St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-29
houses between these streets and on the
intersecting streets were demolished.
DUG THEIR WAY OUT.
Colored Odd Fellows, Although
Injured. Get Ont Safely.


LOUISVILLE, KY, March 2s.-At
Thirteenth and Walnut streets, Odd
Fellows hall, colored lodge was in
session. About eight colored men were
slightly Injured, and it was at first re-
ported that they were killed. Next the
old Eclipse hall, at that corner, dwelt
peddler named McCreary, with his
wife and child. 1t was reported last
night that he was burned, but he APP
peared this morning. He first knocked
hole in the side wall and dragged out
his helpless wife and child over SEEM
ingly impossible pile of debris. But
his work did not end there. He thought
Of another woman and two helpless
children who were imprisoned up stairs,
and he rushed back into the ruins
and dragged them out just in time.
Within two minutes after the last child
had been dragged out, the flames were
licking at everything around that won d
burn. DiagOnally across the street from
the colored Odd Fellows hall, Lobsdy's
dry goods was completely demolished.
Between Thirteenth and Fourteenth. OIL
Walnut, three small brick dwelling
houses and light frame dwelling next
to the Blotz d Kret'S stone yard were
intact, but the immense derrick OF the
stone works, weighing many tons, was
Tossed Into the street
car track and was splintered as bit of
kindling wood. Even the heavy iron
boiler was blown clear across Walnut
street, not more than forty feet from
the four unscathed dwellings. At Four
teenth and Walnut and Fourteenth and
Chestnut, the fragment boxes were
picked up bodily and dashed into kind
ling wood. Louis Seager'S barrOOm, at
Fourteenth and Walnut, was wrecked,
and the flames completed the work
of destruction which the tornado began.
The warehouses of Patterson, Henry d
Co., pork packers, at Fourteenth and
Walnut, is so completely wrecked that
it will probably have to be RACED and
rebuilt. On Chestnut street, from
Thirteenth to Seventeenth, almost the
entire neighbOrhood was wrecked. The
devastation through the streets sur
rounding Baxter square was completely
wrecked, trees in the parks were up
rooted, fountains were laid fiat, and
the very mud from the streets was
raked up and dashed against the
wrecked houses and walls. Brand &
BetheI's tobacco house, on the south
side of the square, was not quite de-
mOiShed, but the building is almost
ruined.
The Freakish Tornado
took the middle of the Louisville City
Railway cOmpany'S building at Twelfth
and Jefferson streets, southwest corner,
leaving the north and south ends in
tact. 1t looks as if an immense scoop
had been taken out of the middle. DIR.
George w. Griffith'S house had both the
east and west walls torn away. The in
terror of the whole house was thus
left exposed, but the north and south
walls were left standing. Sebas-
tian Jones, a guest in the house,
was in the sitting room down stars, and
saved the young ladies and children Of
the family much fright and trouble.
The young ladies were preparing to re-
tire for the night, and had taken off
their shoes. In making their escape
they severely cut their feet on the
broken bits of glass. but were other
wise unhurt. They had to take refuge
in an abandoned street Car until they
could be taken to the home of
their grandmother on Sixth street.
DR.. and Mrs. Gritfith'S absence from
home, and the last letter from them was
dated Pittsburg. Until their mother
reach this city the young people will re-
main with their grandmother, Mrs.
Deutail, on Sixth street. The track of
the tornado ended at Twelfth street, on
Jefferson, and while the destruction
between Eleventh and Twelfth was so
terrible. the block between Twelfth
and Thirteenth was intact, except
an unroofed house or two, besides
the city railway company's building.
The residence of Edmund M. Gibbs, at
1131 West Jefferson, was total wreck.
In the house with him resided his sis
ter, Mrs. Clarke, and her children. 1t
was reported that Mrs. Clarke was
killed, but the report was denied by
peighbOrS this morning. who may be
supposed to be an authority on the sub
ject. She was somewhat seriously hurt.
however.