Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-08
ESPECIAL rrLrenAM TO THE D1srArcH. !

BLAIRsvILLE, February 1.-THE heavy
gale this afternoon blew down part OF the
West Pennsylvania Glass Works. Several
men were working in the building when the
wall blew in on them, burying several
workmen, the following are known to be
killed:
JOHN T. BERNEY, Secretary and Assistant
Manager, taken out dead.
CHARLES E. BARR, the Manager, buried in
the ruins.
A laborer named Shaler, who resides here,
is badly injured. Mr.. Berney's body was
taken out OF the wreck mangled almost be-
yond recognition. The wind was so fierce
that for some time it was unsafe to make
search for 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, liable to drop
upon the searchers.
The glass works were new, and were to
have begun operations on the 18th instant.
No estimate of the property loss can be OBJ
tanned tonight. The storm subsidized at 10
o'clock, and no further damage is antici-
pated.
HOUSES AND CHURCHES WRECKED.
The worst mountain storm for years began
here this morning and did not subside until
late this evening. AS telephone and tele-
graph lines are down, the exact extent
of the damage cannot be learned. In this
place it is very heavy. j. NJ. Herpick's s
store and house, on the pinnacle, we're COM
pletely wrecked, the inmates having a mar
row 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 dam
gerous condition. In New Haven the gable
end of Markell's drugstore was blown away,
the falling debris crushing into the adjoln-
ing building, almost demolishing it. The
people occupying it ran for their lives.
A telephone message from Dunbar says
the Knights of Labor hall at Morrell was
entirely blown away. Reports from Leisen-
ring say all the shafts of the II. C. Frick
coke works are down. A large number of
smaller buildings were blown away, but NO
fatalities have as yet been reported.
DAMAGE WILL REACH $4,000.
A later dispatch from Uniontown SAYS:
The storm is still raging in the mountains
A horse and wagon driven by man named
James Rush was blown over Gray's Hill.
The wagon is lying with the wheels whirl-
ing in the air. No one was seriously hurt.
Postmaster Bakers new residence was
nearly demolished, also James Franken-
berry's house, and John Wringer's house
was leveled to the ground. The telephone
and electric light wires are all down. None
of the coke works are running south of
town. The Redstone Coke Company's
offices at BrownfeId were entirely demoI-
ished. The end was blown out of the engine
house at Leith. The stack of the Warren
Glass Works was blown down. The total
loss in and around town will reach at least
$4,000. A big $1,000 window in the
Lutheran Church was blown out and the
Methodist Church was unroofed and i'm
paired throughout.
WIDESPREAD DEVASTATION.
As the roof was blown from the Methodist
ediice part of it fell on the house of John
Brown, crushing it like an eggshell. 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 of.
There was great CONSERVATION among the
school children here at the dinner hour,
many of them fearing to 60 home and cry
ing piteously. Parents were rushing to the
school rooms in search of their little ones.
Teachers were half frantic with the noise
and tumult Many of the children, on their
way home, took refuge in stores, outhouses,
and, in fact, in any place which would afford
them shelter. Reports from the country say
that much damage has been done. Hay
stacks, barns, buildings, ETC.. being demol-
ished on every hand.