Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-10
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READINGS APPALLING DISASTER.
As Many More We're Badly Injured
West Virginia's Political Puzzle.
FULLY A HUNDRED DEAD.
The Killed, Injured and Missing a
Reading Number Two Hundred.


THE MAYOR ISSUES AN APPEAL FOR AID-sToRy
OF WOMAN WHO SAW THE MILL 90 DOWN
REPORTS OF DAMAGE BY THE STORM IN OTHER
QUARTERS.
READING. JAN 10.-There is mourning and
sorrow in many households in Reading to-day.
Over one hundred spirits are hushed forever
in death as the result of the wreck and ruin
wrought in this city by the storm of last night.
The cyclone left the entire city in darkness,
which was only relieved by the electric lights
and huge bonfires which shed their lurid glare
on the scene of death. All night long brave
and willing hands assisted in the work of the
rescue of the dead The disaster is fully as
Dad as reported in these dispatches last night
OVER HUNDRED PERIsHED.
The list of fatal cases will fully reach one
hundred and may be more. The hospitals and
undertakers' establishments are filled with the
victims. The physicians all busy and many
private houses have been opened for the ac-
commodation of the injured. The ruined silk
mill presents scene of desolation. The Polish
church disaster. several months ago, was one
of the most horrible accidents that had startled
the community. but ii sinks into comparative
insignificance when placed in parallel with the
awful visitation of last evening. Mayor Kenney
at O'Clock this morning issued the following
proclamation:
II earnestly appeal to the professional
business, and other citizens who may be
able to favorably respond, to meet at the
court house this afternoon at l:30 to devise
ways and means to aid the injured and assist
the families of those who persisted last night
in the fall of the silk mill and at the Philadel-
phla and Reading railroad paint shop. The
fearful cyclone that struck this city at 80 last
evening has brought sorrow and want to many
OF our people who are in such circumstances as
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occason calls loudly for immediate action.
Quick to respond to others in distress, let us
not fall to do speedy justice to our own grief
stricken people,"
THE WORK OF RESCUE RETARDED.
The work of rescue was greatly retarded
from the singular manner in which the silk
mill collapsed. 1t did not blow over, as might
have been expected from the terrible force of
the wind, but was bodily crushed down, falling
IN upon itself in one mass, not a vestige of the
walls remaining standing above the stone
foundation. The rafters and timbers of the
flooring projected in all directions As the
building was steam-heated. fortunately the
ruins did not take fire, otherwise not one of
the unfortunates could possibly have escaped
death In Its most appalling form.
THE ONLY EYEWITNESS TO THE DISASTER,
80 far as is known, was a Mrs. GemmiI. resid-
ing at 1150 Mulberry street. AT about twenty
minutes of O'Clock, !" said she to reporter, II
heard an awful crash. and thinking it was a
new house which is being put up alongside of
us, ran to the front door. A great cloud of
dust hung over the silk mill. and could hear
the crashing of timbers and the roar of the
falling walls. The next moment / saw the
whole mill a great heap of ruins, from the
midst of which came such awful moaning and
groaning and terrible cries as 1 never want to
hear again. Not soul did L see come out of
the mill, and it seemed many minutes to me
before anybody came to the spot / stood
there in the door like one struck dumb until
my husband came running from his work"
Teams of every description, omnibuses. fu-
neral coaches, fre-wagons, hospital vans and
private vehicles were pressed into service and
were running rapidly to and from the scene of
the disaster all night long, bearing the bodies
of the wounded, dying and dead to their homes
or to the different hospitals.
DOWN TO DEATH WITHOUT WARNING.
From the statements of some of those who
escaped from the building il appears to have
gone down in an instant. There was a loud
crash of breaking timber, and the persons in
the mill all rushed toward the main doors
good many OF them succeeded in getting out
while four girls saved themselves by jumping
from the second-story windows. The first
rumbling noise followed instantly by the
falling OF the building, the upper stories going
first with their human load. Had it not been
for the fact that but few of the hands were on
the third and fourth floors at the time scarcely
life would have been saved. Mr. Geo. Grim
shaw, one of the proprietors of the mill. who
was in the Office at the time and barely escaped
with his life, having received several severe
wounds on the head, stated that there were to
the best Of his knowledge about 275 persons.
principally girls and boys, in the establish
ment at the time of the occurrence. Up to 8
O'Clock this morning the large majority of the
victims were still in the ruins.
