The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-02-16
GENERAL NEWS.
Many Lives Lost by the Fall Of Bud.
Ing al Cincinnati.
The German Catholics Excited Over
New Troubles.
The Situation In Egypt Other NJ,
A TrlghtfnI Cntnstrophe.


CNoISEATf Feb. l5.-At $40 O'Clock this
morning an alarm sounded from the box al
Ludlow aud Pearl streets where the water
surrounds tho houses. When the engine:
reached the place Il was discovered that the
rear part OF 10 brick buildings on the south
side of Pearl. near Ludlow street. had fallen
and ten persons were buried In the ruins or
drowned. The occupants OF the front part
OF the houses had given the alarm and be-
fore the real cause could be hscertnn ned the
tire alarm sounded. The fremen IN co.,
ia ollon with the pCllce used superhuman
Efforts 10 rescue the living and dead. The
buildings were occupied as boarding houses
aud had IRON genty TO thirty occupants.
The living were soon brought out. -Four
members OF u family FAMED Beck. Mr. aud
Mrs. Cou,ton, Maud Ella, Lydia Ellis, Mat
tie Kyle and another uDE nown are supposed
be crushed or drowned. Mr5. Wehbe, on
occupant OF room in th1 part nat H. J.,
was awakened by the c-ackiag OF the wei .
and tried 10 awaken the others, but fell
with the RUNS and yet escaped without In
jury.
FURTHER ACCOUNT.
CIHcfNNArI, Feb. 49, The bu ldings that
fell this morning were occupied as board
houses by Robert Kyle and George oyster.
There we're about thirty five people in the
buildings at the time. rhe following are
known to be killed either by falling tim.
bers or drowning:
John W. Kyle, son OF the proprietor
Mary o. Tier,
Maud EIis,
James Ogden,
Barney Winkler,
Mrs. Winkler,
Thomas Buck,
Mrs. Lena Buck and two children,
Will am snd Louis BucK.
Making ten lives 80 far known to have
been lost.
The rescued women were conveyed in the
patrol wagon to a iire-eDgine house IN the
vicinity where they were made comfort
able. = = = - -.-u, ---u.s----
Mrs. Kyle, whose son was lost IN the
ruins. was inconso!sbls. She imagined her
boy was alive and struggling for his rec
dom. Then she gave him up Tor lj5. and
her agony was hear Tending.
MR.. Welsh, who occupied room In the
part that TELL says she could not 'lcp for
the cracking II The W, IL. Sac thought first
IL was the paper aft, oted by water, out ai.
tergard she supposed s)mething wore. -
got up Gt last" she said and awakened
Mary OIL on aud told her we must &c. out;
som thing was going TO happen. went {
the door ,f tteutxt room where Maud Ellis
wRs aleeping and tried TO awaken her.
Tn, ca Mary Col er again 20 hurry.
She was sitting on the bed. TlS near
the door. | .a,t the house going. | could
have stepped through the door 10 the
front part but | turned to get Mary,
| couldn't SEQ anyone. felt all around los
her, aud then We all went down together.
| DO not know how | escaped, but !
crawled out and screamed" This vas toi :
httgasn gObs rs the poor woman mourued
her room-mate, Mary Golfer, anu che gill ,
Maud Ellie.
The occupants OF the house say they
ca led the attehtion of the owner last sum
mer o the weakness Of the rear wall, but 1t
was not repaired. One OF them THINKS the
wooden Intel over the rear cellar door was
broken by the effect OF the water. and 80
let the rear wall down.
The body OF Thomas Buck. recovered
shortly before noon, was fcarfully crushed
The accident has spread terror among
the occupants Of similar old buildings in
the a ,oded district. Many, who can do SO,
are getting out to safer quarters.
MORE BODIES FOUND.
The disaster was increased In horror by
the discovery of two more dead bodies, not
hitherto known TO have been among the
victims. The remains OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Waehmeir have been taken from the ruins
and identified. The search Is still IN pro-
gress tor others.
LATER.-By a confusion OF nsmes the re-
port VAS current that two additional bod
les were found, making the total victims
twelve, but il was afterwards learned that
the two people ht1ertJ called Wineeler
in the report were Mr. and Mrs. Woenker.
This leaves the total nun Der of victims, 80
far known, st ten.
The body of Maui Ellis has been recDv.
cred. Toe body OF another woman was
found fast under the partition wall, bat
owing TO the danger of other walls falling
iurther search abandoned until the water
falls.