THE DREAD CYCLONE. AN APPALLING CALAMITY IN READ- ING. ®KrARLY 100 LIVES LOST—ONE HUN=- DRED PERSONS INJURED, SOME FATALLY. READING, Pa., Jan, 9.—A frightful calamity occurred here shortly before 6 o'clock this evening, resulting in great loss of life, A cyclone struck the northern part of the town, and the wind blew a gale for a few minutes, when It increased to a hurricane. The paint shop of the Reading Railroad Company was the first building struck, and was unroofed by fire, many of the workmen being shockingly burned by sn explosion of gasoline. Eleven dwell- ings on North Eighth and Marion streets were all more or less damaged, and some of them completely wrecked, Grimshaw & Brother's silk mill, a large four-story brick building at the corner of Twelfth and Marion streets, was the next building to succumb, and in a few seconds the whole structure was one mass of ruins, the walls hav- ing collapsed. About 200 persons, mostly young women, were employed in the mill, and out of this number 66 wounded and four dead were gotten out up to 7 o'clock. Most of the victims are buried in a mass of brick and machinery. The entire fire depart ment was called out and 500 men are now clearing away the debris and re- woving the dead and wounded. The mill is located in a section of the city which 18 sparsely bulit up, and the fire- men experienced great trouble in get- ting to work, owing to the intense darkness, their being no hight except those used by the firemen, Later bon- fires were started on the open lots adjoining the wreck. This proved of considerable assistance, and by 7.35 about ninety persons had been removed, many of whom were dead and others fatally injured. When the cyclone struck the mill the structure trembled for a second and then collapsed like an egg, and the operatives were hurled to death in a second, Those employed on the third and fourth floors were the first to be taken out. The casualties In this part of the building were not as great as on the lower floors. On the first and sec- ond floors, where most of the girls were employed, it is feared very few sscaped death, Many of the Killed and injured are partly visible, but the hundreds of tons of brick, timbers and machinery will have to be removed before they can be reached, This, it Is thought, will take all night, and It is possible until late to-morrow. READING, Jan. 10,—The results of the cyclone that swept over the north- past of Beading yesterday afternoon, though exceedingly deplorable, have not proved as disastrous as wus at first anticipated, less than twenty-five deaths have thus far occurred, and per- haps not more than a dozen more will die, while the number of injured will reach about 100, very few of whom are believed to be fatally hurt, IN HARRISBURG. A PANIC AT A SCHOOL BUILDING, Harrigssvre, Pa, Jan. 9.—A rushing, mighty wind, with death and destruction in its wake, swept across the State this afternoon, and touched this city In its furious flight. Its the tornado, and were terribly alarmed, For a few minutes the wind blew at the rate of 75 miles an hour,and earried away the anemometer cups on the weather observatory. Another sel was placed In position as soon as it was safe for the observer to climb the tower. A large school building in East Har- risburg was unroofed, and the 300 or 400 children in the building were thrown into a wild panic. They rushed irto the main corridor leading to the street, and the smaller ones were trampled by the affrighted pupils from the wide stairway. People gathered at the scene and removed the boys and girls as fast as possi- ble. None were seriously injured. Three new houses were blown down, and others almost completed were much damaged in the same locality. A ponderous derrick used in the con- struction of a church spire on West State street, near the Capitol, was blown down and struck a house, knock- ing off the cornice and splintering the front. A large wooden awning near the post-office was lifted up and de- posited 1m the street, In falling it struck an old man and knocked him fnsensidle to the sidewalk. He was removed to the hospital, where his injuries were pronounced serious, but not necessarily fatal. A woman at Third and Walnut streets was hurled against the iron fence around Capitol Park, and painfully hurt. Scaffolding about many unfinished buildings was blown down and trees were broken off as the roots, while boxes and barrels were scattered along the streets. Itls the worst storm this city has experi- enced in many years, AT PITTSBURG. BUILDINGS BLOWN DOWN-—EIGHT KILLED AND THIRTY-FIVE IN- SURED, Prrrssuna, Pa, Jan. 10.