Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1896-08-01
NREtk AND RUIN EVERY W HERE,
Buildings Crushed. Trees Form Down
and People Killed and Injured.

Hhu t-etple NIlfeN ana injured,
Flttsburg, July 2S-The fun extent OF
the damage wrought by last nights lul-
flfane was not known until dayIigAt
when the wreck and ruin We're apparent
Oh all sides. SteepleS We're blown from
thufcheS, adjoining buildings Wee
crushed, houses tlnroofeCt and trees
broken off OF torn up by the roots. Great
havoc Was caused by the heavy rainfall.
Summed up at o'clock this morning.
with many outlying districts to hear
from. the result was two lives lost, g in
jured. some fatally. and property jam
aged to the extent Of 100000. The list of
killed and injured. as far as reported. is
follows:
Dead-Jacob AfIelter, aged %. killed by
falling fence: John F'iaus, IS. skull crush
ed by falling tree at d summer camp
grove.
Injured-Abner Hayes. freight receiver
Pittsburs, Fort Wayne and Chicago iail-
road, struck by lightning and may re
cover August Zendetz, Allegheny. aud
family of six were shocked by lightning
and all ara in critical condition. A. NJ
Bennett and two children We're struck by
lightning, their condition being critical
George Miller of Allegheny was fatally
injured. Thomas O'Connell Jacob Metz
Charles kosiack, Frank OFT and Harry
Haddel We're seriously injured by falling
y
lightning and will not recover. Sidney
Gebdart was struck by lightning, but VII
recover. William Parenitt, postal mes
senser, was struck by ligltning. James
Brady. janitor Railston public school. was
struck by falling bough. Policeman A.
=. Smith was struck in the back by a
board and badly hurt Motorman Shaw
was shocked by lightning.
Three meteorological records We're
day of the year the thermometer reach
ing % degrees. The rainfall for six min
utes beat all local records, being one
third of an inch. The registering Their
mometer in the weather bureau showed
that in - minutes the remperat ture fell
from 81 degrees to H. and then went back
to 81. This sudden change caused 4 ter
ribe electric display that continued with
out intermission until midnight.
Drowned Like Rats.
In last nights storm a boarding mouse
near Cecil. Washington county was
washed away. and the occupants. II coal
miners, drowned. The men We're foreign-
ers. whose names could not be learned,
and We're employed in the coal mines of
w F. Rend, near Mcdonald. Penn. The
house stood on the banks of Painters run.
About o'clock this morning the water
rose rapidly and swept the structure
from its foundations, carrying it down
stream. There We're 16 men in the house,
sleeping. and but one escaped.
Reports from Cecil at noon say that
seven bodies have been recovered, and
eight are still missing. The unfortunates
We're not all foreigners, as first reported
Among the bodies recovered are those Of
Higgins Wilkinson: Mrs. Mckenna keep
er of the boarding house: James Mck4n-
ma. her son: Jennie Holmes, domestic, and
an unknown oil man. The water rose -
feet in a few minutes.
At Braddock the hail caused great
damage, and when the storm reached
Turtle Greek it assumed the awful pro
portions of a cyclone. doing untold dam
age. In the oil fields the derrickS We're
blown down. SoWickley. Coraop0lis. Belle
vue and McKees suffered severely. In
Millvale and Sharpsburg the hail caused
great havoc. Colonel Frank RdgeWay
local forecast official. said he never mad
seen a more terrific cyclonic appearance
i'll the clouds, and that the city was rot
visited with a cyclone worse than that
which visited st. Louis is due to the sur
rounding hills The total rainfall in the
city was 1.42 inches.