The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-05-23
1.-TWO CITIES WRECKED.
The Deadly Work of a
Cyclone in Cleveland
and Louisville.
HORRIBLY CRUSHED TO DEATH.
Miraculous Escape Of Four Rail-
ers-Houses. Unroofed--
The Dead and Injured.

clone, with the biggest rain Oh record,
struck Cleveland at half past nine O'Clock
this morning. Trees, signs and wires are
blown down in every direction. The
building at Doan and Superior streets
went to wreck. One man badly hurt.
Two men were killed at the Cleveland
rolling mill works in Newburg during the
cyclone this morning. The new steel
cupola was blown down and four men
who were. on the scaffold fell eighty feet.
Jake Ravlsh was killed instantly. An
Italian named Nike WAS caught by steel
beam and crushed to death. IL required
jacks to lift the beams from his body,
which was crushed horribly. Tommy
Mcguire had both legs and back broken.
and will die. Another unknown man
was severely injured. but will recover.
The steel cupola is a total wrecK.
A scaffolding at the new Bradley build
ing, corner of Erie and Superior streets,
was blown down and four men We're in
iured. namely, William O'Neill. Miles
Johnson, Michael Murphy and Michael
Hughes.
The injured men were taken to Lake
side Hospital. Telephone, telegraph,
electric light and street railway wires
were terribly mixed mp. The trolley cur
rent was grounded in the public square
by a broken guy rope OF the electrlc llght
masts causing a pyrotechnic display and
a blockade OF cars. The Big Four freight
house on the docks was almost entirely
unroofed.
The storm was still raging at ten o'clock
this morning.
LOUISVILLE WRECKED.
LOUISVILLE, May 23, 1e93.-Again the
wind has worked its will upon Louis
Vile. Dwellings are ruined, streets are
filled with the wreckage OF roofs, with
broken and uprooted trees. with rem
nants OF walls and twisted wires. No
lives are known to be lost. and few of the
injuries received are serious.
Rain came with last midnight. but the
people slept peacefully until just before
dawn. At four o'clock those VINO were
out saw low black cloud, with greenish
fringe, sweeping up swiftly from the
southwest.
The blow struck the south of the city
first, marking its destructive force Arst
upon the Louisville & Nashville round
house at Tenth and Broadway.
From there on the centre of the city
suffered little, save by chimneys being
blown down and trees uprooted. The
full force of the wind struck the squares.
bounded by Campbell, Hancock, Broad
way and Green streets. and there the
principal damage was DONE
When the storm struck the city eight
werkmen, under the charge of james
Dadigan. night forman at the big Louis
vile g. Nashville road-house,- at Tenth
and Broad way, were busy about the en-
gines.
AS the wind struck the circular building
the roof was lifted free from all fasten-
iugs, and then, as lull came, dropped
from its own weight. squarely upon the
structure.
The walls stood the pressure. but the
roof crashed down upon the interior.
The heavy engines were overturned Like
tops, but the men escaped from death.
A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
Each man dived into the pit beneath
his engine, and there lay safe and un-
scathed until the storm passed. and all
crawIed out. The walls are still standing,
aud the damage TO the building Will not
exceed S., 600. The damage to the engines
will be less than half that amount.
North of Broadway and south of Main.
in the square lying between Hancock ana
Cambell streets, MANY persons were
awakened by the roar of the coming
storm and gathered in the streets and the
yards.
They stood only for few minutes, for
as the storm burst the air was filled with
flying debris and each ran for his life. T..
Shanks keeps q dry goods store at 636
East Market street. The roof was blown
completely off and the well damaged.
j. Heins's grocery IS at No. S3E East
Market street. The front OF the three
story building was blown in, and the en-
tire building damaged. 1t was at first re-
ported that Mr.. Helms and his family
had been killed. but this proved in
correct.
The roof OF the undertaking establish
ment of John Schoenlaub of No. 837 East
Market street was blown away, but little
damage was done to the building.
Teae house of DR.. +. G. Embry at 841
East Market street, was also unroefed.
Chris Ziegler's meat shop at No. S43 East
Market street was also unroofed.
The roof of the two-story brick house of
DR.. Sewers at 632 Clay street was lifted
bodily from the house and carried across
the street pv the wind. 1t crashed
into the brick cottage of w.
j. johnson. completely wrecking it
AT No 630 Clay street the roof and
south wall of the house sof J. Krizeisz
were blown down. A brick cottage at
No. 719 Hancock street Was also wrecked.
The roof was blown off and the front wall
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