The times., 1889-01-11
Death Rides the Wind
And Gathers in His Victims by
the Score.
DIRE AND DREADFUL DISASTERS.
Reading, Pennsylvania, Reports Fright
r full Effects Of Raging
Cyclone.

The Number of head Uaknown-A Mill
Swarming with Humanity Goes Down
into Ruin.-Pitlsburg Tells Of a Similar
Disaster--A New Huiiding iilown Down
an Others and the Latter with Their
Living Occupants Crushed The Storm.
King Plays Havoc All Through Pean-
!. ryIvania and Leaves His Mark In Ohio.
READING, Pa, Jan. 10. "A cyclone struck
this city shortly after S O'Clock yesterday
afternoon, demolshing number of build
iugs, including Grimshaw Brothers silk
mill. In tho latter were upward OF 200 op.
cratives, who were buried in the ruins.
Many have been killed.
When the cyclone struck Reading the
Philadelphia & Reading Railway company's
paint shop was unroofed, md in less than
ten minutes the entire structure was cnvel-
oped In flames. Several gas.chambers un-
derneath the passenger cars exploded, and
four persons were killed aud several others
badly injured. The killed are: George
berger and John Kohler
The storm then continued eastward, deal
Ing out destruction in its path. Nine dwell
ings on North Eighth and Marion streets
were unroofed ard otherwise badly damaged.
The cyclone cut swath OF about 25O feet.
and everything in its way was either leveled
to the ground or very badly wrecked. The
next building in its track was the immense
silk mill of Grmshaw Bros, located at One
Hundred and Twentieth and Marion streets
This building was filled with operatives, and
not single soul escaped uninjured. The
structure, which was four stories high and
200 by 20 feet, is "A mass OF ruins. Not
single brick remains of the beautiful build
ing except the stock and engine-room The
fire department was called out, and 10000
men, women, and children quickly assem-
ablsd about the wrecked mill. The cries OF the
wounded and dying and their friends were
heartrending. Willing hands, however.
quickly set to work, and at 945 o'clock some
seventy persons had been taken out. Twelve
OF these were dead and many fatally injured,
those who were less seriously hurt were taken
to their homes, while those who received
more serious injuries were taken to the hos
pitfalls.
! Probably seventy-fve to 100 escaped OF
,wers dragged out by their friends. These
victims worked on the upper floors and were
thrown near the top of the debris. At some
phases the bricks were piled twenty feet
desp, and underneath were lying human
bodies by the score.
'lWbile the townspevple, fremen and police
were hard at work rescuing the victims of
the terrible calamity night fell, but in spite
of the darkness and the driving storm the
rescuers kept on. In a few minutes por-
tion of the wreck of the mill took fire, illu-
minating the ghastly and awful scene.
The killed recovered up to II o'clock were:
Annie Reidnour. Ella Long, Amelia Christ
man, Harry Crocker (foremanl, Mary Reid
nour, Kate Leas, John Rober, Sophia Winkle-
man, William Robinson, Rose Klenmer,
Kate Bowman, Tillie Groh. Eva Leeds.
The injured are: George Newman, Jchn
Autenbach, Sadie Rhoades, Mary Reese,
George Niemap, Eallie Young, SiIlie Has
son, George Grimshaw, Jr. (one of the own
ers), Augustus Frossleys. Kate Aulbach, Kate
Han tman, Sallie 4. Bright, Joanna Franl,en-
field, Kate Fitzpatrick, Minnie Mcskel, An
ME and Howard Bucker. Sallie Savage,
Lizzie Ahrens, Buhla Hesman, Ellie Salem,
Ellie Pfuern. These have been taken out
Clerk Autenbach stated Mt midnight 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 list of the killed, but eighty is
conservative estimate of those who lost their
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