Tornado 'at ' faristroi fa M'10 -fl ,"verej; "a kU b,Kk ,uewb,t Jest part of the story remain to bemjurcd. FOOltll Of Jllly. !ld. Three live were lost by the "Father" Ulrich was very badly in- . .'Y-Vi falling of the Furnace and three more jured, but was ooo extricated, and :by tba falling of the Bridge, while a' conveyed to his home, where be lies in T T"7" iVfca V AQm number of persons were seriously in- very critical conditiou. , , "T X , , i "jared. , Louis pfletlsticker was instantly . ,i ,x i" -J. The bridge was regarded aa a ub jkilcdf Md bi bod u maigtd in ' -! ;ttiI struoture.baviug been ttaedbyiai be b tnBt it required THREE MEN AND TUO BOYS the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. for ,&nr8 to recover it. He was a German, running of their train between Lewi.-' e on l0 Tetr!lj ,nJ workeJ in Lewil . :T jtown Junction and SnDbery. a. well u 4t .boemakiof. for uie time. Ue- ' ,,nose of the Mifflia nJ Ceufre Co !entIv he has been at hi home near FalloftheEiTer Bridge-Glamor.Br.noh. Its length w. e9 feet, aadlririi; 8talins -(Hl Mlue to ljewis,owll i gan Furnace No. 2 in Buins-.tbe height of the aw ab..v low water t0 d the Four(h M B visitor he Lutheran Church Spiret BlOWn mark aboat 84 feet. The force of the ,elTes DO flni t Dow-Presbyterian Church Do-Wn ... exhibited in t5e I.fting np of. U bile these three were within oihi roofed-Houses, Barns and Stayhi immense structure and it. being uf tbi, gbore ,be fiie 0,ber IUPU. bles Destroyed or Ied-Lossharied bodily from it. pier Tb tin.-ti,ne1 tbnJ weIe 0M,r tbe lippuillei of Property $100,000. - . . Ibera of which it was eompcwed weregide ,eie precjpitaUj "" I ' " :' jstretcbed from shore to show in mass tbf cr(,llBg lluberi I ,' ' 1 V" of indescribable confusion, but so firm-; By what seems a miracle Clajtou .About three o'clock in the affroooB packed together by the lalt that they We,duian of Oaklau.i Mill, iie.r Mif of the 4th a ttiunder-atorai appioacbedeld be safely traversed the whole flj e8e,ped witb brUM!ii ,llkle!). from tbe west and another from the.distauoe. .. y Harvey Sberk of Paiterson, was north, and tbe two teemed to mingle inl Just a the storm began, four young Tery badly injured, aud wa. removed fury' directly over the town, causingmen from Mifflin and vicinity entered to his father's home, in that place, such a war among the element, that the bridge from this end, and Mr. John heM. he B0 ,,es u b very cnticai atout-bearurd men, as well a wuu.enjSwan and Conrad Ulrich, Sr., ..f Lw-j"? Goshen, a sou ,.f George and children, were struck witb terror, btown, with Loum Pfleil.twker, a for-'(j09ben of ptterwn, wa humbly Tbe roar and din created by the rat-mer resident, entered it from the other crushed and mangled, and lived but tlingof rain and hail, the bowling of'end. Jos. Crawford, a railroad em-'a short time alter being taken i-ut of tbe wind and the 'pealing of tl.ue.det'ployee, residing near the Junction, was'" wrecked nm Me died at the .. c? . i i I i j , . a ..'Junction Hotel, and an inquest wa. wa. simply appalling. SndJei.ly the also on the bridge, having entered hgd Qpnj) bis rfeuiams, as well a. thofe stone osumed the ahape of a tornado, either to crosa or to seek shelter. '0f yr Fflcilsticker. and swept over the town with irresisti-. When the stwm reached it height, thej Wm. Bartley, a son of alvin B. ble fury, prostrating buildings, trees bridge began to rock, aud Mr. John:Bartley, of Fermanagh township, Juni- and rences in every quarter, and ieaving Swan started for the gate bouse, calling'1 OB,"y. 8 fa,a,17 ... , '. .. . , ,, . j and died on Saturday eveniiiK, a. lie scarcely a single property without at.to hi eompaniona U follow. He badjwM being npon ,fie Iajll least some alight damage. About one scarcely take step, however, before fey!M,ce to bis home, and the tame moment tbe River Bridge the telegraph wires eame dowu, enUng-j ' Jos. Crawford was very badly hurt, was lifted from its piers and thrown'ling his feet, and throwing him upon and is lying at In home on the ppo violently into the river bed of the the floor. While endeavoring to re- te side of the river, under the oare ..f ,,i t- v o li i.- i .i. i. i . r , l)r. Worrall. There is some hope of stream, Glamorgan Furnace No. 2 was lease himself the whole, structure f"i bls re00yery crushed together as if its ttune walls carrying down all who were npon it.j Xt ia difficult to estimate the loss had been paper, one end of Blymyer't Mr. Swan sustained bat slight Injuries, occasioned by the destruction, of the Brick Steam Mill at the canal was pros-strauge to say, and succeeds in climb- bridge, but it will not fall far short of trated, tbe Lutheran Church Spire was'ing up from beneath the watrr imougb ''VV,' , . .. . . , . .1 . . . . , V A full force was put to woik, kh.u blown dewn, the Presbyterian Church the timbers to a place of safety, and Bftef ,be SU(rlu blJrllub!(ij , r!Mr unroofed, tbe Apprentices' Hall waa gaioed tbe bore unaided. He had a BVaT tbe debris, and a temporary made a wreck, and desolation was gash in the back uf the h-aJ, a finger bridgo is now in progress uf erection,
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