Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-06-23
VISITED BY
TERRIFIC WIND STORM.
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS DAMAGE
DOME AND THREE LIVES
LOST.
FORCE OF STORM CONFINED
TO A NARROW TRACK THAT PASS
ED OVER McKEES ROCKS, :
AND ALLEGHENY.

PTTTSBURG, Pa, June 22.-Pitts-
burg and vicinity were visited to-day by
one of the iercest storms known here
for years. The wind was not high ex-
cept in a contracted path a few hundred
feet wide, which swept like a tornado
from McKee's Rcks, through Allegheny,
a portion of the East End of Pittsburg
on to Wilmerding and Turtle Creek.
/ Three lives are known to nave been
lost-James Howard, aged IS years. was
killed by a live wire at Duquesne. Ten
year-old James Dunn, after saving his
s~even-year-old brother at Braddock, was
drowned in a creek. Charles Marcus, an
Italian who was working in a sewer.
When the rain came the sewer was a
raging torrent in a moment and Marcus
was swept off his feet and probably
carried through to the river.
Great damage was done In the two
cities and in the suburbs east, but moth
ing like accurate figures can be given
tonight. Conservative estimates place
the loss at 5000, 900.
The. tornado when 1t reached Ale
gheny, struck the grand stand Of the
BAH park and carried away bodily $50
feet Of that structure and moved from
it's foundation the entire stand. Great
beams with portions Of the roof of the
stand were carried from 200 to 300 feet,
lodging on the roofs of houses. Two
beams ploughed through the roof of a
house on Robinson street, going from
the garnet to the first floor, carrying
away a portion of the bed in which
James Williamson was asleep. 1t is
said that no lives were lost in ALLIE
gheny. In the Butchers Run district,
the famous flood of 1874 was outdone
excepting the loss of life. Fortunately
to-day the inhabitants Of that district
anticipated the trouble and escaped be-
fore their houses were flooded.
In Pittsburg all street car, service to
and from the East End was suspended
for about two hours.
Going eastward the storm did dam
age which amounts to thousands Of dol
lars. The Point Breeze Presbyterian
Church was struck by lightning. The
steeple and part of the roof were wreck
ed. The Presbyterian Church at Wiki
insburg was also struck and slightly
damaged.
At East Pittsburg, Turtle creek was
higher than ever known but the in
habitants along its banks were warned
by an engine going over the route
whistling and ringing its bell, letting
the people know of the danger. The
entire business portion of the town oil
Turtle Creek is under water tonight
The works of the Westinghouse Elec-
trio & Manufacturing Company at East
Pittsburg were flooded. Little damage
was done to the building, but the ma
chine tools and work in progress on the
lower floor was covered by water and
will be injured. Some OF the machines
will probably have to be rebuilt. The
Westinghouse officials cannot yet give
an estimate OF the damage done.
The terrible force Of the wind is
shown in the fact that eight refrigera-
tor cars were blown from the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad track at Stewart Sta
ton and turned completely over. Al
Murraysville, much damage was donc
by lightning and wind to fruit trees ana
barns. The residence of Samuel Bren-
linger at Pitcairn was struck by light
ming while all the members of the fam
lily were sitting in the dining room, but
no one was injured. The only damage
done was a few shingles torn off.
In Penn township, the Level Green
school house was moved off its founda.
ton. At East McKeesport, four frame
houses and a barn belonging to j.. L
Devenney were overturned, one of the
houses now resting on its roof with tht
floor of the kitchen high in the air.
Along the Allegheny river the damage
was not so great, but in Millvale the
J two main streets are under water.
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