—A terrific of wind and hall, the worst known for Jeala, swept over ipo. oy noon ¥, Carry t death and destruction, fe storm was formed with a suddenness that was . and as the wind, ac- and torrents of rain, to the earth. covering up (wo scores of mangled human bodies, The bullding was in course of erec- tion. It was 80 by 80 feet in dimen- slons and was seven stories high. The front of the building bad not yet been put in, and the wind seemed to enter the huge shell from the open end. The high walls of bricks and undried mor- tar were parted, one falling each way, partly wrecking nearly a dozen sur- rounding buildings. The malin force of the crushing buildings was thrown against Weldin & Co,’s book store, on Wood street, and the barber shop of Fred, Schoemaker, at No. 41 Diamond Street. The rear end of Weldin’s store was crushed in and the front of the building was forced out into Wood street. The barber shop was completely demolished. The leather store, next to the Willey building, oc- cupied by W. H. Thomas, was also to- tally wreeked. The rear end of IH. Wait & Co.’s book store was crushed in, while some of the falling structure struck Joseph Richbaum’s building, fronting on Fifth avenue, breaking the windows and injuring a number of employes. A portion of the wall of a millinery store next to Thomas's was caved in, and the windows and doors in a number of surrounding buildings were broken, The building of Rea Bros. & Co., stock brokers, on the cor. ner of Diamond and Wood streets, was partly wreckrd and the occupants barely escaped. Within five minutes after the collapse of the building the streets were filled with an excited crowd, notwithstanding the fact that the rain and hail were pouring down in a perfect deluge, With the arrival of the firemen the work of rescue was begun. Ladders were run up to the sec- ond and third stories of the Wildin building and the first one taken out was a young lady employed as a type-writer, who fortunately had es- caped serious injury. Crowds of will- ing hands eagerly took up the work of rescue and every little while fresh localities where men had been caught were found. At the time of the disaster about 25 men were at work on the bullding and not one escaped being injured. In the barber shop next door seven men were imprisoned, while a half dozen more were buried beneath the debris of the Weldin building. The work of rescue was continued all the afternoon, and at ten o'clock to-night a number of persons were known to be still under the debns, Up to that hour forty mangled and bruised bodies had been taken from the ruins, Some were dead, others were dying and many were fatally injured, One or two died on the way to the hospitals. From the best information obtainable 8 were killed outright, or died Ina short time, and 35 others were Injured, It is believed that the list of dead will be greatly Increased before morning. Of the eight kiiivd only two have One was a little along the street with Ler brother when the building fell, and the two were found buried in the wreck, The little girl was killed instantly, and her brother is thought to be fatally injured, The body of George Kirsch, a barber, 18 years old, was found in the cellar of the barber shop. Five unknown men and one boy are pow at the morgue awaiting identifi- cation, Dr. J. lL. Reed, a prominent physician of Allegheny, was in Wels don’s at the time, and he is still miss- ing. It is feared that he is dead. AAI 00 AT SUNBURY. THE STACKS OF A NAIL BLOWN DOWN. Suxnusy, PA. Jan, 9.—A terrible accident occurred in this city at 5.30 this evening. A rain and wind storm came up suddenly and blew over two MILL ing and Pennsylvania Railroads, on the outskirts of the ciy. The first 1s the puddling mill, having six furnaces, Stack No. 2 was thrown over on the roof, dropping with it stack No, 3. ‘They crashed through the slate roof, completely demolishing the pud- dling department of the mill, Thirty- five men wera employed in this depart- ment, and half of them were buried in the debris. The fire alarm was sounded and soon hundreds surrounded the mill. Men were carried out hall naked, and men are at work yet, as it js supposed several others are in the ruins, PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. SENATE, In the Senate of Pennsylvania on the 10th, bills were Introduced by Mr. Penrose for the appointment of a State Board of Medical Examiners and Licensers, and also for the establish- ment of a State Nautical School; by Mr. Brown, requiring Common Pleas Courts to fill vacancies of officers in election districts; by Afr. Thompson, requiring principles doing business through agents to register their names with Recorders of Deeds and by Mr, Steele, extending for two years the time for completion of railroads by nder the pres- nomination of Samuel W. Pennypacker to be a Judge of the Philadelphia Common Pleas was confirmed, HOUSE, In the House on the 10th, the Stand- ing Committees were announced, but no other business was done, iL i 2 g hi 1 THE WILKESBARRE MURDER ARREST AND CONFESSION OF NOSED MIKE.” A ——————— RED- THE RIFLE AND PART OF THE MONEX FOUND. WILKESBARRE, Pa., Jan, 5.