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/ THE MORNING NEWS. j
j Established IWO. IxCORPOHATKD 1888. V
| J. H. ESTlLL.FresiiieEt. J
FEARFUL AT BEST
Louisville’s Death List May
be U to 7a.
SCENES AMONG THE REINS.
Tlie Property Loss Probably
$2,500,001).
Great Destruction in the
Tobacco District Fire
Among the Bums of the
Demolished Falls City-
Hall With Its Scores of
Dead and Dying,
Loitisvill®, March 28, 9 a. m.—The tor
nado struck Louisville about 8:31) o’clock
last night. It entered the southeastern por
tion of the city at Eighteenth street, and
swept a path five blocks wide, diagonally
reaching in a ragged line to Seventh street,
leveling every building in itspath.probably
250 houses. A rough estimate puts the
killed at 250 to 300, with 1,000 injured. The
city is filled with crazed masses of people
wildly seeking friends. A large force of
men is at work on the ruins, and about 100
bodies Lave been recovered.
The buildings on Main street from Eighth
to Fourteenth streets are in ruins, not one
of the handsome wholesale houses being left
and all the tobacco vvarenouses were swept
away.
On Market street the Falls City hall, a
four story building, was blown down while
several M sonic and Knights of Honor
lodges were in session and 100 men and
women are buried in the ruins.
Every other house on II irket, Jefferson
arid Walnut streets from Tenth to Six
teenth streets is in rui s.
P rkla.d suburb is swept away.
A TRAIN BURIED.
At the Union depot at the foot of Sev
enth street a Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
train for Washington was just starting out
filled with passengers. The building was
prostrated, crashing in o:i the train. All
the passengers, however, were rescued, ex
cept one news boy.
Every building, tree, and telegraph pole
in the district struck was leveled. A cly
clono was predicted by the signal service
bulletin yesterday afternoon, but no heed
was paid to its warning. The cyclone came
with scarce a warning sound, and in all the
buildings struck tire inhabitants were e.-
gaged in their usual vocations without an
effort to escape when their homes collapsed.
The district laid waste comprises an area
of the city three miles long, and nearly half
a mile wide.
At 8 o’clock last night seven fires were
burning. They were all extinguished.
No trains an ived from Cincinnati. Lex
ington or tne south on Louisville and N-ish
vil e, >r Chesapeake and Ohio reads last
night. All the railroads, with the excep
tion of the Pennsylvania lines, are com
pelled to suspend operations.
half the town in blissful ignorance.
Louisville, March 28, 11 a. m.—The
tornado struck the city from the southwest,
going northeastward. Outside of clearly
defined limits the citizens knew only of a
heavy rain, acc impanied by a high wind.
Soon came alarms of fire from different
stations, and the horrors of the calamity
began to dawn on the people.
Houses, nulls of amusement, railroad sta
tions, all '.vent down before the rnigaty
powers of t ie air.
The storm soon pa33ed on, the clouds scat
ter, and, and the moon cast ils light over toe
sorely stricken city.
Kelief parties w ere soon organized, and
the whole force of the lire department was
at work.
It is impossible that so wide a sweep of
territory, covered with rui iod home , with
the wreck of halls and buildings of every
character, does not c ntain many dead.
Enough is known to show that Louisville
has b-en visit and by a most appalling
calamity.
tlie wrecked portion of the city lies be
tween Eighteenth, Broadway, Seventh and
Main streets, the destroying elements pass
ing diagonally across the section, which is
probably a mile square.
At least 200 bouses are in ruins.
TWO HUNDRED LIVES LOST.
It is feared that at least 200 lives am lost.
Probably the greatest loss of life occurred
at the Kails City hall, which was in tlie
center of the tornado. In the lower rooms
of the hall were fifty or seventy-five children,
with their mothers uud other relatives, tak
>ng dancing lessons. There were at lea t
120 persons on the lower fl mrs, and seve.itv
fivo more attending a lodge meeting on the
upper floor when the terrible wind swooped
down upon the building. The entire struct
ure in loss than five minutes was ashapeles?
mass of brick and mortar,burying 2JO help
less victims, of v Inch number few escaped
uninjured. Conservative estimates place
■' h ss of life at this place at 100, v.hile re
ports Indicate the number nearer 200.- At
•> 'Clock this morning thirty-five foodie < had
bcei taken from this ruin aul fifteen
wounded and dying. Only those on the
■ lord ii' r bad been reached, t.ia room con
taining dancing school pupil* and visitors
not yet being oponed.
WORSE THAN A CYCLONE.
It. is very evident that it was not a
e.clone, w, it effect* were too widespread,
ror inilot in every direction from the city
J ''• udoiiid roofs were torn off and Uvis
Idea out of the ground by the wind. As
tram Sped toward tlie fated city, firiug-
Jog the A"*ocitod i’.esa rt|>reseulstivef
iroiti in iitnup dis, i ,-ideucet ... fir.iii,-
Jo eable iuily fifty iiiilim out. First came
’ ' vn a uii u* -ii list dead tree broke i in
Iwopleiv*, the larger and ui r■, • übd* .list
and finally mo.,aiv I of tin for jet.
Many of lo lUU to* us of vug Ufo. Jefferson-
vide, Madison an 1 Indianapolis railrxrl
w.-ro fairly sirippe lof their signs an i.-
gerbread work.
A WRCKED TRAIN.
A few miles south of Hen vville, about
twenty-one miles from Louisville, lay an
oucin ■ with its great iron nose piu ig and i ito
a bed of sfft Velio v mail. On rlio opposite
side lay the massive tender, and bevond it
t.vo coaches tipped over on the.r sides. It
was the wreck of train No. 0, a combination
wnich runs between ludimapoii* and Lou
isville. The tram was making the ho t tune
possible in tho heavy wind, when it struck
a birch tree that had been torn up by its
roots and flung across the track. No' oue
was injured.
AN APPALLING SIGHT.
