The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-02-14
SIX WERE KILLED.

a Fierce Ga = f3ipws Down . Brick wal
in Omaha-It Crashes Through SevcrsA
Buildings, ri ling Six Of tho Inmates and
wounding Several The Hurricane Gen.
eral Throughout the State.
OMAHA. Ncb., Feb. 6-A high wind at ,
o'clock Monday afternoon blew down .
large section OF the east wall OF Max
Meyers briok building, at the corner Of
Farnam md Eleventh streets. recently
Ruttcd by fire, completely wreckinE two
buildings INN ediately to the cast Five
people in the wrecked building werc killed
and several others more or less injured.
The crash sent up an immense cloud
OF dust and soon attracted q crowd OF not
less than 8, COO people. Screams and groans
Nil be heard proceeding from the ruins,
but the tottering pyramids OF brick wall
atill standing seemei to terro, lie every
body and for nearly half an hour they
were lett in their agony. 1t WI nearly
half an hour before tho work OF rescue
began.
One Of the crushed Buildings was .
brick occupied by P. Boyer q Co, safe
dealers. and d. c. Dunbar Il Co. en-
gravcrs and book publishers. The other
was frame, On the first floor OF which
was Edward Olcson's clothing sture, and
on the second Mrs Hengen and her fam
ily Both buildings were crushed like egg
shells, the front wall Of the brick alone
remaining standing.
When the crash came George Carrie and
+ o. Pailco, em sloycs OF Dunbar & Co,
were engaged at the front window
on some pen-portraits, When the ava.
lanchc Of brick and mortar came cras'i-
ing through the skylght They leaped
over the drying table and crept under tho
stcam-pipes and down among the ru MS on
tho broken scantling. D,th escaped with
slight injuries. In another part Of tho
bu lding were other employees 0f Dunbar.
There are seventeen people on the payroll,
but tlere were only nine on duty at the
time OF the accident. All OF them were
carried down in tie crash. TIE names OF
the dead are:
Edward Oleson, Mike Martin. Maxwell Hous-
ton. r. Boyer, Thomas Lombard and Rudolph
Mitchell.
The injured are:
g. H. Silver. an engraver, shoulder crushed
and finger broken: Z. A. Ph.leo. 40 engraver,
bruised; John Jackson. slightly nurt; Miss
Emma Ol yer, slightly Injured: Charles Blake,
draughtsman, injured about the face and will
lose an eye: Charles Ceasar. foreman OF Dun.
bars art department, badly bruised, but sucs
ceeded in getting ont without assistance;
George Searlcs, slightly hurt; Mrs. Henger,
fatally hurt
The Meyer building was erected ten
years ago at cost OF 10000, and 1t has
until six months ago been occupied by the
firms Of Max Meyer & Bro and Max
Meyer & Co., dealers in music, tobacco
and general merchandise. Til building
was completely Rutted by fire three
weeks ngo. II WIS remarked on the
night or tho fire that the walls had been
so burned as to be unsafe. Since
then nothing has boon done with
them, and they fell easy victims TO tho
fury or the blast The damage ID esti.
mated at sl5, OOl. and It is not improbable
taat the rest Of the building will be con-
| to the Meyers. The loss on it will be
about $1,000 The frame store was OF lit.
tlo value. Dunbar's loss Will be about
{ el0 o., making total loss of 3d., Coo.
| FIERCE CALLS IN NEBRASKA.
| LINCOLN, Neb, Feb 5-A heavy gale
prevailed all over Nebraska Mondar. start
/ ing at 2 a m. at All ance and r. aching
I Lincoln st about =. N. Considerable
damage was done in the we tern
part OF the State, buildings being
unrcofed and trees blown down. Al
Arapahoe o nlmber Of small buildings
wero blown down. Lincoln escaped with
few cornices blown away and few cut
buildings overturned. The storm was an
electrical distur rbance many watches and
clocks in tn city stopping at about .
o'clock in the morning
HASTINGS. Neb., Feb A w.nd-storm
struck Hastings ut II a. m Monday, blow
Ing sixty miles an hour and wreckng the
old News building and blew In the front OF
two-stery building On Hastings avenue.
At 1880 a 100 foot section OF the sidewalk
In front OF the South ward public school
building was blown 800 feet and Miss
Aldrich and three children were buried
under it. A lO-ycar- r-sld son Of Mrs. Pulls
was fatally injured and Miss Aldrich'a
arm was broken and her head hurt. There
are doubts as to her recovery. The
other children escaped with slight cuts.
FURIOUS STORMS ABROAD.
LONDON. Feb. 6-The gale which pre-
vailed yesterday was general Throughout
England and ireland. Much damage wal
done to buildings and telegraph lines
Turing the gaze Sunday evening the bar
racks Of tho Salvation Army at Derby were
blown down while meeting was in prog
ross: almost Immediately the debris tool
fire from the stoves and began blazins
dcrcely. A boy OF IA was killed and hi.
body burned.
At Pudsley, Yorkshire, the spiro OF tht
Congregat onal church was blown dowr
and crashed through the roof. There wal
an average attendance Of worshipcrs II
the building at tho time and many Of then
were hurt by flying splintcrs, glass. etc.
but no one was killed The escape o.
most Of the congregation from instan
death Is regarded as miraculous as ths
roof was completely wrecked and the In
~ Had vvvsN hWnI nI,n,
tlmbers and stones.