The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-08-22
DIXIE CALAMITY.
An Awful Tornado Visits Penn
sylvania.
Many Dead and Hundreds OF BuiIdInss
. Ruined at Wiikesbarre-summer
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Notch struck
Miners in Peril.

Wn.KEsBARRE, Pa, Aug. eo.-At Ave
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 it 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 a
number of people. How many were
killed is not known, but it is feared that
at least twenty-five have succumbed to
the storm
Large districts In several sections of
the city are in absolute ruin and the
women and children are in the streets
crying and wringlng their hands in alb
solute dismay. The loss will reach hun
dreds of thousands of dollars
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
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
nils fell on a man and two horses and
all were killed
A little colored girl was. killed by a
falling building on South Main street.
Two men suffered death by the fall
ing of 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.
Many poor people have suffered heavy
losses, and it will be months before all
the damage can be repaired. One hun
dred tin roofers have been telegraphed
for and building mechanics of all kinds
can find employment here for weeks to
come, as it is already known that 200
buildings have been blown down or 9TH
erwise damaged. Many of the struct-
ures were of large size and great value.
The Murray shaft fan house was blown
down and the fan stopped. There are
twenty-seven men in the mine, but it is
hoped that they can be gotten out
safely.
Panorta CANA from S,,rar Notch q
mining town three miles from here, thai
the destruction of property is terrible
and that fifteen persons were killed.
At Parsons and Mill Creek, four miles
from here, coal breakers in all direc
tions have been more or less damaged
and the number of killed will reach ten
Telegraph wires are down in all di
rections and communication all shut off
Horrible was the scene in the Hazard
wire rope works. Dead and dying lay
on the floor and their heartrending erie.
and agonies filed the air. The cyclone
struck the rear of the large brick build
ing, about 200 men being employed il
the works The floor and side walli
were crushed in and lay in ruins al
about The bricks and ponderoul
machinery were scattered everywhere
When the storm was imminent the mel
rushed for the door but many of then
were caught in the ruins.
AS soon as the calm succeeded the
awful cyclone. men rushed into tn,
ruins and carried the injured int
the portion of the building tina
was uninjured and laid them upon tn,
floor Rude beds of mating were mad,
for the victims and physicians wer,
summoned
st. Mary's Catholic Church. Soutl
Washington street. is total wreck
The massive tower in the rear of tn,
church was blown down clear to tn,
base and fell with great force agains
the residence of Michael Cuogen
smashing the building. The inmate
were all huddled together in the hal
and escaped any injury.
Passengers appealing to God whel
the cyclone was doing its deadly worl
was the scene in the Ashley street ca
on South Washington street near tn
Catholic Church when the furious CIV
clone cut its path. In the midst of al
the terror a large tree fell on the roof O
the car and the passengers gave them
selves up for lost
A special from New Milford, Susque
hanna County, says that cyclon'
struck that region at precisely the sam
, moment that Wilkesbarre was struck
Farmer Coles house was demolishe
and Mr. Cole was killed.
His family were imprisoned in tn
wreck, but were rescued by a crew @
trainmen who had witnessed the disas
ter They are all badly hurt Ne'
; Milford is sixty miles north of Wilkes
barre.
Another dispatch says that just be
; fore the cyclone reached here it struc
Harveyville, killing two women
There is report that the village {
Summerville has been annihilated