—Cap- tain Linden, of Pinkerton’s Detective Agencey, arrived here at 3 o'clock this morning with Red-Nosed” Mike, one of the alleged murderers of 1’aymaster J. B. McClure and ITugh Flanigan on the mountains near here in October last. At nine o'clock Mike was taken be- fore, Alderman Rooney for a preliminary hearing. He said: ‘‘At this time I have nothing to =ay.” He refused to be interviewed upon the subject, He was committed to prison. It is not believed that he has made a confession as yet, though it is thought he is the person that kiiled McClure’s horse, and has full knowledge as to who the mur- derers are, At the jail, to-day, Michael Rezzillo refused to see or speak to any of the reporters who called with the object of obtaining an interview. He bad a few minutes’ conversation with F. Quig- ley, of Miner's Mills, who, in the past, was a personal friend. He stated to Mr, Quigley that the confession he had made to Captain Linden, of Pinkerton’s Agency, was the exact truth, and that he believed the three others implicated would be arrested within ‘a 2ay or two at the latest. lle stated his belief that he would get out of the matter all right. He is a bright, intelligent man for an Italian, and, though ner- vous and agitated, talks rational and intelligently of the crime. His confession has been reduced to writing and was this morning signed by him in the presence of half a dozen It fills ten pages of foolscap ans, Captain Linden refuses to make the confession public, but its substance has been learped, The murder was planned a month or more before its perpetration, There were only four in it. On the morning of the murder the four gathered at Miner's Mills and three of them started out up the moun- tain road half an hour before McClure was due. Rezzilio stayed until he saw the pay- master approach, and then followed them. McClure passed him, going up about 500 yards before the point of ambush was reached. Rezzilio claims shooting. He told the detectives where the rifle used in conjunction with revolvers and the satchel in which the money was carried was se~ creted, near Miner's Mills, and to-day they were recovered, About $9000 of contained, was found in it. The rifle is a Colt's repeating, of 44 calibre. It is stated here to-night that two of the other three have been arrested in New York, and will be brought to tuis city on the early morning train. The arrest and developments habe created the most intense excitement and re- joleing throughout this section, di —— NEWS OF THE WEEK. —A telegram from Port-au-Prince, Hayti, says that three battles have been fought and lost by the Legiti- mists in the past 10 days. Hippolite and his victorious army are intrenched within 20 miles of Port-au-Prince, awalt- from New York, Their foraging ex- peditions cover territory whence most of legitime's supplies have hitherto come, Legitime has thrown a number of prominent citizens into prison for suspected sympathy with Ilippolite, He is pressing into military service every laborer and farmer he can seize Excesses of every kind are the rule, ~The safe of the Woolson Spice Company in Kansas City, Missouri, was broken open on the evening of the 6th, and $20.00 in notes and checks, and $189 in cash taken. Bur- glars entered the jewelry store of H. M. Betz, in Reading, Pa,, on the even- ing of the Tth, and took watches and jewelry, valued at about $1500, Fifty suits have been entered before an Alderman in Lancester, Penna,, charg- ing 20 boys, ranging in age from 15 to 20 years, with stealing goods from stores. The boys were organized, ~Mrs, Margaretta Schoeider, aged about 60 years, was murdered In Baitl- more on the Sth, It is believed the crime was committed by a woman, and, as the house was In disorder, that robbery was the motive. Beyond a blood-stained dress found in the house, thero is no clue, The house, which was on Fifth street, has not borne a first- class reputation, as carriages frequently drove to the