The Press., 1890-07-31
A New Eagland Cyclone.

2 EIGHT PERSONS KILLED, TWICE AS MANY
 HURT, AND ONE HUNDRED BUILDINGS DE
 sTRoYED
 Last weeks rain, with it's blessings to crops. in it's ending brought disaster to South Lawrence, Mass, suburb of tho city of Lawrence. About 9 30 bright light illuminated the rain dripping sky. followed by as deep gloom of darkness, then crash, whirl of dust and timbers, and the shrieks of wounded andsdying It was quickly over, but there was death and desolation in the wake. A path of ruined buildings 400 feet wide and mile and half long, gave employment for host of volunteer rescuers 75 to 100 buildings were wrecked, nearly all wooden tenements, one church being also un- roofed. The cyclone providentially missed by but about three blocks the region of the great mills, filled with working peo- pie. Seven dead people were taken from the ruins of the houses and one found killed in the streets, and dozen or more were found seriously, some fatally hurt, besides many more slightly injured. The property loss will exceed $1Oo,000, and falls chiefly upon mill operatives
 O. B. Moody of Whitehall, N. Y., who in railroad telegraph office at South Lawrence, saw the cruel work of the tor nado before his eyes said: ssI thought the end of the world had come. One sees such whirlwind but once in his lifetime, and any words I can express fail utterly to describe the terrible scene. never i'm agined that tornados visited this portion of the country, and my surprise was as great as my fright There was terrible fall of rain, which began at 9.G5 o'clock The water came down in heavy sheets, accompanied by claps of thunder. Sud, | denly there was more severe concussion than previosuly, and then through the darkness could see boards, branches and debris generally flying in the air. Next | door to the office where I was there IS q machine shop, and the men employed there rushed frantically for the doors, but their egress was difficult, for every step outside meant danger to life and limb. We all left the dangerous place and hurried to the house of William H. Cutler, general fore man of the car shops here, which we could see in the darkness had been blown over. His wife and two of his daughters were in the house, and another daughter was just returning from an errand over the Salem street bridge when the terrible thunder clap came. The three first mentioned were rescued from the fallen walls without any serious injury beyond a number of severe bruises and cuts, but the young woman crossing the bridge was killed.
 ''Near that place were six or eight houses, and in less time than it takes for me to tell, they were demolished, the roofs of some of them being torn off first, while others were toppled from their foundations. Most of the buildings were on the left, but everything was included in the gen. eral wreck and disaster. Some of the houses were thrown clear into the streets blocking the thoroughfare entirely. From Mrs. Cutters house I went down Salem and Springfield streets, and assisted the work of the rescuers as much as. I could
 From under one roof I saw five persons taken out. None of them were dead, but all were severely injured and mangled ter ribly. One of these, a nine- -year-old boy
 had his arm broken i'll five places, and il his terror and agony shouted pathetically
 Mamma, mamma, while she, almost al badly injured, was on her knees in tht street, thanking God with uplifted hands that her little family was no worse off From another house a woman was brough out almost naked. Heavy timbers had he1 8 prisoner, and i'll her struggles to fret herself from what seemed an awful deatl she had torn almost all her clothing iron her body. There were about 70 men al