The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-16
A STORMS FEARFUL WORK.
RECORD OF WEDNESDAYS CYCLONE.
Work of Removing the Bodies of the Dead
From the Ruins at Residing And Pitts
burg Progressing Rapidly-De-
struction Elsewhere.

atives and friends are grief-stricken over the
wreck of last night. Over one hundred splr-
its are hushed forever in death as a result OF
the wreck and ruin wrought by the storm.
The cyclone left the entire city in darkness,
which was only relieved by the electric lights
and huge bon6res which shed their lurid
glare on the scene of death. All
nioht long brave and willing hands
assisted in the work of rescue of the dead The
disaster is fully as bad as reported in these dis
patches last night. The list of fatal cases will
fully reach 100, and may be more. The hos
pitfalls and undertaking establishments are hlled
with victims The physicians are all busy, and
many private houses have been opened for the
accommodation of the injured. When the first
gray streaks of early morning appeared it pOr-
trayed beautifully a smiling sun and every
thing was directly in contrast with the fury OF
last night.
To-day all is again bright and glorious in the
heavens as though hooking the work of yester-
day The Polish church disaster OF several
months ago was one of the most horrible ac-
cidents that has startled this community. but
the loss of life by that fatal cave-in sinks into
comparative insignifcance when placed in
parallel with the awful visitation of last even
ing Words of sympathy and heartfelt tokens
of coincidence will doubtless not be wanting,
but they will be meaningless expressions IL I'M
accompanied with some substantial offer OF
assistance to some of the families who have
been so suddenly and heavily stricken. For
the purpose of offering this needed aid, Mayor
Kenney this morning issued the following
proclamation:
hereby earnestly appeal to the professional, BUSH
and other citizens. who may be able To favor
ably respond 10 meet at the courthouse this after
noon at ] 80 O'Clock 10 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 Philadelphia 4 Reading paint shop. The fearful
cyclone that struck this city $50 last evening has
brought sorrow and want to many Of our people,
who are in such circumstances 10 be unable TO
meet the emergency, and the occasion calls loudly
for immediate action. Quick 10 respond to others in
distress do not fail IL do speedy justice to own
grief-strieken people.
The work OF rescue was greatly retarded
from the singular manner in which the silk
mill collapsed. 1t did not blow over, but was
bodily crushed down. Falling in upon itself
in one mass, not vestige of the walls is
teft standing above the stone foundation.
The rafters and timbers of the flooring project
ed in all directions. As the building WIS
steam-heated, the ruins did not take fire.
Otherwise not one of the unfortunateS could
possibly have escaped death in the most appall-
ing form. The only eyewitness to the disas-
ter, far as is known. was Mrs. Gemmill. re-
siding on Mulberry.st.
About twenty minutes of six o'clock" she
EdiQ 10 reporter, / Nedru an awful crash,
and thinking 1t was the new house which Is be-
ing put up alongside of u.s. ran TO the front
door. A great crowd OF dust hung over the
silk mill, and ] could hear crushing of timbers
and the roar of falling walls. The next mo-
nent | saw the mill a great heap of ruins
from the midst OF which came such awful
moaning and groaning and terrible cries
never want to hear again. Not a soul did /
see come out of the mill, and il seemed many
minutes to me before anybody came 10 the
spot. | stood there in the door like one struck
dumb, until M husband came running from
his work.
Teams ofevery description, omnibusses funcr-
al coaches, fire wagons, hospital vans and pnvate
vehicles were pressed into service, and were
running rapidly to and from the scene OF the
wounded, dying and dead to their homes or to
the different hospitals. From the statement OF
those who escaped from the building it appears
10 have gone down IN an instant. There was a
loud crash of breaking timber and persons in
the mill all rushed toward the main doors. A
good many of them succeeded in getting
out while four girls saved themselves
by jumping from the second story windows.
The first rumbling noise was followed instantly
by the falling of the building upper stories
going first with its human load. Had it not
been for the tact that hut few of the hands
were on the third and fourth floors at the
time scarcely life would have been saved.
Mr.. George Grinshaw, one of the proprieto-s
OF the mill, VINO was IN the once at the tlme
and hardly escaped with his life, having re-
ceived several severe wounds on
the best of his knowledge, about
two hundred and seventy-fve persons. princi-
pally girls and boys, ia the establishment at
the time of the occurrence. The big tower
and the smoke-stack at the silk mill and ten
feet of the western wall remain standing, all
that is left OF the huge structure. Charles
Schwank, aged eighteen, was in the high tower
when the accident occurred. He said to a re-
porter. al had gone up for pulleys and was
den | heard loud noise and almost par
alyZed to see the building falling. / don't
know how got down from the tower"
The incoming trains this morning continued
pouring into the city their crowds of strangers,
and at noon 1t was estimated that 10000 people
surrounded the scene OF the silk mill disaster.
These greatly interfered with the work of re-
moving the debris and taking out the dead, and
finally the Reading artillersts, the citys only
military organization, were called out and
ordered to the ruins TO keep back the crowds
Considerable money has been contributed for
the relief of the sufferers Benefits are also be-
ing arranged.
The following list OF casualties is corrected
I'D TO this evening:
Burned to death il the Pennsylvania i
Reading paint-shOp:
ALLEN LANDENBERGEB, head, legs and
arms missing.
JOHN FOREMAN, crushed to death.
JOHN II. KALER, carpenter head crushed.
SHERMAN JONES, burned to death
GEORGE A. SCHAFFER, legs burned of.
Injured
GEORGE KNABB, 35S Moss-st., badly injured.
ARTHUR DEwALD, arm broken.
SAMUEL NEwKIRK. internal injuries.
The list of the casualties at the silk mill is
rs follows: Dead
SALLIE SAVIOR.
MARY EVANS.
HARRY CROKER.
ANNIE BAUDMAUER.
MATTE LEES.
ELLA RIDENHowER.
SALLIE BYCKEL.
EVA LEEDS.
SOPHIE WINKLEMAN, forelady.
KATE LEEDS.
MILE CHRISTIAN.
BARBARA SEILHEIMER.
WILLIAM SNYDER.
GEORGE NEIAlAN.
LILY SHAEFER
DAISY HECKER.
EMMA NESTOR
SALLIE HARNER.
ANNIE FISHER.
SALLIE HARRISON.
ANNIE KERSHNER.
MARY FITZPATRICK.
SALLIE FAUST.
D. K BECKER
MATILDA GROW.
SADIE SHADE.
EMMA BLUM.
JOHN REBER.
Injured:
4TTF ROWNAN leg hroken