Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-17
THE RECENT STORM.

1t Takes Whirl Through Canada, Doing
Immense Damage Buildings Raced,
Forests Uprooted, Lumber Camps De-
stroyed and Other Serious Dana &c Done
Loss of Life Feared-Latest Reports
from Pittsburgh and Reading.
MONTREAL, Can, Jan. 1.-THE tail end
of the cyclone which struck Western On
ario Wednesday nightreached here about
| midnight. 1t played sad havoc with chin :
! neys, telegraph poles and wires. Its full
strength passed some sixty miles north OF
here out to Labrador and the Atlantic,
| leaving a swath of debris behind. The
| only news received from Lower Ontario is
rom incoming trains. 1t will take weeks
! to restore Geographic communication.
| Four houses were unroofed at Monlinette,
| on the Cornwall canal. Oscar Barw1ck,
| Jr, was killed by falling chimney.
At Renfrew every barn was RACED and
j forty head of cattle were killed. party
of lumber men had their huts swept away,
| and two of them were so badly injured by
falling trees that their lives are despaired
of.
At Trenton, GiImour's Mills were dam.
aged to the extent of 100000 and the
Queens Hotel unroofed. The bridge
from Trenton to Gilmour was swept away
and Alexander Allen was drowned. The
wind blew at the rate of seventy miles all
of Wednesday night, and did not
fall below forty miles at any time
Yesterday. Wrecks of barns, outhouses.
ETC., literally strew the tracks OF the
Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific ROADS.
No freight trains are moving and passen-
ger trains are run only with the greatest
difficulty. The thermometer fell forty
degrees in ten hours. Every thing is
frozen up, business is at standstill and
dissolution is on all sides.
George Simpson, brakeman on the
Kingston & Pembroke railroad, was
blown from his train near Smith Falls
and sustained fatal injuries.
1t is estimated that the damage done by
the storm in Ontario and Quebec will
aggregate $2,O00,000. No communication
can be had with the back counties. 1t Is
feared the loss of life and property has
been very large. Whole forests are up.
rooted on the Upper Ottawa, and 1t is
feared that many lumbermen's camps
have been destroyed and the men either
killed or injured by falling trees.
More Bodies of the Pittsburgh Victims
Recovered.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. I.-All of last
night willing hands labored hard on the
ruins at Diamond and Wood streets Much
was accomplished, but great deal OF
work must yet be done before a positive
knowledge of the extent of the frightful
catastrophe can be had. The remains OF
five persons were removed during last
night. The body of Willie Goet-
mann was unearthed at nine O'Clock.
Just at midnight the body of
Charles McKeown was found under
a mass of ruins in the rear of Weldin's
store. He had been employed as packer
in the establishment. He was terribly
mangled. He was thirty-two years of
age, single. Shortly after two O'Clock
this morning two more bodies of work.
men were found in the cellar of the Will
ley building. They were in a sitting posi-
ton beside a stove, SO badly mangled and
disfgured that they have not yet been
identified.
Just as the city clocks tolled the hour Of
six this morning the workmen found and
carried out from the rear of Weldin's cell
lar the body of DR.. j. L. Reed. DR.. Reed
was over eighty years of age, and was
widely known, especially in Philadel-
phia. This swells the number of bodies
found to fourteen. The police have now
nine names on their list of missing. AS
the work goes on to-day it is thought the
greater part of these will be transferred
to the death roll. Certain it is the ruins
have some horrible secrets yet to reveal.
Over two hundred men are working I'M
ceasingly, but it is very doubtful if their
task will be completed day.