door late at night, and an opium smoking “lay out” was found mn one of the rooms. —A caboose containing section men was run into by a train at a railroad pear Streator, Illinois, on the morning of the 8th, William Joy, sec tion boss, was killed, and five other men were severely injured. Early on the morning of the Sth, Ann Baker, 350d 60 Yeats: a boarder at Langan’s otel, in New Brunswick, New Jer- sey, while walking in her sieep, re. moved a window sash and fell pavement, 20 feet below. She died in explosion of giant powder occurred in Bpokane I"alls, Washington Territory, on the 8th, causing the death of James Collins, It had been prepared for a blast, -Lutber Tallman, of Fairport, New York, wlule going from the theatre to a hotel in Detroit on the evening of the 9th, was “held up’ by two high- waymen and robbed of $4500 in cash and $1000 In drafts, The detectives say they think the robbers foliowed Tallman from Fairport, —Julia Harrison, aged 20 years, and Frank Greenan, aged 15, were drowned on the 10th while skating, in Iyde- ville, Vermont, ~The storm on the 9th, was general throughout the northwest, but was most severe in Northern Wisconsin and Michigan, In Upper Michigan the fall of snow ranges from eight inches to a foot in depth. In Wisconsin the snow 1all was from four inches to three feet. The lumbermen in Michigan and Wisconsin are greatly pleased with the snow fall. The heaviest snow storm of the season at Saranac Lake, New York, set in on the evening of the 9th, and continued on the 10th, A high wind prevailed. A train on the Fulton county, lilinols, Narrow Gauge Rallroad, with several passengers on board, has been stuck in a snow drift, ten miles south of Gales- burg, since the evening of the Oth, rsa ———— A — 50th CONGRE:8.-Second Session, SENATE. In the United States Senate on the 7th, the Panama Canal resolution was taken up, but on motion of Mr, Edmunds the galleries were and it was discussed in executive session. After five houss the doors were reopened, and 1t was found that the Hampton by a vote of 40 to J, Messrs, Blackburn, Vance. and tion having occupied the day) so as to provide that the vote on the bill shall be taken on the 221 inst. Adjourned. In the U. 8. Senate on the 8th, the passed, Mr. Sherman ferred. The consideration of the Tariff bill was resumed. consideration the Senate Inthe U. 8. Senate on the 9th, a bill. The consideration of the Tariff bill was resumed. Several ments, offered by Democratic Sen- ators, were rejected. Among them was one offered by Mr, Vest, to make coal (bituminous and shale) free, This was rejected by a vote of 11 yeas to J] nays, bill the Senate adjourned, In the U. S, Senate on the 10th, the consideration of the Tariff bill was continued. and several amendments were adopted, among them one adding to the paragraph taxing watches and watch cases 25 per cent. ad valorem, The vole on future consideration. The free list having been taken up, Mr. Vance ob- jected to the paragraph 1n relation to braids, plaits, laces, etc., for ornamen- ting bats and bonnets.and move Lo tax them 20 per cent. ad valorem. The amendment was rejected, Pending pages of the bill having been disposed of, the Senate adjourned. HOUSE, In the House on the Tih, the contest and dilatory motions, with frequent roll calls, were kept up until 5 o'clock, rules, by limitation. In the House on the Sih, the dead- lock was broken by the recommittal of the resolution to change the rules, the vote being 120 to 117. Nine Re- publicans voted for recommittal, and Civil bill was reported and placed on the calendar. The South Carolina election case of Smalls va. Elliott waa taken up. After efforts by the friends of the Oklahoma bill to have it finally voted upon to-day, another deadlock resulted and the House adjourned. in the House on the 9th, the entire day was wasted in further filibustering, growing out of a determination by Mr. Weaver to prevent any business from being accomplished until the Oklahoma bill is disposed of. After various dilatory motions and roll calls, the House, at 3.30 P, M., adjourned. In the House on the 10th, Mr. Wea- ver resumed his dilatory tactics, and, after about an hour and a half of what one of the members described as “hopeless helplessness,” an adjourn ment was agreed to, THE MARKETS VISTO NS Peet city E850 Bloves sonnnunsne=s == SHB ERR Rann a ik pork Me - sssunssarsnnssea il BOW. cusnvnsons id a. - i itl Evan zsisd wl lo=sl8l #0 aii. 1 AS sEss RR BE » Bob. sanausensonresser= 11 Wemern Bis... cere th SREB RRR RRR xX — and Pa. 