The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01
IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Damage at and Near Lancaster VIII
Reach 81 500. OOO-Loss of Lie.


PHILADELPHIA, Sept. So.-Last nights
storm in Pennsylvania was destructive in
loss of life and property. The railways
and telegraph companies suffered heavily.
Near Reading the casthouse of the Tenn
pie furnace. at Temple Station, five miles
above Reading. was blown down by the
wind and nearly a dozen workmen were
buried in the ruins. The men were pinned
down by the heavy timbers, and it was
some time before they could be reached.
Edward Risrniller and Samuel Trout were
killed. William Collar, Joseph Rothenberg
er, Harry Becker, William Schadler and
William Mertz were badly hurt. and it is
believed some of them will die.
Advices from Lancaster say the storm
damage in that section will easily reach a
million dollars and may largely exceed
that amount. In Lancaster the individual
losses as a rule, are comparatively small.
but there are hundreds of them, which
will make the aggregate great The wind
roared through the streets with noise
like thunder and the houses literally rocked
upon their foundations. During the two
hours of terror, which kept large part
of the population awake, the air filled
with bricks stones. slate timbers and roofs
of heavy sheet iron and tin. while gigantic
trees ripped up by the roots and
tossed almost like toys. The storm outside
Pennsylvania railroad bridge across the
Susquehanna at Columbia was destroyed.
The. bridge, which comprised twenty-seven
spans, was insured for 10000 and every
thing was carried away except the stone
piers, the single iron span and one of the
shore spans The bridge proper was
crushed to splinters. 1t was lifted bodily
off the piers and deposited just above the
water, portion resting on the piers. Not
a timber was left standing. All through
freight South was run over the Columbia
bridge and the Frederick division to Bal
timore and other Southern points.
The damage at and near Shamokin viii
reach $3.50 eco. The Patterson breaker is
almost a wreck. but the debris was saved
from the flames by the dawnpour of rain
that followed the wind. Superintendent
at $40. COZ. Fourteen dwelling houses and
twenty board shanties, occupied by the
mine workers, were also blown down and
the tenants were killed, several injured
and eleven cattle We're crushed to death.
The killed and injured are
Dead-James Henlon crushed by debris
Of his house, Minnie Kline. fractured
skull. jumping from second story window
Injured-Mrs Brobinskyl leg fractured:
Mrs. Spelka. head badly crushed; Mrs
Crawford, arm fractured: James. kopola
and wife. severe Commissions of body. in
FAINT CT John Dumnllsie. badly cvT by being
thrown through window; Charles klitchIe.
leg broken
Shamokin Mt Carmel Locust Gap and
othei surrounding towns suffered heavily.
Reports from the farming districts indi-
cats. that barns Were demolished by hum
dreds. At the Colbert mine the fan and
ent-irle house. both boiler houses and all
OF the smoke stacks Were demolished.
out of employment. A group Of eight
new houses erected by DR. T. ID. Baker at
Springfield were leveled to the ground.
BARNS and hundreds Of outbnildings were
overturned IN all portions of the town. The
Lincoln school building. the Windsor Ao~
tel. the Bury block the Wulvertnn hsisid-