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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.
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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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