The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16
RAIN AND WIND.
Pennsylvania and Eastern 0hio Wis
tied by Terrific Cyclone.
Many Lives Lost and Much Damage
Done to Property.
A Man Killed, Roasted and Mutila;ed
by Three Msxicans.
prairie SchoOners" Leaving Okla
homa-0ther Items OF Note.

PTTTSBURG, May 1.-THE reports OF |
damage done by last nights terrible |
storm are coming in to-day from all |
parts of Allegheny county and from !
nearly all places in eastern Ohio bear |
here cannot be estimated at this time. |
Farms were washed out. houses,
fences and trees along the banks Of tie
streams were swept away and land
slides occurred on nearly every road
leaning out of Pittsburg. So far but
two deaths from drowning are report
ed. Two children of Conrad Sch8fer,
aged three years, of Spring Gar
densbourOugh, north of Allegheny were
swept away by the stream and Mrs.
Sch@fer barely escaped meeting the
same fate. Their house is situated
on the banks of butchers Run. Last
night the Shefer house was swept
from its foundations and the family
left the house and took to the run,
| and both Mrs. Sh@fer and her
two children were swept away.
| The bodies of the children were
| recovered. A physician was called to
see Mrs. Sch fer who was removed
| to a neighbors house, but it is not
| thought she will recover. Two other
children in the family were saved.
| One boy seventeen years of age, who
had his leg broken two weeks ago in
W alker's cap factory was compelled to
remain in the house. Another boy es-
capped from the house and was saved
by holding to fence. This morning
| East Madison street and numberleSS
cross streets are filed with debris and
cars are unable to be moved, and COM
pletely hemmed in by planking and
L S1l, fav-i int InklT
fast that the residents feared repet-
| tition of the disaster of 1874, and as
| soon as the first shock posed away
and the terrified inhabitants caught
their breath they Immediately
made preparations to vacate
the premises. Every effort was made
to save the furniture on the first floors,
while the water washed and splasheo
in the cellar below. Rivulets, brown
colored and dirty, dashed into the eel
lar windows in miniature torrents. \
large number of butchers were heavily
damaged. Roofs of houses were TIL
ined and much stock was destroyed
Lewis Sellers case was but one o.
many. At an early hour this morning
he secured all the hands he could get
fiOated his wagons before the door AM
filled them up. Shoeless and hatless
with their pants rolled above thei
I knees, the perspiring workmen plodde'
. and Waded through the slime almoS
knee deep, and transferred the proper
ty The same tale of terror and de
struction comes from Sawmill run
Woods run, Charters valley, tn
west end and south side of Pleasan
| Valley and Lawrenceville districts
The lightning played havoc all nigh
r long. A stable belonging to Ere
3 Hampke, on Mt. Oliver, was struc
, and consumed. Fourteen horses an
two COWS were cremated. The loss
4 $4,000. A south side street car caugh
S bolt. The passengers were electrified bu
g not seriously hurt. Telegraph and tel
ephone wires were deranged through
out large section of the country. Th
postal wires were all down east and tn
Western Union was badly crippled
This mornings trains were late on a
e the roads, but all were open and run
j. ming except the Washington and Penn
Z / sylVania branch of the Baltimore
.e Ohio. The rainfall was nearly thrt
s, inches in three hours and the OH
river rose three feet in as many hours
d. The bodies of two men, victims {
last nights food, were found TIL
morning, making four deaths SO far T,
l ported. The remains of John DOugl
eTty were discovered at the mouth of
culVert at Woods run, Wedged i'll b
tween some logs. He left his HON
shortly after midnight to see how hig
the water was, and had gone but
short distance along the banks of tn
stream, when he was struck and carrie
=, by bridge which had been swept fro
"a its foundations. He was fifty-tW
II years of age and married. The secon
: fatality occurred in the Butchers Ru
district. John Cochner went down
k the cellar of his house during the stor
K and did not return. When the watel
subsidized his body was found lying
IS the cellar vault. While no defidi
figures can be given on the loss at tn
\ time, it is safe to say that it will reaC
j. half million dollars in this vincinit
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