Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-01-12
STORM SWEPT.
Pennsylvania Towns and Cities De-
vastated by Cyclone.

Ing considerable damage and causing
heavy loss Of life. A silk mill in
which 250 girls worked blew down
just before the hour of quitting work
and everything is in confusion.
About the same time there was an
explosion and fire in the same neigh
bOrhO0d by which eight men were
burned to death. The storm was Il
cyclone and its track was only about
200 feet wide,
The explosion referred to occurred
in the car shops Of the Reading Rail-
road company. In the paint shop
were nine passenger cars ready to go
out, their gas tanks being all charged.
The building of brick was demolish-
ed, cars overturned and some Of the
gas chambers exploded and the gas
took fire. Other gas chambers also
exploded as the cars burned, and all
that the storm left was burned. Thir-
ty men were caught in the ruins.
-Four of these were burned to death.
The remainder crawled out, some of
them badly burned.
The silk mill was then struck by Il
storm cloud and crumbled as though
the building was made of child's toy
building blocks. Up to the present
writing the extent of human injury
there is not known, but it is appall-
ing to contemplate.
A great many other buildings were
demolished in whole or in part, and
other casualties are reported to human
life, but the disaster at the silk mill
dwarfs everything else at present.
This was the saddest night in the
history Of Reading. A death-like
pail hangs upon the city, the result of
. the most horrible disaster in its his.
tory. a cyclone swept over the
/ northern section Of the city and laid
waste everything within its reach
with Il terrible loss Of life. The lives
that have been sacrificed and number
that have been injured can only be
estimated. The most reliable com
putation at 10 O'Clock tonight is that
. not less than sixty persons have been
> killed outright and ZOO injured.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. o.
Philadelphia suffered very little by
; todays' storm, the greatest damage
being caused by the bursting of over.
burdened sewers in two or three
places. Camden, however, suffered
severely in damage to buildings
about twenty structures lost Their
roofs and two or three were demul
ished.
SUNBURY, PA, Jan. AT $40
this afternoon rain and wind storm
came up suddenly and blew over two
- ofthe stacks of the Sunbury nail mill
They crashed through slate roof
completely demolishing the pudding
= department of the mill.
CARLISLE, Pa, Jan. 9.--Abont $50
4 this afternoon a terrible cyclone
= struck this city and destroyed thou
s sands of dollars worth of property
and the probable fatal injury to sew
+ eral persons. The roof of the In
n dustrial Training School was blown
off, windows smashed and broken
g the damage to the school will reach
Il b$j,000. The city armory was blown
It down; also Pretz's stables. Tele
p? phone and electric light wires wer
broken, and the town is in total dark
ness tonight. a lady named Mrs
Slower, and several others who's
ie names cannot yet be learned, were Sc
v verely, if not fatally injured. Tn
- reports from the surrounding countr,
n indicate a severe loss to the farmers
10 Barns, HOUSES and fences were blow
DO down. Fhe losses as far as hear
% from will reach $50, 900.
w WILLIAMSPORT, PA. Jan. o.
M terrible storm Of wind, accompanie
DO by torrents of rain, swept down tn
90 West Branch Valley this afternoon
25 Considerable damage was done in a
90 directions, the particulars of whic
90 are meagre at this hour by reason {
W telegraph and telephone cOmmunics
w ton being interrupted. In this cit
~ the damage was particularly severe
M About Il dozen houses were demolisf
90 ed, the Mankey Decorative Work
IS unroofed and the buildings of tn
90 DemOrest Sewing Machine Compan
80 demolished. The damage sustaine
10 by the Mankey people will amour
W to $4,000 and that of Demore
Wv Works 500, 600. The brick walls
IN the foundry department, in course