The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22

ing was rsZed TO the ground, and nearly
all to- the south and east Jared like wise.
but Uncle Sans onarters were scarcely
touched.
STREETS FILLED WITH DEBRIS.
The streets here are broad, but to-day are
filed with the debris of the business houses
of Bunton and Washington streets, along
the eastern side of which not one house
remains standing or either partially pre-
served. Unable to thoroughly tear asunder
the frame work of the buildings. theyswere
mashed and twisted into useless masses,
and the roofs carried away, and the fronts
and rears knocked out. Sever al brick
blocks of three stories gave an air OF sub
stanIiality to these streets. The cyclone
ground the walls to level, and the fur.
naces set fire to the woodwork and de-
stroy ed the last plank. The Evans Bank,
on the corner, exhibits burning pile, the
safe cracked with the heat. Under the
ruiEs, yet unearthed, lie the charred re-
mains OF J. @. Murray, owner of the block.
Looking TO the south and the east from
this corner the spectator will Sc line of
groceries. warehouses and few disreputa-
bic places lying against each other, but
still holding together. Wines an d liquors
had been swept out. but the enterprising
hummer had headquarters and signs were
up long before the excursionists began to
pour IN or the ruins were clear OF their
dead. The reputable portion of this block
bakery, caught fire and was consumed.
Other bakeries were wiped out of exist
ence, and to-day not a loaf of bread was to
be purchased in the town, nor will I'u2h a
state OF affairs soon be remedied. Ho wsver,
no one suffers for want Of food, shelter or
clothing,
Along Washington street. lust back Of
the Court House, 1t was hard to tell ust
where one building began and the other
left of. Floors, roofs, sides OF buildings
and partitions were shuffied up in con-
fusion and crushed against the few brick
walls that still remained standing. Every
thing along here was a dead loss, not even
the precaution Of fire assurance being
available. Bunton street, east OF Washing
ton, was completely blocked by the walls
OF the Stratton & Johnson fallen block,
from the rear of which the destruction of
large warehouses and handsome residences
is much like an abandoned lamber yard
and rubbish lot. There were buildings
here, and the lumber shows it, but the
chaos is complete. Where houses have
been torn asunder and swept away and the
tlmbers scattered hither and thither, there
is not, to the eye, the desolatiOn that is
presented by row of mansions with the
sides stripped of, the roofs carried
away, and the upper floors let down upon
the parlors below, yet supporting what
shows plainly was q tidy chamber, but
now strewn with rubbish, or in many
places only portico or steps and q f0uu-
dation, wall and cellar, covered by a Tsy.
ing floor, supporting al that Is left of once
luxurious furniture.
This sall that is left OF East Mount Yer
non, the ruins of luxury. Then the cloud
bounded away through the woodland and
over the prairie to return no more. The
sun came out at once, and since the de-
struction the fairest weather has bright
ened the gloom, the dead were laid away
and the wounded were carefully cared for.
The able corps of physicians that re-
sponded to the first call were quickly
organized, and all day long have moved
from place to place.
The shock to many has been terrible and
outside OF breaks and bruises the physi-
clans still have been required. A con-
plete list of dead and wounded has not yet
been compiled.
THE PROPERTY LOSS.
The property loss will aggregate nearly
half million dollars, and falls heavily
upon thriving community. The follow
ing is a partial list of the largest losers,
though the heaviest losers are the hundreds
Of poor who lost their all. John Heiser-
man, bakery, loss on building ST., 500, stock
81 LOCO; Warren Block, buildiog s., 600:
Palm Building, building $1,000, stock
81 600; Cook drug store, building $1,000,
stock ST. 900; Manion building s. 600,
stock 81 500: Perry Hotel, building
S., 600, contents $1,000; Stratton &
johnson Block, building s. 600, stock
$40 600; Crews Block, building, Sl5, 900;
Evans Bank, contents saved: A. B. Cox,
grocer, stock, $1,000; r. f. Ryan, dry
goods, stock, SIS OOO;:J. REPowl.son, fur
Jeweler, stock. S. 600; ". E. jackson, Sad.
dler, stock, S. 600; Maxey, Westscott G.
Swift, dry goods, stock, $4,000; L. Linnan,
stock, $500; j. Hill Williams building,
S., 600; stock $4,000; ]. E. Furgeson,
building, 81 800, stock 81 900; Mrs. Henry
Waters millinery stock, 81, 900. building
81 600; Mrs. Herrin, stock, 81 ,000 build
ing 81, 900; Louis Rober, tobacco manufac-
turer, building s. 200, stock $1,5OO; Jake
Schmidt, building ST, 900, stock $500; G. s.
Sexton, bIilding $500, stock $500; D. II.
Wise, building s., 800, stock $4,000;
Rudspeth Il Co., building s. 900, stock $l5,-
600; Howard Bros. & Co., building 50, 500,
stock S., 600; r. L. Stratton & Co., building,
So, 600, stock, $34, 900; Mt. Vernon Milling
Co., building, $4,000; county court house,
records saved, $40 600; school building
$4,000; Methodist Church, $15, 900, Bap-
tist Church, $1,000; electric light plant,
s., 800; Peoples Mill, 5000; skating rink,
owned by w. II. Green, So, 900; Pace block,
$1,000; Commercial Hotel, $1,000; promi.
nent residences destroyed valued at from
81, 800 to $4,000; I. S. Casey, two brick
houses; James Piper, one brick house;
VIM. Hill, frame house; M. Balm, brick
house; Russell Dewey, frame house; tene-
ment row of six houses; $50 one
story frame residences In the north
east portion of the city, and
as many more of the same character in
the southwest. are total wrecks. Besides
there are the following residences de-
stroyed, the value of which probably aver
age 81, 200: W. G. Barnhardt, two resi-
dences; G. G. Hoint, Mrs. Miller, George
Howard, Dan Maxey, S. W. Westbrook, ].
r. Nader. The following residences are
badly injured, some of these are the super
ior residences of the city: d. r. Duff,
Green Stratton, A. s, Johnson, Thomas
Walsh, Z f. M. Ward, II. w. Seymour, T.
S. Casey, 7. E. Westcott, ]. T. Howard
and NJ. NJ. Emerson. Summing up the
county building, the churches, business
houses and stocks OF goods aggregate loss
of $410, 600; fine residences totally de-
stroyed, $3S, 600; fine residences injured,
$4,000; cottages, warehouses, barns, ETC.,
S115,000 total, $573. 900. Other incidentals
will increase this.
All day long the funeral tramp has been
heard through the town, and every little
while a body of men passed down the
street, carrying the remains to the home Of
q friend TO await burial. AS yet nc ar
rangement has been made for a general
funeral. Some of the bodies have been
taken to other towns and some into the
The following iss
LIST OF THE DEAD AND INJURED