Whoa the scene of tho Louisville disaster
was reached au appaling sight was pre
sented. A crowd of people throngu 1 tho
Fourteenth street station and from there up
Mam street to tho heart of the citv was a
mass of humanity, and dging horses, st.eot
cars and all sorts of vehicles, in tho middle
of the stroer. On either side was wreck and
ruin, brick having the appearance of hav
ing simply crumbled to earth. Gangs of
rescuers worked like heroes on tho great
morses of debris in tne search for human
victims. Here there lay a dead mule, with
clots of blood at the nostrils, that had been
drugged from tne ruins of the great tobacco
houses, of which they are the most common
adjunct In this souther n city. Women uud
men darted before mad horses, whose
weight it seemed would crush them to death.
MENACING WALLS.
Burly policemen were stationed at the
street crossings to prevent people from at
tempting to pass tarough the rui.ied thor
oughfares, where partially wrecked walls
stood as a menace to hum in life, but their
efforts Wi r > futile, and men, women nnl
children made the.r way down the danger
ous streets with astounding rookies vies
The morbid crowd was not to be held back
iivits wild desire to satisfy c iriosity, an 1 it
was a sight worth their efforts to sea. The
wreck was so great tuat it beggars attempt
to de:ail.
Immediately upon the b iriting of tho
cyclone the fire bells sounded, and the
police were at work within tea minutes. A
posse appeared at tho Falls City hali. Tht
walls of the adjoining houses were first
propped, and then began tho work of cut
ting through the heavy slate roof that
covered all.
DIFFICULT WORK.
At first the work was dtlli 'Ult and labor
ious ou account of the anxious multitude
that thronged about the wreck. Woman
were found digging at the slate wit h their
fingers, almost crazed. Every one did noble
work. After an hour of ceaseless lab nr tne
first victim, Mrs. Sarah Kelley, was un
earthed. She was found sil ting in an up
right position, her head bruised anil arm
broken. She said that at the first quake of
the building a mad rush was mad > for tTo
entrance. Women were knocked down
and trampled ou in their mad haste to
escape. Seeing tho overwhelming jam for
the door, several remained behind. Tho
last she saw of her friends was just before
theft >or gave way and tho ceiling fell. The
work was continued, but none of those
wi.om Mrs. Kelley said were near h t could
bo found.
CORPSES IN A HEAP.
The work of excavating was then moved
from the rear of the building to the front,
where it was supposed tho greater crowd
was gathered. As soon as the roofing was
removed from tho inass of brick beneath
the first sight that met the eyes was any
thing but hopeful. Tea women locked in
each others arms were drawn out of the
debris. Janies Hassom, whose wife hid
been at a lodge meeting, was foremost in
tho work, and tho first pors m whom ho
drew out of the ruined building was
his wife, who died in his
arms. Ho laid her by tho silo
of others who were dead and continued to
work for the living.
KILLED BY GAS.
Inside of the next hour thirty men aid
women were drawn out dead, but with no
wounds on their bodies, and it is thought all
met their death from suffocation. The gas
pipes had broken, which caused the lights to
go out, and which saved the ruins from fire
for a lime, but flooded the and bris with vapor
almost as deadly as fire might h ivo proven.
Ways wore pierced into tho ruins an i tho
bodies of tti; dead and dying wore draw >
out. One part of the building was reserved
for tho dead, but tne wounded were taken
into stores a id houses on the opposite side of
the street, where physicians and pries ,s ad
ministered to their souls and bodies. Along
Main street the pathway of the storm ex
tended from Sixth t) Eleventh streets aid
from Seventh to Eleventh, and not a single
buildi g was left standing.
Occasionally a massive stone or iron front
still stood intact., while the entire structure
proper had beau s vepl entirely aw y. | his
morning it presented the ruoso stupe duous
spectacle of disaster and ruin ever witnessed.
RUIN IN THE TOBACCO DISTRICT.
in the path of tho storm lay the prided
tobacco market of the city, and to-day me
warehouses, almost to the last one, are ia
ruins. They include the Kentucky, Pick
ett, the Ninth street. Falls City, p to uix,
Greenover, Liuisviile, Enterprise, Central
end Planters’. The and struction of the
Louisville and Ninth street warehouses
could not possibly have been more com
plete. Thousaud ;of hogsheads of tobacco
lay ia the mass of brick and inortar; some
in view, others buried from sight beneath
the debris.
A HOTEL WRECKED.
The Louisville hotel, between Sixth and
Seventh streets, was unroofed and other
wi e wrecked, while the buildi.ig west,
occupied as a cigar store upon tuo Ii st
fl lor, aid sleepi g rooms on tne second and
third, was razed entirely to tho greund, not
asi glo brick remaining in place. In the
destruction of this bouse man}' lives were
lost, principally of persons who occupied
sleeping rooms them Many of them were
young girls employod at "the hotel next
door.
"IMPROVISED MORGUES.
Saloons and other available places have
been turned into hastily improvised
morgues, where bodies are t iken as fast as
recovered and left awaiting identification.
Patrol wagons aro being pressed into
service as dead wagons to convey corpses to
the required places.
A FLUE FOR THE STORM.
Eleventh strait seemed to serve a; a kind
of flue f r tiie storm, as nil intercepting
olijects in that line are practically reduced
to nnthingncs. As it rm.iei down this
street it carried with it the fronts of build
ings. whic l n"e mostly rosi fences, on each
side, leaving In many i istances furniture
and other contents unmolested. Frequently
from the conter < f some three-sided lvvell
irg an unbroken chandelier is still swiuging.
cahting away furniture.
J ITers si mul Market s'r. ot* are in almost
ns bid c noli in as Maui, a J hunorets of
wagoiie are bus/editing a-'-ay soiled and
hi. I* a lurn tu.e fr eu wh it wore bourn*
yes erday, but aro no longer.
Massiie trees in the pork ou Jeffers n
stri o:. 1 avo b-**,i twieivl ael broke i In.**
reed*, and la er< ed and pile lup on men
ottie.. Kv.r • w.n-i in too truck of tho i
•tor ul*' leek audi up*.
Canwfit r u. ;Vh .. a '* ii’ou sol L on
Eighth .i it, a four t ry bulldog, we
blot, ii do am and o.ii) a1 v a Fsivfum usll* j
ivuuUusMud.bg.
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1890.
LIQUOR IN A BLAZE.
The wholesaleliqu r establishment of J.
