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DEMOCRAT PUBLISHING CO
WRECK AND EUIN
Louisville and Other Points Yis
itcd by Fearful Disaster
A Ciclone Leaves Death and Destruc-
tion in Its Path Frightful Loss
of Human Lives
Ecenes of Surging Humanity Searching for
Loved Ones Kpggars Description Many
liulns Take Fire
LI VES AND FROPERTY DESTROYED
Louisville Ky March 28 4a m
Shortly after 9 oclock tonight a tor-
nado swept over this city wrecking 200
or 300 houses and killing 200 people Tho
wind came from the southwest The
Union depot at tho foot of Seventh street
was lifted from its foundation and turned
over into the raging torrent of tho Ohio
river A train of cars making up for the
Louisville Southern road went over with
tho building The city hall on West
Market street was wrecked In the
hall were over 100 people and but few
of them escaped alive Many buildings
after falling caught fire and the inmates
were burned All tho etreots were
blocked with the debris of fallen build-
ings and telegraph and electric wires
This dispatch is carried around the oity
to the bridge and sent over the railroad
wire
ESTIMATED AT EIOIIT HUNDRED
Washington March 2S 5 a nil The
Iobs of life by the cyclone at Louisville is
now estimated at S00
DESTRUCTION AT METROPOLIS ILL
Cairo III March 28 A nrivate dis
pateh from Metropolis at C a ni states
the cycloue there caused death and de
stiuotlon but no particulars whatever
The wires are down in every direction
ndlcating that the storm assumed large
proportions and but nieacer particulars
are obtainable Tho Mobile and Ohio
wires are intact to Mill creek this side
of Jouesbore Capt Williams claim
agent siatcs that betwepn Louisvile and
Mill Creek fifteen telegraph poles were
carried dowu and that many people were
injured But to this hour of writing
lip m there could be secured no par-
ticulars Reports from Metropolis state
that 100 houses were wrecked At 11
oclock tonight the wind is blowing
sixty miles an hour
NARRATIONS OP AN EYE WITNESS
Cincinnati Ohio March 23 2 a m
Information just received here is that
a cyclone struck Louisville in the south-
western portion and took a northeasterly
direction An eyo witness narrates I
only saw the course of it from Eleventh
nnd Walnut streets From this latter
point it followed its course to Seventh
and tho river whore it left the city and
reached Jeffersonville at the foot of
Spring 6treet Llttl dataiage was done
in Jeffersonville however In Louis-
ville the devastation is terrific and the
loss of life will certainly reach hun-
dreds if not thousands In one
building at Twelfth and Market streets
two lodge and a dancing school were in
session there being in the building per-
haps 100 people not one ot whom it is
thought to have escaped I stood and
watched men working in the ruins and
saw six or eight bodies taken out in lif
teen minutes There is scarcely any-
thing left that would indicate there had
ever been a building or that any of tne
inmates escaped Tho path of the
cyclone was about a square and a half in
width
HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE
Chicago III March 28 A late
special says Metropolis a small village
In Illinois about thirtyfive miles from
Cairo was destroyed by a storm und sev-
eral hundred people killed and injured
COMMUNICATION SHUT OFF
New York March 2S Tho terrific
storms west appear to have been fatal in
the vicinity of Louisville Ky although
there are no positive reports udou whioh
to base auy estimate of tho damage
There is not at this hour 2 a m nor
has there been for several hours any In-
formation from the city of Louisville or
vicinity There have been rumors
of alarmiug loss of life by
the cyclone but everything
needed confirmation The absolute
break down of all telegraph facilities
causes great apprehension and suspense
The city of Louisville is beyond all renoh
of the telegraph und is n dead city so far
cs wire communication is concerned
The cycloue must have spent its greatest
force there
6T LOUIS SUFFERS
St Louis Mo March 28 A terrific
wind storm occurred here this evening
The electric light stntion building was
unroofed and Schmidts restaurant was
also uuroofed A cornice of Springs
grain Btora was blown off a bov was
blown out of tho window but escaped
unhurt Tho wind then tore down two
frame buildings belongiug to the Clark
estate unroofed tho stores of
Messrs McLano Newell and Dr
Allens otlice and completely wrecked
Herrins bricK shoe store a two story
frame building occupied by Mrs MSpin
stcras a millinery shop was crushed like
an egg shell and Mrs Spinster buried in
the ruins She wus quickly extricated
and found to be seriously iujured She
may not mover Robert Byres build-
ing was unroofed and John Goldys resi-
dence wn ke 1 The storm struck the
house of Dell Hurrell which was com-
pletely demoli he The lamily sought
eafety in the cellar and escaped unhurt
Adjoining the residences of Mr Mar-
shall and H D Morse were badly dam-
aged The residence of MrMatties near-
by was lifted from its foundation and
crushed
BURYING THE FAMILY
