The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-10-07
RUIN MARKED IT'S PATH.
Terrible Effects Of a Storm in
Pennsylvania
Half Dozen Lives Lost and ERormous
Damage 10 Property neported-The
National Capital Also Suffers
Severely from the Gale
Two Fatalities in Alex
andria, Va.


WASHINGTON, Oct IA storm of al
most unprecedented fury broke over
this city Tuesday night and prostrated
telegraph, telephone and electric light
wires in every direction. The wall of
building, the erection of which was
nearly completed on Pennsylvania av-
enue, collapsed. 1t was building 1s5
feets in height. The west wall was
blown in and crashed into the roofs of
two adjoining buildings one u saloon
and the other q lunch room Several
people were for time buried in the
ruins, but with one exception were un-
hurt.
On Seventh street much damage to
stores and other structures Is reported.
Shade trees in the parks and along the
streets suffered in great degree, and
the streets are practically blocked by
the wrecks in many parts of the city.
Roofs of houses were blown off in
many ssetions of the city and church
steeples wrenchsd from their fasten-
ings. The rear wall of the Metropeli-
tan street railway building was blown
out Two employees were hurt.
The tornado ripped off soHae of the
coping of the White House and laid
low most of the historic trees in the
White House grounds, including the
elm tree which Lincoln planted. 1t
carried away part of the roof Of the
state department, where the official
documents are stored, but fortunately
left them uninjured. The costly roof
of the patent office, constructed after
the fire there some years ago, was
rolled up and distributed oil around
the neighborhood, and skylights half
aR inch thick were beaten in. The
naval observatory, and in fact pretty
we'll every other public building, was
more or less damaged. Diplomatic
residences were not spared. That of
the French minister was left roohess,
and even the substantially built en-
bassy of Great Britain suffered the
loss Of the portico.
In Alexandria, the Virginia suburb
Of Washington, just norsss the Poto-
mac river, the damage done by the
storm is estimated at not less than
100000 and at least two livos are
known to have been lost The killed
are: Mrs. Louisa Holt, w. D. Stuart,
crushed to death by falling wolls.
Nearly 300 houses were badly dam
aged,
PoTTsvILLE, Pa, Oct 1.-Tuesday
nights storm blsw down the coal
breaker at Natalie belonging to the
Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Co. Six
tenement houses belonging to the
camp were destroyed by fire, and six
children, inmates, lost their lives. The
FIRE originated from stove overturn-
ing in one of the summer kitchens
from the shaking by the wind.
HUNTINGDON, Pa, Oct. 1.-The Juni-
alta valley is experiencing destructive
flood, scarcely less in extent than the
great food of 1889. During the past SO
hours the rainfall has been unprece-
dented and the climax was reached at
2 O'clock Wednesday morning by a
cloudburst just west of this city. This
volume of water swept through the
western end of the town, washing out
streets, flooding houses, carrying away
outbuildings and drowning several
head of cattle. Many families were
obliged to flee from their homes. Traf-
fic on the middle division of the Penn
sylvania railroad has been wholly sus-
pended, all through eastern trains
going around by way of Lock Haven
on the Northern Central. The Penn
sylvania's tracks five miles east Of here
have been washed out, and landslide
on Jacks mountain, ten miles east, has
covered the tracks for distance of 200
yards. Telegraphic communication
with the east is also suspended.
In Bedford county, on the Raystown
branch, two houses were carried away
at Saxton and Riddlssburg, the occu-
pants having to fee from them in their
night clothes The farmers living
along the overhowed rivers have suf-
fered greatly by the destruction OF
their unharvested crops.
LANCASTER, Pa, Oct 1.-The bridge
~over the Susquehanna river at Colum-
bia. which was nearly mile in length,
was almost completely wrecked by a
heavy wind storm Wednesday morn
ing. The bridge was used by the
Frederick division of the Pennsylva-
MIA railroad and was also used as a
public wagon road. The bridge con-
nected Columbia with Wrightsvi1le,
Pa. Only two iron spans of the bridge
remain The bridge was rebuilt in
1889 at cost of S15O,OOO The piers
are not injured. 1t is believed several
men were on the bridge when it was
swept away.
Reports received from all sections Of
the county show that the damage done
will reach inithe aggregate nearly S1,-
100000. Hundreds of farmers have
lost their entire tobacco Sgpp. In ad-
dition to frame buildings numerous
brick structures were raEed to the
ground.
HoLLrDAYsBURe, Pa, Oct 1.-The
lowlands along the Juniata river in
Blair county, were flooded by Tuesday
nights heavy rain. Farms m Franks
town township were Submerged by
lakes Of water, and barns and out
buildings were swept down the stream.
A triple Collision.
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