T. Brown & Sons, on the corner of Eighth
and Main streets, fell and i istantlv the
liquors e.iug o fire and caused an awful co
- Tho building consisted of five
stories and was compa naively n new struc
ture. By hard work the firemen managed
to c mtrol tho blaze, despi'e the character
of the stuff that fed it. Tiie buildings ad
jacent to it were considerably torn up, a id
it is quite positive that several d-'ad tudies
lay beneath tli" ruins.
To© great building No. 745 Main street,
occ ipie i by 8. F. Gunther, a lotiacc i
broker; H. R. Too voter aid Jams; \V.
Prather, was nearly demolished, a- well
also as an immense building occupied bv H.
A. Thierman <St Cos., wholesale liquor deal
ers, a id tho L - gdoa-Kroger Saddlery Com
pany’s building at No. 737 M in street, lost
its roof, and Carter Brothe: s’ storage rooms
were badly damaged.
INJURED IN A STORE.
Several men were injured in the quoens
ware store of Charles Rosenheim & Cos., at
No. 745. and others in tile wreck of John
ston Bros., wholesale grocery, and that of
Moore, Bremaker & Cos.
Tho Iron Store nud Tin Company, \V. H.
Nenians’ wholesale grocery, Dunlap Bro.
& Co.’s saddlery store, and the wholesale
clothing establishment of Lovy Nowberger
& Cos., and a largo number of others have
lost tueir roofs.
The board of trade held a meeting this
morning, and tho board authiriz3s a state
ment that there will bi no call for aid from
outside.
The deaths will number 150.
Forty men have been sent out by the
board of trade to make a thorough canvass
of tiie district, and report the losses of life
and property fully.
The work of rescuing tiie mangled dead
bc.ni •* goes bravely n. A hundred msxioos
men worked a3 they never worked before
for tho bodies of their wives, fathers,
mothers, brothel's and sisters, that lie buried
in tho shapeless mass of bri k and mortar
that covers the site where yesterday stoo 1
tho Falls City hall. The crie3 of nion,
women and children rond the air on every
side. A surging crowd of 10,000 people
block the streets for squares about the scene
of the catastrophe. A luge force
of police guard the avenues to keep
back the pressing inns es of curious human
ity that are gradually forcing their way to
tie awful scene of calamity. Bodies, man
gled and shapeless beyond recognition, are
being dragged from beneath the ruins every
few minutes. Coroner Miller slands at the
door of his temporary morgue in the
McGrathiana saloon, opposite tie wreck,
directing the disposition of the bodies.
ITS PATH ON BROAPWAY.
The storm soemod only to have swept
Broadway from Fifteenth 1 1 Ninth streets,
but nearly all the h >uso* between these
streets anl on intersecting streets
woro demolished. Nose of the o >t
t ges, however, and low frame build
ings escaped without serious injury.
From Fifteenth to Hixtee th streets are
mostly small frame houses occupied by
cilored families. The roofs were torn oil’,
but not a great .animal of damago wa*
•lone and none of tho occupants were hurt.
From Sixteenth and >wn to Nineteenth streets,
however, the destruction was ' terrible.'
Peter Spots , and his family, who live at
No. 1003, were quietly seated ii their parlor
when the st Tin burst with all its furv.
The building swaved and tottered, aim
finally the walls of the second
story fell. All of the family
remained hud lie 1 iu the hallway a :d es
caped without injury. The furniture and
buildiug were destroyed. Adjoining is tho
residence "f Mrs. Welsh, No. 1805 It was
literally demolished. From the appearance
of the crumbled mass of ruins this morning
one can never suppose that only yesterday
it was a beautiful dwelling. By almost a
miracle the members of the family escaped.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
Mrs. John Brown lived at No. 1617. Her
house received tho full force of the first
terrible gust, and tho walls bent and
crumbled like so much paper. Tue lady
herself was caught by falling tirnbor3 an i
pinioned to the ground, but her husband
succeeded in extricating her. She was not
seriously injured. At No. 1619 lived Jlrs.
Shulte in a line two-story brick buildi ig’.
It was leveled and together with all it con
taine-1 is a total loss. 1\ a members of t e
family opened tho dior and ran out when
they heard the crash, thus barely saving
saving their livo o
T q Catholic buildings at Seventeenth
street aud Broadway were the Sisters’
home, the parochial school. Father Disney’s
residence, and tho Sacred Heart c lurch.
They were ail blown down, and Sister Pius
was buried in tho ruins, bihorriy after,
when taken out by a rescuing party, sho
was dead. All of the other sisters escaped
without injury.
INDIANAPOLIS SENDS RELIEF.
Indianapolis, March 28.—The relief
committee of tho Indianapolis Board of
Trade, uuder the leadership of Col. Eli Lilly,
left this city at 9 o’clock this morning for
Louisville with a corps of surge ms and sur
gical appliances. The colonel alsi carried
$1,009 iu cash to relieve the immediate
wants of the deslitute and suffering.
STRESTS FULL OF GJOD3. "
Difficulty in Finding Storage Room
Feared.
Louisville, March 28, 7 r. m.—Hun
dreds of thousands of dollars worth of goods
lay last night upon the business streots a t
the mercy of thieves. It now semis almost
impossible to find storehouses for this vast
amount of mercha-.di<o.
At many Diaces to vering walls of brick
are oscillating iu the air, ready to descend
a: any moment. These poinC3 of danger
are guarded by police and the Louisville
Legion.
Coroner Miller has ordered that no body
be interred until it has boo i viewed by him.
Tins has caused some discontent among
those who wish to tnko immediate charge of
the remains of their friends.
Telephone wires are all down and it will
take ten days to get them up aud working
again.
The search for victims is giing steadily
on, und each hour adds largely to the
already long list. At many places men
labor in da ger of burial 1 e i<*atu tottering
wa'is at any moment, and other accida.iti
are looked for momentarily.
DANGER OF A WATER FAMINE.
Chief Engineer Hermiuy visi e 1 tie
water works this afterm > i a id found that
the stand-pipe had bean completely blown
down, but no other da ia '0 had beau done.
