Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-01-11
Track Of The Tornado.
Readings Disaster and Pitts
burg's Wind-Wreck.
SUMMING UP THE LISTS OF DEAD.

All Accounted for ut Reading, and the
Total Fatalities Are Twenty Eight, with
Twenty Seriously Hurt The Pittsburg
List Not Yet Complete, But Eleven
Known Deaths-A Terrible Night at
Buffalo - Wild Work of Wind aud
Waves.
READING, Pa, Jan. 1-Yesterday morn
ing dawned clear and cold. The city had
been awake all night the search for the
dead never ceased through tho long vigil,
and there was a constant succession of hor
rifying scenes as body after body was drag.
ged forth from its awful grave. The terrible
story of the wreck and destruction and loss
of life had spread beyond the city, and soon
after daylight the country people began to
swarm into the city, and the streets we're
packed with the curious throngs The SUI
burban visitors report widespread destruc-
ton in the rural districts
All night long and all day hundreds of
men labored, with a strength that seemed
Titanic and an energy which seemed beyond
the reach OF fatigue, to recover from the
ruins the crushed and mangled remains of
those who found death where they expected
protection. No adequate description of the
horrors OF Wednesday night will ever be
written. Those who were the victims of the
storms fury, even though they escaped with
their lives, were too terror stricken to note
even little part of the effects of the awful
cyclone AS it swept on its destructive mis-
sion, and no one who did not see it can i'm
agina it. There was no time for reflection
as to what WAS best to do. Almost like a
flash of lightning the howling ruin came,
and 1t had passed before one could fully
realize its dreadful nature The living dare
not describe IL; the dead can not.
Still there is the poor consolation that the
catastrophe was not so dreadful in its fatal
ity as was at first supposed. The rescuing
party employed in removing the debris dis
continued work at $50 o'clock last evening
All the operatives have been found or ac-
counted for by the firm The complete list
Of the killed is as follows: d. X Becker,
Sallie Harrison, Annie Fisher, Daisy Hecker,
George Nieman, Mile Christman, Ella Rid
nauer, Henry krocker, Eva Leeds, Annie
Ridnauer. Lottie Saylor, Mary Evans, May
Fitzpatrick, Ella Long. William Eobeson,
John Reber, Sophia Winkler,an, Sallie
Dickel, Barbara Sielheimer, Sallie Bickel
Sadie Shade, William Snyder, Lille Schaefer,
Salle Faust, Sallie Harmer, Annie Kersc-
ner, Mathilda Grow and Emma Nestor; to.
tai number, IS
The seriously injured are: Laura Wright,
Rose Clemmer Rebecca Pouse, Salina lay
Tor, Emma Blumm, Mamie Kinsy, Katie
Hepler. Howard Bricker, Annie Bricker,
Sallie Young. Mary Reese, Kate Hartman,
Sallie Hasson, E la and Jennie Salome, Kate
Caxer, Bertha kuzer Annie Leeds, Annie
Fry and Emma Ranenzshn; total, 20 About
ninety others were slightly hurt, principally
bruised by being thrown from the building
by the wind.
Those who escaped early Wednesday even
ing hurried to their homes, and as nothing
was heard from them it was thought they
had been buried in the ruins Al, of them
reported to the superinteu tent yesterday,
either in person or by messenger
Mayor kenney has issued a proclamation
appealing to all classes for aid, and calling a
meeting OF representative citizens 20 adopt
necessary means for relief