Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-09


The cast house of the Temple furnace.
at Temple Station, five miles above Read
ing, Pa. was blown down by the wind
and nearly dozen workmen were buried
in the ruins Two were killed. Heavy
washOuts are reported ON the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad east of Huntington. The
greatest single loss is that of the Penn
sylvania Railroad bridge across the Sus-
quehanna ut Columbia, nothing being left
OF it but the piers, the iron spun in the
middle and the first span at each end.
The bridge was Il mile and quarter long,
and was said to be the longest covered
bridge i'll the world. 1t is reported that
two men went down with the bridge, but
no trace of them can be found. The
bridge cost about $1,OOO,OOO. Columbia
apenrs to have suffered more than any
other section of the county. The dam
age i'll the borough is estimated Mt $500.
O0O. The storm destroyed the coal break
er at Natalie, belonging to the Pennsyl-
vania Anthracite Coal Company. Six
tenement houses belonging to the camp
We're destroyed by fire. and six children,
inmates. lost their lives. The fire orig
mated from stove Overturning in one of
the summer kitchens from the shaking
by the wind. The damage ut Shamokin
will reach S:35OOOO. The Paterson break
cr is almost IL total wreck, but the debris
was saved from the flames by the down.
pour of rain that followed the wind.
Superintendent Vincent places the dam
age to the collicry at $4,000. Fourteen
OF the dwelling houses and twenty board
shantiss occupied by the mine workers
were also blown down. and five of the
former were consumed by flames. Two
OF the tenants We're killed, several njur-
ed and eleven cattle were crushed to death
beneath the dismantled barn.
The windstorm, though furious in New
York City and vicinity, as elsewhere in
the East, did but little damage ashore,
and thus far no disasters on the Long
Island. New Jersey or New England
coast have been reported The greatest
damage sustained is by the prostration
OF telegraph and telephone wires. The
storm was severe throughout New Jer-
sey. In Buffalo the wind ragged Mt
velocity of tifty-cight miles an hour, and
at Syracuse thousands of dollars worth
of damage was done. The big grand
stand ut Kirk Driving Park was COM
pletely demolished. The Yates Hotel
was badly damaged by falling cornice,
and the immense plate glass windows
forced outward by the suction of the air.
Storm Around Washington,
Reports received from the suburban
towns about Washington, ID. c., show
that great damage was done throughout
the surrounding country by the storm.
On the outskirts of the city few localities
escaped. In Washington the Papal le-
cation was unroofed and the Chinese
legation was damaged about ST, 800 Com
munication by telegraph and telephone
with the outside world was absolutely
stopped. The White House was slightly
injured by the storm, a portion of tho
copper roofing being stripped off and
other damage done. The tall flagstaff,
from which the signal is given to the city
that the President is in town, disappeared
completely. In the beautiful grounds sur
rounding the house twenty-five of the
splendid trees, elms, sycamores, walnuts
and magnolias, some of great age and
of historical associations. were complete
ly leveled, while fully fifty of the SURVIVE
ing trees suffered the loss of their tops
and principal branches, and are perma-
nently defaced.
The vast pile occupied by the State,
War and Navy Departments was touched
on the southern side by the storm, and
lost tportions of it's roofing and many states,
while a structure erected by the signal
service for the study of clouds was par
italy demolished. The new naval OBJ
seryatory building suffered in the same
fashion, to the extent of about 81 200. At
the Washington navy yard the big ship
house was partially unroofed, and the
gun shops were damaged slightly by the
stripping of the roof. A special bulletin
issued by the weather bureau states that
for one minute the wind reached eighty
miles an hour. The storms damage is
estimated to run from $25OOOO to $780,
600.
The weather bureau gives this official
history of the storm:
'"The storm which passed over Wash
ington last night was reported on Sept.
% as a tropical cyclone moving north
west from the Caribbean Sea, it. being
then southeast of Cuba. During the
9th it passed northwestward into the
southeastern part of the Gulf of Mexico,
and on the 2Sth moved northward west
of Florida. On the morning of the Goth
it was central over Southern Georgia,
and by 8 p. m. of the Goth had advanced
passed over Washington about 11:3O
4uSSuay nlSulp lAC AOWcSS UuIOluclCT Ic0Ve
ing 29.30. During the first three days
the storm appeared to have very little
energy, but on the Goth developed force
rapidly as it moved northward."
Crew browns at Milwaukee.
The barge Sumatra, consort of the b.
w. Arnold, bound down from Chicago,
foundered off the Government pier at
Milwaukee. -Four sailors were drowned.
The captain, mate and cook were rescued
by the life-saving crew. The Sumatra
was bound for Milwaukee loaded with
railroad iron. The record of the winds
fury in Chicago harbor was that of a
storm almost equaling in fury the great
hurricane of 1894. Half dozen vessels
were sunk, and us many more badly dam
aged. The schooner Seaman broke from
her moorings and raced back and forth.
pounding the docks and smashing the
smaller craft on every side, while their
crews were helpless Capt. McCreary.
of the Seaman. two of his men and sew.
eral men on board other boats moored In