River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-10-19
DEATH IN A STORM.
Fourieeen Lives Lost at Magnolia Beach.
= C.-Ihree Boys Killed at Buffalo =
Much Damage at Baltimore, PhiIaCeI-
phla and Other Points.

phIa and Other Points.
COLUMBIA. s. c., Oct I7.-The West
India cyclone struck Georgetown on
the coast of this state Friday, sweep
ing Magnolia Beach away and killing
many persons. Mrs. L. G Haskell and
a servant are said TO be the only sur
vivors. Pawley's island suffered ter
ri6ly, and many houses We're wrecked.
The people sought refuge in the trees.
Fourteen persons were drowned at
Magnolia Beach.
The tide rose above floors of dwellings
on North island and all dwellers took
| refuge in the lighthouse. The most
heartrendering reports come from Or
j. w. Flagg. who escaped and saved
little Miss Weston, 10 years old. They
were elinging To the boughs of
cedar tree drifting TO mainland His
father and mother were with them on
the same tree. His mother became ex-
hausted and lost her hold upon the
limb, and his father let go to rescue her
and both were drowned before his eyes.
Searching parties were patroling the
beach with the hope of finding bodies.
BUFFALO, Oct l5.-The wind blew at
day. About 1880 o'clock in the morn
ing the storm caught up long line of
empty coal ears standing on siding OF
the Nickel Plate road and lifted them
| onto the main track, a few miles south
of this city. The midnight passenger
train for Chicago crashed into the cars.
Fireman Lang was killed.
Other fatalities occurred late in the
afternoon when the mammoth sheds of
the Empire freight line at Louisiana
and Carroll streets collapsed with
loud crash. The fire and police depart
ments We're called out, but before their
arrival the missing men showed up.
They had miraculous escapes and re-
ceived only slight injuries. The wreck of
/ the huge sheds lay in heap, but the
trusses of the roof had for the most part
retained their places and had saved the
men beneath the wreck by leaving room
enough for them to crawl through
| Under some debris, with his head
smashed down between his knees, was
Johnnie Flannery. A few feet away
the crushed bodies o. Zitz Heinlich. 9
years old, and Johnny Dwyer, only s,
We're. All three boys were dead.
BALTIMORE. Md, Oct 17.-While the
wind was blowing a gale Friday night
the Brush Electric Light works took
| fire and We're burned. As these supply
the city and nearly all the stores and
other buildings in the city with light,
/ the city for time was plunged into
partial darkness.
| Sparks from the Brush electric light
works set fire to the city Jail
The prisoners were hurriedly col
lected and marched into the yard
Quite a number. however. were over
come by smoke and dragged out. The
| Jail was completely destroyed. Acor-
don of police was formed about them,
while doctors were working on the
prisoners. Seventy five of them were
taken To the city hospital, but none of
them are believed TO be fatally injured.
The southern part of the city is flood
ed, and water at the docks is even with
the surface of the city. In various sec
tions of the city houses were I'M
,oofed and trees blown down. The
wind and rain swelled the water in the
harbor so that the New York trains
on the Baltimore & Ohio were unable
to cross at Locust Point at which place
they are ferried across. From Annap-
oils and other points reports are multi
| pl'ed of damage by the storm.
ehe damage done by the storm was
/ the greatest in many years. Especially
was this the case along the water
front. where the tide rose to the level
Of the wharves, overlooked into
stores, the cellars of commits
sion merchants and the places Occu-
| pied by the oyster packers and com
| pletely destroyed stocks 10 the amount
of almost 1000, 600. As the dredging
season opened Monday the oyster boats
had been prcparing for the season and
many of them were badly damaged.
The destruction Of property all through
the city was large.
The summer resorts on Curtis bay
and the upper Patapsco were ruined
The entire shore from Francis Guitars
resort to the Ariel and Neptune clubs
boat houses is devastated. At Floods
pavilion the damage will reach 5000
0The wharves and lighthouses of the
rowing clubs are a wreck. Charles
Durn's steam yacht Admiral. George
Kohl's steam launch Alice, and a num-
Der of fancy sailing yachts at these re-
sorts were sunk or beaten to pieces
| against the wharves.
The packing houses at Canton, on the
eastern water front, were nearly
washed away. A scow loaded with
250 cases of fruit belonging to Fait &
| Winebrenner went to the bottom.
| Hemingway's canncry was damaged to
| the extent of S., 900. The total loss in
the canning district viii reach $50, 600
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 1.-THE storm
was particularly severe in eastern
| Pennsylvania. In this city scores of
houses were unroofed aud the walls
| of many partly-constructed build
| ings blown down. The Roman
Catholic church of the Nativ-
ity, which is being constructed
at Belgrade street and Allegheny
avenue, was damaged to the extent OF
10000. While the gale was at its
| height the stone wall on the east side
of the edifice was blown inward and
| two huge blocks of stone crashed
| through the roof and into the base
ment, smashing the pews and pulpit
and reducing to splinters a costly new
/ organ.