Morning journal and courier., 1890-08-20
] NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. From All Quarters. IA. TERRIFIC CYCLONE. Great Loss of Life in
 Pennsylvania. | FRIGHTFuL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.. Situation of the New York
 Central Strike. \ BLOODY BATTLE WITH OUTLAWS. End of the War in Central
 America.
l BLOODY BATTLE WITH OUTLAWS.
A DEATH-DEALING WIND

A DEATH-DEALING WIND. Wilkesbarre Swept by Destructive CycIone-Thfrty or More Persons Killed and Many Buildings De- strOyed-PassengerT Trains and Los comotives Blown Over-An Wires Down and the City Left in Utter Dark Persons Killed al a Neighboring Mining Town-Hun- dreds of Tn o usands of Dollars Dam- age.
 W1LKEsBARRE, Pa., Aug. 19.-A most destructive cyclone struck this city at 5 o'clock this afternoon, destroying many buildings and killing thirty or more per sons. It came suddenly up the river. The heavens were as black as night and the wind blew with frightful velocity, blowing down trees and everything else in it's course. Large districts in several sections of the city are in ruins and the women and children are in the streets crying and wringing their hands. The damage will reach hundreds of thousands of dollars.
 Passenger trains and locomotives at the depot were blown over and every wire in the city-electric light, telephone and tel egraph-is down. The streets are i'm passible with trees and fallen buildings. The total death loss, so far as ascertained, is twelve. Four men are known to have been killed in the Hazard wire rope works. A house on Scott street occupied by miners, who had just returned from work, fell in and three of the inmates were killed. .E-.
 The huge stack of the Kytle blaming mill fell on man and two horses and all were killed. A little colored girl was killed by falling building on South Main street. Two men suffered death by the fall of a portion of Stegmaier's brewery, and third met the same fate through the almost complete demolition of s. L.. Browns handsome brick business block on East Market street. There are undoubted- ly fifteen or sixteen others killed.
 SOME OF THE LOSSES
 Approximate losses only can be given, as follows: Hazard wire rope works $25, 900, s. L. Brown $2O, 900, St. Mary's Catholic church $15, 900, Malinkrodt convent s, 900, Murray shaft s1O,OOO, Hollenback shaft 5000, White Haven Ice company $S, 900, Lehigh Valley depot s2,000, Pennsylvania railroad company's roundhouse s3,OO0, Ahlborne's pork packing house s5,OOO, Paine's oil house 5000, Dickson's Manu featuring company s3,00O. In addition to these hundreds of citizens have suffered losses running from $500 to 5000.
 The Murray shaft farmhouse was blown down and the fan stopped. There are twenty-seven men in the mine, but it is hoped they can be got out safely.
 Reports from Sugar Notch, mining town three miles distant, say that the de- struction of property is terrible and that fifteen persons were killed. At Parsons and Mill Creek, four miles from here, coal breakers in all directions have been more or less damaged, and the number killed will reach ten. Telegraph wires are dowr in all directions and communication is shut off.
 LIST OF THE KILLED.
 The names of some of those killed, as fal as known at 8 o'clock this evening, are Evi Martin, baker, buried beneath fall ing smokestack His two horses were alst killed.
 John Fritz, laborer in the spool mill a the Hazard works, taken from the debri horribly mangled.
 Burrill Bendenmeyer, salesman for liar tie & Co.,, grocers, instantly killed by fall ing ill of Browns block.
 Samuel Rouse, machinist at Hazard works, killed by falling timbers.
 Peter Rittenmeyer was killed in Fred Ja cobs' hotel, which was wrecked. Joseph Kern, prominent milkman, wa blown from his wagon. He was foun, two hundred yards away lying on the Le high Valley railroad with his head crushed Adam Frantz, of the firm of Jones { Frantz, who was struck by falling timbers | died at 9 o'clock
 George Hamilton, employe for twent years in Stegmeier's brewery
 Mamie Thompson, aged six years, wa | blown against house and instantly killed George Hamilton, John Kleinkauff an a Hungarian entered barn for shelter | The large double doors were blown in, kill ing Hamilton instantly and fatally injurin the other two.
 1 The wires are working so badly that it almost impossible to get anything off. Tn estimated loss at midnight is half mil l ion, although it may reach higher figure l The suffering is great. A terrible raj storm set in shortly after the cyclone an drenched the exposed property which is in the track of the cyclone. At midnigf the rain is pouring down in torrents.
 sUMMERvILLE VENTILATED.
 PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 19.-A special di patch from Scranton to the Times say that train men of incoming trains repol that the village of Summerville, thirt miles west of Scranton, was struck by u cyclone about 5:30 this afternoon an totally annihilated. Engineer Wm. Fisch says that while passing through the c clone his engine was lifted from the trac the cab blown off and the windows in u cars were crushed in by the terrific fort of the wind. Two of the train hands we seriously injured. A special to the I quirer from Plymouth says: Harveyvill farming village ten miles fro here, was wrecked this afternoon by
 tornado. The M E. church and adjoinil
 parsonage were blown down. Harvey
 large store was destroyed. Nearly all u
 houses in the village and on the adjace
 farms were unroofed and rendered uni
 habitable. The crops in the fields we
 ruined. Elijah Fahringer, weH-to-
 farmer, was killed and several others we
 injured.
 THE RAILROAD STRIKE.
 A Conference Between Vice Preside
 Webb and Chief Sergeant of the Ffr
 mems Brotherhood.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 19.-Vice Preside Webb of the Central, and Chief Sergeant the FireInen's Brotherhood had an int I view to-day. MT. Webb did most of
 talking. He complimented the firem , upon their fidelity, but MT. Sergeant V
 non-committaI in his reply. The conf ]. ence of Knights of Labor leaders and Oh
 Sergeant at the St. Cloud lasted unti
 late hour tonight and it's result is
 known. Vice President Webb and Sup
 intendent Voorhees, will spend the nighf