Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-06
WRECK AND RUIN.
Wind, Rain and Lightning Almost
Devastate Western Penn
SNlNania

| broken off and in some eases torn up by
the roots, while the havoc caused by the
heavy rainfall of last week was repeated
At least twelve persons met death in
the storm. Seven of these were drowned
at Cecil, mining and Oil hamlet in
Washington county, another victim go-
ing down al Carnegie. The drowned
are:
MRS. SAMUEL M'KINNEY, so years old.
MARGARET M'kINNEY, 80 years old,
JAMES M'KINNEY, years old, son.
CLYDE BEATTY, p years old. Gil we'll
pumper of Sistersyille, W. Va.
| G. C. HIGGINS. 45 years old, oil we'll
| punper of Bradford, Pa.
VINCENT WILKINSON, % years old. oil
well employee Of Vowinkle, Forest county,
JENNIE HOLMES, 1s years old, daughter
of a Cecil coal n.sner
| JOHN WRIGHT (colored), II, employee Of
a llveryman at Carnegie.
Those who lost their lives in and near
Pittsburg were:
JACOB AFFELTER, aged 35, II Forward
avenue; instantly killed on Greenfield ave-
nue by a falling fence.
| JOHN FIGUS, aged %; skull crushed by
! falling tree at Sugar Camp Grove
! WILLIAM ROSE, a Swedish gardener
aged 90 years, drowned near Boston at >
| ford Long Run. His body was discovered
in the Ohio river three hours later at Ava
| len. twenty-eight miles from Boston.
| The injured are:
Abner Hayes freight receiver, P Eft w.
81 Z. railway, struck by lightning, may re-
| cover.
August Zendetz,. Robinson road, Allie
| gheny, with family of six; shocked by
| lightning, all in a critical condition.
A: NJ. Bennett and two children, % ST.
| Claire street-struck by lightning; condi-
| George Miller, 226 Main street, Allegheny,
| fatally injured.
Thomas O'Connell.
Jacob Metz
Charles kosaick.
Frank OFT
Harry Haddel. seriously injured by fall
| ing trees at Sugar Grove.
Henderson Ritchiez, aged 65, struck by
lightning at McKee's Rocks, Will not re-
| cover
!, lightning: will recover.
| William Parenitt, postal messenger, struck
by lightning, injuries slight
James Brady. jantor of the Ralston pub
lie school. struck by flying bough
| Police Officer w. p Smith. struck in the
back by a flying sign board and badly
hurt.
Motorman Shaw of the Bloomfield line,
shocked by lightning.
Six girls in Armstrong; cork factory, cut
by flying glass
"Uncie Bob a well-knoWn negro,
shocked by lightning.
f. McGoyern. a baker and an unknown
boy s Mes py 3D. 5aa e George
| Miles. 90 Mulberry alley, struck In the head
| with brick.
Mr.. Thompson of Carbon alley, struck by
Unknown stable boy blown against cart
at Twenty-second street and Pennsylvania
avenue; two ribs broken.
The Drowning at Cecil.
One of the most terrible results of the
storm last night was the drowning OF a
number of coal miners in the Painters
Run district just over the Washington
county 1.-The. The clearinghouse which
they occupied was blown down and
swept away and of the sixteen miners
sleeping in it fifteen are believed to have
been drowned The bodies of five have
rescued.
They are all foreigners, mostly 1tal.
ians, and were employed in the mines of
Col W. p. Rend and the RidgeWay-
Bishop Coal company. The boarding
house was at little mining settlement
branch of the Panhandle road. which
leaves Charters division at Bridgeyille:
The branch runs over to Mcdonald and
Cecil is located midway between the
two points.
The unfortunates were not all foreign
ers, as at first reported. Among the
seven bodies that have been recovered
were those of Higgins Wilkinson, Mrs.
| Kenna, the keeper of the boarding house;
James Mckenna, son; Jennie Holmes,
domestic and an unknown Oil man. The
water rose 20 feet in few minutes.
The fatality occurred at 4 a. m. when
the small stream, Painters run, which
emptes into Charters creek, was sud-
| denly swollen into raging torrent by
a cloudburst. The stream had been
very high on account of the rain, out
little damage had been done before the
rush of water which carried away the
tenement house.
The particulars of the fatality which
have been received in this city are very
| meager owing to the remOteness of the
locality and to the fact that the wires
are down.
The rigging in many oil wells was
swept away and the men working about
them were compelled to flee for their
lives as the torrent bore down the valley
on its course of death and destruction.
The high waters caused the boilers to
explode in the No. 4 mine of Col W. P
Rend, the Chicago operator The boiler
house was destroyed and considerable
damage was wrought, but no one was
hurt.
Pittsburg's Awful Experience.
Three meteorological records were
broken yesterday. 1t was in the first
place the hottest day of the year. The
thermometer at 4 o'clock was 90 de-
of six inches beats all records in the
local weather bureau, which extend back
twenty-eight years From 4 80 to f 36
over third of an inch of rain fell into
the gauge on the roof of the government
building. The other record broken was
that very cold wave passed over the
city during the storm. The register
ing thermometer in the weather bureau
showed that in forty-fve minutes the
temperature fell from 80 degrees TO
Il and then went back to 81. Had it
no. been that the slightest change is
registered in ink, this phenomenon would
not have been noticed. The sudden
change helped cause a terrible electrical
display that continued without intermis.
sion until midnight. Up to 8 O'Clock
the rainfall was 1.42 inch and as the
ground is thoroughly soaked all of it
will reach the rivers and the food of
Saturday will probably be repeated.
The approach of the storm was her
aided by black clouds that turned day
light into darkness. There was con-
slant roll of terrifying thunder and in
cessant flashes of vivid lightning that
gave warning to pedestrians to seek
places CT safety. The wind rose to
gale as the rain began to fall and then
the hurricane came on with a roar driy-
ing the rain in solid sheets before 1t.
In an instant the streets in many parts
of the city were filled with flying
branches of trees. tin roofs were lifted
nd wi