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Creator Bessel, Fred.
Contributor Harvey.
Title The Pennsylvania cyclone. / Composed and sung by Bessel and Harvey, authors of Mud Run disaster, Whitechapel murders, Wreck of the Allentown, Whiteling poisoning case, Fairmount Park mystery, &c.
Title Shadows of death are upon us, and a calamity has occurred
Publisher [Reading, Pa.? : s.n]
Publisher PA. Reading. 1889
Date [1889?]
Physical Description 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 26 x 20 cm
Notes Verse in four unnumbered stanzas; first line: The shadows of death are upon us, and a calamity has occurred,.
On Jan. 9, 1889, a tornado swept over Reading, Pa., destroying the Grimshaw Silk Mill and the Reading Railroad paint shop, killing 17 and injuring more than 100 people.
Printed area, including mourning border, measures 25.3 x 19.8 cm.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Disasters -- Poetry.
Tornadoes -- Pennsylvania -- Reading.
Geographic subject Reading (Pa.) -- Poetry.
Genre Broadside poems.
Broadsides.
Poems -- 1889.
Song sheets.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts| Rare| sm # Am 1889 Bessel 112042.O (Roughwood)
Accession number 112042.O (Roughwood)

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