The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-08-23
ANOTHER DEADLY WIND
Wilkesbarre. Pa. Visited by IA Devastatin,
Tornado.

Tornado.
/ WLKEsBARRE, Pa, Aug. l9.-At }
o'clock this afternoon the most terrible
cyclone that was ever experienced in
/ this locality struck this city. 1t came
1 up the river, but at what point il orig
mated is not known. The suddcnness
of its coming was one of its most
/ awful features The heavens were
as black as night and the wind
/ blew with frightful velocity. Whole
/ rows of trees were blown down, hun
1 dreds of houses were unrooted, par
/ TALLY blown over or completely demol-
/ ished, and, worse than all, many people
were killed-at least twelve, and per-
, haps twenty or thirty, and reports from
other points are beginning to tell stories
/ of great loss of life and property.
/ Large districts in several parts of the
/ city are in absolute ruins. and the Wom-
/ en- and children are in the streets cry
/ ing and wringing their hands III dismay.
! The damage viii reach hundreds of
{ thousands of dollars. Passenger trains
ami locomotives al the depot
were blown over. and every
wire in the city, electric light, tel
cphone and telegraph is down. The
devastation is To he compared with
nothing III the memory of the Oldest in
habltant. The streets are lmpaSslhtC
with trees and fallen buildings and III
case of fire the engines could not hC
drawn through them.
Four men are known 10 have been
killed in the Hazard wire rope works.
4 \ house on Scott street. occupied bN
/ miners. who had just returned from
work, fell in, and three of the inmates
were killed The huge stock of the
Kyle planning mill fell on man and
/ two horses and all were killed. \ little
/ colored girl was killed by falling
/ building on South Main Street. Two men
suffered death by the falling of a por-
ton of Steemair's brewery, and a
third incurred the same fate through
| the almost complete demolition of :. l..
/ Browns handsome brick business block
on East Market Street. There are prob
ably fifteen or sixteen others among
I the killed.
Many poor people have suffered
/ heavy losses, and it will be months be-
fore all the damage can be repaired
/ One hundred tin r0Oters have already
/ been telegraphed for, and building me-
/ chanics of all kinds will be in demand
as it is already known that fully 20t
I buildings have been blown down o1
otherwise damaged.
The wires are working So badly that il
is almost impossible To get anything off
The estimated loss at midnight is $500,
600, although 1t may reach higher tlg-
ure The suffering is great. A terrible
rain storm set in shortly after the cy-
/ clone and drenched the exposed prop
crtv which lies in its track. vt mid
night the rain Is pouring down IN tor
rents.
Mayor Sutton tonight issueda procla'
nation calling on the members of the
Ninth Regiment To assemble at tho
armory early tomorrow morning 10 aId
in the police supervision Of the city.
He also requested all idle workingmen
to report TO him for labor in clearing
the debris, the city to pay for the
same.
The Murray shaft fan house was
. blown down and the fan stopped.
There are twenty-seven men III the
mine, but it is hoped they can be got
out safely.
Reports come from Sugar Notch, q
mining town three miles from here,
that the destruction of property is ter
rible, and that fifteen persons were
killed.
At Parson ana Mill Creek, four miles
from here, coal breakers in all direc-
tons have been more or less damaged
and the number of killed will reach
ten. Telegraph wires are down III all
/ directions, and communication all shut