Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-16
ANOTHER HORROR.
A Tragic Incident of the Great Flood at
Cincinnati.
Sudden Collapse of Boarding Hous
Undermined by Water.
Twelve Persons Buried in the Ruins and
Crushed to Death.

Cincinnati, February 15.-At $40
this morning an alarm was sounded
from the box at Ludlow and Pearl
streets, where water surrounds the
houses. When the engine reached
the place il was discovered that the
rear part of two brick buildings on the
south side OF Pearl, near Ludlow, had
fallen, and ten persons We're buried III
the ruins or drowned. The occupants
of the front part of the house had
given the alarm, and be-
fore the real cause could be as
certained the fire alarm was sounded
The firemen in conjunction with the
police, used superhuman efforts To res.
cue the living and dead. The build
ings were occupied as boarding houses
by Robert Kyle, and had twenty tC
thirty occupants. The living were
soon brought out. Four members of a
family named Beck, Mr.. and Mrs
Cation, Maud Ellis, Lydia Ellis, Mil.
lie Kyle and another unknown sup.
posed TO be crushed or drowned. Mrs.
Webbe, occupant Ofa room in the part
that fell, was awakened by the crack
ing of the walls, and tried to awaken
| others, hui fell with the ruins and We,
escaped without injury.
The rescued women were conveyed
In patrol wagon To the flre-engine
house i'll the vicinity, where they were
made comfortable. Mrs. Kyle, whose
| son was lost in the ruins, was iucon-
solable. She imagined her boy was
alive and struggling for his freedom;
then she gave him up for lost, and her
agony was lIeartrending. Mrs. Welsh,
" no occupied room in the part that
fell, says she could not sleep for the
cracking of the walls. She thought
first 1t was the paper affected by the
water but afterwards supposed 1t Was
something worse. ~ got up at last, -
she said, and awakened Mary Golfer
and told her we must get out, for some
thlng was going to happen. | went to
ne door OF The next room, where Maud
Ellis was sleeping and I. led to awaken
her Then ! called Mary Golfer again
10 hurry. She Was sitting Oh the bed
was near the door. felt the house
going. l could have stepped through
the door TO the front part, but turntd
to get Mary. | couldn't see, but / felt
all around for her, and then we all
went down together. do not know
how l escaped but / crawled out
and screamed.n This was told
between sobs, as the poor
woman mourned her room-nia,e,
Mary Calter and the girl Maud Ellis.
occupants of the house, said they call.
ed the attention of the owner last sum
iner to the weakness OF the rear wall.
nut II was not repaired. One of them
thinks the wooden Intel over the rear
cellar door broke by the effect of the
water, and so let the rear wall down
The body of Thomas Burke was re-.
covered shortly before noon. II was
iearlully crushed. The accident has
spread terror among the occupants of
similar old buildings in the flood. d
district, and many who can do so are
getting out to safer quarters.
LATER. The disaster has increased
III horror by the discovery of two more
dead bodies not hitherto known In
have been among the victims. Mr.
and Mrs. Walhemere have been taken
from the ruins and identified. Search
Is still in progress for Others.
STILL LATER-By IA confusion of
names, the report was current tba,
two additional ladies We're found
making the additional number of VIC,
inns twelve. 1t WAS afterwards
learned that the two people hitbe,tn
called Winkeler In the reports were
MIR. ana Mrs. Waenker. This leaves
the total number OF victims so far no
known, ten. The body OF Manuel nj
lis WAS recovered. The body OF anoIh.
er woman WAS found fast under mar
tition wall, but owing to The danger ~
other walls falling, further search was
abandoned Till the water falls. ""'