The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-28

care. BY nine o'clock one room was en-
tirely filled with wounded and another
partially so
From all sides came the groans of in
jured persons, while others lay uncon-
scious and apparently dead. The scene
was most heartrending, especially when
some person in charge of friends was
brought there for treatment. Large
numbers with white, anxious faces, and
with voices trembling with emotion,
asked physicians and attendants con-
cerning friends who were missing.
The scenes at the Morgue through the
evening and night were heartrending.
Mothers and fathers. daughters. brothers
quired anXiousiy for missing ones. Many
wauld not take the rlorgIue keepers
and and into the the dead room. olsr they Were Were
hysterical with grief 1t was after mid
night, when. the crowd dispersed.
buildings IS IS impossible to obtain. Hun.
dreds of residences all over the city were
either totally wrecked or badly damaged,
and even the staunchest buildings in the
Every fagsaaff on the Auditorium
building. where the Republican convention
will be held, was broken, and the pole on
waved an hour before was blown off
and the flag ripped into shreds The
east roof of the building was blown off.
The flying boards shattered windows
within a radius of 100 feet. The plaster
on the roof was carried away. This caused
many holes and crevices. through which
the water poured and submerged the door
of the building.
There is not much left of the roof at
best, and it win have to be re-plastered
and re-papered A couple of roof Joists
went through the south wall of the build
ing, tearing in their path a space of by
fifteen feet. and this was not through
n lint fDla co1i nrsti Of fl1a
walls These portions of the roof hanged
threateningly and were removed after
the storm had abated.
A 2O-foot section of the western wall of
the JAN blew down, exposing the interior.
1t was during the exercise hour and near
ly 200 prisoners were in the big bull ring .
although escape would have. been easy.
Instead, they set up a yell of terror and
voluntarily sought shelter in their cells.
,oment ana With ner an ere Of Fslte detecfires Il
and policemen soon had the noisy crowd
behind the locks. A special detail of police
was hastily sumomned and stood guard
all night
The building on the corner of Second
and Pike streets was blown clear over
and its contents blocked the street. Part
of the roof of the Merchants Exchange
in Third street was also blown off. There
is a telegraph pole sticking through the
window of the old Post Office in this dis
trict
A man was mashed almost to death at
the 1evee and Locust street A mass of
bricks fell on him as he was fleeing to
shelter. An ambulance was summoned
and he was sent to the City Dispensary
in an unconscious condition.
Perrin & Smiths printing establishment
on the southwest corner of Second and
Vine streets was blown into the middle
of the street, being totally demolished
The east wall of the saloon at No. 500
Carr street was blown on to B. Colom-
bani's bakery.
At Seventh and Chouteau avenue, cab
man was blown from his cab and al
most instantly killed He was carried
into Bruins drug store, on the corner,
but it was too late to help him.
Three stories of the Cod Manufacturing
Companys building. Ninth and Grafton.
and nearly half of the Wainwright brew
cry were blown.
The Sumner High School, Eleventh and
Spruce street; I. F. McDermott's saloon,
Eleventh and Gratiot: the Hotel Emmett,
on the opposite corner; Jere Sheehan's
livery stable. Eleventh and Walnut. and
DR. E4no Sunder's mineral company,
l25-129 South Eleventh street, were un-
rooted
The engineer at the Aetna Iron Works.
2lst and Papin streets, was almost In
stanuy killed. The walls blew in and
ne was scalded to death by steam. The
Consolidated Wire Works, 2lst and Pa
pin streets, was almost totally wrecked
One of the boilers bleW><up and the evil
inders did the rest. Seven people are
known to have been injured seriously
there, and a workman who accompanied
them to the city dispensary says that
mary more We're crushed by fallinga walls
The great plant was almost wholly demol-
ished
The tornado seemed to take a north
westerly course from 18th and Gratiot
streets to jefferson avenue and Pine.