The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-01-17

4Ee 6tUEku laokSO cuOoV sAACy A-@AAAsSs
and was the heaviest known in this sec.
ton for years. The wind blew huri.
cane, while rain and hail fell in torrents,
"a number of other buildings were dam.
aged by the high wind. Portions Of the
foundry Of Mcintosh, Hemphill & Co..
on Thirteenth street, vas blown down,
but as far as known no one was killed OF
injured.
Up:to ten o'clock tonight forty-three
persons had been taken from the ruins,
and there is no doubt that others are
still buried. All were promptly esrried
home or to hospitals, so the exact state.
ment cannot now be made, but the facts
seem to be that eight we're killed out.
right OF died shortly after removal and
thirty five others are injured, q number
ofthem fatally without doubt.
BEADING. Pa. January. "A cyclone
passed over this city this evening, doing
considerable damage and causing heavy
loss:of life. A silk mill in which 25O
girls we're employed blew down just be.
fore the hour for quitting work. Every.
thing is confusion: About the same
time there was an explosion and fire in
the same neighborhood, by which eight
men were burned. to death.
The storm was a cyclone, and it's track
was only about 200 feet vide. The explo-
sion referred to in the above dispatch oc.
cur red in the car shops ofthe Reading
Railroad Company. In the paint shop.
were nine passenger cars ready to go out,
their gas tanks being all charged The
building, of brick, was demolished, the
cars overturned and some of the gas
chambers exploded, and the gas took
Gre. Other gas chambers also exploded
Is she ears burned, and all that the storm
left vas burned. Thirty men were caught
in the ruins. Four of these were burned
to death. The- remainder crawled out,
some Of them badly hurt.
The silk mill when struck by the storm
cloud crumbled z;as though built of
child's toy building block. Up to the
present writing the extent of human in
injury there is not known, but is appaA.
ing to contemplate.
a great many other building were
demolished in whole or in part, and
other casualties are reported to human
life, but the disaster at the silk mill
dwars everything else at present.
suNBuRY,sPA., Jan: Sat $50 .thif
evening rain and wind storm came ur
suddenly and blew over two of the stackE
Of the sunbury nail mill. The mill il
situated between the Reading. and Penn
sylvania Railroads, on the outskirts o.
the city. The first is pudding mil
having six furnaces. Stack No. 2 waE
thrown over on the roof, dropping with
it stack No. s., They crushed athrougf
the slate roof, completely demolishine
the pudding department Sof~,,the mill
Thirty. FIVE men were employed in this
department, aud half Of them were buried
in the debris. A fire alarm was sounded
and soon hundreds surrounded the mill
Men were carried out half naked, and
men are at work yet, as it is supposed
several others are in the ruins. Two mer
were taken out dead. Nine are seriousl,
injured and four are missing, supposed
to be dead in the ruins Of the mill.
READING, Pa, Jan. 10.-There il
mourning and SORROW In many house
holds in Reading to-day. The pail o
death hangs over the city. Fathers ane
mothers, brothers and sisters, relatives
and friends are grief stricken over tn
work Of last night. Over one hundred
voices are hushed forever in death as th'
result of the wreck and ruin wrought il
this city by the storm. The cyclone LET
the entire city in darkness which va
only relieved by the electric lights ,ant
huge bonfres which shed their lurie
glare on the scene Of death. All nigh
long brave and Tlling hands assisted ii
the work of re5gde of the need.
The disaster is fully as bad as reported
in these dispatches last night. The lis
of fatal cases will reach one hundred ant
may be more. Thehospitals and under
takers establishsents are filled will
victims. The physicians are all bus!
and maay private houses have beel
opened for the accommodation of the in
jured. =
When the first gray streaks of earl.
morning appeared it promised q beauti
full and happy day for all but the grie
stricken residents of Reading. Th
smiling sun appeared and everything wa
directly in contrast with the fury Of las
night. Then everything WAS dark, dis
NAL, and foreboding, and the day ende
! in the sacrifice of one hundred li7e'