The Red Cloud chief., 1889-01-18
-PITTSEURGH.S DISASTER.

Collapse Of . E:uil,ine and Fifty Wo-km~a
Hur'cd-GiLer Work Of tle I.reacSuI
Cycione.
fiTrshCRGB, Pa, Van. lo-A terrific
Storm OF wind and h.il-the worst known
.or years-swert over the CITY shortly
etter noon YESTERDAY, carrying with it
oeath and destruction. The storm was
Horned with u s~uddenness that was over.
whelming and as the wind. ACCOMPANIED
ov taI! and torrents Of rain. swept along
the streets pedestrians We're hurled before
1t and barely ESCAPED being crushed under
vehicles passing q .ong the thoroughfares.
Suddenly, IN the center OF the CITY. there
was a terrible crash and a few minutes
later the central fire alarm bell sounded a
cali from box IL. on the corner Of Diamond
and " God streets. Hundreds OF people with
o!arched faces hurried to the scene. when
II was found that the cyclone had caught
Inc building on Diamond street, owned ty
L L. Wiley, and hurled it TO the eartii,
covering up two scores Of mangled human
bodies. The building was in the course Il
erection. l. wGs :s0xS0 feet ia Dimensions
ana was seven stories high. The front
had not Vet been put in and the wind
seemed TO enter the high shell! from III.
open end and tie high walls of bricks ard
undried mortar were parted, one falling
each way, partly wreck:ng nearly a doom
surrounding buildings.
Tn main force Of the crushing Iuiid aS
was thrown against Weldon & Co.'S book
store on Woodland and the barber shop of
Fred Shumaker. at 81 Diamond street. The
Tear end OF Weldon's store was crushed in
and the front of the building forced &c:
into Wood street. The barber shoI. was
completely demolished. The leather store
next 20 the Wiley building, occupied tv
". H. Tnomas, was also totally wrecked.
The rear end of II. Watt Il Co.'s BOOK
store was crushed in, while some of the fall
ing structure struck Joseph Eichbaunl's
building, fronting on Fifth avenue. breaS-
ing the windows and injurinG a numter #
employees. A portion of the wall of a mil
linery store next 20 Thomas was crushed
In and the windows and doors i, a mum.
der OF surrounding buildings We're broken.
At the time Of the disaster aboutfwenty-
five inen were at work on the building and
not one escaped injury. La the barber
shop, mex: door, seven men We're ~i,n;,rIs-
oned, while a half dozen more were buried
teneath the debris Of the Weldon building.
Chief Brown. Coroner NJ. Dowell, Building:
Inspectors Frank and Echley. and u
Va pLssltiauS were early at tu-
scene. The hospitals were notified an u
short time later the clang Of ambulance
bells nad patrol wagon gongs We're heard.
Contractor Booth and Finn had twenty
five wagons and carts on the scene inside
of an hour and private expressmen lent
their wagons and their aid in helping to
Rescue the victims. When a poor unfor-
;unate vas found he was given temporary
relief ly fha nh ysiciapS and theu carefnltv
removed to one of the hospitals.
The work WAS continued all afternoon
and at eleven o'clock last nighta number Of
persons were known to be still underneath
ihe debris. Up to that hour forty mangled
and bruised bodies had been taken from
the ruins. Some were dead. others were
dying and many We're fatally injured.
One cor two died on the way 10 the hos.
pital.
From the hest Information obtGinab'e,
eight were killed outright or died in =
short time and ihirty-five others were in.
iured, but it is believed that the list Of
dead will lee greatly increased.
a little girl named Mctilone was walk.
ing along the street with her brother when
the building fell and tte two Mere buried
in the wreck. Tie girl WAS terribly in
jured and her brother probably fatally
hurt.
The body OF George Eirsch. a barber,
eighteen wears old. was found IN the cell
lar OF the aIter shop.
Or. j. l.. Reed. II prominent physician OF
,AAlleAeny. WAS in WcId"a's at the time
anrffS still missing and il; is feared that 10
- dead.
The cyclone wrought terrible destruction
in other parts of the city and Out along
:he railroads c.nt.riag here. a port on
Of IA. foundry OF Mcintosh. Hemuhil! ~
Co. on Thirteenth street. was wrecked. Is
was also a hous. In A~iie- heny.
a; Walls Station. on the P~ennsylyan!a
railroad, u large hr!cE building own Il
Nv the Westinghouse A.rhrake Conn
I.any vas partially demolished aud
IA; Wilm.rdinS. Pa, a Goa! iirI'e
WAS wrecked AT Mcheesi %
houses were unroofed. trees blown down
and windows smashed Three rouses in
course a; erection were Blown 10 pieces.
ON ia. river q number Of boats were torn
from then moor.nss and cast about axe
corks. hu, they were secured before much
damage WAS cone. The velocity Of the
wind was iifty miles al hour-;he highest
record-i for wears.
INSPECTOR Of Pole, McAlees states tina:
Lt il al lnf off.h4th thA -s's
twenty-five persons are vet IN the runs.
q tine ,hirtv-iiye injured SIX are IN a
dangerous condition and vii probably
de.
AT sVSBURY-
Pa. Jan. lo.-ln his cItv n.
a:;0 o'clock last evening a ram ana WIND
storm came up suddenly and blew ovei
Two II the stacks If the Sunhurr mai! mill.
situated hetwcen the Reading n fenn>Ti-
yapia railroads on the outskirts oil the city.
The frs, is the pudding mill. having III
furnaces. Stack No. > WAS thrown o.ei
on the roof. dropping with II stack No, q
They crashed through the roof. onpiet -iy
d-mol,shinc the pudding department
Thrtr-hye men Were employed IN tais
aeu,lrmenf and half Of them were buried
IN The debris. The fire alarm was sounded
and soon hundreds surrounded the nlii
Men were carried ont half nahsi and m.u
are a; work vet. rs il i supposed several
other, are in tEe ruins.
The following is the list Of killed and
wounded:
Eilea-A trnpo. name unknown; e &
Showers. of Milton.
wouuael-D Z. jones. Of S~untury. IN
.erna;lv injured: James Faust >caii
wound nni ribs broken: A. Menther
right le- broken of below knee and am
aroken. not expected 20 live; James NC
ponnell. Sugar Notch, head cut: Aipef'
Williams. puddlcr. Lancaster, leg broken
and head cut: John T. Splen. Lancaster
head GU. and knee broken. seriously IN
iured: rwo bows aged thirteen ana fourteen
en-, ON head and Otherwise injured Ineis
are four missing
l,,mxsc ia Canada.
MONTREAL Que. Jan. "a storm broke
over Lower Ontario on SUNDAY morn
INC which continued until last night eaV'
inc a scene which for popularity ans
80. baap en.,aileE IN Ylie