Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-08-28
SCORES OF LIVES LOST
wiLkEsBARRE. PA, VISITED nv
a TERRIBLE CYCLONE.

NJ, pro,.,
,day s,oy Hundred People Killed I'm ,
Don. -sc.n.- Neighboring Towns sun
A. IN The Stricken City-Dama
% Property Great.
l. A.. Wllkesbarre (Pa.) dispatcb
=, AT O'Clock this afternoon tha ,,a.,II.
the thSs IIyoIone Ie that was ever experienced
lch the river Az wha+ 1, ei'y' ~ came I
,l no. known. The suddenness OF Its co,'.,
''. mas one or Its awful features. Tho boawa.
- wei, msre as black as night and the winJ h,n
trnas nan Irlghtful velocity. Whole rows :
=, hnn5ere "ere Diown down. Following mi
hin.'.. GUS OF houses were unroofed. mn rtioi n
Wh Wowh over or completely denpoi,sha Ia !
H., O,so man all, number OF lives wero ios,
time. 10 not known at thi
c,tn Largo districts in several sections q, ~.
S~so1a.e ruin. and the wome.
wrnnging their hands in dismay. The dam
deSIn wiz Nach hundreds OF thousands Of
passenger trains and locomotives ne ,ho
uepoI were blown over, and every wire In
no 'y-eiectric Light, telephone and telc-
eoapn-ls eo.l, down. The devastation is To be
. oIdnet Idpareu s 10 nothing in the memory of the
nave as yet taken place, for the strao,s aro
nPassaole with trees and fallen buiIdinos
them. O0 ui""h through
: Inc total number Of deaths so far ne os-
..oI'alheu a. is twelve. Four men are Lnown
10 10 nave been killed In the Hazard WIZ p,',n
Works. aNaru "lre-hope
mouse on Scott street, occunied no
INNER, liners who had just retured from ,vori.
0r Thn ~ S anu three OF tho inmates were killed
NO huge stack OF the Kytle nIanin, =, az
killed. Horses ana all were
h,'I,i,e eVIe colored girl was killed bv n fallino
ovrluIng on South Main street, "e
r"o men suffered death by tho falling 10
q portion OF StegmaIer's brewery and
third Incurred the same fate tbnSy, anu d
SSlnoso complete demolition OF s. II, Rro,vn,. |
Msoine MarI.St nc Drick business block on Fast
Teen %.een Others killed. 1t is impossible at this
''Ine 20 give names or particulars
"ahy poor people have suffered heavy
iosses s ana II Will be months before ali tho
uss u,ase can Se repaired. One hundred tin
Tooiers have been telcgraphed for and
building mechanics of all kinds car Snd
employ ment here for weeks TO come. as n is
already known that fully 200 buildings have
pech Dlown down or otherwise damaged.
nl nahy 0i me structures We're OF large size
ana OF great value. Approximate losses
only can be given, as follows:
hazard wirc-rope works sos 600
:. T. Browns residence, SEQ 900
M,y ~. mary Catholic Church, $4,000.
mahnckrodt Convent, g., ,00O
Murry shaft, $4,000.
Hollenback shaft, $4,000.
White Haven Ice Company. So Ooo
Lehlgh Valley Depot go, 600,
bousn sy wa Railroad Company's round
Ahlborn's porlk-pac,,inp bonso e. mn
faine's oil house. g., 600. !
plckson manufacturing Company, 50, (
IN ADDITION to these hundreds of citizens
~ naoe ooo suffered losses running from $500 TO q
and the fan stopped. There were twenty t
seven men in the mine, but 1t is hoped they
can be got out safely.
Reports come from Sugar Notch, n mining I
town three miles from here, TINT tho de- I
struction of property is terrible and that y
fifteen persons were killed.
At Parsons and Mill Creek, four miles !
from here, coal-breakers In all directions
have been more or less damaged, and the
number OF killed will reach ten. Telegraph
wires are down in all directions and commu-
nication all cut Oft.
The names OF some of those killed, as far
as known. are:
Evi Martin, baker; buried beneath a
falling smokestack; his two horses were also
killed.
John +. Ritz laborer in the spool-mill
at the Hazard works; taken from the debris
horribly mangled.
BurreIl Bcndenmeyer, salesman for Hart
lee & Co., groccrs; instantly killed by the
IHl1UR OF lbTOWn = DuSlHtSS DlOCk-
Samuel Rouse, machinist at Hazard
works; killed by falling timbers.
Peter Rittenmeyer, killed In Fred Jacobs
Hotel, which was wrccked when removed
his skull was found to be crushed.
Joseph Kern, a milkman, blown from his
wagon; bo was found 2Oe yarde away lying
on the Lehigh Valley road with his head
crushed.
Adam Frantzol, of the firm of Jones &
Frantzol, struck by flying timbers, died at
O'Clock this evening.
Mamie Thompson, aged years, blown
against a house and instantly killed.
George Hamilton, John Kleinkauf and
Hungarian entered a barn for shelter. The
largo double doors were blown In, killing
Hamilton instantly and fatally injuring the
other two.
Among the injured are:
Berlin Vandermark, struck by timbers.
His head was crushed and his ribs and legs
were broken. He cannot recover.
Max Cramer, fatally injured by falling |
wall.
Jesse Houser, legs broken and internally |
/ injured by falling roof.
Miss Mary Henwood, seriously hurt. |
While descending from carriage she was
i blown fifty feet away.
! Albert smith, paper-hanger, ribs broken |
i and head injured.
Jacob Falk, q butcher, blown from a
wagon, arm dislocated.
NJ. Brinkhan, injured internally and arm
! broken.
Jacob Newgold, q butcher, ribs broken
! and head bruised.
Ambrose Constinc, a liquor dealer ribs
! broken and injured internally.
! A dispatch from New Milford Susque-
hanna county, says cyclone struck that
region at precisely the same moment that
Wilkesbarre was struck. Farmer Cole
house was demolished and Mrs. Cole was
| killed His family was Imprisoned In the
wreck, but rescued by crew OF trainmen
who had witnessed the disaster. They are
all badly hurt. New Milford Is sixty miles
north of Wilkesbarre.
Another dispatch says that just before the
cyclone reached here IL struck Harveyville
killing two women.
Horrible was the scene In the Hazard
Wire-Rope Works. Dead and dying lay on
the floor and their heartrending cries and
groans filed the air in the room. The cy-
clsne struck the rear OF the large brick
building. about 200 men being employed In
the works. The roof and side walls were
crushed In and lay in ruins all about. The
bricks and ponderous machinery were scat
tered all over. When the storm was Inn
minent the men rushed for tho door, but
many of them were caught in the ruins. As
soon as the calm succeeded the awful cy-
clone men rushed into the ruins and carried
the injured into the portion of the building
which was undamaged and laid them upon
the floor. Rude beds OF mating were made
for the victims on tbs floor and physicians