Tins of it'elf, h'jsv'vof. is enough, for it
will so n leave tue city wi h >ut water. No
p imping ca i l*o tiono, and fiori ii onlv
nb ut enough wit Tin tie reservoir to la*t
f.r five day-. At tho cud of that time t,e
riublicwellsw.il have to sy.ipiy Ui i d:-
maud. ri-.o money damage to tie
v.ater works is about $21,00),
lut it Is li.ipoesibie to r air
it in time to prevent a water fa nine.
Thi af ernoun Bren lo .L Lu; i suel a
notice to all water cous liners tint, witb
tho ex vI >i, of the lire depaf motif, ail
the water supply would be turned off for t
w- ht. or tmt I repairs aro i nplot/j!, Iu
tlo liieantim* th# public Is no .roi llntl
lties* repairs will tiepr imcj.oiiw diligently
as j*o* .b *•.
A WHKCKSO !*'*/.
( rushed and t* uuiii * l rui i* maiii tic
spot where only las, cvsuutg sto.nl the
splendid large union depot a i>venth s'reit
ai l the river. When t ’.e crash came .a
Louisville S mther i train ha l ju t c mie iu,
and an Oni> and Mississippi trai l was
rt’.idy t p ill out, but b uth w re caught by
the failing mass aud were crusiiei like
shells.
From Seventh street ami tin river r.s f .r
down as ca i bs seen one oviti u iu: sea of
desolation meats tue eye au l L -.vi Ir; t u>
t ousands of sooctuto 'S, wan never dream al
of anything s > terr.ble.
The early id flit train on tne I.vuisvid?,
St. L mis aid Indianapolis r :,i hud a race
with the elements. The c-ic.n . heard tho
storm and saw the clouds wi lie upon a
siraight and level stretch of track so m
aft r crossing Salt river bridge, twenty
miles below I.ouis file, lie knew that to
be caught there meant disaster to Ins tram,
so he ran for tho shelter of a hill four miles
distant. But tho tornado crossed the track
in front of his engine, aud dl l him no harm.
RELIEF WORK.
At the meeting of the h m l of trade to
day a relief committee of fifty membors
was selected by tho president, aud they con
sented to serve. It was decided that four
members sh >uld tie assigne 1 to e tch sq lure,
and all parts of the wreck >1 district
bo visited. An estimate of the damage
will be immediately made, a.d first
help extended to poor people in
drs.ituto condition. Then the committee
w ill turn its attention to repairing the dam
ages. it was requeued that those having
teams should /cl wo their business aid use
every effort to assist those nee.llug help.
An executive committee of seven was also
selected to secure homes for those who a o
homeless. Within afow minutes aft r tht
passage of theso resolutions $15,099 had beau
subscribed.
The Norton infirmary has consmtei to
tr.ko care ot a. miny of tho injured as pos
sible free of charge.
A a meeting of the general relief com
mittee of the board of trad 'at 0 o'clock to
night reports were hs.ard fro n the canvass
ing committee. The city council had been
officially added to tho c mmittao so as to
secu-e unanimity of act! .n. They w>r <
represented in the executive committee by
Councilman Stall aud Tyler. Chief of
Police Taylor was press it to repre
sent Mayor Jacob, who is ex- ifflei > a
member of tho exeoutivo committee. The
reports showed that the t'til relief sub
scription was $20,099, to which is aided
$20,U90 voted as a relief appropriation -y
the citv council. It was determined by
resolution to use tho citizen A subscript lo is
a', once and to reserve the $29,000 vot' and by
the council till private aid had been ex
hausted.
FIRM IN TIIE RUINS OF TIIE HALL.
At midnight t .o opining up of a portion
of the debris of tho Falls Oity hall cau-ed a
draught to penotra e the rums, whereupon
a smouldering fire broke ou witu a tre
mendous fierceness. It spread rapidly,
and forced the workers to desert
the pile. Several lines of hose ware
soon throwing water on tho llamas, but it
.* as more ti.ua au hour before work could
lie proceeded with, and then it was
carried on with much difficulty on ac
count of the heat. Up to 12 o’clock only
about thirty-five dead bodies and twouty
tive wounded and dyiug were taken from
the wreck.
At about 11:30 o’clock the room where the
children were dauoing was readied, Louis
Simms, Jr., of N s 1124 Mark' s'; street, had
fir hour; bae.i moving abojit in agony of
grief i t front of that poruon of the wreck
where this roi n had been, for hi ; wife and
four iictio children wire there. Win a tne
room was reacoed Mr<. Simms was the first
oio found, and sho was f itally hurt. Thin
within about fifteen minutes of each
other three of the Simms children
wire recovered. They were unconscious,
aud there is only a faint possibility of their
living. While the father was imploring the
workers to got his o ner child, fire broke
out and work was suspended.
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
A thrilling exue-is ice was that of Gtorge
H. Capi oof No. 1431 Stewart avenue, wli >
was pres nt at the meeting of Jewel Lodge
No. 2, Knights and Ladies of Honor, i.i
their lodge room on tuo top floor of the
Falls City Market hall, wiie i ths building
collapsed. Ho says: '‘Tho first intimation
of danger we had were two distinct
rockings of the building, about which
time the dormer window iu
the lodge room was bliwn from
its casings, and immediately after the
plastering begin to drop from the ceiling.
A wild rusu was made for the anto-ro un.
The rush carried me with it a id I had jus!
reached the and ior when the entire fl *or gave
wav and we were precipitated to the buso
me it, blind 'd and a' nose sul? mato i by a
cloud of dust and crushed and jammed by
tho falling ti niters. In some way ihedoir
frame fell with me aid maintained an
upright position alien it stooped, and I was
enabled to extricate myseif from the debris
ami make an exit to th* street through an
adjoining h use, whose durs 1 kicked in.
SHRIEKS AND GROANS.
“Meanwhile tho shrie s aid groans of
thus;; still impriio ol by tho wreck formed
a chorus that, in connection with the howl
ing of the storm, made my very heirt sick.
I was, so far as a hasty examination went,
comparatively uninjured, aud at ones r -
ttirnei'iver t e ruins with several men to
the rear of tho place and extinguiitie 1 afire
that had begu i to ti'.azi fiercely. By
this time rain wa; falling in torrents.
