The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-01-10
DEATHIN THE WIND
A Large Building in Pitts
burg OyerthrOwn.
SCORES er rEorLR pURIEo.
The List Of Bead wil Exceed a
scare OF Names The Lass vf
Property Heavy.

The List Of Dead wiu Exceed
Scare Of Names The less of
! Property Heavy.
f EIrrsarn.s. Jan. ga terrlae ssafra ef
wind and hal, the worst ka0wn foe years.
+ s-rsEs over tie e.tr shortly aiicc uassa ic-
+ day. carrying with Il 2eash ana 6est-,lc-
s ton. The storm farsael wish a suddeaness
+. sha5 Vas overwhelming. ald as the wind,
+ acco1a ssafise8 ey hail and torrents II rain.
sWep. along the sirecss. pedestrians wese
hgr.ed hefgre a1n hsrciF csearEd being
F esesaed anieE Yaaielss I.sssiag a,oas the
E thUsaUg hSares
( saddenly ia the center of the city there
( wss terrible crash. and q isW Ellautls IA
Z tey tAe central Gre alarm sbapaad a cali
ron tle box on the corner Gf Diamond
suG Wood streets. Hundreds q people
hutfied T. tae secne, when j. was
t9us1 eseloae aaa t2NEri ueW baird
F ias ca nssmon1 s3zasst aancd - IT, T. VIII
lgy, and harlcd t To the earth. covering ap
TIVE scores 20 hD4Ga bodies
Ele asltt8tLS Vas u CVttsc al eslsigd2-
ilon. it was 81 hg VI feet ga disu tensions,
aad MAS seven slgrirs Algh. EkC fraut %
iae l1ildlag. hs1 uul get bean par 10. ana
the sind seemed ,a eGfce tht high sheii
from kle open end The AsEa waits 81
brlek aud Rndfle4 uiarlar ParJesi one fall
{ Ing each WaT. na-.iy ufeeslag nc4Fiy s
eQzcu surrounding bul3iuss. The main
force 90 tue crashing sui.4i Dc Was thEoWa
asAilst Atld.n 4 C2s n5ick sfere AID
Ffc'i rAGfaa8er's barber saop - 81 h oe8
strtet. 3uc Tear END ot MeIdln
stofc uas crushed ls euG the
forced lat into Wood street Tae barber
Shop vas completely GeEs ofshea The
ila.aef store ln the Weld - hssijins ocgJl-
pied hy N. II Thomas e'gs eso totally
frteEfd- t1S rear end Ct u. Watt 5. Cos
book store Nas crushed iu, white susae of
tle failing structure strucS joss ph Rich
cauU building tfanuuG era Fltfo avenue,
breaking size window Aud !nluHrg q mum
Esr of cmpigyes 4 pu-tipu ri t1e wall Of
sac millinery store -ceSt 20 AholEs was
caFed ia and the wina0Ws and
dours in number ls srrr8und-
ing haildiugs were broken The oUildiug
OF Eea Bros. Co, stock G-arogegs, on the
corner of Diamond aad Wood streets ware
parity wrecked aad she occupants barely
escaped
within Eve minutes after the collapse 81
the auiidsEg he streets were Eiietl WITH an
excited grawd, notwithstanding the fact
t3at rain and bail we're pouring down On a
relfcCt dclnge pu the agF1Nal 1f tlH Ere 4
men iae WORK Of rescue was begun. lad
dcls Werc ran up % the sasand and Ihird /
eAAAAA is 0- alst " EtfA-AA U44lasAiEs WAI kIaH
first one taken ont was young lady EN- +
pioyed a. a type writer. who, f0ytunateIy, (
bad escaped serious iuiury
At the uUe Of the disaster about - leu
were 81 work oI the building. and not one +
escaped injury. In the barber shop. next f
door, seven men were imprisoned, while
bali a dozen more were buried beneath I
the debris OF the Neldlu building The I
hospitals were notified. aud a short time 4
later the clang OF the ambulance bells and 4
patrol wagons were heard The coutrac- 4
tors had - wsgons and carts on tkc scene {
inside oi an hour, aud private expTassmen 4
went witA their wagons aud lent thsir aid 1
in helping 10 rescue toe victims.
Meantime the crowd continued % IN /
crease tn finally Il was found necessary 20 I
call ogt the police aud have the streets 4
cleared Tor 50 garv both ways. The 4
streets were rupcd IN and no one was al /
lowed about the ruins bat those assisting 4
In the rescue. Work was continued all .
the afternoon, aud about 10 o'clock 90 night I
4 number Of persons arc known to be sill /.
underneath the debris.
FogTY yANGLED RonIEs.
