Storm-swept

A terrlBc cyclone, sweeping up the Delaware Eiver on the afternoon ol Aug. 8 struck Philadelphia near Greenwieh Poínt, demolishing portion oí the works of the Pennsylvonia Salt Manufacturine Companv and injuring several employés. It taen took a course serosa the river, wreeking the river tteazner Maj. Reybold and the íerry boat Peerless. The storin blew Pllot Emery Townsend and Capt. Eugene Reybold ei the steamer Reybold, into the river, drowning the íormer and palnfully lnjurlng th captain. The Peerle?s was swept deán, almo8t to the water's edge. When the Reybold left her dock íor Salem, N. J., she had on board about fifty passengers, althougu as no tickets had been gold it ia lmpossibte to ascertain the exact number. There were a) so about fourteen officers and deck hands. Of this nuinber oí peopleupon the wreekeil boat, it does not appear that any llvei were lost except that of the pilot, although it ís not impossible tbat some of the passenger were washed ff and lost without anyon knowing oí the fatal circumstances. A steam tu? coming up the river aíter the disaster reports that tue body oí a woman wa seen for a few miuutes fioating in the river near the spot where the eyclone struc'i the steamboat, bút sbe sank out of sight and eould not be found when he tng ma le a tearcb for her. B. 1. Warner, one o!' the passengere, dascrlbes the scène. He was standing 0:1 tue upper deck and saw the blac'.t s orm approaehinr, tiut as it moved rather slowly he supposei it was a rain storm. When it struik tie boat he discovered that ils immense loten camo from its rotary mofon. He and ssveral other were thrown througj a hola ;o the loiver deck and all the upp r works werp snept away like chaff. The confusión amoag ilie passengen was iudeseribable and several of them ;umpd into the river, but Mr. Warner be'.icv s allol thetn were restued. Wblle the eyclone was upon t!e vessel everything was "blaik as the blaekest niiht. Sofas were brokeu to splinters and carnets tor to shreds in the cabin, as lf they had bee paper. The cyclone, he thinks, lasted alxiut a minute, and a ter it passei the vessel rolled aud pitched frijchifully in the great waves wh'eh cania near snampiug her. The 8to: m then passed ovtr to Uie Jirsey side, strikin? Jno. Dalog 1 shljjyard belor Enigbt's Point. and destroying the luüd ugs of the establishment. It tiieu took a course along the New Jersey river, d moKshlng uil the buildings in iig path to Bridge avenue, Camden. At this poliit the eyclone took an eaiterly course to Fifth street, Camelen. Passing over the river, skirtiug Pettv's Island, the storm passed over to that part oí th Twenty-flith WarJ of Phlladeiphia known - Richiu''iiu. In lts rivales in Camden scores of dwelling houses were unroofed and some of thetu thrown down, and the damag to busiaess property along the river front is euormous. Hundredi of families were rendered hom 1. -s ï. aud ouevictim, Charles Daizey. was Ui led uutnght at th American Dredeinj? companv wharf. Aaother, Harry Stevens, had uis leg cut off by a tlyirig piet-e of timber and will probablv die. The path of the "throngh Ricluuond-' wai marked with death and destruction. lts track was almost dus nortli f ,0111 the Port Richmond coal wharves. About 150 dwelling houses wort wrecked or so badly damsged as to be unfit for habitation ; 2C0 faüjilies were driven from their homes to be cared for by thelr neighbors. A number of people were seriousiy and some fatally injured. A girl of 10 ycars, Lizzie McVevfeh, was killed at her home, 1270 Melval strêet, in sight of her mother, who was herself pinued to tue floor tiy fallen rafters, a few fMt From her dying child. The cyelone is desa ibed by tho?e who witnessed fts progress upoa the river as an immense eone-shaped c.ou.l, with its apex reeting upon the water and its base minglingwith tai cfouds which hung in dense massea from the sky. Sbort & Hard's three-storv hosiery mili, 3Uj9 and SOU Salmón street, Richmond, Philadelphia, was completelv wrecked and scattered in all directions. There were about eighty people employed in the mili, most oí them young girls, and the effect was to throw them into a panic. A large number jumped f rom the Eecoad story windoivs and were only slightly injured, while others were hurled to the grouná with falling walls and struck by pieces of flying timber and brlcks. Before the storm the air was filled with flying debrls, and people seeing the awf ui sight fled in terror by huud: ed to their cellars. The eyclone lasted for four or flve minutes, and wat marked with territit puffs and roars. It is a most singular fact that flat-roofed houses suffered most. The wind with the greate-t ease calching them under the cornic lif ted them as though they were sheets of paper. Thero was hardly án instance where a mansard roof buildinjj was wrecked. So great was tho Tiolence of the wind that the fronts and sidei of houses and bay windo '.vs were mashed aa though they were egg shills. Koofs were carried hundreds oí yards away. Shade trees were mowed down like platooas oí soldiers on field of battle. Great monster treeï that had stood the storms of years were uprooted or broken off like pipe st'e ms. The number of killed and injured is not known, as oa several of the boats in the river were many passengers aud as no tickets had been old tbe exact number missing caunot be told. In Philadelphia six persons were killed and a number injured, several fatally. Ia Camden about 20 eriou- lujuries aro rsported.