The Washington critic., 1889-01-10

When the people arrived the city was
envelopod in darkness Then huge
bonfres were built, which cast dismal
glare on the surrounding scene. The
fire companies left the burning paint
shop and assisted in the rescue of the
dead and the dying. The entire police
force was called out. The ambulance
and the relief corps and a thousand peo-
pie we're in among the debris carrying
out bricks, pulling away timbers. and
assisting wherever they could, all at the
same time but their work was slow
compared with the demand for the res
cue of the victims of the disaster. Here
young woman was taken out, all
bruised, suffering with cuts and bruises
Ono body noticed as it was dragged
out had its head cut off. Others were in
various postures the living all suffering
from the most terrible wounds, and some
almost scared to death. The Associated
Press representative entered what was
once the basement of the building, and,
cropping his way through the debris,
noticed five bodies Of young girls lying
close together. He tried to pull them
out, but they were pinned down, and it
was impossible to get them out. They
were dead and beyond all human aid.
Up to half-past ten o'clock tonight prob
ably the bodies of "a dozen dead have
been taken out, while the greater portion
of the remainder were still under the
ruins.
LIST oE THE WOUNDED.
Charles II. Petticord, Weldon S. Mason,
Alice Carter, John Ridout, Bernard o. Connor,
Frank Barrett, Thomas Lemon, Alfred LAM
bert, w. A. McCurdy, James Wait, Michael
Ryan, John Donnelly, Henry Faulkner,
Thomas Mckee, Oscar L. Smith, Elmer Nc
Keown, Martin Haloram, George Mason,
Goehrlng, Morris Vine, Owen Donnelly,
George Thrishler, William McKown, Samuel
Brown, George Scott, George Lang, j. Il.
Melvin, Gus Meesmer, Rev. Father Canevin,
BARLEY Colley, Samuel Springer, Willie Nc
Clone.
THE FINANCIAL LOSS.
The silk mill was built about four
years ago. The builders were Reading
capitalists, and the cost of putting it up
was $63 ,000 The mill was then leased
to Grimshaw Brothers of Patterson, N.
j., where they also operate similar mills,
and they have been running it ever since.
The machinery they put up in the mill
cost S43, 600 This is a total loss.
lis difficult to estimate the damage
done at this time. One OF the buildings
occupied by Weldin & Co. belongs to
David Gregg, the other is owned by Mrs.
d Reed Morrison They were probably
worth So 900 each, and are total wrecks.
The loss to Weldin & Coz S stock is
probably 5000. 1t will be double that
if it should rain tonight The corner
building, owned by David Gregg, is
damaged to the extent of $1,000. The
building occupied by H. Watt q Co. is
also owned by Gregg, The damage to it
is So, 900. Watts stock is slightly dam.
aged.
LIST OF THE KILLED.
The killed are Henry Crocker, Laura
Kershner, Eva Leeds, Lille Grow, Katie
Bowman, Kate Leas, Amelie Christman,
Sophie Winkleman, Ella Long, Emile
Snyder, William Robeson, Rebecca Pouse,
Kate Reidenauer, Rose Clemmer. These
are all the dead who have been taken
out. Clerk Aulenbach stated at mid
night that he believed that fully eighty
bodies were in the ruins under the three
floors. His list of employees is lost, and
owing to the confusion in taking out the
injured he was unable to furnish a list of
the killed. But eighty is a conservative
CSllluuIc Vi lllOSc WllO lOSl buelT llNcS.
THE STORM AT PITrsBURG.
AT Pittsburg the storm took shape with
suddenness that was overwhelming;
and as the wind, accompanied by hail
aud torrents of rain, swept along the
l,streets. pedestrians were buried before
it and barely escaped from being crushed
under vehicles passing along the thor
oughfare. Suddenly in the centre of the
city there was terrible crash, and a few
minutes later the Central fire alarm bell
sounded a call from box A. OH the cor
ncr of Diamond and Wood streets
Hundreds of people with blanched faces
hurried to the scene, when il was found
that the cyclone had caught the new
building on Diamond street, owned by
G. l.. Wiley, and hurled it to the earth,
covering up. two scores of mangled
human bodies. The building was in
course, of erection. 1t was thirty feet by
eighty feet in dimensions, and was seven
feet high. The front of the building
had not been put in, and the wind seemed
to enter the huge shell from the open end.
THE BRICKS AND MORTAR PART.
The high walls of bricks and undried
mortar parted, one falling each way,
partly wrecling nearly dozen surround
ing buildings The main force of the
crushing building was thrown against
Weldin e. Co.'S book store on Weed
street and the barber shop of Fred Sche-
maker, at No. 81 Diamond street. The
rear end of Weldin's store was crushed
in, and the front of the building was
forced out into Wood street. The bar.
bar shop was completely demolished.
The leather store, next to the Wiley
building, occupied by w. III. Thomas
was also totally wrecked. The rear end
of II. Walt & Co.'s book store was
crushed in, while some of the falling
structure strlck Joseph Eichbaum'
building, frt nting on Fifth avenue
breaking the windows and injuring Q
number of the employees. A portion OF
the wall Of n millinery store next tc
Thomas was cayed in, and the window!
and doors in q number of surrounding
buildings were broken. The building oi
Rea Bros. & Co., stock brokers, on 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 filled
with an excited crowd, notwithstandin!
the fact that the rain and hail wer,
pouring down in perfect deluge. With
the arrival of the fircmcn the work o
rescue was began. Ladders were run III
to the second and third stories of tn,
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