St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-29
ACYCLONE IN JERSEY.
Cavorting Clouds Of Cruel
Visage Sweep Through
Newark.
Buildings in Its Path Are De-
nuded Of Roofs and Dis
mantled.
Twenty-Six People Go Down
in a Sinking Shipsin
Australia.
Twenty-Five Dead at States
Ville--A ClOudbupSt in
New York.

NEWARK, n. j., Aug. 2S.-A cyclone
swept over the lower part of this city at
2:15 o'clock this afternoon, coming with
fr!ghtful velocity and without warning.
The roof of three-stOry building on
the corner of Bowery and Lexington
streets was torn from its fasteningS and
whirled skyward nearly two hundred
feet doing considerable damage by its
fall. The storm came up from the south
west at time when the sky was clear,
with a few light, gauZy clouds. One
cloud, somewhat dense and dark, came
sailing along from the direction in which
the wind was blowing and de-
scended on the southeast sec
ton of the city. At Chestnut
street is crossed the Pennsylvania rail-
road tracks, and first struck the Tomlin-
son company's spring works. smashing
the two-inch thick glass skylight aud
picking up heavy gate in the yard and
sending it hurting through the air.
Then the blast made skip and did not
alight again until it reached Oliver
street. Facing it was an untenanted
long three-story brick building, which
was formerly used for leather manufac-
turing. 1t struck the long building near
McWhosten street. First the wooden
steps went flying, being torn to sp!lnt-
ers. Then the brick front, for width
of thirty feet, went in like an egg shell.
CaVOrtfng in Earnest.
After the brick front went down the
blast got under the roof. lifting 1t up and
throwing it down upon Reuben Irler's
leather manufactory, which adjoins It,
The second floor was ripped up.
Wrencned away and laid upon the wreck
of the roof. The dismantling of this
building was complete. Only few
ioists protruding from the walls were
left. The cyclone then wended its way
to Passaic avenue, Bowery street and
Gross streets, below Jackson street,
causing skylightS and shutters to
fiy through the air. At first the wind
was not heavier than that which usually
accompanies a thunderstorm, but ten
seconds later the volume was more ter
rife, and swept over that section OF the
city with force enough to tear OF tin
roofs like sheets of paper. Bowery and
Gross streets are strewn with DEBRIS.
Parts of the roofs of buildings have be-
come entangled in the telegraph wires,
and number of skylightS dapgle Gan
gerously from the wires. The
tin roof of Cashion's tannery, on
Chapel street, was lifted up
100 feet in the air and
landed 100 yards from the factory. A
nart of this building was also blown
down. The roof on Aid. Heinkefs big
double house near Passaic avenue was
blown down. A shed along the side
walk, fifty feet long, was knocked over
on the Central railroad tracks fully 500
yards away. The roof of double three
Story tenement house was yanked off
and the windows of the house were
shattered. Several persons were struck
by flying debris, but so far no fatal
cases are reported. The cyclone covered
a space about mile and a quarter long,
and an eighth of a mile wide. No esti-
mate of the damage has yet been made.