i the ruins All escaped serious injury
save Mrs Mathes who now lies in a
crltioal condition Many other houses
A cow and
calf were taken up by the wind and car-
ried over o quarter of a mile being
dropped in a field uninjured The
dwelling of John Bourral was blown
completely away not a vestige of It re-
maining The streets present a desolate
appearance being filled with debris
Advices from Jefferson City Cape Girar
deau and Charleston Mo Btato that
the storm was very severe and at the
latter place one life was lost a womau
name not given
A SORELY STRICKEN CITY
Louisville Ky March 28 Between
8 and 9 oclock last night a tornado
struck this city from the Bouthwest
northeastward leaving death and de-
struction everywhere Outside of the
clearly defined limits the citizens knew
only of a heavy rain accompanied by a
slight wind Soon came the alarm of
lire from a dozen different stations and
tho horrors of tho calamity began to
dawn on the people Great stone ware-
houses halls of amusement and dwelling
houses all went down before the
MIGHTY POWERS OF THE STORM
The storm soon ceased and tho clouds
scattered aud the moon cast its light over
a sorely stricken city Relief parties
were soon orgauized The whole force of
the fire department was at work At
this writing no definite statement can be
made of the loss of life but It is large
The wrecked portion of the oity lies be-
tween Eighteenth Broadway Eighth
and Slaiu streets the destroying elements
passing diagonally across tho section
whuh is probably a mile square At least
200 houses are in ruins It is feared that
at leat 200 lives are lost
Probably tho greatest loss of life oc-
curred at the Falls City hall whioh was
in the center of tho tornado In the
lower rooms of the hall were fifty or
seventyfive
children wrrn their mothers
and other relatives taking dancing les-
sons There were at least 125 persons on
the lower floors andtwentyflve more at-
tending a lodge meeting on the upper
lloors when tho terrible wiud swept down
upon the buildiug The entire structure
iu less than five minutes was a shapeless
mass burying 200 helpless victims of
which number few escaped uuiujured
Conservative estimates place the loss of
life at this point at 100 while other re-
ports intimate the number nearer 200
At 3 oclock this morning thirtyfive
dead bodies had been taken from this
ruin and fifteen wounded aud dying
Only those on the third lloor had been
reached the room containing the danc-
ing school pupils and visitors not yet be-
ing opened The following art the names
of the killed brought to the city so far
identified
killed
Mrs Mary Ilasson 1708 Lyle street
Miss Annie Niles Portland avenue be-
tween Sixteenth and Seventeenth Mrs
McLaughlin Eighteenth and Baird
Mrs Belle Leloff Seventeenth and
Lytle streets Mrs Henderson Nine
teenth and Walnut Tom Puff and Mrs
Nuttal Jefferson street between
Eleventh and Twelfth Sister Mary PiU4J
Seventeenth aud Broadwaj two un-
known colored at Tobe Henrys stable
Thirteenth between Grayson and Wal-
nut Nicholas Jv Sullivan 1505 Maga-
zine street burned to a crisp Wilnam
Diomer Sixteenth street charred to a
crisp Ben Chelt barkeeper at Sixteenth
and Magaziue street charred to a crisp
John Emery saloon keeper Eighteenth
and Maple killed under ruins Moo dy
Davis colored boy Thirteenth
aud Walnut streets buried under
Eclipse or Odd Fellows hall two un-
known colored women alley near
Twelfth street C II Hathaway Chi-
cago Charles Hessenbrenoh Philadel-
phia Mary Ryan laundry girl Louis-
ville hotel Katie McCuno Mary Mo
Ginty laundry girls Louisville hotel
Bridget Crowe laundry girl Louisville
hotel Maggie Campbell laundry girl
Louisville hotel Frank Paine bar-
keeper J B Phillips undertaker
East Market street a small child of
George W Cusaden Park Cornell 114
West Green street E B McCue Dan-
ville Ky killed in Village Wrights
eignr store next to Louisvillo hotel un
kuown woman Twentysixth and Maga-
zine Put Ruidyclerk for S E Edmunds
Charles Jeuks unkuown man killed in
street carat Tenth and Main Rev S
E Barnwell rector of St Johns Epis-
copal church Polioe Officer White
Baldwin McLaughlin Eighteenth and
Baird streets August Fletcher master
of Falls City market Mrs Allen Peter-
son Capt T Angermeir Twentythird
and Market streets A J F McCollom
Thirteenth and Maple William Demarr
Pullman Palace car company Mrs F
Hoffestetter Thirtysixth and High
streets Miss Cr tlemau Seventeenth
street Thomas Augleman Thirtythird
and Market
Tho following is a list of the
injured
Tom Allen ticket agont Union depot
leg broken William Coufie 1216
Twentyseventh streSv badly injured
Mr Woodward general superintendent
slightly bruised Charles Kiler Jeffer-
son ville internally injured Mrs Levis
Whitman Market street between Tenth
and Eleventh back broken August Tier
nnn Sixteenth and Magazine fatally
crushed iu left breast Mr Chris Hoff
heinier Eighteenth near Maple badly
injured about the head Mrs Trotter
colored Thirteenth and Madison leg
broken Dr Muguet Walnut street