Vi i l lightuingjflashing o ily gave mains •-
tary views of tue position of the rui s, and
blinded everybody. The entiro building
c llaused in front and rear. Of the east
and west side wa.ls nothing was standing
above the second story. Taere were oarly
109 members pn ent at our lodge meeting,
as several c indidatei were up lor imtiuti ju.
Fully two-thirds of those th a re v.ero
la lies, i! sides our lodge, another order
was holding a meeting on Loo same fl ior
with ui. A German b ind was rehearsing
ou tho second ii "ir. a id a party of deco, a
tors were at work in the large hall on that
floor prepa iig for some entertainment. R>
far as I could judge when I had succeeded
in escaping there wire less than n and *z ii, all
told, who git out u il.ur , and the cries for
help and gma s tha: iss id fr >m the broke i
and twisted heap, was proof that scores
were still thare unable to escape.”
SOME OF THOSE KILLED,
Among the bodies taken from the wreck
of the hall and id • itidei aud claimed by
relativesara the foil* .mg:
K idol'.di Singer, a mechanic of tho Louis
vi.le ati i Nashville railroad, of No. 124 Zauo
street.
Genevieve B;nun. 4 years old, of No.
1124 Weit, Market r ’•
Henry Ling* of F.fteeath street and
Tyier a enne.
Ksquire James M. Ht wens of Eighth and
Jeff.', ho i s' i e*'
John RioHl of No. 749 Fifteenth street.
Main and Market.
Cott'dei .Si :bor ,of C apel st-eet, botwe.. i
8 illlvan. livi .g on Main bo. ween Fif
teenth a id B.tte -'ith.
J. Fie c ior, livmyon I'welfih street, be
tze -n J -iterjuu ami Mu; Set,
Mis* Mary Hch liter, In . ig on Tweiity
eigbt.i stie.t, uud tile pioposod cxteu .i ,o of
Mutli->n.
A H. Trulering. living on East Ms ket
str -et.
ia-W )v. Bernes of So, .'lhiChepei street.
■
if *lwrt Hainli oi,i*j ilsisi Ufisii/nvti,
M . John iUirau of No. Fill i'urtlaud
SVV..OV,
SI ARKET STREET RUINS.
Market ctriet this evening looks like a
ruined village. The dev.u :utim on this
thoroughfare is nearly complete. Follow
ing is a nearly complete list of the wrecked
buildings:
At No. 994 the roof and uppor story are
off. J. M. Gro-ory own* the building,
which was occupied by Mrs. Vover Hess as
a saloon.
No. 9 8, occupied by A. W. Ebb in ns u
shoe store, wa; 1 ally damaged iu tho rear.
No person was hurt.
A: No. 910, a ijoining (Vile Bros.’ meat
markot, there is a bad l ><i o i tho building,
but the family e-cape i injury.
Thi roof was turn fro a No. 914, which
was occupied by J. (4. Golnke os a shoo
store. No person wn injured.
Tiie third floor of N•. 929 was crushed in
and tne tobacco factoi yot Ivremalberg 2c
Cos. was rui led,
A No. 922, occupied by 12. Hirsh as a dry
goods store, the r >of ii off.
At No. 924, occupied by A. Simons, the
roof is off and the rear wall and iwn.
At No. 939, occupied by A. Sheliborg, a
merchant tailor, the house is crushed in.
Nobody was hurt.
No. 932, occupied by A. J. Glover, and
No. 931. occupied by the iV. li. Trumbj
Company as a furniture house, aro demol
ished to the first floor, iho f ict that the
occupants were ail iu tho store below saved
their live..
No. 936 was occupied by A. T. Woil as a
dry g kxlh store, and Otto Huber above.
The families are safe, but the house is
badly damaged.
Three new buildings wero being erected
at N >s. 949, 943 and 911. The walls we.o
blown down.
No. 948, a moat shop, was demolished; as
was also the Globe millinery house at No.
959.
At E. D. Gill’s place, on tin southeast
corner of Tenth and Market streets, tho rear
of tho house was blown i:i.
(4. W. Becker, a grocer, occupied No.
19J0 "West Market street. The houso is a
total wreck, but the family is safe.
A. Moss & Hon, dealers iu c iiu iwure, oc
cupi and No. 1002, West Market street. Tho
house is ruined.
No. 1094, occupied bv B. Goldsmith ns a
dry goo Is store, aud No. 109*1, occupio I by
Malloy Bros., deileri in tons au 1 coffee,
were blown down, but the families aro
safe.
Nj. 10)8, occupied by Isaac Staughtou,
a dealer in furnishing goods, is a complete
wroek.
No. 1910, occupied by M. Cihen, a mer
chant tailor, is uttorly and imlishoi. Tho
I’a "ily is safe.
No. 1912, Antonio Corlez’s fruit place, is
rubied. N * pors m was hurt.
N>. 1018, occupied by Montgomery &
B liluy as u candy factory, was demolished
in the rear.
N >s. 1033 and 1022 were very little dam
aged.
No. 1024, Mrs. G- D. Deuser’s millinery
house, U demolished above tho fir<t 11 or
and iii the roar. No one was injured.
No. 1028 is occupied by Buiseh 2k Cos.,
dealers in wall Daper. The uppor part of
t ie house is ruined.
No. 1030, occupied by tho Misses Kuhaugh
as a dry goods house, is ruined. No one
was injured.
Ni. 1032 was occupied by tho Dutton In
stallment C unpany, dealers in furniture.
The rear and middle of the establishing it is
cru died in.
No. 1034 was occupied by George W.
Cu cadeu. Tho roar is down, aud tho house
ruin • 1 above the lir-t floor.
No. 1038 was occupied by Frank Mottler,
a jeweler. Tiie rear of tha establishment is
demolished.
N s. 1040 and 1043 were occupied by F.
Heigneg ns a cainawaro store. Too houses
are rui.ied, being entirely blown in in the
roar.
No. 1044, corner of Eleventh street, was
occupied by A. B. Toimey, a grocer; The
whole rear and a big warehouse adjoining
was razed to tne ground.
N >. 1109 wa: rented by H. A. PfefHngs, a
druggist. Tho buildi ;g is wrecked above
aud ihe store is badly damaged.
No. 1102, Val. Knapp’s hardware build
ing, is entirely diwn in the roar.
