The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-12-01
VAST DAMAGE DONE.
DETAILS OF THE BIG STORM
THROUGHOUT THE EAST.
PENNSYLVANIA'S LOSSES HEAVY.
Two Persons Killed Outright and Dozens
Of Others Injured-School Teachers
and Pupils Near Carlisle. Pa, suf-
fer Seriously - The Money
Z Losses Largc-Eeports
;sra From Other Points.
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PENNSYLVANIA'S LOSSES HEAVY.

OF damage done Dy AlGnlsI. SlOi IA SOA-AS
in from all directions.
In the Cumberland valley the damage
will reach many thousands OF dollars.
The damage at Carlisle was not SO great,
but in the surrounding country II was
very severe The roof of the Graham
school building was blown elShty
feet into a field and number
of pupils received serious injuries
The following are the injured as far as can
be ascertaned: Miss Bertha Prudy,
teacher, right leg broken in two places by
falling timbers: Saliie Fisher, left side OF
face cut by falling glass; Lewis wilson,
nose broken by falling bricks and tlmoers:
X Jones ellis, face cut; another pupii,
whose name is unknown, arm injured
seven or eight others slightly hurt
During the storm the Sunnyside school,
house near Carlisle was blown down and
number of pupils injured, the teacher hav-
ing her leg broken.
At Coultersville, few miles above Nc
Keesport, farmer lad named Bailey,
about Is years old, was crushed under a
falling building and when taken from the
ruins was dead.
At Hyndmau. on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, a church was demolished by
the wind, but so far as could be learned no
one was injured.
At Bra idock great damage was done to
the manufacturing concerns. The Pitts
burg wire company will lose several thou
sand dollars by the blowing down of part
of its three walls. The mill was really for
operation in a fortnight, but will be de-
layed two months. The beam mill Of Car
negie's Horestead steel works was entire
~ unroofed and much damage done TO the
machinery.
Several unfinished buildings, north Of
Copeland, Were blown over.
Sharon reports the worst blizzard in
years. Six inches of Snow badly drifted.
prevented the regular trains from getting
through last night.
In WestmoreIand county the storm was
the worst ever known. Down the south
west road at Munkers station, the sheds
of the new brick works were demolished
and eight workmen injured but none OF
them fatally. United on the Youngwood
beach, the end of the engine house was
blown in and six of the employees badly
hurt, one Of them having both arms and
both legs broken. besides sustaining other
injuries which will prove fatal
At Latrobe the monastery bus" driver
was badly injured while on his way to
Beatty station for a load of passengers.
The covered wagon was carried fer con-
siderable distance by the storm and then
torn to shreis, aud the driver, Alex Nc
Ateer, hurled d. ,n over q steep embank-
ment and seriously hurt.
Near Conuellvile several Italian labor
ers took shelter in stable, when it was
blown down and the men buried under the
debris. Constantine Larcocte was fatally
crushed, but others were not seriously
hurt.
In the West Branch valley heavy col
umn of water fell, mingled with hail and
accompanied by heavy thunder. The
streets of Williamsport were sub
merged in places, obstructing travel
for time. and operations at
the boom were mterIered WITH The
wind blew hurricane, doing some dam
age, among which was the blowing down
of church spire in Jersey Shore. The
storm was quite destructive along the Fall
Brook road. At C;.mpbelis three barns
were demolished. two dwellings unrooted
and several trees raised high in the air.
At Altoona the storm broke many sew
ers, blew in the gable of Emerald hall, I'M
rooted William Siellenberyer's storage
building and disnantled the stock and de-
stroyed the brick sidewalk of the city rail-
way compauy's electric plant. The engi-
neer, NJ Hiteman, was seriously injured
by falling debris.
From Genesee, Danville and Mont
morency in Livingston county, Canandagua
in Ontario county, Leroy in Gcnesee,
Palmyra and Savannah in Wayne, Havana
in Schuyler and other places in Western
New York comes tie same story Of
houses unroofed, trees uprooted, barns
blown down and cattle killed.
No fatal accidents are yet reported.
At Harrisburg two spans of the ClarAs
ferry bridge over the Susquehanna river
were blown away. Arthur Crook, Il years
old, was blown from the trestle at the Lo-
chiel iron works and mad both wrists dis
located besides sustaining other injuries
About 50 feet of the roof of the state luna
tic asylum was carried away and horse
and buggy We're blown OF the approach Of
the Payton street overhead bridge. Many
houses were unroofcd
In Hanover county number of private
properties were damaged and the kittery
wagon works were completely demolished,
entailing loss of s25,00). The engineer
noticed the wall cracking at several places,
but before he could give the alarm the
building was torn apart by the storm.
Howard Carbaugh and William Tausinger.
employees. were buried in the wreck and
were rescued with difficulty. Carbaugh's
injuries were fatal and he died
shortly afterward. The others injured
are: Joseph Padder, Jacob Busher, VII
liam Meist, Joseph Ronant, David and
Robert Althof and Adam Rehling. The
Kittery wagon works were removed from
New York city to Hanover last summer
and were built on an extensive scale.
A church at Hecls was blown down on .
oumber Of children who had sought refuge
from the storm. John Barnes and Elias