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Their bets had been settled for the most part by ‘captured chickens from the chicken roosts of the adjacent farms, and no disturbing influences seemd to be at hand to mar their peace- ful natures, Deacon Jones was the care-taker of the flock; in his younger days he could out dance and capture more chickens in a given time than all the rest of the fellows put together, and rumor had it that on one occasion after embibing too freely, he mistook the tail of a mule standing in front of his master’s door, for his bell-pull and his muleship disturbed in that sensitive part of his anatomy sent poor Jones akiting into a posite side of the street. But things had changed and the Deacon no long- er young, but still gay and full of vim, and as fond as ever of the chicken family, pursued the even tenor of his way, safe when a political canvass was pending, or the neighboring farmers were removing from the rapidly lmn- s tled territories, The triumphs of physical science in our day in the facilities afforded by rail, telegraph, telephone and the Print. ing Press, flood our streets and places extras, &c,, with news from Jericho and even New York, till a poor pedestrian going a will be loaded down | with a load of literature that a Knight | of the Golden Eagle couldn’t get away with, The Deacon, was extremely fond of literature that was embellished with quadruped animal life, one of Forepaugh’s circulars wilh sjuare Bol- | carefully and put it in his pocket bible, at the very part in the book of Job, | designed as the ground work for his | exposition of the “*men of other times.” It’s strange, mssing strange! ho sometimes our ights, and acts, and things so essentially different in thelr nature and construction, become 80 | mixed that we can’t tell tother from which. The Deacon was at his post al the given time, prompitude he | into his pocket be drew forth Lis bible | perhaps it was the poor quality of the gas, or it might have been the de- | creptitude of lus aged spectacles, but, which ever it was, or, both combined he mistook Forepaugh for Job, and took for his text **Fo poh de fust and fust.” | con felt the need of his nose-wipe, and | going down into a deeper pocket for it, drew with it the immense stock of lating there for several days. Lit off to every part of the building, while eager hands from the uprising audience sought to capture it, then | arose screams of laughter from throats of clyclone force and power tnat fairly | shook the building to its foundations, | Ancient writers tell us of an incident that occurred at the tower of Babel, | some years ago, when the distribution of languages took place. John Smith's | wife bad just come into possession of | her new language, the symphonius | Welsh, and sbe started from home, | after properly adjusting her new bustle, | door step of the cigar shop down the street. John had just been invested | with the high dutch language, but had | pot experimented with it yet, though | any one coming near him could tell the | nationality to which he had been elects led, by the prolific gusts of limbbrger i that floated from his presence. i John's wife found him as she expeci- | ed sitting on the cellar door smoking a | “Jon nine,” and informed him as she | thouglhit in the tersest manner, daughter Betsy Ann going off Sam Black 1o the Alderman’s to get | married. John wouldn’t or couldn't | understand one word she said, and told | her so in dutch, which almost frighten ed him to death when he heard himself gabbling in that classic language, Then she recommenced her narrative and John was fearful lest her teeth would be jerked out of her mouth, but still she labored, and John satisfied that much more exertion on her part with those strange cross cut words, would dislocate her entire facial prop- erty, he began in what be thought soothing dutch expressions to allay her wild gestures and strange talk, but she mistook his motives and stooping down unbuttoned one of her congress gaiters, and whack’d him over the jaw. This raised a commotion, and people flocked from candy-shops and shoe factories to find out the calamity, each in their for the news, accosted each other in their new dialect, till amazement at the strange gabbling made them wild with fear, and they fled away! Some - the port of Babel, multipled three fold would fail to describe. The Deacon to ils eredit be it observed was the last to leave the building, and when he did and descended from the last sieps, some sinners pinned a lighted pack of shoot- ing crackers to his tail, and he went op his journey