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


were in the barber shop, two of whom
have been removed alive, two dead and
two are still under the debris. There
were at least fifteen printers in the rear
of Weldon & Co.'s, on the second floor,
and many of them were badly injured.
As fast as the injured could be dug out
they were carried on stretcherS to the
various hospitals. One man, on the top
of the new building, fell into the base
ment. His skull was fractured and both
legs broken.
The number of killed and injured can
not be definitely stated at this time, as
many are supposed to be still in the ruins.
1t is believed, however, that twelve have
been killed and thirty-eight injured, six
of them fatally. Among the injured were {:
John II. Gearing, fatally hurt.
Miss White, a school teacher, fatally
hurt.
Jerry Hookenstein, very serious.
William Sankon, leg and thigh frac-
tured.
Samuel Brown, very serious.
Rose Mccartney, a little girl, badly cut
and bruised.
Richard r. Dabney, cut about the head
and body; serious.
Thomas Mckee, boy; layer; crushe d to
death.
hdSOu, very seriously HurI.
Charles Petticord, badly bruised.
Dennis Mccartney, probably fatally.
Owens Donnelly, serious.
Elmer McKoewen, probably fatally.
Two iaborers and a boy, whose names
have not been learned, were badly in
jured.
Hundreds of willing hands, needless of
danger to themselves, went to work to
extricate the victims of the terrible acct
dent. To to this hour (2:30 o'clock)
twenty persons have been taken
from the ruins. How many more
are underneath the debris, which
is piled fully twenty feet high
on Diamond street, can not be stated but
are still held prisoners or perhaps are
dead. As fast as they are taken from the
ruins they are being conveyed to the vari-
Gus hospitals in the city.
The storm lasted about thirty minutes
and was the heaviest known in this Sec
ton for years. The wind blew a hurri-
zane, while the rain and hail fell in tor
rents. A number of other buildings were
damaged by the high wind. A portion of
the foundry of Mcintosh, Hemphill s. Co.,
on Thirteenth street, was blown down,
but as far as known no one was killed or
injured.
Up to O'Clock p. NJ, twenty GIT per-
sons had been taken from the ruins. OF
these four We're dead and several so badly
injured that recovery is almost impossi-
BILE. A large number are still buried I'M
der the debris.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. 10.-The storm
which passed over this city yesterday
afternoon and wrought such frightful de-
struction to life and property possessed
every feature of tornado. United States
Signal Officer Stewart said that the storm
came from the southwest. 1t made its
first appearance in Texas on Monday,
reaching Arkansas on Tuesday, and
4. struck Chicago at eight O'Clock yesterday
morning. The storm then sweryed in a
direct line for Pittsburgh, which, however,
escaped the greatest severity on the track
nf its fierce strength, and the
storm lay just north OF the city.
When it struck this city the barometer
recorded 29.0S. At half-past twelve
O'Clock the velocity of the wind was four
teen miles an hour. Five minutes later
it had attained twenty-five miles, which
rapidly increased in force until the great
est velocity, that of forty miles an hour,
was reached at 12:45 pm. After the first
shock, lasting only five minutes, the fury
of the wind subsidized, and ten minutes
later had decreased to thirty two miles an
hour.
Pittsburgh was never before visited by
"a storm so furious. There was also re-
markable change IN temperature. Be-
tween twelve and two O'Clock the tenn
perature changed from 81 degrees to 40
degrees.
At the time the whirlwind struck the
building, most of the men were on the
first floor. it being the dinner hour, and
were sitting around the fire, eating. The
rear of j. r. Gallinge's store was crushed
i'll.
The sight was heartrending and moved
many to tears in the midst of the work of
rescue. There is nothing left standing
but the rear wall and part of the side
toward Market street. Toward Wood
street there is nothing left but mass of
broken brick and shattered timbers.
The new Iron City Nut-works building,
at the corner of Forty-sixth and Hadfeld
streets, was entirely demolished by the
wind. VIM. Heinz, a shafting rigger, was
instantly killed. Loss on the building,
$4,000: insured.
The historic Fort Pit Foundry, at the
corner of -Etna and Thirteenth streets, is
badly wrecked. The Thirteenth street
side was blown out entirely. Loss, s., 900.
Telegraph, electric light and telephone
wires throughout the city are badly
broken ard tangled. Several houses in
the west end and south side of the CITY
were more or less damaged, the most
serious being the destruction of the roof
of the South Side Market house, and part
>of the roof of Oliver Bros. & Phillips Mill.
There was but little damage to property
in Allegheny City.
The killed recovered up to eleven
O'Clock We're:
Annie aeidnour.
Ella LCsg.
Amelia Christman.
Harry Croker, foreman.
Mary Reidnour.
Kate LeaS.
John Rober.
Sophia Winkleman.
VIM. Robinson.
Rose Klemmer.
Tillip Groh.
Eva Leeds.
The injured are: Geo. Newman, John
Autenbach, Sadie Rhoades, Mary Reese,
Geo. Nieman, Sallie Young, Sallie Has
son, Geo. Grimshaw, Jr., one of the own
ers; Augustus Frossieys, Kate Aulbach
Kate Hartman, Sallie E. Bright, Joanna
Frankenfield, Kate Fitzpatrick, Miss Mes
KEEL, Annie and Howard Buckner, Sallle
Savage, Lizzie Ahrens, Bull A. Hesman
Carrie Salem, Ella Purefern. These have
been taken out. 1t will take until sl1
O'Clock in the morning, probably later II
the day, before the debris can be cleared
away and the killed and injured are re
covered.