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets fatally injured about the head
and spine dislocated Mrs Muguet
badly hurt about the head but
not fatally H M Blackburn Wood
burn Ky probably fatally Injured
Churles D Sominson Indianapolis badly
mashed internal injuries feared Katie
Kilgan bruised about the body J proba
bly fatally J H McFarland ticket
broker badly mashed and bruised Vir-
gil Wright badly bruised and pinned in
debris Ed Miles bruised and contused
wounds Mrs Kate Frazer Sixth street
near Oak head and faoe badly
and probably internal Injuries
two ohlldren of Louis Simms
Jr aged five and four respectively two
older girls and a servant were taken
from the Falls City hall badly injured
Mrs Jennie Wbiteman back broken
jumped from third story Falls City hall
Immediately upon the burst of the oy
Hce were at work and within ten min-
utes a posse appeared at the Falls City
hall wreck
ITS EFFECTS WIDESPREAD
Louisville Ky March 28 The ef-
fects of the storm were widespread For
miles in either direction of the city an
oocasional roof was torn off and trees
lifted out of the ground by tho roots As-
a special train sped toward the fated
oity bearing Associated Press represen-
tatives from Indianapolis evidences were
first noticeable fully fifty miles out
Many little towns along lhe Jefferson
ville Madison and Indianapolis rail-
road were fairly stripped of their signs
and gingerbread work
When the scene of disaster was reached
an appplling sight was presented Crowds
of people thronged Fourteenth street
station and from thero up Main street to
the heart of the city was a mass of
humanity On either side was
wreck and ruin
Masses of brick and stone in heaps
presented the appearance of having sim-
ply crumbled to tho earth Gangs of
rescuers worked like gophers ou tho
great masses of debris in search for
human victims of the awful calamity
Women and men darted before
mad horses whose hoofs it seemed
would crush them to death
Policemen were stationed at street
crossings to prevent people from
attempting to pass through ruined thor-
oughfares where partially wrecked walls
stood as a menace to human life but
their efforts were futile and men women
aud children made their way down dan-
gerous streets with astounding reckless-
ness The morbid crowd would not bo
held back in its wild desire to satisfy
curiosity and it was a sight worth their
efforts to see The wreck was so great
it beggars attempt at detail
Immediately upon the burst of the
oyclone the fire bells sounded and the
police were at work In ten minutes u
posse appeared at the Falls City hall
Tho walls of the adjoining house were
first dropped and then began the work
of cutting through the heavy slate roof
that covered all At first the work was
difficult and laborious on account of the
anxious multitude that thronged the
wreck Tho most difficult task was to
clear the ruin of women who
were found dieting at the slat
WITH THEIR FINGERS
ornzed at the groans benoath each of
which they thought ascended from thoir
own dying Everyone did noble work
After an hour of hard labor the first vic-
tim Mrs Sarah Kelly was unearthed
She was found sitting in an upright posi
tion her head bruised and one arm
broken She said At the first quake
a mad rush was made for tho entrance
Women were knocked down and trampled
upon in the mad rush to oscapo Seeing
the overwhelming jam at the door sev-
eral remained behind The last 1 saw of
my friends was just before the lloor gave
way and the oeiling fell
Work was continued but none of those
whom Mrs Kelly said were near her
could bo found The excavation was
then moved from tho rear of tho build-
ing to the front where it was supposed a
greater crowd was gathered As soon as
tho roofing was removed and the mass of
briok beneath the first sight that mot
their eyes was anything but hopeful
Ten women
locked in each others arms
were drawn out of the debris all dead
but one Mr James Hassen whose wife
had been at the lodge meeting was fore
most in tho wreck and the
first person whom ho diew
out of the ruined building was his
wife who died iu his arms He laid her
by tho side of the others who wero
dead and continued to work for the
living Inside of the next hour thirty
men and women were drawn out dead
but with no wounds on their bodies
jnd it is thought all met death from
suffocation Gas pipes had broken
which caused the lights to go out aud
whioh saved the ruins from fire for tho
time but flooded the debris with vapor
almost as deadly as fire might have
proven Ways were pierced into the
building and bodies drawn out dead and
dying One part of the building was re-
served for tho dead but the wounded
were taken into stores and houses on the
opposite side of the street where physi-
cians aud priests administered to souls
and bodies Along Main street the path
of the storm extended from Sixth to
Eleventh streets and from Sev-
enth to Eleventh not a einglo
building was left standing Occasion-
ally a massive stone or iron front still
stood while the entire structure proper
had been swept entirely away
This morning it presented the most
