The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-07-30
WIND |. Nc, An y A TER
A .A.l'' BAD STORM SWEEPS OVER
PENNSYLVANIA.
u = Pp y 't''rE and Allegheny at Least
Three Lives Are Lost ma q Large
Amount Of Property Is D ed
M i['..csh Damage Reported From
Number of Towns In the Imme-
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Pittsburg, July 90. "A wind and
ram storm of unusual fierceness Wis
TIED this city to-day causing TIL loss
OF at least three lives and doing
immense damage to property. Several
! dwellings were completely demolished
ana others partially wrecked. Eight
OF ten churches had their roofs blown
OF and otherwise damaged. Tele-
graph, telephone and electric light
poles We're snapped like pipe stems,
mixing the wires in an inextricable
mass. Fierce lightning and high
winds accompanied til. storm, or rath-
Ct, Two storms, for Pittsburg end ALE,
gheny was the meeting place Of one
storm from the west which came up
the Ohio valley and srother from the
east which followed the ccu1se of the
Allegheny river. Such battle of the
elements is rarely witnessed. lii East
Plttsburg and Wilmcrding hail fell in
large quantities, some o1 the stones
being large ones. In the first five
minutes Of the storm IS of an inch of
water fell and the wind reached
velocity OF thirty miles an hour.
Later another storm, almost as fleece
as the first, came up and .6S of an
lnch fell, making total of 1.33 The
rivers are now rising ard another
Hood is expected. Among the casual
ties reported is an accident to the
camp of the Eighth Ward Hunting
and Fishing Club Of Allegheny. The
club was at it's camp in Sugar grove,
about four miles up the Allegheny
river when the storm came up. The
members say it was
A Genuine Cyclone.
me trees in the grove were broken
and twisted as though they were
weeds, and one large sycamore thirty
feet IN circumference was snapped off
near the ground and fell upon the
tent of the campers, killing almost in-
stantly John Figus, broke the back of
George Miller, who will die, and seri-
ously injuring Thomas O'Connell,
Charles Kosack, Jacob Metz, Frank
OFT and Harry Hadley.
On Greenfield avenue, in the East
end, Joseph Ashfelder was killed by n
sign being blown down, striking him
on the head. In Sharpsburg W. L.
Mort was killed by the roof of house
being blown down on him.
AT Mchee's Rocks, where Prof Ge-
rodette, curator Of Carnegie museum,
had gang of men at work digging up
an old Indian MOT nd in the interest Of
science, lightning struck tree under
which the party had taken .efuge,
shocking one Of the laborers, an old
man, into uneo rsciousness. also a
young man by the lame of Pool. son
of college professor, both Of whom
will probably die
The result of the storm in property
damage has not all been gathered in,
but It is known that all through Allie
gheny, the South side and the East
end, many horses were unroofed,
signs blown. down and windows brok-
en-. Along Penn. toward Homewood,
Where many fine suburban mansions
are located, the splendid lawns are
completely destroyed and the beauti-
full shade and ornamental trees ruined.
1t is estimated that 500. 1000 will hard
~ cover the loss in this locality alone.
Reports from the outlying towns tell
or much damage to houses and other
property, but no lives lost so far as
known
Struck by Lightning.
In Allegheny twelve persons were
struck by lightning. They are in the
hospital and considered by the ply
sicians to be in a critical condition.
Their names are Abner Hayes, freight
receiver for the Fort Wayne raiIroad;
A. NJ. Bennett and three children; Au-
gust Snedz, his wife and their four
children
IN Plttsburg reports of damage to
property is still coming in On Wash
1ngton street ten houses, machine
shop and church We're blown down
and completely ruined, but fortunately
no one was injured. The row Of houses
belonged to the Daniels estate and
had been condemned andsstenants re-
moved from them. The Centarry M.
y. church on Kirkpatrick street had
lis roof and steeple carried away by
the wind, the bells from the tower be-
ing thrown to the ground ard broken.
The roof of the John Wesley chapel.
A. NJ. E., was torn away and carried
200 feet. The Pittsburg high school
and 1yt Holy Ghost college suffered, but
are not badly damaged. Returns from
the different sections Of the two cities
show twenty-five or thirty people in
1ured more or less by falling trees,
roofs, signs, etc.
Insurgents Killed
Havana, July 20. - During recent
sklrmishes in the province Of Pinar
del Lilo and Santa Clara tho inr,1rrnn+o