The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-01-17
To-day the heavens are as though
mocking the work of last night.

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desolation. The Polish Church disaster
| several months ago was one Of the most
horrible accidents that had startled the
| community but the loss of life by that
fatal caye.in Of the floor when the
| dedication ceremonies were being con-
| Quoted on the quiet Sunday evening
| sinks into comparative insignidcance
| when placed on parallel with the awful
visitation of last evening.
The work ofrescue was greatly retarded
from the singular manner in which the
silk mill collapsed. 1t did not blow over,
as might have been expected from the
terrible force of the wind, but was bodily
cruubed down, falling in upon itself in
one mass, not vestige of the walls re.
naming standing above the stone
foundations: The rafters and timbers of
the flooring projected in all directions.
As the building was steam heated the
ruins did not take. Otherwise not one
of the unfortunates could possibly have
escaped death in its most appalling form.
The only eye witness to the disaster 30
far as is known was Mrs. Gemmil, resid.
ing at 115O Mulberry Street.
"At about twenty minutes of six
O'clock" said she to reporter, II heard
an awful crash and, thinking it was q
nsw house which is being put up along
side of us, I ran to the front door. A
great cloud of dust hung over the silk
mill and Icould hear the crashing tim
bers and roar of falling walls. The next
moment.I saw the whole mill great
heap OF ruins, from the midst of which
came such awful moaning and groaning
and terrible cries as I never want to hear
again. Not soul did I Zee como ont of
the mill and it seemed many minutes to
me before anybody cameto the spot. /
stood there in the door like one struck
dumb until my husband came running
from his work"
The big tower and smoke stack at the
silk mill and ten feet of the western wall
remain standing, all that is left of the
huge structure. Charlie, Schwauk, aged
eighteen, vas in the high tower when the
accident occurred. He said to a repor-
ter: "I had gone up for pulleys and was
looking out of the WINDOW when all of a
sudden I heard a loud noise and vas
almost paralyzsd to see the building fall
in. I don't know HON I got down from
the tower"
Five men were killed and two injured
atthe Philadelphia & Reading paint shop,
which was struck by the cyclone, and
the men enveloped in flames by the
explosion of the gas chambers in nine
passenger cars. The loss to the Phila.
delphia & Reading Railroad by the
burning Of it's paint shop and passenger
cars is probable $65, goo, and to the silk
mill and it's machinery about $4,000.
P1rTsBuRa, Pa, JAM, 10-Up to l
o'clock this evening the list Of deaths by
Yesterdays accident reached IA. Two
more bodies were found and four deaths
occurred among the injured. Five per:
sons are missing who are almost certainly
in the ruins.
READING, Pa, EveniDg.-The list Of
casualties by last evenings cyclone foots
up so far as determined: At the rail-
road paint shop, FIVE men killed and
three badly injured; at the silk mill,
twenty.eight dead bodies taken from the
wreck and 112 people injured, consid.
erable number of them very seriously
and several fatally. The work of exam
lining the wreck is still going on. A
number Of operatives are believed to be
in the debris and it is not thougt posi-.
BILE that any can be there alive.