The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-07-29
1T BROKE RECORDS
LATER REPORTS FROM THE FEAR
FUL STORM AT PITTsBURG.

ported. Besfoes Immense properly
Damass-Three Records Broken, Tues
day Having Been the Hottest Day, the
Showing Extremes of Temperature.
Pftteburg, Pa, July 2s.--The full ex-
tent OF the damage wrought by last
nights hurricane was not known until
da Wight when wreck and ruin were ap-
parent on an sides. Steeples were blown
from churches and adjoining buildings
crushed, houses unroofei, trees broken
of, and in some cases torn up by the
roots. while the havoc caused by the
heavy rainfall OF last week was repeat
ed. Summed UP AZ g o'clock this morn
ing with many outlying districts TO hear
from, the result was, two lives lost,
tnirty-six injured, many. it is feared, IA
tally, and property damaged 70 the ex-
tent OF 100000.
INJURED.
August Zerdetz. Robinson Road, Al
Iegheny, with family OF six. shocked by
lightning; in a critical condition.
Van Bennett children; struck by light
ming
Thas O'ConneIl. Jacob Metz, Charley
y. Kosaic, Frank OFT, Harry Haddell.
injured by falling trees at Sugar Grove.
Henry Richie. aged As; struck by
lightning at McKee's Rocks; Will not
recover.
Sidney Gebhart. south side; struck by
lightning; vii not recover
William Searnitt, postal messenger; |;
struck by lightning; injuries slight.
James Brady, janitor OF the Ralston
public schools; struck by a flying board.
Police Officer A. P. Smith: struck in
the back by flying sign board, badly
hurt
Motor1nan Shaw OF Bloom road line;
shocked by lightning; will recover
Uncle Bob" a well known negro;
shocked by lightning.
McGovern- a baker, and an unknown
boy; slightly hurt by falling awning.
Annie Niles, years old, daughter OF
G. y. Niles; struck on the head with a
brick.
RECORDS BROKEN.
Three meteorological records were bro
ken yesterday. In the first place it was
the hottest day OF the year The ther-
mometer at o'clock was "a degrees, the
maximum point. The rainfall for six
minutes beats all records. in the local
weather bureau. which extends back
twenty-eight years. From 4:3o to 4:36
p. m, over a third of an inch OF rain
fell into the guage on the roof of the gov
ernment building. The other record bro
ken was that a very cold wave passed
over the city during the storm. The
registering Thermometer in the weather
bureau showed that in forty-five min
utes the temperature fell from 50 a-srees
TO II, and then went back 70 S4 Had It
not been that the slightest change is
registered in ink, this phenomenon
would not have been noticed. The sud
den change, to a large extent, caused
the terrible deotric display that con-
tinued without interniseion until mid
night. Up to o'clock the rainfall was
AZ inches, and as the ground is thor
oughly soaked all of 1t wiki reach the
rivers and the food Of Saturday will
probably be repeated.
THE STORMS COMING.
The APPROACH of the storm was by
black clouds that turned daylight into
darkness. There was a constant roll OF
terrifying thunder and incessanr flashes
or vivid lightning tndS gave warning TO
pedestrians to seek places OF safety.
The wind rose TO a gale as the rain BE-
gan 10 fall, and then the hurricane came
with roar, driving rain in solid sheets
before tt The streets in many parts of
the city were filed with flying branches
OF trees. and tin roofs were lifted from
houses and sent whiriing over chimney
tops, knocking them down Ike paper
For little over a minute the hurri-
cane blew at the rate OF thirty miles an
hour and then droped TO twenty-four
miles for a few minutes and ceased. The
thunder and lightning, however, kept
Up a terrifying display while the rain
poured down for over an hour.
BREAKS OUT AGAIN.
After an hour Of low murnuring
thunder and sheet lightning the storm
broke out again, but the force of il seem
I'd 20 be in the couutrg districts sack OF
he south side hills. a.. reports coming
n at late hour contain the Information
hat much damage has been done by
.ghtning and the power OF rain
This storm filled Silver Lake. and the
lam, unabte to stand the strain OF the
hood behind it, gave way, turning Fun |
lell Hollow into a raging torrent, and !
swelling Negly's Run into a river lntIl |
Z emptied into the Allegheny near the |
Brilliant pumping station.
At Bradock hail added 10 the dam. |
,ge and when the hurricane reached
Turtle Creek. IL assume the awf1I pro /
portions Of cyclone, coing much dam |
lge IN the oil fields. Derlrcks were |
blown down, particularly in O'Harra |
ov-nship. Swickiey, Coraopols and Nc
KEGS Rocks suered severely. In Mill /
Tale mad Sharps5urg the storm caused /
lavoc and glazisrs VIII De busy for sew
raj days
CYCLONE JUMPED OVER.
Frank Ridgeway, the local forecast
'ffcial- was at his desk when the first
torn cloud darkened the sky. He said
asst night thar he had never seen a
more perfect cyclone IN the clouds and 4
hat the city was not visited BY a cy-
lone worse than the 81 Louis horror. Is
lue 70 intervening hills. Tie particular
movement Of the wind was broken in
be lower strata. or else there would
ave been q patch plowed through the
ity several blocks vide
IN the evening another storm swept
ver tie city. during which torrents OF
ain feN. while the wind blew a gale.
ut no serious damage resulted From ,
O'Clock until midnight three-auarters
: an inch OF rain fell. making a total Of
AZ inches Yhe storm died IN long con
.n1ed ru1nbll1g that rolled through the
eavers with the noise Of distant can
orlading. the lightning meanwhile il
TIE SKY with ilcessant fash
5 OF huiSh light I was no- until md
iChc that IAe storm ceased Is loud
MINERS DROWNED.
One Of the most ts-rIble results of the
torn last night was the drowning q
number of coal miners IN Painters
,un. just over tie Washington county
re The boarding house Ezicll shev