Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-10

the central fire alarm bell sounded a call from
 box No. IA on the corner of Diamond ane
 Wood streets. Hundreds of people hurried
 to the scene, when it was found that the cy.
 clone had caught the new building on Dia. mond street, owned by 0. L. Wiley, and hurled it to the earth, covering up two scores of mangled human beings. The building was in course of erection. It was 30 by 80 feet in dimensions and was seven stories high. The front of the building had not yet been put in. The high walls of brick and undried mortar were parted. On falling each part ly wrecked a dozen surrounding buildings. With the arrival of the fremen the work of rescue from the Wiley building was begun. Ladders were run up to the second and third stories of the Weldon building, and the first one taken out was young lady employed as type writer, who fortunately had escaped serious injury. Crowds of willing hands eagerly took to the work of rescue, and 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 in the building, and only one escsp- ed uninjured. In the barber shop seven men were imprisoned, while half dozen more were buried beneath the debris of the Vel don building. The hospitals were notified and in & short time the clang of the ambn- lance bells and patrol wagon gongs were heard. Contractors Booth and Flynn had % wagons and carts on the scene. When 8 poor unfortunate was found he was given temporary relief by the physicians present, and then carefully removed to one of the hos pitals. The work was continued all the afternoon, and at 10 o'clock tonight a number of persons were known to be still underneath the debris. Up &,+ +L, oI 0nJ hod ies had been taken from the ruins. Some were dead. others were dying and many were fatally injured. One or two died on the way to the hospitals. From the best information obtainable eight were killed outright or died in 8 ehort time and 35 others were injured. It is believed that the list of dead will be greatly increased before morning Of the eight killed only two have been identified so far. One was a little girl named MeGlone, who was walking along the street with her brother when the building fell, and the two were found buried in the wreck. The girl was killed instantly and her brother it is thought fatally injured. The body of George cellar of the barber shop. Five unknown men and one boy are now at the morgue awaiting identification.
 Dr. J. L. Reed, prominent physician of Alleghany, was in Weldon's at the time and he is still missing. It is feared that he is dead.
 The following is the list of the wounded, rescued up to 10 o'clock tonight:
 Daniel Courtney, badly bruised and suffer- ing from concussion of the brain; Eugene E. Davis, printer, seriously injured; Charles H. Petticord, bookkeeper for Weldon & Co.,, seriously injured; Weldon s. Mason, severely cut about the head; Alice Garter, aged 16, injured slightly; John Rideout, carpenter, back and head injured and leg fractured; Bernard O'Connor, bricklayer, seriously bruised about the head and body; Frank Bar rett, head and breast crushed, but not be- lisved to be fatally hurt; Thomas Lemon, bricklayer, ribs broken; Alfred Lambert. SomPositoT com sni seriously Saa9 hurt %c 9n the carpenter, injured, but not fatally; Michael
 Byan, bricklayer, badly bruised; John Don
 nelly, bricklayer, blinded by sand and badly
 bruised; Henry Faulkner, badly injured
 about head and hurt internally, recovery dou btful; Thomas Mckee, bricklayer, legs bruised; George Maron probably fatally injur ed about head and body; William s. Spring. CT, engineer, badly injured; William Barker fatally injured internally; John Goehring lawyer, seriously hurt about head and les fractured; Morris Vine, bricklsyer, blowr from the top of building and talk
 en from Weldon's cellar, but injuries
 
 hurt about head and neck; George Thrish Ter, barber, severe scalp wound and concus sion of brain; w. ". McKeown, legs broken Samuel Brown, bricklayer, seriously hurt George Scott, printer, seriously hurt; Georg Lang, printer, back injured; J. E. Melvin printer, arm dislocated and head cut; Gu 1 Meesmer, shoulder-blade and leg broken Rev. Father Csnvan, badly bruised; Samue Stringer. boy, probably fatally hurt; Willi
 McGlone, small boy, probably fatally hurt Rev. Father Cavan. who was helping t. | rescue the victims, narrowly escaped bein | killed while getting drink to Joseph Goeh ! ring, an errand boy, employed by Weldin \ Co.,, who was discovered among the debris | A partition wall in the rear of Weldin's stor l covering up the priest and three others, bu I fortunately they were not much hurt. l The loss done by the storm in this part o l the city will exceed $5O,000. Terrible des l truction was also wrought in other sections c I the city and out along the railroads center ing here.
 Inspector of Police McAlees stated at @ lat hour that he was of the opinion that 15 to ? persons were in the ruins, and he would nc be surprised if the death list would be in | creased to 15 or 20
 l Up to midnight no more victims had bee | rescued