stupendous spectacle of disaster and ruin
ever witnessed In the course ot the
storm lay tho Dride tobacco market of
the city and today the warehouses
almost to the last one lay iu ruins
They include the Kentucky Picketts
Ninth Street Falls City Phoenix Green
River Louisville Enterprise Central
and Planters d0
The Louisvillo hotel j ween Sixth
and Seventh was unrojfcd und otherwise
wrecked while the building west occu-
pied us a cigar store upon the first floor
and sleeping rooms upon the second aud
third was razed entirely to the ground
NOT A SINGLE BRICK
remaining in place In the destruction
ot this house many lives were lost prin-
cipally of persons who occupied sleeping
rooms there Many of them were young
girls employed at the hotel next door
Saloons and other available places
have been turned into hastily impro-
vised morgues where the bodies were
taken as fast as received and left await-
ing identification Patrol wagons are
being pressed into service ns dead wagons
to convey corpses to required pit ces
Eleventh street seemed to receive the
full forceof the storm As it rushed
down this street it carried with it roofs
of buildings which are mostly residences
on each side leaving in many instanoes
furniture and other contents unmolested
FIRE IN THE RUINS
At 12
the opening up of a por
tion of the debris of the Falls City hall
caused a draught to penetrate the ruins
whereupon a smoldering fire broke out
with tremendous fieroeneas It spread
rapidly and forced the workers to desert
their posts As soon as the firo gained
headway the groans of the im
prisoned people became shrieks and
clone tho Are balls sounded and the do 1 so great wa the aorror
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of
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the moment that watchers grew frantic
and ran about like wild the terrible
sufferings whioh they were unable to
alleviate driving them to despair Sev-
eral lines of hose were soon throwing
water on the llamesbutit was moro
than an hour before work could be
proceeded with and carried on which
was done with muoh difficulty on ac-
count of the heat
At 125 oclock the room was reached
where the
CHILDREN WERE DANCING
Mr Louis Sims had b6eu for hours
moping about in agony in that portion of
the wreckyvvhere this room had been for
his wife aud four little children were
there When the room was reaohed
Mrs Sims was the first one found and
she was fatally hurt Then within ubout
fifteen minutes each of the three Sims
children were recovered fThey were un-
conscious and there is only a faint pos-
sibility of their living While the father
was imploring tho workers to get his
other child fire broke out and tho work
was suspended
The last man taken out alive before
the flamos started was John Hopden of
2109 West Broadway andjust previous
to that a woman who was unable to give
her unme It is inmossible to tell the
extent of injuries to either 1
Tho friends of Claude Gpdman ohief
train dispatcher of tho Louisville South-
ern are looking for his body which is
supposed to be buried in the debris He
left homo to meet his brother at the de-
pot last night and has not since been
heard trom
The work of rescuing mangled dead
goes bravely ou Hundreds of anxious
men worked as they never worked before
for bodies of their wives fathers moth-
ers brothers and sisters that lie buried
in the shupeless ranes of brick and mortar
that covers the site whire yesterday stood
the Falls Citv hall Cries of
MEN
WOMEN AND CHILDREN
rend the air on every side A surging
crowd of 10000 people block the streets
for squares about the scene of the catas-
trophe A large force of polioe guard
the avenue to keep baok the pressing
masses of curious humanity that ure
gradually forcing their way to the awiu1
scene of calamity Five hundred men
staud by the wreck dazed and helpless
too weak or too luzy to lend a
helping bund to the brave squad of
rescuers It is a sight to strike
anguish to the soul of tho bravest
Words are powerless to exuress the awful
scenes thnt each succeeding minute rolls
through tho ghastly panorama Bodies
mangled and shapeless beyond rerpgni
tiou are being dragged from beueatlrthe
ruins every few minutes Men women
and children linger about the scene
peering into the faces of the dead as the
bodies are carried out with dread anxiety
lest they recognize in the
SHAPELESS MASS OF FLESH
and bone a semblance of features of
sonio relative or friend
Coroner Miller stands at the door of
his temporary morgue in McGrathins
saloon opposite the wreck directing the
disposition of bodies
The following bodies have been taken
from tho debris this morning and placod
in the morgue most of them have boeu
identified and claimed by rela
tives Rudolph Senger meohauio
Louisvillo and Nashvillo railroad
No 124 Zano street Genevieve
Sims four years 1121 West Market
street Henry Lingo Fifteenth and
Tvler avenue Esquire James M Ste-
vens Eighth 8 tl Jefferson streets Johu
Reicht 749 fteenth street Charles
Riebert Chapel strnet between Main and
