The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

greatly pleased with the snow fall.
TACKLES THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1O.-The big storm
struck New York last night, and for
fifteen minutes regular cyclone pre-
vailed. The most disastrous result
was at the navy yard in Brooklyn,
where one-half the roof of the main
barracks was blown on. Fortunately
no one was killed but several were in
jured. With the exception of Captain
Williams, who was severely cut, all OF
the persons received only slight bruises.
The blowing OF of the roof was fol-
lowed by the breaking out of flames in
the building, but they were soon ex-
tinguished.
WIND AND HAIL.
PITTsBURG, Jan. "a terrific storm
of wind and hail, the worst known foI
years, swept over the city shortly after
noon to-day, carrying with it death and
destruction. The storm was formed
with a suddenness that was overwhelm-
ing, and as the wind accompanied by
hail and torrents of rain swept along,
the street pedestrians were hurled
before it and barely eS-
capped being crushed under
vehicles passing along the thorough
fares. Suddenly in the center of the city
there was a terrible crash, and few
minutes later the Central fire alarm
bell sounded a call from box fourteen
on the corner of Diamond and Wood
streets, and hundreds Of people with
blanched faces hurried to the scene
when it was found that the cyclone
had caught the new building on
Diamond street, owned by g. l.,
Wiley, and hurled it to
the earth covering up two scores OF
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was in the course of erection. 1t was
3OxSO feet in dimension and was seven
stories high, the front of the building
had not yet been put in and the wind
seemed to enter the high shell from the
open end. The high walls of brick and
undried mortar were parted, one fall
ing each way, partly Wrecking nearly a
dozen surrounding buildings. The
main force of the crushing building
was thrown against Weldon s. Co.'S
book store on Woodland street, and the
barber shop of Fred Shumaker at No.
4, Diamond street. The rear end OF
WeldOn's store was crushed in and the
front of the building was forced out
was completely demolished. The
leather store next to the
Wiley building, occupied by
w. II. Thomas was also totally wreck
ed. The rear end of H. Watts & Co. Is
book store was crushed in. while some
Of the falling structure struck James
Eichbaum's building fronting on Fifth
avenue breaking the windows and in
Turing a number of employees; portion
of the wall of millinery store next to
them was crushed in and the windows
and doors in "a number
of surrounding buildings were
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Bros. & Co., stock brokers, on the cor
ner of Diamond and Wood streets, was
partly wrecked and the occupants bare
ly escaped. Within five minutes after
the collapse of the building the streets
were filled with an excited crowd not
Withstanding the fact that the rain anC
hail was pouring down in a perfect
deluge. With the arrival Of
the firemen the work Of
of rescue was begun, ladders were ruI
up to the second and third story of the
Weldon building and the first one
taken out was type writer, who for
tunately had escaped serious injury
Gro wds of willing hands eagerly tool
while fresh localities where meI
had been caught were found
AT the time of the disaster
about % men were at worl
on the building and not one escaped
injury. In the barDer shop next door
seven men were imprisoned while {
half dozen more were buried beneath
the debris of the Weldon building
Chief Brown, Coroner Mcdowell anC
the building inspectors Frank anC
Eichley and a score of physicians Were
early at the scene. The hospitals werI
notified and short time late
the clang of ambulance bell
was heard. Contractors Booth ant
Flynn had twenty-five wagons anC
carts on the scene inside of an hour
and private eXpressmen lent thei
wagons and their aid in helping to res
cue the victims, and when a poor un
fortunate was found he was given tenn
porary relief by the physicians an.
then carefully removed to one of tn
hospitals. Meantime the crowd con
tinued to increase until fnall,
it was found necessary to call out uht
police and have the streets cleared TO
a square each way. The streets were
roped in and no one was allowed abOu
the ruins but those assisting in tn,
rescue. The work was continued al
afternoon and at 10 O'Clock tonight
number of persons were known to b.
still underneath the debris. UI
to that hour forty manglet
and bruised bodies had beef
taken from the ruins, some were dead
others were dying and many wer
fatally injured. One or two died OF
the way to the hospital. From tn
best information obtainable eight wer
killed outright or dead in short time
| and thirty-five others were injured.
is believed that the list of dead will b
/ nrroaflU innrnnonA hofnrn ~,
OF the eight killed only tw
have been identified so fan
one was little girl named McGlone
who was walking along the street wit
her brother when the building fell AM
the two were buried in the wreck. Tn
| little girl was killed instantly and he
brother it is thought fatally injured
The body of George Kirsch a barber
| Is years old was found in the cellar O
the barber shop. Five unknown me-
| and one boy are now at the morgu
awaiting Identification. DIR. j. L
Reed, prominent physician of Allee
heny, was in Weldons at the time an
he is still missing. 1t is feared that
is dead.
The cyclone wrought terrible de:
truction in other parts OF the city an
out along the railroads centering herr
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
PTrTsBURG, Pa, Jan. 9.-The mos
| frightful catastrophe that Pittsbur
has witnessed for many years occurre
at 1870 to-day. At the hour mentione
a new four story building on damon
street, near Wood, and in the rear c
! Rea Bros. & Co., and ]. B. Weldon
Co.'S, stores on Wood street, fell wit
an awful crash which was heard 70
many squares and although people at
distance could not understand Wha
was wrong, the OminouS sound sent
thrill of horror through their hearts
The force of the falling building wa
so great that the rear walls of the tw
other buildings mentioned WEI
crushed as If they had bee
made of paper and their iron
walls fell upon the pavement on Woo
street, burning several people in til
debris and mangling some horribly
OF these, two were girl and a boz
and one a man, unknown, all of whoI
were taken in the patrol wagon to til
Homeopathic hospital. A barber sho
in the rear was also demolished and il
| six occupants buried in the ruins. I'll