Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-02-13
A RAGING WIND STORM
TWO MEN KILLED AT BLAlRSvILLE BY
FALLING WALLS.

A New Glass House Wrecked and Much
Other Damage Done-ConneIlsviIIe's
Loss sIO.OOO-Houses and Churche.
Unroofed by the Furious storm-Union-
town and Vicinity Also Sufrers-The
Country Districts Subjected to Heavy
Losses-A Perfect Gale That Demol-
ished Everything.
BLAIRSvILLE, Pa, Feb. S.-The heavy
gale yesterday afternoon blew down part
of the West Pennsylvania Glass works
Several men were working in the build
ing when the wall blew in on them
burying several workmen. The follow
ing are known to be killed:
JOHN T. BERNEY. secretary and assistant
manager, taken out dead.
CHARLES Z. BARR, the manager. buried il
the ruins.
A laborer named Shaler, who resides
here, is badly injured. Mr.. Berney's
body was taken out of the wreck
mangled almost beyond recognition
The wind was SO fierce that for some
time it was unsafe to make search foI
the remains of Mr.. Barr. They were not
recovered for several hours, and were
terribly mutilated. A part of the ROOF
was hanging over the wreck, and liable
to drop upon the searchers.
The glass works were new, and were
to have begun operations on the 17tE
inst. No estimate of the property loss
can be obtained. The storm subsided al
10 o'clock, and no further damage is an.
ticipated.
Houses and Churches Wrecked.
A special telegram from Connellsville
says: The worst mountain storm fOI
years began here yesterday morning and
did not subside until late in the evening.
AS telephone and telegraph lines are
down, the exact extent of the damage
cannot be learned. In this place it was
very heavy. J. NJ. Herpick's store and
house, on the pinnacle. were completely
wrecked, the inmates having narrow
escape from death. A house belonging
to Harrison Miller, on Prospect street,
was completely demolished. The steeple
of the Baptist church is out Of plumb
five feet, and that of the Catholic church
is In a dangerous condition. In New
Haven the gable end of Markell's drug
store was blown away, the falling debris
crushing into the adjoining building, al
most demolishing it. The people occu-
pying it ran for their lives.
A telephone message from Dunbar says
the Knights of Labor hall at Morrell was
entirely blown away. Reports frCn
Leisenring say all the shafts of the H. c.
Frick Coke works are down. A large
number of smaller buildings were blown
away, but no fatalities have as yet been
reported.
Damage VIII Reach $4,000.
A later dispatch from Uniontown says.
The storm is still raging in the noun
tains. A horse and wagon driven by
man named James Rush was blown over
Gray's Hill The wagon is lying with
the wheels whirling i'll the air. No one
was seriously hurt.
Postmaster Bakers new residence was
nearly demolished, also James Franllen-
berry's house, and John Wringer's house
was leveled to the ground. The tele-
phone and electric light wires are all
down. None of the coke works are run
ming south of town. The Redstone
Coke company's offices at Brown
field were entirely demolished. The
6Ilu was DlOMn OuJ VI lilC
house at Leith. The stack of the Warren
Glass works was blown down. The total
loss in and aronnd town will reach at
least $4,000. A big 81, 200 window i'll
the Lutheran church was blown out and
the Methodist church was unroofed and
impaired throughout.
Widespread Devastation.
As the roof was blown from the Metho.
dist edifice part of it fell on the house
of John Brown, crushing it like an egg
shell. The tower of the church, it is
feared, is so badly shattered that it will
have to be torn down. The roof of the
large new building lately erected by the
Pennsylvania Construction company,
below town. was also blown off.
Many children, on their way home
from school, took refuge in stores, out
houses, and, in fact, in any place which
would afford them shelter. Reports
from the county say that much damage
has been done. Hay stacks, barns,
buildings, etc., being demolishe ed on
every hand.
At public meeting at Montreal reso-
of 1,la