Market Sullivan Main street be-
tween Fifteenth and Sixteenth J
Fleisoher Twolfth street between Jef-
ferson and Market Miss Mary Sohatter
Twentyeighth and proposed exten-
sion of Madison street A Streuel
ering East Market street Elmer F
Barnes 326 Chapel street Annie Miles
1021 Portland avenue Clarence Lorezor
315 Ninth street Robt Hamilton resi-
dence unknown Mrs John Horan 1841
Portland avenue four unknown men
mangled beyond recognition
At 9 oolock this morning while Coroner
Miller was standing over a corpse in his
improvised morguo a man pale as death
and voiceless from excitement rushed in
and hoarsely whispered Mr Miller
yfaur brother Is
BURIED IN TnE RUINS
The coroner was nearly overooirfe by
the terrible news but the young man
who was standing by assured the ooroner
that he had seen his brother at tho corner
of Fourth and Market about 8 oolock
or just about the time the casualty oc-
curred Others maintain however that
Mr Miller and a party of candidates
were seen to go into tho build-
ing a few minutes before it foil Thous-
ands of unfounded rumors are circulat-
ing iu every quarter of the city and it is
confidently hoped the report of Mr Mil-
lers death is groundless
Market street this evening looks like a
devastated village Devastation along
this thoroughfare is complete The storm
seems only to have swept Broad way from
Fifteenth to Nineteenthbut really all tho
houses between these streets and on In-
tersecting streets were demolished Most
of the cottages however and low framo
buildings escaped without serious injury
From Fifteenth to Sixteenth are merely
small frame houses occupied by colored
families Roofs wero torn off but not
much damage was done and none of tho
occupants were hurt From Sixteenth
down to Nineteenth however the
DESTRUCTION WAS TERRIBLE
Mr Peter Speth and family who live
at 1613 were quietly seated in their par-
lor when the storm burst in all its fury
The building swayed and tottered and
finally the walls of the second story
reeled and fell with a resounding orash
All of the family remained huddled in
the hallway and escaped without injury
The furniture and building wore de-
stroyed and the total loss will be S3500
Adjoining is the residence of Mrs
Welsh 1615 It was literally demol-
ished From the appearance of the
crumbled mass of ruins this morning one
could never suppose that only yesterday
it was a beautiful dwelling By almost
a miracle the members of the family es-
caped The loss will be about S5000
Mrs John Brown lived at No 1617
Her house received the full force of the
first terrible gust and the walls bent
and crumbled like so much paper The
lady herself was caught by tho falling
p fr
FORT WORTH TEXAS THURSDAY APRIL 3 1890 TWELYE PAGES
her husband succeeded in extricating
her She was not seriously Injured and
was immediately removed to tho resi-
dence of her brother Mr Peter Speth
Her home is a mass of ruins
At 1619 lived Mrs Shulteiu a fine two
story briok building It was leveled
and together with all it contained is an
aotual loss
The Catholio buildings on Seventeenth
and Broadway the sisters home
parochial Father Demis residence and
the Saored Heart church were all blown
down and Sister Pius was buried
Shortly after when taken out by rescu
ing parties she was dead All of tho
other sisters however escaped without
injury
Maj Gault of the Louisville and
Nashville and his family who lived in a
twostory brick house were sitting in an
upstairs room when tho building began
rocking Still they apprehended no dan-
ger and did uot become really alarmed
until the walls foil in upon them
Maj Gault suoceaded in getting out
without injury to himself and then no-
ticing that his wife was not with him ho
hurried baok into the ruins to look for
her Tho unfortunate lady was fouud
buried in a pilo of bricks By superhu-
man effort her husband succeeded in ex-
tricating her and her unconscious form
was carried to a neighboring dwelling
that had escaped the goneral
destruction where she was soon
resuscitated A physician was sent
for and attended her and developments
showed she was not badly hurt
8CENES AS NIGHT APPROACHES
As night closes in its fold tho devas-
tated city of Louisville hundreds of
widows and orphans are bowed down
with the weight of deepest grief
Wreck and ruin have settled down in
its very midst nnd spectators of the
dead whose fuueral pyres are heaps of
bricks and mortar seem to rise up aud
enshroud in awful halo of their presence
the entire city Bauds of brave rescuers
continue their work but as night comes
on they seem to work moro silently
though no less arduously and take on
the gruesome appearance of ghouls As
each remnnnt of piles of wreckage is
lifted it is with anticipation of uncover-
ing to view the lifeless form or death
set feutures of a human victim of that
awful storm Perhaps a wriggling mem-
ber of a buried man may start searchers
and cause them to
DRAW PACK AGHAST
for a moment but with braced nerves
which are almost drawn to tensions of
steel they continue their labor and
tenderly lift the unfortunate and curry