No. 1104 was occupied by the Great Atlan
tic and I’acifio Tea Company on the grou id
floor and Jerome B. Curran and Frank B.
S igger above. The building is wrecked.
Tho occupants were rescued by laddors
after the front wall hail been blown out.
Mrs. Btigger was hurt.
No. 1108 was occupied by Fred Bauer, a
dialer in stoves aud tinware. The build
ing is completely wrecked in tho rear and
above the first floor.
No. 1108 was Shubach & Bros.’ wall
paper establishment. Tne wind enter ■<!
ihe back and ran through Nos. 498 and4lo
Eleventh street. The whole place is in
ruins.
The buildings from No. 110) to No. 1108
Wes Market street b*l mg to 11. Behiokman,
and they aro nearly a complete loss.
No. 1110 was occupied by Frank Corsi, a
dealer i:i fruits. Too rear and upper p .rt
is demolished.
No. 1119 wai occupied by B. Heckman, a
dealer in boots and shoes, on the grou id
tijor, aud by A. Hoffman and Louis Whit
man us a residence above. Tue building is
ruined, and Mrs. Whitman was probably
fatally injured by jumping from a third
floor front window.
No. lU4 was occupied by M. B. Btern
-1 > rger, a merchant tailor. The building is
badly wrocke i. His fa idly is safe.
No. 1118 was occupied by iiarb r & Son,
dealers in toys aud stationery. Tho build
ing is a wreck iu the roar, but no one was
injured.
No. 1118, A. Lautzer & Son, jewelers.
Building down iu roar; store badly dam
aged.
No. 1120, Phillip Harmon, saloon. The
placo is nearly completely ruined.
N*. 1122. L. Simm, ,Jr., a batter. The
house is smashed to fragments. Two of
Mr. .Simm’s chill o.a were kibed, and Mrs.
Bruin was injured.
N-:. 1126,1128 and 1139 ware the Falls
city hall, aud also hail F. J. Schoa.i & Hons
as'occupants. It is a total wreck, with
heavy lose of life.
N■. 1131, G. Winter, saloon. Tho build
ing is wrecked in the rear. No oue was in
jured.
No. 1134, C. J. He’muz, druggist. The
building is wrecked in the roar. No oue
w s i.urt,
N>. 1133, C. Lazarus, dry good*. The
building is damaged iu the rear, but the
occupants escaped wit nut injury.
No. 1138, corner o ' Twelft i st eo'. T. 11.
Watkins isc Go., grocer-. Tho building is
badly damaged in tho rear and side. Mr.
Watkins had a leg b.ok m.
N*. 412 Eleventh street. James Mellott,
residoi.ee. The rear is demolished, but no
one was injured.
No*. SH aid 418 Tenth street escaped
w ith but -lightdamage.
No 418 Eleventh ■> re :t, occupied by a
l.arro> u and gr c ry, it compli 1/ ruin- I.
No. 431. oeeupiel bvM.Miu Huntley r, • i
f Au.iy, .. us tuna .bed losplioters by be tail
big of No. 43 i, but no "be wa* injured.
•o. 491 wa* occupied bv Mrs. Bridget
Hoi’eran anl Julius F. Albert a* a r-*i
d'-nce. It wa* ath i--t*ry brick, aid the
to .s' rv ■#< 1*; i*ii off. No <*u * wo* hu-t.
J. T. Creci) ius iiL Go. ran a dr ig store at
the can*r of I'weiftU aid Muikit etrooU.
A wall woe blow.i iu ou the Twelfth street
side
A. Vtiller *, a dealer in t.*,.*## at Teeftn
and Merit*; ttrewie, had bit rear wei i ,
blown lit |
| Jerry Turner's saloon, at Twelfth an 1
Market streets, wo* unroofed.
'1 lio i... -rn o. iiw Flavoring Extract Com
! pany at Tenth ami Mat ket streets wan
. unroofed ami the rear wall blown in.
•Licit) Ku. b’s place a Ninth ami Markut
i streets is c > : i't r ply wrecked.
Mrs. Alnx Wo si’s grocer y at Eighth anti
Market streets was unroofed, anil tho east
wall was blown in.
Miss A. Clippet’s saloon at No. HOG West
Market street vs as unroofed, and the rear
wall blown in.
Up >rga 15. Corbin, a photographer, had
his rear walls blown down.
11. S. Robert* m’s resi lo ice at Eighth and
Market s ’ reels was razed t > tho ground.
Is T. < 'arr, engineer, occupied a building
at. Nil.ill aid Market streets, tuo rear e.ui
of wliich was blown in.
Vt Herbert U illiains’ saloon. No. 11:15
Market street, the rear wall was blown in
and the building unroofed.
I* Schmidt's saloon, at No. 1139 Market,
was uar > fo 1.
Thu llli tdas Furniture Compapy, at N>.
1117 Market street, bal the rear wall blown
in.
Tho immense iron foundry of Ainslee,
Cochran & Cos. was o rnpleiely raz’d to
tho ground, the rear wall alone remaining
standing.
At A1 Rice’s saloon, No. 017 Market
street, the ren • v. all was blown in and toe
building unroofed.
Jacob T. Gillians’ shoo store at Ninth and
Market streets was unroofed, and the walls
wore blown in on tho oast side of the street.
THE PROPERTY LOSS.
In discussing the reports of tho commit
tee i making n house-to-house investigation,
considerable diversity of opinion as to the
actual property loss was developed. The
lowest estimate put it at $1,000,000, tho
highest at *3,000,000, and the best founded
upm the facts presented placed It at $2,590,-
COO. Thera is uluiost no insurance.
It was finally voted that the chairman of
the eommittes should prepare a s atoment
to bo authoritative for tbs use of the Ass -
ciat and Press. This was approved by a
majority of iho committoo. It is as fol
io v. s:
To the Peonle— The calamity that lias over
taken tin cuyof Louisville by the cyclone of
last nLlit spra.i I o or n territory of our cliy
covering u spaoo 400 yards wine an I
three miles In length, throu h the business
and roK.ilenoj portloa of our city. The Ims of
life Is in the neighborhood, it is b dli vo i, of
some seventy-live persons, and tbe loss to tins
city iu damage to bouses and unnimls, it is be
lieved, is not to exceed •i.000.0J0. While the
calamity Is a great one, on cit z ns feel able to
cope with it a id nr.) n >t cist ifoivn, but will at
once P'-ojo and to repair and ivsinne in tli • o in i
nels now interrnpie l. In nil of cor portions of
the city busiu ss is re inning Its usual channels.
