Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-12
In THE STORMS PATH.
Seventy-Five Dwellings Wrecked and
Eighteen Persons Injured.
A SCENE OF DISASTER AT AKRON.
Many Families Forced to Seek Shelter With
Their Friends.
FRANKLIN STRUCK BY THE CYCLONE
ESPECIAL rEIEeRAm TO THE DISPATCH,

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE ppSPATCH.l
AKRON, o., May 11.-Darkness shut in
SO quickly after the tornado that tore
through the southern part of the city Satur-
day evening that not half an idea could be
gotten of the ierceness or extent Of the ter
rible storm. 1t moved in almost q
straight line through a we'll settled
part of the city and scarcely a foot of the
mile and a half but is strewn to-day with
splintered house timbers, broken furniture,
uprooted trees and leveled barns and out
houses. Nineteen dwellings were either
ripped into kipdling wood or SO badly
wrecked that they cannot be occupied.
Families of the following. numbering
about IS persons in all, are out OF house and
home and are being sheltered by friends.
SOME OF THE SUFFERERS.
Wilson Kiplinger, John Van Ault, Geb-
hart Herman, Dominic Greader, Louis
Shaftler, Tony Menuel, Harry Sanford,
John Miller, Frank Kountz, Frank Miller,
Allen Coup, August Miller, A. G. Baker,
Mrs. Fred Bolte, Melvin Irish, Thomas
Thompson, Alvin Alexander, Kate McCon-
nell and w. n. Eltholtz.
OF the 1S persons who were injured all
will probably recover. The most seriously
injured are Mrs. Wilson Kiplinger, bruised
and burned on the legs by the overturning
of a stove; daughter of Gebhart Herman,
burned on the legs and back by her dress
taking fire from the kitchen stove; Melvin
Irish, struck by flying timbers and pinned
down by falling floor; Mrs. Irish, internal
ly injured; Mrs. ALLEN Coup, hit by
flying brick; daughter of A. G. Baker,
unconscious for several hours and still in
critical condition; John Wheeler, teamster,
blown under fence and internally injured;
William Poole, burned in the debris OF his
barn and suffering from bruises and spinal
concussion; daughter OF Wilson Kiplinger,
hit by flying timber and burned by stove
Seventy-fve buildings, including residences
and barns and outhouses, were damaged by
the wind, and not one escaped that was in
direct line Of the tornado.
STRUCK FRANKLIN ALSO.
A special telegram from Franklin, Pa,
says that terrible cyclone passed over the
southern part of that county last evening
about o'clock. Two people, Noah Jack
son and wife were killed outright and
large number of persons dangerously in
jured. The storm was general throughout
the county, but the deadly cyclone only
about 300 feet wide. It extended about 25
miles. Everything in its path was demol-
Ished, trees uprooted, houses and barns COM
pletely destroyed.
In one instance a house containing an in
valid was struck and the bed containing the
sick man lifted up bodily and carried out
into the yard, where it fetched up against
tree. The sick man was badly injured. A
large number of cattle were killed. The
path of the cyclone extended from near the
county line to the Allegheny river. No
trains have arrived on the Allegheny Valley
since last evening on account of slides and
a bad wreck about five miles south of this
city, where the cyclone struck the river.