Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-11-25

President HarriSOn'S Household
Walls of Music Hal
blown DOwu-Gns Works Burn
ed-I.Oss 100000.
WASHINGTON, Nov. GA terribl,
wind and rain storm amounting to al
most hurricane passed over this cit,
about 11:30 o'clock today, doing great
damage to buildings, in ruins of one o
which several people were buried, anC
completely prostrating telegraph wires
The storm seems to have been quite gen
eral
Tne worse damage was done to the fine
Mctzerott music hall, the walls of whicl
were well advanced to completion. Th.
wind swept into the high walls of this
fine building and part of it went with q
crash breaking into several stores on +
street, near Twelfth, adjoining Mcttz
croft music store. Four persons were il
the rear OF Whites establishment and
and were buried in the ruins. Three per.
sons were taken out not very seriously
injured, but life in Proprietor Whites
body was extinct when he was reached
A section of stone balustrads around
the White house roof was blown down
and crushed through the roof of the por
tico at the eastern entrance of the base.
mcnt. The east portico was also wreck.
ed by falling stoue. The accident caused a
commotion in the presidents household
but It was soon found that no one was
injured The president was receiving tn,
Minnesota delegation at the time and hi
hrst action WAS togo to the private part
OF the'hOuSe to rcassure the ladies OF his
family.
Lightning struck one of the large gas
'escrvers of the Washington gas com.
pany in Georgetown near Wnter front,
and the gas was ignitcd and 500. 600
/ feet OF gas stored III he reservoir conSum-
ed before the fire had spent itself Tn,
gas company's loss is about $50, 900; no
, insurance
/ Many buildings were unroofed and Il
number were partly blown in. Total
loss will considerably exceed 100000.
/ At Raleigh
RALEIGH, Nov. 23-Thc wind blew a
gale here today and did some damage at
the state agricultural college blowing
out some windows and partially wreck
ing partition wall; it blew down. very
large hickory tree in the city, the top OF
which struck Carb Stone, aged II, ana
John Briggs, aged 10, both sons OF
prominent citizens, and inflicted serious
injuries. Ale boys were playing near
the tree and had not its top struck
| a pile ot sills both would have
have been crushed tn death. The iuju
ries are of the head and in the Briggs
case are perhaps fatal; both boys are
still Observation-Disclosures Mcssen'
ger.
Al Greensboro.
GREENSBORO, Nov. 23-At 9 O'Clock
Monday morning darkness ovcrsprcad
the heavens and hats were seen going NJ
South Elm street, awnings were torn
down in jiffy, and soon the wind blew
gale-making sixty miles an hour
blowing from the south.
The tin roof on Henry Phipps' store
was rolled up like paper, and tumblcd
into Ashcboro street, carrying with it
the electric wires.
The heaviest loss was at the North
Carolina Steel Works. The furnace OF
cast house was in the track of the cy.
clone. The brick of the south wall, 1l0
feet long and 27 feet high, was swept
awav as if it had been butt OF straw.
Several other buildings, walls. etc,
were reported damaged.
In other states.
A heavy storm of wind and rain swept
over MARYLAND, Virginia and the neigh
boring states Monday. In Baltimore
roofs were blown off many houses. St
Thomas Protestant Episcopal church
Homestead. Baltimore county, wa,
damaged, and number of fences wcr,
prostratcd.
In Maryland forty feet of the larg,
smokestack ofthe tanncry at Uniontown
Carroll county, was blown down
Fences were scattered, hayricks blow
over. trees uprooted and telephone anC
telegraph wires Frustrated.
In Virginia the rolling-mill building a
Goshen WAS carried away. and part q
the foundry at Clifton Forge At Char
lottesvillc many houses were unrooied
On the New Jersey coast the blow wa
the heaviest of the present autumn. TIL
lower deck of the ocean at Cape Ma
was washed away by the breakers.