Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-20
A Terrific Storm.


At o'clock yesterday evening the most
terrible cyclone ever experienced in that 10.
cality struck Wlkesharre, P0. The sud
de5ness of its coming sine Ct liz awful
features. The heavens were as blsck as
night, ard the who'd blew with fiehtful We
ocity. Whole rows CT trees were blown
down. Following this huadreds Of houses
were unroofed, partially blown over, CT cen
pletely demolished, and number OF persons
were billed. Large districts in several sec
tons Of the city ere In absolute ruin, and
the women sDd children ara in the streets.
The damage will reach hundrecs of tEous-
ands of dollars. Passenger trains and To-
comotives ct tho depot were blown over,
ard every wire 10 the city is down. The to-
to. death lose 90 far es ascsrtained Is twelve.
Four men srs known 10 have been killed IN
the Heard Wire Rope Works. A house Oh
Scost street, occupied by miners. WHO had
il returned from work. fell in and three Of
the inmates were killed. Tn= huge stack o.
the Kyle Planning Mil! fell on "a man and
TWO horses. and all were killed. A
little coored girl VAS killed By
falling building ON south Main stree.
Two men suffered death by the falling ola
portion of Stegmair's brewery, and third
incurred the same fac through the almost
complete demolition OF ) l. Browns brick
business block on East Market street.
Tnero ers undoubtedly fifteen or sixteen
others killed Many Door people have u
fered heavy osseS, and it vii! he months h.
fore ell damage eau be repaired. One hun
dred tin roofers have been teiegfaphed io',
and building mechanics o! all ktUds can h0G
EN- ployment tor weess. ~ IT y already
known that fully 200 buildings have been
blown down or otherwise damaged. Many
of The structures were of large eZe aud If
great value. Tue Murray SHAFT ITuu house
vac blown down and The fan stopped.
There ere twents seven men in the CINE
hut ii lie hoped they can De got cut safely.
George Hamilton, JJhn X einkaui. and
Hungarian entered barn for shelter. Tic
large double doors were blown in, killing
Hamilton instantly and fatally jitirg The
other two.
Re,orts come from sug r Notch, mining town
three miles from WilkasbaUe that the dss.ru'-
ton OF property is terrible ard thst fifteen per
sons were killed
At Parsons and Mill Creek, four miles 'roia
Wilkesbarre, coal breakers in all directions have
hoen more or less damaged, and the number II
killed will roach ten. Telegraph wires are down
A special from New Milford says the cyCloe
struck that region and killed Farmer Cole I
also struck the Harveyviie town line, killing
two women.
dispatch from Scranton says that.trainm.n II
incoming trains report that tho village Of SUM
merville, thirty miles We Of Scranton. WIS
struck by the cy clone and totally annibilated.
special from Plymouth ssys: Harveysvil'e
farming village ton miles from here, was wfecs,a
yesterday afternoon by torn do. The NJ r
Church and the adjoining parsonage were blown
down. Harvey's arge store was totally destroy'
ed. Nearly all the houses in the village and on
the adj cent farms were un; OPTED and renfer-d
uninhabitablc. The CROPS in the fields Te.e
ruined.
BEADING Pa was also visited By the stcrm "a
considerable damsgo cone.
During the storm st Allentown, Pa, Are broAo
out in the dry goods stare of Clelland, mlson
Taylor, and caused $1,000 damage.
Baltimore was visited by q sovere eoc'1. 3.
storm yesterday evening, and the lghfni.
stuck q. Canton ard shocked several persons