profusely tuminated, Ss ————— Sh A Story of Pirates. The deaths of Mr. Jacob Andersor, which has been recorded in the Gazelle, recalls the capture of the brig Mexican by pirates fifty- six years ago, he being one ofthe crew at the time of ! the occurence, The Balem Gozetle | of October 16th, 1832, contains an ac- | count of the affair, while the Gazelle { of August 20, 1831, gives an account | of the examination of the pirates, who, | having been captured, were landed at Crowninshield’s wharf (now Phillips) at cone o'clock the day before. The egister, in its notice of the death of Mr, Anderson (who was buried from the Old Men’s Home on Thursday) re- { calls the exciting events in Mr, Ander. | son's life; ““The brig Mexican was owned by Captain Joseph Peabody, | grandfather of Mr. 5. Endicott Pea- {body, at the time of her cap- | ture by the pirate schooner Penda on September 20, 1832, The Mexican | was commanded by Captain John G. | Butmnan, of Beverly, and sailed from | Salem August 29, 1832, for Rio Janiero. i The pirates boarded the brig, and, after threatening Captain Butman and | his entire crew with instant death, ob- | tained $20,000 in specie. They then | drove the crew below, fastened the | companion way, fore scuttle and after- | batchway, stove the compasses 10 pieces in the binnacles, cut away tiller ropes. halliards, braces and most rut ning rigging, and also cut the salls, and ended by setting the vessel on fire inthe caboose house, In his sorry plight they deserted the brig, leaving { the crew to a horrible fate, Dut they | neglected to secure a cabin scuttle, and | through this the crew escaped and ex- tinguished the flames, When the brig reached Balem Butman im- mediately published, over Lis facts of the capt { of the Caplan Own sig- rat ire A r w nature, Li of apture above given, The ruflians were 1 knives, and their rakl sailing schooner carried 1wo long | amidships, and about 70 men, Spaniards and mulatloes, The were subquently captured brig Curlew, and 16 of landed in Salem. Five £ . 13 Bend ‘ hanged in Boston June 11 » oO i ¥ ii eDritish were fn Were Der- the Panda, | having, in 1831, as master of the Spanish brig Leon, rescued, at great danger to himself, 72 persons from the | burning ship Minerva {of Salem. Capt-~ | tain Nathaniel Putman, and treated them with great Kindness, was par- doned by President Jackson. Mr. | John Nichols second mate, Captain { Thomas Fuller and Mr, John Baltis, shipthates with Anderson and theMexi- can are living in Salem to-day. A Horse's Memory. Many years ago, Abram Dodge, of | Ipswich, Mass., owned a beautiful | horse which was the pet of the family. {| He was admired by all who knew his | playfulness and good qualifications, In | the summer it was Mr, Dodge's habit | occasionally to have a frolic with his { horse in his barnyard, then let him alone and he would go to the river, which was one-third of a mile distant, where he would bathe, then go to a common and roll on the grass, then start for home; his stable was renova- ted for him while he was gone and his | breakfast put in a crib. If he met his master he would show | some coltish pranks, run for the stable, | pull out the wooden pin thst fastened | the door with his teeth, and rush to his manger to find his food. Ope night | the horse was stolen from the stable, | After the expiration of sixteen years, | Mr, Dodge was at the tavern, when a | man drove a horse up to the door. Mr. | Dodge at once recognized his horse and told the driver his reasons for believing it to be his, The man told his story of whom he bought the horse, and that be had owned him for several years It was finally agreed that if the horse would, on being taken to his own stable, go through the babit of bathing, running through the grass and pulling the pin from the stable door, as above described, Mr, Dodge should have him. When the horse was let ont into his old yard he viewed the premises for a moment, then started for his old bath- tub, then for his green towel on the common, then to his old stable, pulled the wooden pin and won for himself a good meal and his old master his fa- vorite horse. These facts are vouched for by reliable residents of the beauti- Iu), pletustagus ola town, and show usively the long memory of our noble animal. . id, ¥ i A ———————————E—— Wonders of the Body. The skin contains more than 2.000,. 000 openings, which are the outlets of an equal number of sweat glands. The human skeleton consists of more than distinct bones. An amount of i fe 380 id
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