Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-03-29
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THE WESTERN TORNADO.
Further Details Of the Ap-
pa||ing Calamity.
AWFUL SCENE At FALL CITY HALL.
Details From Other Points
in the West.
THE new TARIFF SCHEDULES.
Major General SickleS'
Appointment.
AWFUL SCENE At FALL CITY HALL.
THE new TARIFF SCHEDULES.
THE PATH OF THE TORNADO.

THE PATH OF THE TORNADO.
The Latest Kstimate OF the Number
Lost at Louisville Placed at 100
Market street. p Scene ef Desolation-
Thousands Surround tho b uins-The
Work OF Rescuing tho Victims Goes
Bravely On-ThrilIing Scenes at FAN
City HalI-Story OF How tho Building
Collapsed-The wild Rush for the
ssreet-ThrillIng Account by an Eye
witness-The Dead and Injured-The
storm At other Points.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March 28.-Ths city Is
enshrouded in the deepest gloom to-niget. for
aside from the cloud of grief that hangs over
every heart the electric wires are down and
few lights shine in the devastated section.
The streets are thronged with multitudes.
There are at least hundred families home
less that were happily situated yesterday in
the possession of their homes. One poor
woman told how that very evening her hus-
band had paid to a building associa-
ton the last dollar they owed upon
their little home. 1t ia now esti-
mated that the number of deaths caused by
last nights tornado will reach 100. The
property loss is estimated at $500, 200 to
81, 000, 900. Forty men have been sent out
by the board of trade to make q thorough
canvass of the district and report losses of
life and property fully. They will try to
furnish the Associated Press statement at
O'Clock tonight.
The work of resouing the manglsd dead
goes bravely on. A hundred anxious men
worked as never before for the bodies Of
their wives, fathers, mothers, brothers, sis
ters that lie buried in the shspeless mass Of
debris that covers the site where yesterday
stood Falls City,h The cries of men,
women and children rend the air on every
side. A surging crowd of ten thousand PEG.
pie block the streets for squares about the
scene of the catastrophe.
A large force of police guard the avenue to
keep back the pressing masses of curiou.
humanity that are gradually forcing theis
way to the awful scene of the calamity
Five hundred men stand by the wreck dazsd
and helpless, too weak or too lazy to lend 6
helping hand to the brave squad of rescuers.
It ia sight to strike anguish to the soul o.
the bravest. Words are powerless to express
the awful scenes that each succeeding minute
rolls through the CHASTITY panorama. Bod
les, mangled and shapeless beyond recogni
ton are being dragged from beneath tn,
ruins every few minutes. Men, women aui
| children linger about the scene with faces
filed with dread anxiety lest they recogniz,
in the shapeless masses the resemblance o
the features of some relative or friend
Coroner Miller stands at the door of his tenn
porary morRue In the McGrathiana saloon
opposite the wreck, directing the dispositiol
Of the bodies.
LIST OF THE DEAD.
The following bodies have been taken fron
the ruins this morning and placed in tn
morgue, and most of them have been identi
fed by claims:
Rudolph Senger, mechanic, No.. 124 Ian
street; Genevieve Simms, age four, No. 1872
West Market street; Henry Lingo, No. 10
Eighth and Jefferson streets; John Richie
No. 40 Fifteenth street; Charles Siebert
Chapel street below Main; -- Sullivan
Main, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth; J
Flescher, Twelfth, between Jefferson an
Miss Mary Scatter, Twenty-eighth and Mad
Barnes, No. 1898 Chapel street; Annie Miles
No. 1891 Portland avenue; Clarence Lossl
S15 Ninth street; Robert Hamilton ,residenc
unknown; Mrs. John Haran, No. 1941 Port
land avenue; four unknown men, mangle
beyond recognition.
STORY OF ONE WHO WAS IN THE FA1A
BUILDING.
thrilling experience was that of Geore
/ II. Capito of No. 1431 Stewart avenue, VII
was present at the meeting of Jewell lodg
No. 2, Knights and Ladies' of Honor, i
, their lodge room on the top floor of the Fal
hill rphn tho 11{I lIov
under the terrible impact of the cyclone.
! says; 60 ,.,..
were two distiot bookings of tbs building
about which time dormer window of Il
lodge room was blown from it's castings, an
l.. Immediately after the platter began to dro
!. from the ceiling. wild rush was made fl
the ante room which carried me with it, ar
l had just reached the door when the enti
/. floor gave way and We were precipitated
the basement, blinded aud almost suffooate
by q cloud of dust and crushed and jsmme
| BY falling timbers. In some way the do,
frame fell with me and maintained an al
right position when 1t stopped and was 81
= abled to extricate myself from the debris ar
make an exit to the street through an adjoi
ing house, whose doors kicked in.
" 'Meanwhiie the shrieks and groans
those still imprisoned by the wreck for
. chorus in connection with the bowling storl
i, made my heart very sick. I was, 60 far as
q hasty examination went, comparatively n
!. injured and at once returned over the rui
!. with several men to the rear of the place a
t, extinguished q FIRE that had begun to bla
~ fercely. By this time the rain was falling
Il torrents and it was difficult for those wi
had gathered from the neighborhood or WI
- had been as lucky as was to escape with II
to tell where TO begin the work of rescue.
LESS THAN DOZEN ESCAPED uNHURT.
:, "The vivid lightning flashes only ga
:, momentary views of the position of t
9; ruins and blinded everybody. Among tho
re- whom saw and recognizsd as having
q. capped from the lodge can name only or
of Mrs. Lizzie Walters, treasurer of the lodG
y who was covered with dust, drenched by t
~ storm and we'll nigh distracted by the pro
,p able fate of her aged father, who had |
2 tended the meeting with her and was still
y, the ruins.
1.-THE entire building collapsed in fro
and rear, and of the east and west wa
nothing was standing above the secol
story. There were nearly hundred me-
bers at the meeting, 40 several candida
10 | we're up for initiation.
"FulIy tvo.thirda of those there were
dies. Besides our lodge another was holdi
q meeting on the same floor with us. A g.
man band was rehearsing on the second At
and q party of decorators were ct work in
large hall on that floor preparing for so
entertainment.
$50 far as could judge, when had 8
ceeded in escaping, there were less than
Y dozen, all told, who got out unhurt, and
u, cries for help and groans that issued from
broken and twisted heap was proof &
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