The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29
TWIN cALAMITIES.

| The Deadly Cyclone Plays Havoc at wilkes
barre and Several Other Pennsylvania
Towns-Fearful Wreck on the Old Colony
Road In Massachusetts,.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, Aug. 20.-At five
o'clock yesterday afternoon the most
terrible cyclone ever experienced in
Pennsylvania, or the East for that mat
ter. struck this city. 1t came up from
the river and from what point 1t origin
ated is not now known.
The suddenness of the storms coming
was one of its most awful features. The
heavens were as black as night and the
wind blew with most frightful velocity.
Whole rows of trees were blown down.
Following this hundreds of houses were
unroofed, partly blown over or COM
pletely demolished and worse than all,
the visitation of death was sent upon q
number of people. How many were
killed is not known, but it is feared that
at least twenty-five have succumbed to
the storm.
Passenger trains and locomotives at
the depot were blown over and every
wire in the city, electric light tele-
phone and telegraph, is down. The
devastation is to be compared with
nothing in the memory of the oldest
residents s.c arr@Fa ~Ers r.s
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.
The huge stack of the Kyle planning
mills fell on a 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
ing of a portion of Stegmair's brewery,
and third incurred the same fate
through the almost complete demoli-
ton of S. L. Browns handsome brick
business block on East Market street
There are undoubtedly fifteen or six
teen others killed as reports are coming
in constantly to that effect
Reports came from Sugar Notch, a
mining town three miles from here, that
the destruction Of property is terrible
and that fifteen persons were killed.
Horrible was the scene in the Hazard
wire rope works Dead and dying lay
on the floor and their heartrending cries
and agonies filled the air. The cyclone
struck the rear of the large brick build
ing, about 200 men being employed in
the works. The floor and side walls
were crushed in and lay in ruins all
about. The bricks and ponderous
machinery were scattered everywhere.
When the storm was imminent the men
rushed for the door but many of them
were caught in the ruins .-...t ?
A special from New Milford, Susque-
hanna County, says that cyclone
struck that region at precisely the same
moment that Wilkesbarre was struck.
Farmer Coles house was demolished
and Mr.. Cole was killed.
Another dispatch says that just be-
fore the cyclone reached here it struck
HarVeyville, killing two women.
FATAL RAILROAD WRECK.
Boston, Aug. 20-One of the most
disastrous railroad wrecks that have oc-
CURED in the vicinity of Boston, and
one that rivals the famous Wollaston
disaster of October 5, 1875 occurred
shortly after one o'clock yesterday
afternoon on the same road, the Old
Colony, and very near the same locality.
In the Wollaston disaster fifteen per-
sons were killed and nearly $50 injured.
Yesterday fifteen persons were killed
twelve neutrality-suspicious. serious
ly injured-three fatally-and several
more sustained slight injuries.
The train wrecked yesterday was the
Woodstock express, which left Wood
sholl at 1880 a. m. and was due in Bos-
ton at lilo p. m. 1t consisted of loco
motive 100, manned by Engineer Bah
cock and Fireman John Ryan. a baggage
car, smoker, the Pullman car Puritan
and four ordinary coaches heavily
loaded
The train had passed Quincy station
at 1851 p. m, running about ten miles
an hour, and just beyond Presidents
bridge, about an eighth of mile toward
Boston, the engine left the track, from
cause at present undetermined, and
plunged into an embankment twelve
feet high and was buried upon one side.
The tender, baggage car, smoker and
Pullman passed by the engine and were
stretched along for a distance of 100
feet beside the track.
The following were dead when taken
from the wreck: Mrs Orcutt Allen,
Philadelphia; Mrs. Mary E. Fennelly,
aged seventy, Louisville, KY; F. j.
johnson, Montpelier, Vt; John Ryan,
South Boston. fireman of the train; four
women; two men; two children-one a
boy of fourteen. r......
The following died during the after
noon and evening: Mrs. A. c. Wells,
Hartford, Conn; daughter of 81. L.
Welch, Waterville, Conn.
The following are critically injured:
Mrs Oscar Fennelly, of Louisville, KY,
wife of the cashier of the Citizens Nat
ional Bank, Louisville, scalded over
her whole body; C. NJ. Copp, Cleveland.
O., scalded over whole body, not ex-
pected to live till morning; E. C Bailey,
Of Dorchester, formerly proprietor of |
the Boston Herald, scalded on face and |
hands
Between thirty and forty others were
hurt more or less seriously.
The most unfortunate party was the
family of Oscar Fennelly, of Louisville.
KY. His wife, three children, mother
and maid were in the party. His mother
was killed outright Two of his chill
iren have since died at the hospital
His wife is so seriously injured that she
nay die at any moment, and his. other
,hild and the maid are both injured.
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