him to an ambulance only to see him ex-
pire in tho arms of a wife mother or
friend
The importance of suoh scenes ever
whisper sounds so loua that tho ut
terer hesitates and half expects to see-
the dead aroused from his eternal sleep
But there is no time to consider the dead
for the living may yet be buried beneath
its mountains of debris and with a sad
look at the departing dead wagon
they then turn and delve again with re-
newed energy into the great mass in
search of orushed and mangled human-
ity
As the night grows darker its work be-
comes awful Even tho advantage of
light and its feardispelling qualities are
denied them for all eleotriowires were
torn down by the storm and left the oity
to be
ENSHROUDED IN DEEPEST GLOOM
It grows so dark in the shadows ot tho
crumbling walls that still stand as silent
sentinels over the dead that every objeot
with isemblance of human form must bo
grasped to prove its flesh or stone Still
the untiring and strong hearted workers
continue to dig There is no estimating
the number of those who lie buried m
their track People aro still learning
who the missing members of their fami-
lies are and mothers and fathers stand
wildly on the ruins and call on the Al-
mighty to deliver them at least their
dead Hardened hearts move with deep
sympathy and idle men throw aside
their coats and dive into the dirt and
grime liko veritable gophers Tho
streets are thronged with multitudes of
sorrowing people They stand upon
corners with teardimmed eyes sol-
emnly discussing the dreadful catas
trophe or move from ono point of wreck
to another gazing at the scenes of ruin
There are at least 900 families home-
less in tho streets that were happy yes-
terday in the singlo possession of their
homes
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE
Was that of Mrs Mary Roellell who
kept a dry goods store at Colgan and
Seventeenth s treets
new brick At the
Her house was a
time of the storm
her nephow Willie JCillmir was with
her wiien tho walls began to shake and
threaten to fall and both ot them wero
nearly frightened to death Without
pausing to thiuk they rushed to the
front door just as the whirlwind was
passing It gathered them up and car-
ried them in to the air a distance of
forty feet At Maple they were
both hurled against a fence and
remained thero unoonscioiis until they
were found by tho neighbors a few mo-
ments later Dr Anderson was sum-
moned to attend them He found that
tho lady was badly bruised and perhaps
internally injured KTlltnirsTTght arm
was broken at tho wrist hisankle was
sprained and thero was a deep gash In
his throat No vital was touched though
and he will recover
Tho house was destroyed and not a
thing will be saved
ST LOUIS OFFERS AID
St Louis Mo March 28 On learn-
ing the extent of tho calamity at Louis-
ville Ky Mayor Noonan of this oity to-
day wired the mayor of Louisvillo ex-
tending tho oitys sympathies and prof-
fering substantial aid if needed
a liberal actor
Richard Mansfield the tragedian show-
ing herewho is booked for an engagement
for the week has wired Henrv Watter
son of tho CourierJournal offering to
contribute his entire Easter
timbers and pinioned to the ground but 1 before it but went at Its work
r
M
weeks
profits to tho storm sufferers
PARKLAND WRECKED
Louisville Ky March 28 Th9 en
tire western portion of the town of Parkr
land whioh lies just beyond the south-
western portion ot this city was
wrecked The storm struck that place
before reaching this city and its course
was a most peculiar one It did not
move in a direct line mowing down all
in zigzag
rt ap a
fashion On the outskirts of the town
tho twostory brick residence of Mayor
Keppers was struok by tho wind The
heavy tin roof was rolled up like a piece
of paper and carried a long distance
Mrs Keppers was ill with pneumonia
and no sooner had the roof been blown
off than her husband and another man
picked up the bed upon whioh she was
lyiug to enrry her to a place of safety
Tho work was not too quickly begun
No sooner had they reached tho yard
with their burden than the full force of
tho wind struok the roof and the building
and swept it
DOWN LIKE A SHELL
A number of houses were blown down
but the inmates were all up nnd bad time
to escape A framo schoolhouse was
lifted from its foundation and moved
several feet and utterly destroyed
The track of tho storm in Parkland was
about three blocks wide but in suoh a
zigzag manner that it is almost impossi-
ble to measure the exact track To the
west of town from tho direotion in
which tho monstor had approached a
path several hundred yards wide is mowed
down trees being cut off liko stalks of
graiu before the reapers scythe
JEFFERSONVILLE WAS STRUCK
by tho cyclone at S o clock It was very
distinctly heard two miles in the country
whore people wondered what it meant
Fortunately not a person was killed in
Jeffersonville though some wore badly
hurt
PROPERTY LOSSES MORE DEAD
Louisville Ky March 28 The
lowest estimate puts tho aotual property
loss at 1000000 the highest at 3000
