Show A Terrible Cyclone at AVilkesbarre Pa WiLKESuAiiRE Pa Aug 19At 5 oclock this afternoon the most terrible cyclone that ever was experienced in this locality struck this city I came up the river and the suddenness of its coming was one of its awful features The Sword S-word as black as night and the wind blew with most frightful velocity Whole rows of trees were blown down Following this hundreds of houses were unroofed partially blown over and completely demolished de-molished and worse than all the visitation I visita-tion of death was sent upon a number of people Large districts in several section S of the city are in absolute ruin and women and children are in the streets crying and wringing their hands in absolute dismay Thedamage will reach hundreds of thousands thou-sands of dollars Passenger trains and locomotives lo-comotives at the depot were blown over and every wiro in the city electric IMu telephone and telegraph is down T to devastations to be compared to nothing in the memory of the oldest inhabitant Everybody is rejoicing that no fires a yet hava taken place for the streets are impassible im-passible with trees and fallen buildings i and the engines could not be drawn through them Tho total death lst so Incas learned is tWelve Four known Foulmen are t have been killed at Hazard Wire Rope wprks A h use o Scott street occupied 1 by miners Who had just returned from 1 work fell and three of the inmates killed I J J < The huge stack of tho Kytlo planing mill fell on a man and two horses and all were killed A little colored girl was killed by a falling building on South Main street Two men suffered death by the falling of n portion of Stegmaiers brewery and a third incurred the same fate through tho almost complete demolition of SS Browns brick business block on Market street There are undoubtedly fifteen or sixteen others killed Many poor people suffered heavy losses and it will bo months before the damage can be repaired re-paired fully two hundred buildings being blown down or otherwise damaged Many of the structures were of large size and great value The Murray shaft fan house was blown down and the fan stopped There are twentyseven men in the mine but it is hoped they can be got out safely Later 730 pm Reports come from Sugar Notch a mining town three miles from hero that the destruction of property is terrible and fifteen persons were killed at Parsons and Mill Creek four miles from here Coal breakers in all directions have been more or less damaged |