Up to that hour 20 mangled and bruised 1
bodies had been taken frem the ruins (
some were dead. others were dying and 4
many were fatally injured From the best 4
information 0htsinaole eight were allied I
outright or died in short time, AND - .
others were injured. The length of the 4
list of dead win be greatly increased before
morning, Of the eight killed, only two .
have heen Identified 50 far one was a lit
tie girl named MC1l0ne, who was walking
along the street with her brother when the /
building fell. and the two were buried iu
the wreck The little girl was killed t
instantly and her brother fatally
wounded. The body II George kirsch. a
barber, was found in the cellar OF the bar
Der shop. Five unknown men aud one
boy are now At the morgue awaiting iden
n tn
physician, was ia Weldiu's atthe time and
is still missing. u Is feared he ls dead.
THE WOUNDED.
Following is a list Of the wounded res.
Cued uu 90 10 o'clock tonight. Seriously
iBiured-Danie! Courtney, Eugene p.
Davis, Charles II. petticoui, Weldon :
Mason. Alec Carter. John ODoud Bernard
OConnor Frank D. Asset, Thomas Lemou.
Alfred Lambert, Namife Arlic, James
Watt. Michael Ryan. John D0uncliy, Henri
Faulkner. Thomas Mckee. Oscar r.
smith Elmer AcG8wu. Martin Hal
loran, George Mason. William Springer
Wm. Barker, John GceriOu. Norris Vine. &
owen DOnneily, George Ihfishlcr. W. y.
MegO samuel Brown. George scott,
George lhuRe j. f. Melvin. ftus Messmer
Bartley Cooley, samuel Striugcf, Willie
McGloHe.
these viii die, bat 10 is feared that a ma
iaFity oi them VIII hH unable "a survive
their wounds Key. Father CaneYln, who
was helping TO rescue tne victims, narrow
ly escaped being killed by falling wall.
II is almost impossible tonight 70 give u I
reliable estimate at the peeuniary dam
age, but II viii probably De s75,0e0 or sl0e
0a. In the immediate vicinity % the
wrecked building the cyclone wrought
terrible damage and 10 other parts of tue
city aud out along the railroads ecnieTtng
here.
A portion Of TIE foundry of Mcintosh,
Hegnphiil & Ce, on Thirteenth stCcet. wss
wrecked. a. vas also H house . Allegheny.
AZ Dalls station. on the Penns9 lvaEiE
Railroad, large brick building owned by
the Wes,inghouse AiEbrake Company
was partly demo lshcd. aud sI NHmerding
the Pennsylvania coa. ilpfle was wrecked.
Az Mckee.port houses were ulroaied, trees
blown dowa and windows smashed.
Ihree houses in Ehe course
of erection were blown 20
pfee.s on the river number %. boats
were torn from their moofiggs and east
about fikx eorks. but they we're secured be-
fore much damage was done
The velocity OF the wind Has alty miles
al hour, the highest record Tor years. y
is stiil blowing uara tonight but u a grew
ing colder sn. the weather is clearing
rHE DEATH LfsT.
The llst o. dead Identified mp % ii f
O'Clock wss as follows samuel stfingfT,
Asad l. years, painter. Thomas Jones, .
bricklayeT; Chsz Fitch. aged i5 George
Mason. carpenter; cOl0Fed boy named - 7. (
Arggr. boot black; George Kirsch, barber .
aged is years.
The little girl 3eGlone Is not dead, a.
previously stated. bus IN a serious cou1i-
iien. The remains Of enc man have aol
vet been Identified. The inspector ot %
lice stated a. late hour tonight that be
was OF the opinion that from l5 70 20 per
saas are yet IN the ruins. and he would hot
be surprised Il the death liss would - 40
creased Is or %.
A VOICE PROM IEs ToaE.
ID 70 midnight no more vicilms Esa
ts.as rescued At s-Es this evening the
voice Of a boy uaused lieoltEsn was heard,
hut the rescHers could not locate him
ge safd be vas all right If they could gel
al hfra- Atlzo'eIock, however, BE had not
Z I.esu reached. and $50 sound could D.
hear,i II i feared be died Of exhaustion
me body OF eolUred boy was taken 0ut
Z af the ruins sbont n q el0rk lie was ter
rfbig crushed aud bis enrFlis were pro
T truding,
! Sural,er OF narrow escapes we're report
T "a -sven raeu we're thrown from the TOP
I s,ary - the ground aud escaped . %
II Is Ies-nea thas she iBcioTy q Boaire-
zas a Co. on seventeenth street, was
[ El0.gu gosFa dufing the s-erTn and a Iian
named Lines killed.
A BLIZZAED IN Rot rE.
Chicago shireTing aad A~aitirg s she
Geld winds Approach
CHic4ao, Jan. "a Earry q vet sos,
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