By the relief co ninittejof the board of tra ie.
WH.I.Iam T. Role.
Chairman.
A LIST OF TUB DEAD.
Those Identified up to Noon Included
In the Statement.
Louisville, Ky., March 28, 12:30 p. m.—
Tho following are the names of the killed
throughout tho city so far as identified:
KILLED.
?.Irs. Mary Ilass mi, No. 179 Lytle street.
Miss An :ie Niles, Portland avenue,
between Sixteenth and Save iteentb streets.
Mrs. McLaughlin, Eighteenth and Baird
streets.
-Mrs. Nellie Lellotf, Eleventh and Lytle
streets.
Mrs. Person, Walnut street.
Tom l'uif and Mrs. Natali, RJeffercon
street, between Eleventh and Twelfth.
Mister Mary Pius, Seventeenth and Broad
way.
Two unknown colored men at Tobo Hen
ry’s stable, o i Thirteenth, betweau Gray
so i and Walnut streets.
Nicholas J. Sullivan, No. 1505 Magazine
stre -t; burned t > a crisp.
William Diaraon, Sixteenth Btreot;
charred to a crisp.
B ■ jainiu Chelt, a baker, Eleventh and
Magazine streets; charred to a crisp.
John Kmereb, a 3aloon-kooper, Eight
ce ith and Main streets.
J. F. M iody, a colored boy, Thirteenth
and Walnut streets, buried under debris.
An unknown o uored woman in an alloy
near Twelfth street.
Thaddeus Mason and C. Hathaway of
Chicago; Charles Nessebruch of 1 inladel
pliia; and Mary Ryan, a laundry girl;
Katie McKune, a laundry girl; Fannie Mc-
Gi ity, a laundry girl; Bridget Crow, a
laundry girl; Maggie Campbell, a laundry
girl; all at the Louisville hotel.
Francis Parker, and J. O. Hcildt, an un
dertaker, Market street.
A small child of George W. Cusoaden.
Park Cornell, No. 1104 Wes: Groan street.
E. R. McCue of Danville, Ky., killed in
Virgil Wright’s cigar store, next to the
Louisville hotel.
An unknown woman at Twenty-sixth
and Magazine streets.
Patrick Raity, a clerk for S. E. Ed
munds.
<Jh irles Jeninck.t
An unknown man, killed in a street car
at Tenth and Main streets.
Rev. K. K. Barnwell, rector of St John’s
Episcopal church, Police Ofllcor White, and
Baldwin Mcl-uugnlin, ail at Eighteenth and
Baird st-eots.
August Fleischer, master of the Fail)
City market.
Mrs. Allen Peterson and Cnpt. T. Anger
meir, at Twenty-third and Market streets.
J. B. McCollum, at Thirteenth and Maple
street.
William Demur, a Pull man car conduc
tor, and Mrs. E, Posterior, at Thirty-sixth
and High streets.
Miss Costloman, on Seventeenth street.
Theodore Angehnan; at Thirty-third and
Market streets.
THE INJURED.
The following in the list of injured:
Virgil Wright, bruised about the body.
J. H. Riley, station master at tbo union
depot, t>rul e l in toe side a id breast.
Thoma3 Allen, ticket agent at tbo union
depot, leg broken.
8. T. Smith, of the transfer company,
hip fractured.
William Conley, of Seventh street, badly
injured.
Thomas M ore, of Madison street, below
Thirteenth, bruised and cut about the
bead.
\V. li. II >ward, genera! superintendent of
the M i non route, slightly bruised.
William Lin Isioy, gntcma i at the union
depot, bfuhn t ab mt t le b >dy.
Chari -.1 Tayl >r of Jclf.-rsonvillo, in- 1
terually injured.
Green Fow, baggage master at the union
depot, arm broken.
Clarence Lewis, ticket agent at the union
depot, back sprained.
Mrs. Louis Whitman, of Market street,
between Tenth Mid Kieveuth streets, back
broken.
Thomas Moore, injured about tin body.
(Iree i I*owell <: ilo ei|, of Gutb no street,
shoulder dislocated.
IWCIOSMr 09 THU BLOW.
blej, Oalt's Narrow seep*- A Woman
and boy bide the vt lnd.
Lot'MVif.us, March ‘M. 'J r. m.— MaJ. j
G ilt i.f t e Louisville anil N ash villa rail
i" tJ, a id hi. family, w:.o lived in a two.
story brick hottsv, were situuj in an up
stairs room win; u tla budding begun
r 1 sing; still, they apprehended i o danger
u til um waits bli iu upoi Uias, '4 be
h .umi and luruilurs am destroyed. Mbij,
I DATT.T AtO \TT\R. I
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| WF.KKLy.L2S A YF.AH. (
Galt is uni jure i, but his wife is danger*
ously ill from tho shock.
liuee lives wo-e lost at the corner of
Eighteenth id Maple s' roots. Th > killed
were: John E erick, aged 40 years; hie
dlU'htor, ag.ii 4 v arr. and James Fitz
gerald, a neighbor. Em rick kept,agreesry.
The building wu> a frame a ni two stones
high. At the lirst gust of wind the walla
doubled up and the roof rlr p.ied la.
Em rick was crushed by filling timbers
and was lake i out dead a short time after
word. His wife vat exfiocatod in ait
unconscious conditi n. later in tho
night a searching nar v saw a tinv hand
protruding from the debris a,id the ma gled
corpse of tho : ab 1 soon lay be :ie its and >u<i
father. Fitzgerald, who was a Lo osin',a
and Nadiriiio tirakem nad b ardmi r • -os*
toestre'',, waimissod this morning and a
search in the ruins was mads f r him.
About 8 o’clock his blackened and brib ed
corpse was dug out.
Toe two top stories of Hambergr, Strong
& Co.’s four story building are do i ilisiud.
