River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-02-07
SIX WERE KILLED.

A Fierce Ga Blows Down a Brick wal
In Omaha-It Clashes Through Several
Bu Iilngs, X, ling six OF the Inmates a d
w.anaiaE sseral The Hurricane GEM
eraI Throughout the State.
OMAHA Neb., Feb. 5-A high win at 9
I O'Clock Monday afternoon brew wn
large section of the east wall o. Max
Meyers brick building, at the corner of
I Farm m nd Eleventh streets. recently
Quilted by fire, completely wreckins two
buildings inn ediRtely 10 the east, Five
I people in the wrecked building were killed
and several others more or less injured.
The crash sent up an immense cloud
/ Of dust and soon attracte a crowd Of not
I less than 5000 people. Screams and groans
| C oil be heard proceeding from the ruins,
but the tottering pyr mids of brick wall
! still standing seemed TO terro lie every
body. and for nearly half an hour they
were LETT in their agony. II was nearly
half an hour before the work OF rescue
I began.
/ One OF the crushed buildings was
brick occupied by 2. Boyer a. Co, safe
/ dealers. aud ID C. Dunbar & Co, en-
! gravers and book publishers. Tho other
/ was frame, on the first floor Of which
I was Edward Oleson's clothing store, and
! on the second Mrs Hengen and her fam
I II
! shells, the front wall Of the brick alone
remaining standing.
When the ash came George earle and
/ f o. Paileo, en- loyes OF Dunbar & Co,
were engaged at the front window
I on some pen-portraits, when the ava
] lanche Of brick and mortar came crash
I ing through the skylight. They leaped
/ over the drying table and or pt under the
I steam pipes and down among the ru ms on
! the broken sc hitting. b tn escaped with
7 slight injuries. In another part OF the
! bu iding were other emf l0yes Of Dunbar.
/ Tlere are seventeen people on the p iy-roll,
butt were only nine on duty at the
tine of the accident All of them were
/ ca red down in tie crash. Tue names Of
I the lead arr;
/ Edward Oleson Mike Martin, Maxwell Hous-
4 ton, p. Boyer, Thomas Lombard aud Rudolph
[ Mitchell.
! 1he injured are:
I c II. Silver. an engraver, shoulder crushed
and finger broken; E. A. Pm leo, graver,
bruised; John JACKSON, slightly hurt; Miss
Emma OF YER 81 lightly Injured; Charles Blake.
K draughlsman, injured bout the face and viii
Z lose eye; Charles Ceasar foreman OF Dun
I bars art department badly bruised, but sue
I cesded in getting out without assistance;
/ George Searles, slightly hurt; MIS- Henger,
4 fatally hurt
! The Meyer building was erected ter
years ago at a cost OF $4,000 and It has
I until SIX months ago been &C, uped by the
I firms Of Max Meyer a. Bro and MIX
/ Meyer a. Co., dealers in music, tobacco
and general merchandise Tn build ng
/ was completely Quilted by fire three
weeks ago. IL was remarked on the
night of the fire that the walls had been
/ so burned as 10 be unsafe. Since
/ then nothing has been done with
/ them, and they fell easy victims to the
I fury of the blast T e damage is esti-
/ mated at Sl5 CO., aud it is not improDa 10
/ { at rest Of the build ng Will be cou-
demned. he two-story brick als) belongs
I 20 the Meyers. The loss on il will DO
about $40 J0l The frame store WIS Of lii.
/ tie value. Dunbar's loss W Il be about
I $40 90 making a total loss 0 $4,000
PIERCE CALLS ~ NEBRASKA.
| LIScoLN, Neb, Feb 5-A heavy gale
I prevailed all over Aebr Lska Moudas, start
! ing at a NJ. at All apce and reaching
! Lincoln It about 8 a. ~. Considerable
/ damage was done in the we tern
/ part of the State, buildings being
unroofed ami trees bl wn down. AT
/ Arapahoe a namber of small buildings
4 were blown down. Lincoln escaped with
I a few cnrnices blown away and few out
/ blu ldings overturned The storm was an
electrical sturbance, many watches and
/ clocks in tn city stopping at about 8
/ o'clock in the morning.
I HASTINGS. Neb, Feb. A W nd-storm
struck Hastings at II a. m Mond Y, bow
7 ing xty miles an hour and wreck ne the
/ old News bu lding and blew in the front of
+ a twO-st, ry building on Hastng avenue
/ At 1879 a lO0-foot section o. tue sid walk
4 in front of the South ward public scho0l
bu lding was blown $40 feet and Mss
Aldrich and three children wer' barred
under il. A 10-year-old son of Mrs. I.Jls
was fatty injured and Miss Aldrich's
arm was broken aud her head hurt. There
are doubts as to her recovery. The
! other Children escaped with slight cuts.
FURIOUS STORMS ABROAD.
LONDON, Feb. 5-1he gale which pre-
vailed yesterday was general thr ughout
England and ireland. Much damage was
done to buildings and telegraph lines
During the gaze Sunday evening the bar
racks of the Salvation Army at Derby were
blown down while meeting was in prog
ress, almost Immediately the debris took
fire from the stoves and began blazing
fercely A boy Of IA was killed and his
body burned
At Pudsley, Yorkshire, the spire of the
Congregat onal church was blown down
and crashed rough the roof. There was
an average attendance of worshipeTs in
the building at the time and many Of them
were hurt by flying splinters, gia's, etc,
but NJ one was killed. The escape of
most of the congregation fir m instant
death is regarded as miraculous as the
roof was completely wrecked ana the in
terror of the church filed with broken
tlmbers and stones