The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-01-19

man, Sophie wnlsleman, Ella Long, Willie
Snyder, William Reteson, Robocca Pouse
Kate Reidcnauer, Rose Clemmer, John Reher
engineer, head cut OF as with sword; Charles
Retbuier, Harry Crothers, Harry Jones, Sally
Hickel John Foreman. Jane Seithciner.
These are all the dead who have been
taken out. Clerk Autcnback said at mid
night that he believed that fully eighty
bodies were in the ruins. His list of en-
ployos is lost. Eighty is the conservative
estimate of those who lost their lives.
The wounded will number about 100
The silk mill was built about four years
ago. The builders were Reading capital
lists and the cost Of putting it up was $685.
OO0 The mill was leased to Grimshaw
Brothers, of Paterson, N. ]. The ma
chinery cost $4,000. This is total loss.
Augustus L. Roscup was the foreman of
the first and second aoors of the silk mill.
He tells tho following story:
| at was about $500 o'clock when went TO
the second story TO tusn on the electric lights.
After had done this 1 stood looking about the
room for about ten minutes. Suddenly heard
| n rushing noise, which thought was a cyclone.
| The building then shook. j was standing in
the southern end OF the room, and before
1 could look out OF the window
| felt the building sink. Quick rs
| lightning the portion OF the room that was
|
crying and screaming and calling for help.
| They didn't realize what was taking place. 1t
| seemed TO me as II the center OF the building
| was struck frst / can not describe the scene.
| 1t was awful i could not do any thing
| and could not think OF what ! should do. Our
end of the building went down first. and
| while the floor was sinking IL seemed to me as
| II the girls in the other part of the room were
| on top OF hill. That was the way IL impressed
me. While we were going down saw the other
! portions of the floor fall. In minute all was
| over. The screaming OF the girls was heart-
rending. 1 was knocked down under heavy
timbers and held fast by my foot. 1 could
move every other part OF my body excepting
| my legs. / reached down with my knife
and cut the shoe of my foot. In this way
/ became loosened and managed TO arise.
| Amid the screams of the girls and falling
beams and bricks succeeded in escaping. /
| got out OF the ruins on the eastern side of
|. the building, but how do not know. / called
to the girls as loudly rs / could. They were
| all terri bly, excited and I never witnessed any
thing SO awful in all my life Many of them
| heard me and worked themselves toward me.
At some places It seemed as II the floor was
closed as solid mass, and the girls
would creep around this, crawl over the ma.
chimes and creep on their hands and knees uu-
til they got to the opening where / was. The
machines saved many from being crushed to
death, by leaving space between tho floor
and debris through which to crawl out. 1 be-
Iieve that fully 100 people escaped with me. /
remember seeing them run across the COM
mons In different directions to their homes,
terrified naturally.
"Some ran q short distance and then re-
turned to the ruins. The entire building was
down. The girls came back to look for their
brothers and sisters or friends. We could
hear the moans and shrieks OF those impris-
oned in the runs. The rain was pouring down,
and all around was dark. was badly bruised
and hurt about the body head and limbs, and
went home after saw could do nothing Be-
tween $50 and 300 operatives were in the build
ing. About o. clock l allowed sixteen girls TO
go home. All the floors were in operation.
The report that 100 went home q. o'clock is
not true"
LIVES LOST AT PITTSBURGH.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. 10.-A terrible
storm of wind and hail, the worst known
for years, swept over the city shortly after
noon Wednesday, carrying with it death
and destruction. The storm was formed
with suddenness that was Overwhelming,
and as the wind, accompanied by hail and
torrents of rain, swept along the
streets, pedestrians were hurled before it
and barely escaped being crushed under
vehicles passing along the thoroughfares.
Suddenly, in the center of the city, there
was terrible crash, and few Minutes
later the Central fire alarm sounded q call
from box fourteen, on the corner of Dia-
mond and " ood streets.
Hundreds of people with banched faces
hurried to the scene, when it was found
that the cyclone had caught the new
building on Diamond street owned by G
j. Wiley, and hurled it to the earth.
covering up two scores of mangled human
bodies. The building was in course of erec-
tion. II was forty by eighty feet in
dimensions and was seven stories high.
The front of the bu lding had not yet been
put in, and the wind entered the high
shell from the open end the high walls of
bricks and undried mortar parted, one
falling each way, partly wrecking nearly
q dozen buildings The main force
of the crushing building was thrown
against Weldin g. Co.'s book store on
Wood street and the barber shop of Fred
Schumacher at Al Diamond street The
re lr of Weldin's store was crushed in and
the front Of the building was forced out
into Wood street. The barber-shop was
completely demolished. The leather
store next to the Wiley building,
occupied by W. II. Thomas, was also
wrecked. The rear end of ii. Watt & Co IS
bookstore was crushed in, while some
of the falling debris struck Joseph Rich
baums building, fronting on Fifth
avenue, breaking the windows and
injuring q number of employees A por-
tion of the wall of millinery store next
to Thomas was broken in and the windows
and doors in n number of surrounding
buildings were broken. The building of
Rea Bros. & Co., stock brokers, on the cor
ner 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 Notwithstanding the fact
that the rain and hail was pouring down
in a perfect deluge. With the arrival Of
the fremen the work of rescue was begun.
Ladders were run up to the second and
third stories of the Weldn building.
The first person taken out was young
woman employed as typewriter who,
fortunately, had escaped serious injury. |
the work of rescue. Every little while |
fresh localities where men had been |
caught were found. At the time |
OF the disaster about twenty five |
men were at work on The building |
and not one escaped injury. In the barber |
shop next door sseven men were impris- |
oned, while a half-dozeu more were buried |
beneath the debris OF the Weldin build |
ing. Chief Brown, Coroner Mcdowell, |
Building Inspectors Frank and Eich- |
ley and score of physicians were |
early at the scene. The hospitals were |
notified and short time later the clung |
of ambulance bells and patrol wagons |
were heard. Contractors Both and Flinr !
had twenty-five wagons and carts on the |
scene inside of an hour, and private ex- |
pressmen went with their wagons and |