000 and grounded on the facts presented
we place it at 2500000 There is al-
most no insuranco
Following are additional known to be
dead Peter Fuller married fiftyfour
years of ago carpenter resides at 512
Sixteenth street body recovered Thom-
as H Puff married thirtysix years of
age punohman at B F Avery Sons
plow faotory residence 1622 Columbia
street body recovered Leopold Falken
stein single twentylive years of age
employe of George Jones quarryman
body still in tho ruins of tho Falls
City hall Mrs Steider wife
of Alonzo Steider butcher at 3103 Port-
land avenue died at home from the
shock and injuries received at the Falls
oity hull Shu was a sister to Miss
Emma Hostetter whose dead body was
reoovered tonight
One unknown stout baldheaded
man of about thirtyfiye or forty years
of age head split in twain Wm Sabrio
sailor single twentyfour years of age
killed by crushing in of family residence
311 Chapel street
HORRIBLE CREMATION
Louisville Ky Meroh 2S At the
corner of Sixteenth and Magazine streets
a most horrible cremation of the oodies
of three men occurred These men were
caught in tho falling timbers of the two
story grocery and barroom of N iok
Phineman and burned entirely to a
blaokened and charred mass They were
Bud Sullivan William Deemer and Ben
Schildt the first two laborers and the
latter an undertaker Seven people wero
in the house at tho time and Nick
Phineman tho owner escaped with his
life alono being bndly burned and
bruised To a Times reporter Mr
Phineman told the following story
1 was standing at the bar at the back
of the store and was talking to three
men who are now dead and two othor
men About 830 oolock wo heard a
terrible roar and tearing sound and then
tho house roekea back and forth Ben
Schildt had just said he was going
home but ho had scarcely said it when
the door was blown to and we wore
caught I tried to open it but could
not My wife and children screamed but
run safely out the baok way but they
had scarcely gone out before that part
of the house was gone We tried tho
window
1
but just then
A BEAUTIFUL DAY
Louisville Ky March 29 The
weutber today is olear ani the tem-
perature is springlike The work of
recovering bodies buried under the de-
bris of Thursday nights toruado goes
bravely on with larger forces A pret-
tier brighter day could hardly be Im-
agined and it seems scarcely in keeping
with the sad scones being witnessed in
the center of the tornados track on
Market and Main streets ns the remains
of the unfortunate victims are brought to
view from time to time The fine
weather however is very favorable for
the work of clearing up the debris and
removal of valuable goods in the tobacco
and mercantile district to safe shelter
from the elements
Todays developments will in all
probability disoloso the full extent of tho
terrible affliction visited upon the city
SCENES OF I > ESOLATION
Frank Raoul lay in a pine box dread-
fully mangled He had been killed
while standing in Ikeburgs saloon on
Main street
Tho body of Frank Hoy was also lying
there
One of the most desolate looking seo
tions of the devastated distriot is Chapel
streeta narrow thoroughfare ono blook in
length extending from Main to Market
stroeta between Tenth and Eleventh
Not a house fronting on it but what was
torn to fragments and the debris lines
both sides so that there is scarcely room
to pass through tho center of the street
The dnmage however is mostly confined
to portions of homes and most of the
houses above the first story Strange as
it may seem notwithstanding the terrifio
force of the wind and the air being filled
with flying missiles of every description
members of but ptfo family were injured
to ony serious extent This was the
Sabrio family littjng at No 311 the
first house south of Main street on the
east side The Sabric residence was a
twostory brick ahd allot the members
of the fanSily father motherland son3
were In ft The tornado
tore it fd pieces
in a twinkling and all were caught be-
neath the tumbling ruins except John
one of the sons who then set to work ex-
tricating his father and mother both of
whom ere injured but to what exton
cannot Ml be told The others verej
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taken out and itwa3 found that William
was dead All the other brothers were
uninjured
The most exoiting scene occurred at the
twostory dwelling of Mr Goodspur
He and his wife and children wero in the
second story and soon the lower parti-
tion collapsed leaving the inmates sus
pended in midair In all the wind and
rain the whole family wore forced to
jump into darkness receiving fortun-
ately but few bruises This was amiracu
lous escape and they had scarcely
jumped Worn the building before the
whole structure had fallen to the ground
At the lower end of Fifteenth street
every corner house was carried away
and many houses entirely swept to the
gtound
THE BOUNDARIES
of tho district swept by the hurrieano aa
nearly as may be described by street
nre as follows Coming from the south-
west tho wind begau its destruction at