TWO HUNDRED KILLED, WOUNDED AND MISSING
Geo. Grimshaw just before daylight gave
out the following list of killed, injured and
missing reported to him up to a few hours be-
fore. The list accounts for about two hundred
of the employees:
Killed-Eva Leeds, Harry Krocker, VIM.
Snyder, Sophie Winkleman, Carrie Kershner.
Injured-Annie Leeds. Annie FRY, Augustus
Roscup, John Rebers, Annie Loveiand. sadie
Shade, Florence Rhoads, Lizzie Haws, Becky
Hoyer, Harry Bricker. Osman Staab. Becky
Pounds, Mary Evans, Sallie Savage, Sarah
Evans, Ella kress, Ella Plum, Agnes Savage,
Nora Saylor, Annie Bricker, Ella Reitenour,
Mary Fitzpatrick, Lettie Saylor Katie Fitz-
patrick, Katie Bowman, Sallie Ebright Laura
Wright, Ida Schaefer, Amanda Schaeffer Ella
Kirk, Ella Carl, Bertha Taylor, Clara Noll,
Katie Hartman.
Missing-Katie Alspach. Celia Ritner. Clara
Alspach, Mildred LANCER, Lizzie Rowland.
Katie Yaeger, Lizzie 0wne, Sallie Baum, Sallie
O'Neill, Ella Bucher, Laure Gaehrit
Carrie Hartman, Barbara Seilheimer.
Marten, Mary wooten, Irene Dickinson.
Emma Presser, Dolly Haines, Laura Hoffman.
Mary Hartman; Sallie Hasson, Amelia Christ
man, Ida Miller, Annie Saylor, Harry Hoff-
master, Charles Hoyer, Hester Snyder Well
ington Lengle. James Salmon, Jas Finn. Chas
Dapler, Frederick Reiff, Edward Broskway.
James Nevin, Charles Finn, Harry Fisher.
Howard Shader, Harry Templin, Amelia Boss
Ter, Lena Snyder, Maggie Rowe, Gerty Shick,
Emma Plum, Sophia Freese, John Nevin,
Philip Siedel, Clayton Ludwig, Frank Mohn,
George Herman, VIM. Grow, Harry Fiddler,
Jacob Seidel, Benton Fiddler, Carrie Moysf,
Annie Rowe, Mary Fay, Charles Reider, How
ard Lee, Samuel Flick, Emma Eichner, Katie
Coxen, Annie Shade, Gerty Bickel, Mary Alt,
Alice Long, Clara Fox, Katie Link Laura
Kercher, Mary Sheihe, Mamie Hedley,
Katie Guinther, Celia Hecker, Annie Dreibel-
bliss, Mary Reiser, Daisy Hecker, Sallie Young.
Pauline Alt, Ida Rollmann, Ella Lamb Minnie
Merkle, Annie Kline, Clara Stoudt Maggie
Nangie, Lydia Presser, Minnie Deturk, Emma
Coxen, Abbie Rissmiller, H. Lesher, Minerva
Gift, Jennie Hartman, Nellie Sammon. Tiuie
Grow, Mary Melon, Millie SchaefIer, Bertha
Harmon, Katie 6uender, Celia Erlacher Liz
zie Barrett, Alice Eisenhower, Cli6 Firestein,
Dora Detch, Sallie Faust, Katie Hipler, Aggie
Hoverter, Annie Zines, Mary Berstler, Berfha
Kuser, Hannah Cleaver, 6allie Berstler, Emma
Nestor, Name Kinsey, Kate Leba, Eliza Latch
ford, Minnie Hayes, Fannie Umbenhower, Min
ME vogel
Some Of those marked missing may be safely
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