Evening journal., 1889-01-10
MANY CALAMITIES
Destructive Work of a Cyclone
in Pennsylvania.
DEATH BY WIND AND FIRE.
Immense Buildings Fall Upon
Their Occupants.
OVER 100 VICTIMS AT READING.
Double Catastrophe at Pittsburg.
Resouers Crushed.
YER 100 VICTIMS AT READING.
DISASTERS ALL OVER THE STATE.

Grimshaw & Bros. SILK Mill. at Reading.
coilapses Upon Several Hundred Opera
tives--ExplosIons Follow the Wreck Of
the Railroad shops. and worIsmen Are
Crushed and Observation-Disclosures and
Carlisle Also Badly Damaged
Destruction Has Been wrought in the
Rural Districts, but Wires Are Down and
News Is NIeager-The Cyclone Reaches
Brooklyn in the Evening-An Explosion
which shook the City.
READING, Pa, Jan. 10--A cyclone struck
this city shortly after O'Clock in the after
noon, demolishing anumber OF buildings, in
cluding Grimshaw g. Bros large silk mill
In the latter were upwards OF 200 operatives,
who were buried in the ruins and many were
killed. At930 p m. about 100 persons had
been taken out, many of whom are dead. It
was impossible, owing to the confusion, to
obtain list Of the injured and killed, but il
is known that the killed and injured will ex-
seed $50
The storm swept down the Lebanon
Valley railroad and many barns and other
properties are reported wrecked.
The telegraph wires in the track Of the
storm were badly mixed up, and it is iinpos-
sible to get details, but it is known that
great damage has been done when tho cy-
clone first struck Reading the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad company's paint shop
was unroofed and in less than ten minutes
the entire structure was enyeloped in flames,
Several gas chambers underneath the bas.
senger cars exploded aud four persons were
killed and several others badly hurt. The
killed are: George Schaefer, Sheridan Jones,
Albert Loudenberger and John Kopler.
The storm then continued eastward, deal
ing out destruction in its path Nine dwell
ings on North Eighth and Marion street,
were unroofed and otherwise badly damaged
The cyclone cut swath Of about 80 feet anc
everything in its way was either leveled to
the ground or very badly wrecked. The next
building in its track was the immense silk
mill Of Glimshaw & Bros. located al
Twelfth and Marion streets. This building
was filled with several hundred operatives
and not single soul escaped uniniured
The structure, which was four stories high
and 200 by 10 feet, is one mass OF ruins. No,
a single brick remains OF the beautiful build.
ing except the stock and engine room.
The fire department was called out and
10000 men, women and children quickly as
sembled about the wrecked mill The erie.
Of the wounded and dying and their friends
were heartrending. Willing hands how.
ever quickly set to work and in a short time
some seventy persons had been taken ont.
Twelve of these were dead, and many fatally
injured Those who were less seriously hurt
were taken to their homes, while those who
received more serious injuries were taken to
the hospitals
The killed so far recovered are: Annie
Reidnour, Ella Long, Amelia Christman,
Henry Crocker, foreman; Mary Reidnour.
Kate Leas, John Rober, Sophia Winkeman,
William Robinson, Rose Klemmer, Katie
Bowman, Tillie Groh and Eva Leeds.
The injured are; George Newman, John
Autenbach, Sadie Rhodes, Mary Reeser,
George Nieman, sailie Young, sallie Has
son, George Granshaw. Jr, one of the own
ers; Augustus f. Roscup Kate Alspach,
Kate Hartman, Salie e. Bright, Joanna
Frankenfeld, Kate Fitzpatrick, Minnie Mer-
kel, Annie and Howard Bricker, Sallie Saw
age, Lizzie Ahrens, Buha Herman, Ellie
Salem, Ellie Pfuem. These have been taken
out It will take until o'clock in the morn
ing, probably late in the day, before the
debris can be cleared away and the killed
and injured are recovered