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Devastating cyclone leaves Reading silk mill wrecked
A northern Reading cyclone struck Reading Pa causing massive destruction. The Reading silk mill collapsed trapping about 200 workers, with estimates of 80 dead and around 100 injured. Fire crews and police labored through darkness to pull survivors from bricks and timber.
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Pennsylvania
Reading
Pittsburgh
Sunbury
Ohio
Illinois
Indiana
Reapine
Mount Penn Stove Works
J. H. Sternberg
Reading Railroad Company
Reading Railroad
John Kaller
Albert Landberger
Sheridan Jones
George Schaffer
Aaron Dewalt
George Knabb
Twelfth
Marion Streets
Reading Silk Mill
Mount Penn
Henry Crocker
Laura Kershner
Eva Leeds
Lillie Grow
Katie Bowman
Kate Leas
Amelia Christman
Sophie Winkleman
Elia Long
Willie Snyder
William Reteson
Rebecca Pouse
Kate Reidenauer
Rose Clemmer
John Reher
Grimshaw Brothers
Paterson
N. J
Augustus E. Roscup
Pittspurch
Box Fourteen
Diamond
Wood Streets
Diamond Street
C. J. Willey
Weldin & Co
Wood Street
Fred Schumaker
Weldin
Willey
W. H. Thomas
H. Watt & Co
Joseph Richbaum
Fifth Avenue
Thomas
Rea Bros. & Co
Waldin
Brown
McDowell
Frank and
Elchley
Contractors
Fison
McAleese
J. L. Reed
Allegheny
Weldin’s
Gottman
Goehring
Adolph Herman
Williamsport
Demorest
Demorest Works
Bontreger & Co
Seventeenth Ward
Hines
McIntosh, Hemphill & Co
Thirteenth Street
Wall’s Station
Pennsylvania Railroad
Westinghouse Air-Brake Company
Wilmerding
McKeesport