Broadway sweeping tho roofs between
Sixteenth and Eighteenth streets thence
northeasterly dingonurfy lo Chestnut
On Chestnut the damage is between Six-
teenth and Fourteenth on Walnut be-
tween Fourteenth and Twelfth on Green
between Twelfth and Tenth on Jeffer-
son botween Eleventh and Ninth on
Market between Eleventh and Eight-
eenth on Main from Eleventh to tDa
Louisvillo hotel in the middle of the
square between Sixth and Seventh Be-
tween Sixth nnd Eleventh the hurricane
swept to the river and thence leaped to
Jeffersonville
Reports were prevalent in this ciy
during tho afternoon that Parson
Davis who is bore with his combination
was dead Thero is no truth in it He
and his company nre all O K
Mavor Jacobs placed tho district under
martial rule The distriot is described
aa follows Jefferson street from Tenth
to Twelfth Market street from Eleventh
to Eighteenth nnd Main street from
Seventh to Tenth Shortly after Chief
of Police Taylor ordered the deputies un-
der inscharge to arrest any suspicious
character found on the scene of the dis-
aster and everyparson caught in tho
uot of pillaging houses or robbing bodies
Temporary roofs are being put on
wherever possible and hundreds of hogs
heads of tobacco being carted to tho
warehouses m parts of the city untouched
Uy the storm
REPORTS FROM OTHER POINTS
Louisville Ky Maroh 29 The
CouriecJournal has the following
special reports from towns visited by
Thursday nights storm
A terrifio cyclone struck tho littlo
town of Grand Rivers twentyfive
miles east of Paducnh Ky aud nearly
swept the placo away Tho storm
came upon the town quickly and it was
but a few moments before a dozen
houses were leveled and as manv more
wrecked Mrs Mattle Beck was hurled
200 yards and killed
John Eteridge orushed to death by
falling tree
Many others wero injured but only
Jeff Coona seriously Houses were swept
as kindling from over entire families
while no one was hurt
Passing from Grand Rivers the oy
clone struck the railroad bridge over the
Cumberland river half a mile beyond
and tote away a span and toppled tho
draw Intp the riyert thus cutting off all
trains All telegraph wires are de-
stroyed and only through the relief
train sent out from this place could facta
be learned
At Farmington twentylive miles
outh thero was great damage to build-
ings from the same storm but no loss of
liteIn
In Paducnh tho storm was light doing
no damage of consequence but no tele-
graph lines were left and none were up
until late today It is thought the
story as to this seotion is not half told
Eminence Ky March 29 This sec-
tion of country was visited by a oyclono
Thursday night at 9 oclook Several
houses and outbuildings were destroyed
and a number badly damagod One of
these was oooupied by James Kinney and
family His little threeyearold daughter
and his brotherinlaw Lon Maddon
were kilted outright Kinney was
probably fatally Injured and his wife
and youngest child more or les3 bruised
The residence of James Kilson west of
the town was destroyed Mrs Kilson
was fatally Injured
The whole country for miles is strewn
with debris and barns destroyed
Hopkinsville Ky March 29
Freight train No 57 from Evansville
ran at full speed into a large tree blown
by the storm across the track just above
Sebreo and was totally wrecked Engi-
neer Pete Burnes Fireman Brodgea
and Brakeman Powell were killed
Mason Ky Maroh 29 This citv was
devastated by the storm that wrought
suoh ruin at Louisville There was great
loss of life
St Louis Mo March 29 A speoial
from Cairo says advices from Metropolis
are to the effect that the accounts of the
cyclone at that place have been greatly
exaggerated There is but one death
known of though perhaps a dozen or
more are severely injured The loss of
property will amount to 150000
Chattanooga Tenn March 29 Re-
ports reached hero that the tornado
struok Graysville Ga a town eighteen
mlle3 south of this place Friday night
shortly after midnight People wero
sleeping and were horribly frightened
Roofs were blown off large flouring mills
and two houses belonging to John Woods
and one to T TWilson were blown down
Outbuildings of A S Brooks were blown
down Several narrow escapes are re-
ported So far it has been impossible to
learn whether anyone has been killed
RED CROSS AID
Washington March 28 Miss Clara
Bertram of the Red Cross society called
at the White House today and informed
the president who Isexofncio ohairman
of the government board of that organi-
zation that it was her intention to start
for Louisville and the devastated distriot
tonight to give what aid she could to the
sufferers from the disaster
A SUMMARY OF THE WRECK
Louisville Ky March 29 The
streets in the district worst damaged
are still picketed but except between
Eleventh and Twolfth on Market street
the street cars yiPj tE T and
wagons and all bu 3 aers are
allowed to pass V asof men are
busy In the ruins saving stocks of goods
and private property
The excellent work done by the board
of trade committees in canvassing and
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