Moore & Stark, Julius L U'hbc’m, J/>uis
Graumau, and a printing e.-.tanli-nm >at on
the northwest corner of Seventh and Main
streets, suffered considerably.
A large t.uiidiug occupied by tho Fill*
City Bank and ot ior firms esenp id witha
damaged roof and windows.
The immense building occupi-tl by Har
bi on & Gsstright, at Ncs. 7,)7 anl 799
Main street f was blown in and the proporty
damaged many thousands of and liars. A
large building occupied by L. Moses, a
wholesale clothing dealer, was entirely de
molished by its collapse to the street.
PICKED UP HY THE WIND.
A thrilling c-perieneo was that of Mr*.
Mary ltoemel, who kept a dry g aids store
at Colgan and Seventeenth streets. Her
house was anew brick. At too lime of the
storm her nephew, Willie Killmier, was
with her. When the walls began to shake
mid threaten to fall, both rushed to the
front door just us tho whirlwind was pass
ing. It gathered in both and carried
them int i the air a distance of forty feet.
They were hurled against a fence ami re
mained unconscious until they u o e found
by neighbors a few minutes hr or. Bnh
will recover. Tho bou e was destroyed and
nothing will be saved. „
The residence > f Daniel Hemlock, No. 1510
Seventeenth street, was a large brick
structure, yet it was swept away as if it
wero paper. The family es taped.
McOuilo i’s stables we o swept out of ex
istence, and tho horses und wagons ore
scattered a ;d lost.
Charles Beck Imd a wholesale grocery at
Seventeenth aid Maple streets, but it was
leveled to t :e ground.
parkland’s devastation.
All th • entire weit.vn portion of Park*
land, which lio< ju*t beyond the southw 'st
ern limits of the city, em wrecks I. Toe
fi iirrn struck that place before reaching
this city. Its course was a m ist peculiar
one. It did not mote in a direct line,
mowing down a |*it.h before it, but went
about its dreadful work in a zig
z:g fashion. Ihe Daisy lino de
pot was almost totally destroyed, arid
the track covered with debris for several
hundred yards. The Masonic temple was
injured in the upper floo-, t ut, without
much damage. Tim churches) escaped, with
llu exception of the Baptist* wuicu was
twisted s mie. The track of tin storm in,
lark laud was about three blocks I
wide, but in such a zig-zag mari
ner that it is almost ruposslble
to memuro the exact track. West of the
town from tbe direction in which the storm
bail come a pa'll, several hundred yards
wide M mowed down, tress being cut "down,
like stalks of grain before a scythe.
jEtryansoNvilli struck.
Jeffersonville was struck by the cy
clone at 3 o’clock. It was vu-y dis
tinctly heard two miles ia'
the county, where people wondered what it
meant. Fortunately not a per on was;
killed in Jeffersonville, though some were’
badly hurt. A terrible, fuond-sliaped cloud'
was seen approaching up the river by !
several peri ns, who say it looked like at
black double funnel with the narrowest)!
part in the middle. It.i roar c >uld be heard;
long before it s’em-k tho olty, aud the peo
ple were aiarmorl by it.
DEATH IN A OROrSfIEBY.
At tho corner of Sixteenth and Magazine*
streets in Louisville three men w..-ro caught!
in the filling limber* of tiio two-story gro- 1
eery and ba room of Nick Pnieneman an t*
burned to n black and charred mast. They!
were Bud Sullivan, William Diemeri
and Benjamin Hehildt. Tho first
two wero laborers and the latter was an
undertaker. Seven people were in the
homo at the time. Pbioneman, the owner,
alone o-caned with his life, being badly
burned and bruise i.
At on Odd Fellows’ hall at Thirteenth
and Walnut streets a colored lodge was ia
••esion, nml about eight colored men were
slightly injured.
AN HUMBLE IIERO.
Next to the old Eel ipso hall dwelt a ped
dler named McCreary with his wife and
child. He first knocked a hole in the side
wail and dragged out his helpless wife arid
child over a seemingly irapassa de pile of
debris, bus bis work did not end there. He
thought of another woman and two help
less children who were imprisoned up
stairs and he rushed back into
the ruins and dragged them. out
just in time. Two minutes after the last
Child wa.s dragged out flames were licking
at everything around that would burn.
Diagonally across tho street tua colored’
Oid Fellows’ hail and L xsb's dry goods
bto *0 wero completely demolished.
On Chestnut street, from Thirteenth to
Seventee.ith, almost the entire neighbor
hood was wrecked.
ABOUND BAXTER SQUARE.
The devastation through the street* sur.
rounding ft xtc*r square was c lUirilete. and
at some times most freakish. St. John’s
church was completely wrecked.
'Hie trees in the parks were uprooted and
the fountain laid Hat.
Mud from tho streets wai raked up and
dashod against the wrecked homes and
wall'.
Brand & Bethel'; tobacco house, on the
south sieG of the square, was not quite del
molisbed, but the building is almost ruined.
Tho freakish tornado struck the middle ol
t! e Louisville Railway Company’* building
at Twelfth and Jeffers on streets, on t.e
southwest corner, leaving the north and
south end* intact. It looks as if an immense
scoop had boon taken out of the middle.
'1 ho Crescent tub coo warehouse, on Main
•treat, is a t its! wreck, and the amount ol
tobacco lying open to tho weather on that
thoroughfare is almost beyond compre
hension.
BigIBOPOLIB IN RUINS.
Several Hundred Live* Lost and 20C
Buildings in iiuina.
Chicago, March as, 11 a. m.—A special
from Metropolis, 111,, says; “Hie cyclone of
lant night cut a clean swath about a q .artel
if a rure wile cicar acres* the town, wreck
tug projwrly of ah dew-rip boils and bury*
ing moo, woute i ad children in tin
<i or.* of faibug but h go, Tb
numbi-r of the victims cam ot m aac.-r
tailed with anything Has accuracy, tul
al* reported tost asverei hundred pe pis
w. *i,ii ior wounded, altd that be.wi.-us
mt and 3UI hundred u urns way* swept
trim tin ir f m dst oiw and dashed U
i.lomaM MlwiV t# >■“ lnjfcfl i.f tlsfci** 111 /.•*■ .1. at.
