The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-19
LAST
EDITION
4:45 O'CLOCK.
GREAT STORM.
Two Dead, Sew
eraI lnjure0.
Large Amount of Valuable
Property Destroyed.
Twenty Persons More or Less Hurt
by Flying Debris.
Rain Was Accompanied by Vivid
Twenty Persons More or Less Hurt
by Flying Debris.
Rain Was Accompanied by Vivid
Lightning aud Terrific Wind.

PITTsBURG, Pa, Aug. 10. LAST nights
storm was the most terrific and destruc-
tive that has visited this city in many
years. Ii came without warning and at a
time when the parks were filled with
people and the rivers with boats crowded
With excursionists AS result two lives
were lost, score OF persons were injured,
two, it is thought, fatally, ana property
TO the extent of sl00, 600 destroyed.
The dead are
MILLIE LIMBAUGH cook on the steamer
Lud Keefer, drowned
Unknown woman blown from the Point
bridge.
Those probably fatally injured are:
JOHN ADAMS, conductor Second avenue
traction line.
PATRICK SHEA, fireman OF The West
End Electric Power House.
AT least 20 others were injured more or
less seriously by being nit by falling
debris, but their names have not been
obtained
The storm struck the city about l
O'Clock and was over in about half an
hour, but In that brief time cetth was
widespread. Destruction was lei, IN its
path. The rain came down in torrents,
accompanied by vivid lightning and ter
ritc wind. Houses were unroofed, trees
uprooted and fences and outbouses de-
moiished. So tremendous was the force of
the tornado that the steamers Lud Keefer,
Little Bill and Arlington were overturned
and barges and small craft torn from their
moorings and sent adriit The passenger
barge Dakota was forced against the
Smithfield street bridge and had her side
crushed in.
She sank in several feet of water When
the storm struck the Lud Refer, Captain
keefer, Mate Miller, Millie Lin nbaugh, the
cook, ard two colored chambermaids
were on board, but all reached the shore
oa fat 4 i'm ha bf,
became exhausted and was drowned.
The steamer Courier had 400 passen-
gers on board, who became panic stricken,
but Captain Klein succeeded in making q
landing at Painters Mills and all were
discharged in safety.
While the wind was at its height AN un-
known woman attempted TO cross the
Point bridge. She was caught in whir1-
wind and blown into the river and
drowned.
The day had been extremely hot and
thousands OF people were at Shenly Park.
rush for shelter. Several women were
severely shocked by coming In contact
with the electric light wires.
A Second avenue feed wire was broken
and in attempting to repair il lineman
was severely injured.
On the south side the large grain ele-
vator of Henderson & Johnson in the
pletely demolished. Several tenements
were crushed but fortunately the occu-
pants were away.
Ten freight cars on the Pittsburg & Lake
Erie Road were lifted from the tracks
and blown into the river. On the north
side Allegheny great damage was done
to small buildings and many trees were
uprooted in the parks, but as far as as
reported no person was seriously in
iured.
On Arch street, In this city, a new
brick building was blown over, crushing
a double frame dwelling adjoining, occu-
pied by Mrs. DAILY, with one child, and
Mrs. Prior with three children. When the
building went down Mrs. Prior and her
eldest child escaped, but the two smaller
children were buried in the debris. The
same fate caught Mrs. Daily and her child.
An alarm was sent i'm from Box 165, but
before the firemen got there a number OF
men had dug the people out and found
them all uuhurt.
Picnic parties returning home by way
OF brownsville road had rough expert
ence. The tornado broke while nearly
900 persons were scattered along the road.
When the storm came up everybody
rushed TO the fences TO hold ON and pre-
vent them from being blown over. The
wind tossed up The fences and blew the
men. women and children TO and fro.
Everybody got soaking wet and many
were slightly injured. Great damage waC
also reported TO the houses situated along
the road, while giant trees were twisted
and hurled across the road Many barns
were completely destroyed. The storm
Frustrated all local telegraph and tele-
phone wires, but the through wires were
only interrupted for n short time. The
rainfall was AS inch and the wind had a
s.f.