Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-08-03

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VINCENT WILKINSON, % years DID, Gil
we'll employe of Vowinkle, Forest county,
JENNIE HOLMES, IS years old, daughter
of a Cecil coal miner.
JOHN WRIGHT (colored), II, employee Of
a liveryman at Carnegie.
Those who lost their lives in and near
Pittsburg were:
JACOB. AFFELTER, aged IS, II Forward
JOHN FIGUS, aged %; skull crushed by
falling tree at Sugar Camp Grove.
WILLIAM ROSE, a&sSwediShf gardener
aged so years, drowned near boston at 5
o'clock this morning, while attempting 10
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. TT. W.
q c. railway, struck by lightning, may re-
cover.
August zendetz,, Robinson road, Ale
gheny, with family of six; shocked by
lightning. all i'll 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.
Sidney Gebhart. south side. struck by
lightning: will recover.
William Parenitt, postal messenger, Struck
by lightning, injuries slight;
James Brady, janitor of the Ralston pup
lie school Struck by flyngg bo tgni, - tho
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.
"Uncle Bob well-known negro.
shocked by lightning.
e. McGoyern. a baker, and an unknown
boy slightly hurt by falling awning.
- Miles, years DID, daughter Of George
Miles, % Mulberry alley, struck in the head
with brick.
Mr.. Thompson OF Carbon alley, struck oy
Unknown stable boy. blown against a 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 line. 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
been recovered. One OF the men was
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 a little mining settlement
called Cecil on the line of the Eight Mile
branch of the Panhandle road. which
1Oo ior'c iviC Of
The branch runs over to. Mcdonald and
Cecil is located midway between the
two points.
The unfortunates were not al 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, a son; Jennie Holmes,
domestic and an unknown Oil man. The
water rose 20 feet in a few minutes.
The fatality occurred at 4 a. m. when
the small stream, Painters run, which
empties into Charters creek, was sud
denly swollen into a raging torrent by
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
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
Rend the Chicago operator. The boiler
house was destroyed and considerable
damage was wrought, but no one was
hurt.
Pitts5urg'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-
grees, the maximum point. The rainfall
of six inches beats all records in the
local weather bureau, which extend back
twenty-eight years. From 4:3O to 4 :36
over a third of an inch of rain fell into
the gauge on the roof of the government
building The other record broken was
that a very cold wave passed over the
city during the storm. The register
ing thermometer in the weather bureau
showed that in forty-fye minutes the
temperature fell from 80 degrees TO
II 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 terrible electrical
display that continued without intermis'
sion until midnight. Up. to O'Clock
ground is thoroughly soaked all Of it
will reach the rivers and the flood 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 of safety The wind rose to
gale as the rain began to fall and then
the hurricane came Oh with roar driv-
ing the rain in solid sheets before it.
In an instant the streets in many parts
of the city were filled with flying
branches of trees. tin roofs were lifted
from houses and sent whirling over
chimney tops, knocking them down like
tenpins, and signs and fences and trees
fell, crushing out the lives of two men
and injuring others.
Tennessee Murderer Hanged.
Jaskson, Tenn, July 29.-Bert Green,
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