Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-10
he is still missing. II is feared that he is dead.
BRAVE PRIESTS NARROW ESCAPE

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BRAVE PRIESTS NARROW ESCAPE.
Rev. Father Canevin, who was helping to
rescue the victims. narrowly escaped being
killed. About o'clock Jos. Goehring, an
errsnd boy employed by Weldin & Co., was dis
covered among the debris. He was heard to
call for water. They were about to let it down
| to young Goehring through a small gum hose
when wall fell. covering up Father Canevin
and three others. When Father Canevin heard
the wall cracking he threw his arms around
| pillar, as to prevent the air from being cut
off from young Goehring Fortunately he was
not much hurt. and when rescued was able to
| go home unassisted.
THE NUMBER OF KILLED UNCERTAIN.
I The list of dead identified up to IL o'clock
last night was as follows: Samuel Stringer,
aged sixteen years, printer; Thos. Jones, brick
layer; Chas. Fritch, aged sixteen years; Geo.
Mason, carpenter; colored boy named Tergge,
bootblack in barber shop; Geo. Kersch, barber,
| aged eighteen years.
| Inspector of Police McAleese stated at late
I hour that he was of the opinion that from if
| teen to twenty-five persons were yet in the
ruins, and he would not be surprised if the
death list would be increased to fifteen or
/ twenty.
The cyclone wrought terrible destruction in
other parts of the city A portion of the foun-
dry of Mcintosh, Hemphill Il Co., on 18th
street. was wrecked, as was also house in Al
legheny. At Wallis station, on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, large brick building owned by
the Westinghouse company was partially de-
molished, and at Wilmerding coal tipple was
wrecked. At McKeesport houses. were un-
rooted, trees blown down, and windows
smashed. Three houses in course of erection
were blown to pieces.
On the rivers a number of boats were torn
from their moorings and cast about like corks.
The velocity of the wind was 80 miles an hour,
the highest recorded for years.
DEVASTATION IN OTHER PLACES.
The crushing in of the Sunbury nail-mill, by
the fall of the big chimney-stacks upon it,
killed two men outright and injured seven.
One of the latter may die. Four other en-
ployes were still missing at the latest report
last night.
Many of the children in the school-house at
Harrisburg which unroofed by the storm
were injured in the panic which ensued. none
seriously. however. Three new houses were
blown down and others much damaged in the
same locality. large wooden awning near
the post-otfice, in falling struck an old man.
knocking him insensible. His injuries were
pronounced serious, but not necessarily fatal.
The most serious result of the storm in Phil
adelphla was the cave-in of a sewer in the
northern part of the city. which carried with it
about nifty feet of the railroad track.
In Camden, N. j., the Eighth Street Metho-
DIST Episcopal church. at Sth and Walnut
streets, was partly unroofed and the back of the
structure was blown in. A row of houses on
8th street was also partly unroofed, and Wilson's
Ice house was demolished, portion of the roof
being carried half square. Fully twenty
structures in all suffered.
At Carlisle. Pa, the government training
school for Indians, the Goblin guards armory,
and number of dwellings, were unroofed
At York, Pa, the new brick market house.
just outside the boundary, was entirely demol-
ished. Literally speaking, there is not one
brick left standing upon another. The loss is
$4,000
At Williamsport large number of buildings
were damaged and a portion of the new DEM
crest sewlng-machine factory was blown down
and the remainder partially unroofed Several
new buildings were blown down and others
were damaged
LIGHTNING CAUSES A GAS EXPL osIoN.
In Brooklyn last night a tank of the Citizens
Gas company. at 5th and Smith streets, was
struck by lightning and the immense structure
at once rose in the air, causing an explosion
that was heard even in New York. At once the
flames doomed up, and Brooklyn was lurid for
several minutes, when suddenly all became
dark. The people ran from their houses, think
ing that an earthquake had occurred A num-
Der of houses were injured. All the gas lights
from Atlantic avenue to the bay were ex-
tinguished. Another tank was connected with
the one that first exploded and it, too, caught
the flame and exploded. third tank was
saved by the Waterman turning off the gas
The Citizens Electric Light building, miles
away. had its tin roof torn off and thrown into
the street. No one was killed