,
| and hurled it to the earth, covering up
| two score of mangled human bodies.
The building was in course OF erection.
| 1t was forty by eighty feet in dlmen-
| sion and was seven stories high. The
| front of the building had not yet been
put in and the wind seemed to
ENTER THE HIGH SHELL
from the open end. The high walls OF
bricks and undried mortar were parted,
one falling each way, partly wrecking
nearly dozen surrounding buildings.
| The main force of the crushing build
ing was thrown against Weldins d Co.'s
book store on Wood street, and the bar
ber shop of Fred Schumacher, at No.
III Diamond street. The rear end
of Weldins' store was crushed in
and the front of the building was
forced out into Wood street. The
barber shop was completely demol-
ished. The leather store next to
the Wiley building occupied by
w. Fl. Thomas, was also totally
wrecked. The rear end of 81. Watt d
Co.'s book store was crushed in, while
some of the falling structure struck Jo-
saph Richbaun's building, fronting on
Fifth avenue, breaking the windows
and injuring a number Of employees,
portion of the wall of a millinery store
next to Thomas was caved in and the
windows and doors in number OF sur
rounding buildings were broken. The
building of Rea Brothers u Co., stock
brokers, OH the corner of Diamond and
Wood streets, was partly wrecked, and
the occupants barely escaped. Within
five minutes after the
COLLAPSE OF THE BUILDING,
the streets were filed with an excited
crowd, Notwithstanding the fact that
the rain and hail was pouring down in
perfect deluge. With the arrival of the
firemen the work of rescue was begun.
Ladders were run up to the second and
third stories of the Weldln building,
and the first one taken out was young
lady employed as typewriter. 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. At the time or
the disaster about twenty-five men were
at work on the building, and none es-
caped injury. In the barber shop, next
door, seven men were Imprisoned.
while half dozen more were buried
beneath the debris of the W Weldin build
ing. Chief Brown, Coroner Mcdowell,
Building Inspectors Frank and Eichley
and score of physicians were early at
the scene. The hospitals were notified.
and a short time later the clang of am
bulance bells and patrol wagons were
heard. Contractors Booth and Finn
had twenty-five wagons and carts on the
scene inside of an hour. and private
eXpressmen went with their wagons
and aided IN helping to
REsC UE THE VICTIMS.
When poor unfortunate was found
he was given temporary relief by the
physicians and then carefully removed
to one of the hospitals. Meantime the
crowd continued 10 increase until
finally it was found necessary to call out
the police and have the streets cleared
for square both ways. The streets
were roped in and no one was allowed
about the ruins but those assisting in
the rescue. The work was continued
all afternoon and about 10 O'Clock to-
night number of persons were known
to be still underneath the debris. Up
to that hour, forty mangled and bruised
bodies had been taken from the ruins.
Some were dead, others were dying, and
many were fatally injured. One or two
died on the way to the hospital. From
| the best information obtainable,
EIGHT WERE KILLED OUTRIGHT,
or died in short time, and thirty-fve
others were injured. 1t is believed
| that the list of dead will be greatly in
creased before morning. OF the eight
killed, only two have been identified so
far. One was little girl named Nc
Clone, who was walking along the street
with her brother when the building fell,
and the two were buried in the wreck.
The little girl was killed instantly. and
her brother, it is thought, is fatally in,
| jured. The body of Mr.. 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 Identification. DR..
J. l.. Reed, a prominent physician of
| Allegheny, was in Weldin's at the time;
he is still missing and it is feared that
he is dead. The following is a list of
| the wounded rescued up to 10 O'Clock
| t0-nlght:
DANIEL COURTNEY, badly bruised and
| suffering from conclusion of the brain.
EUGENE E. DAVIS, printer, canght be-
tween two rafters and seriously injured.
CHARLES H. PETTlCORD, bookkeeper
| for Weldin & Co., seriously injured.
WELDON S. MASON, severely cut about
| the head, will recover.
ALICE CARLE, sixteen years old, injur-
| les slight.
JOHN RIDOUT carpenter, back and head