New-York tribune., 1903-07-23
CALAMITY AT PATERSON. |
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the breaking Of the windows and the cries Of
neighbors that she fell dead on the stoop.
Mill TTNROOFED

of the pudding mill was blown down. About
fifteen hundred men are employed in the rolling
mill. but strange to say panic occurred.
Thomas O'Connor, one of the rollers. said:
"AIl the men seemed to be paralyzed when the
storm hit the mill While the roof was being
torn off and the walls were falling in the men
stood at their machines and their furnaces as
If rooted to the spot 1t was before they
realized what had happened, and looking out to
the East they could see the houses around Clay
and Chestnut sts sway and fall as the black
cloud passed over them. Only three of our men
were injured. John Saunders's leg was broken
by the falling of a beam on it. John Connolly
was thrown down and severely cut and bruised,
and another man was struck the head by a
piece of falling timber"
About five hundred feet from the rolling mill
stands the Stern & Polly silk mill. The tor
nado took the roof completely off this building,
and also blew down the wall on the east side on
the third floor. The machinery was tossed about
in the mill, and the wonder is that only two OF
the employees were slightly injured.
Crossing CIay-st., the tornado struck thickly
populated section, in which nearly all the build
ings frame, inhabited by working people,
and there it did terrible havoc Half dozen
houses were crushed and about fifty others were
greatly damaged. some leaning against their
neighbors for support, most Of them without
the weather boards OF the buildings. There it
was that little Richard Hancock was killed in
Chestnut-st He was running TO his home,
when large part of a roof glided through the
air and hit him on the head, almost decapitattng
him.
The street was a litter of trees and timber
from the houses The three story building of
James Burns was n mass Of ruins. Mrs. Burns
was working in the third floor when
the storm struck her house. She was blown out
of the window and landed on the roof Of an ad
joining building badly shaken up and bruised
Mr. Burns's mother was on the second floor.
She was caught in the building. but managed to
crawl out at the rear She could not tell how
she escaped Mr.. Burns's sister just going
into a store when she caught and blown
against a building in the rear. about twenty feet
away.
LAUNDRY DISAPPEARS.
A laundry adjoining the Burns house entirely
disappeared, leaving the steam machinery
standing on the lot The framework of the
building was scattered through the adjoining
lots but no part of it left intact. The
greatest confusion and distress prevailed in
this district for a long time after the storm had
passed. Nearly every one of the hundreds of
people who lived in this section was shaken.
bruised and frightened. and probably twenty or
niture 10 be rescued from the wrecks. The
havoc Of the storm more distressing here
than at any other place on account Of the pow
ertv of the people and the density of the popu-
lation.
FINISHED SHOEING THE HORSE
remarkable incident of self-pOssession is
told Of a phlegmatic blacksmith. Charles
Lowerre His shop was at Clay-st. and Beck
hi Slo
when the wind sweeping from the southwest
struck the frame building and wrecked it, The
walls collapsed and the roof fell in the debris
Provfdentialy the timbers dropped so that
Lowerre and his helpers were not seriously In
tured The horse escaped. Lowerre, apparently
obIivious of the severity of the storm and his
loss seemed only mindful of one thing-that
was that the horse had to he shod. With dtfh~
Guilty he extricated it, Quieted the frightened
animal and then looked at the wrecked shop
In the rear of his shop a barn which al
though only step from the destroyed building
had been spared by the freakish, yet terrific
wind and was intact. Iowerre coolly led the
horse to the barn There he completed his task
The horse was delivered its and then
the blacksmith returned his shop, and, with
his helpers removed the broken timbers,
piled them up carefully and recovered the forge
and tools which had not been seriously dam
aged The tools were transported to the barn,
and the bla cksmith was ready to resume bust
ness.
The bla cksnith lost wagon that seemed TO
cause him more discomfort than the destruc-
ton Of his shop probably because the wagon
was not his but had been sent to him TO be
repaired. This gon standing at the side
OF his shop I'm Clay-st. In front of the shop in
Peckwith-st- stood a heavy road roller. The
violent wind set this roller in motion and swung
it around the corner, It struck and demolished
the wagon
HE TRAVELLED IN THE sHANTY.
The nagulan's shanty of the SUsquehanna
Railroad at the Park-ave crossing was raised
like a leaf Of paper, carried over the tracks
and landed in field. Michael Quinlan the
hagman went with If. He was in the shancy,
taking refuge from the storm. IT took Quinlan
a long time to recover but he sustained only
= few bruises When he revived he gasped:
This is wonderful country Ireland's big
wind is not in it with Paterson's blow
Two carpenters we're at work the roof of
Public School No t3 The wind caught the
roof, lifted it intact and dropped It again. about
four inches out Of place. The affrighted
penters hurriedly descended without waiting for
tools or belongings. They ran like frightened
deer and il is not likely that they Will again
work on a building numbered thirteen
The tornado also struck the General Hospital.
breaking all the windows the west side.
ryiug off part Of the roof and demolishing the
boiler house There are about one hundred and
fifty patients in the institution. and many of
them were cut by the flying glass.
The tornado then passed on through the best
residential part Of the city on the East Side but
except for blowing down trees, telegraph poles.
house chimneys. windows and small parts of
roofs II did no more serious damage It con-