Show TERRIBLE WORK OFA CYCLONE I 1 JSleciVlc 1ilutuii res Dentffniid Destruction in Pennsylvania i PHILADELPHIA August 3A terrific cyclone cy-clone sweeping up the Delaware river this afternoon struck this city near Greenwich Point demolishing a portion of the works of the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing company and injuring several employes I then took a course across the river wre king k-ing four steamers and the ferryboat Peerless Peer-less The storm blew the pilot of the Emory Townsend and Captain Eugene lieybold of the steamer Major Eeybold into the river drowning the former and painfully injuring the captain The Peerless Peer-less was swept clean almost to the sedge s-edge When the Major Reynold left the dock for Salem N J she had on board about fifty passengers although as no tickets were sold it is impossible to ascertain ascer-tain the exact number There were also about fourteen officers and deck hands Of the number of people on the wrecked boat I it does not appear that any lives were lost except that of the pilot although it is possible pos-sible that some of the passengers were washed off and lost One of the passengers described the scene as follows I was standing on the upper deck and saw a black storm approaching but as it moved rather slowly 1 supposed it was a i rain storm When i struck the boat I dis I covered that its immense force came from its rotary motion Myself and several others were thrown through a hole to a lower deck I and all the upper works were swept away like chaff The confusion among the pan I sengers was indescribable While the cyclone I cy-clone was upon the vessel everything was j I black as the blackest night Sofas were I i broken to splinters and carpets torn to j shreds in the cabin as if they had been paper The cyclone he thinks lasted about a minute and after it passed the vessel I rolled and pitched fearfully in the great waters and came near swamping Passing over the river skirting Bettys Island the storm passed over to that part of I the Twentyfifth ward of Philadelphia i known as Richmond In its ravages in Camden scores of dwelling houses were unroofed un-roofed aud some of them were thrown down and the damage to business property along the river front was enormous Hundreds of families were rendered homeless and one of the victims Charles Daisey was killed outright out-right at the American Dredging Companys wharf Another Harry Stephens had his leg cut off by a flying piece of timber and will probably die The track of the storm through Richmond was marked with death and destruction I was almost due north from the Fort Richmond coal wharves About 150 dwelling houses were wrecked or so badly damaged as to be rendered unfit for habitation and 200 families were driven from their homes to be cared for by neighbors neigh-bors A number of persons were seriously and some fatally injured A girl of ten years Lizzie McVeagh was killed at her home 1821 Melvale street in sight of her mother who was herself pinioned to the floor by the falling rafters a few feet from I her dying child The cyclone is described by those who witnessed its progress up the river as an immense black coneshaped cloud with the apex resting upon the water and the base mingling with the rain clouds which hung in dense masses from the sky I is impossible to estimate the amount of damage done < j A singular phenomenon was noticed in Camden This was a huge ball of firewhich after playing havoc exploded with a terrible terri-ble report a A large number of factory girls panic stricken jumped from the secondstory window win-dow in Camden N J and were only slight1 ly injured while others were hurled to the ground with the falling walls and were struck by flying timbers and bricks Before the storm the air was filled with flying debris and the people seeing the awful aw-ful sight fled in terror by the hundreds to their cellars The cyclone lasted between four and five minutes and was marked with terrific puffs and roars I is a singular fact that the flatroofed houses suffered the most the wind catching them under the cornice and lifting them as though they were sheets of paper There is hardly an instance where a mansard roof building was wrecked So great was the violence of the wind that the fronts and sides of houses and bay windows were mashed as though I they were egg shells Roofs were carried hundreds of yards away Shade trees were I mowed down like platoons of soldiers on a battlefield Monster trees that had stood I the storms of years were uprooted broken The eccentricities of j off like pipe stems the wind could he seen on every side Buildings Build-ings which it would seem that ordinary i j i storms would have demolished were demolshed spared j while were wrecked their neighbors outright structures of brick I I |