St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-30
COUNTING The DEAD.
Louisville's Sacrifice to the
Terrible Tornado Put in
Plain Figures.
Fully $50 Persons Pepished,
the Property Loss Aggre-
eating $3,oOO,0OO.
An Even Hundred Bodies, All
Fully Identified, Shrouded
For Burial.
Marion and Many Other Ham
lets Faped Worse Than
the Metropolis.


est estimate Of dead places the figures
between 12O and $50. One hundred bod
les have been recovered, and there are
but few persons not accounted for. The
damage to property approximates IS, 0O0,-
900 in Louisville alone. In Jefferson
Vile it is about s750,O0O. Many of the
wrecked houses are menace to life
and to property that escaped the fury Of
the storm, and they have been Or
dered torn down. Gangs of men,
under direction of city officers, are
clearing away the debris from the
streets. The embargo OH business has
been raised and traffic has been re-
Sumed. The outlook is bright and cheer
ful and efforts are being made to have
the damage assumed by the community
without the aid of outside help. Per
haps the most destructive work done by
the tornado was on Market street. For
three squares nOIth of Ninth nearly
every business and dwelling house was
devastated. Houses were
Hurled Into the Street
and the debris in many places was
piled thirty feet high. The picture Of
sorrow and desolation to be witnessed
on Market street yesterday, where
homeless women and children were
wandering about viewing the places
from where they so narrowly escaped
the night previous, battles description.
Every house from Ninth to Eleventh
street was almost totally demolished.
West and east of these streets the torn
ado did frightful damage, but the
destruction of property was hardly SO
great. Not till daylight dawned upon
Main street could the extent of the deYas-
tatiOn be fully cOmprehended. The
cyclone struck the city's main thorough
fare at Eleventh street and veered to
the north at Seventh. Not half-doZen
houses were left intact throughout the
entire extent of the four squares. The
daylight revealed that the majority of
buildings had been virtually destroyed.
The tOcaccO warehouses suffered terri
bly,, and the big wholesale houses Jared
done except at the tobacco ware
houses, where as many men as
could be secured are employed
in removing the thousands of hogsheads
of tobacco to places of shelter. Should
heavy fall or rain occur i'll day or
two, the loss of property on Main street
will be doubled. Next to Market and
Main streets, Jefferson street probably
suffered more than any other portion of
the city. From Ninth to Eleventh the
destruction was complete. The side
walks and streets were a network of
wires, telegraph poles, trees and rem
nants of houses. In many places the
street was totally blocked by
stores. some Of which had been
Carried by the Hurricane
two squares or more. Wagons were un-
able to reach many of the homes of
those who were anxious to remove the
remainder of their furniture. All day
men were busy cleaning the streets to
allow transportation, and placards were
posted on many of the houses and trees
offering So. 81 and S. for laborers.
Women and children were pressed
into work to clean the debris
away. The police and privates of
the Louisville legion were stationed
at every corner to keep back the
crowds which thronged to see the de-
struetion. The side streets leading
into Jefferson, Market and Main were
thronged with SightSeers from the time
the newspapers appeared on the streets
until late tonight. Between Tenth and
Eleventh streets the destruction to
property was small in comparison with
the total destruction on the square be-
low. The track of the tornado across
Walnut street was confined principally
to the two squares between Twelfth and
Fourteenth street, and within this limit
only, houses on the north side Of street
were greatly damaged, with the eycep-
ton of the colored ODD Fellows hall at
Thirteeth and Walnut streets, which is
ne
Walnut street were very few, the people
in some mysterious way escaping seri-
Gus injury from the falling walls and
flying missiles that for few minutes
filled the air as thick as hailstones. The
only death ascertainable SO far was that
of a colored boy. Moody Davis, who was
attempting to cross the street at ThIr-
teenth and Walnut in the midst of the
fury of the storm. A large, pointed
rafter, which had been torn from the
roof of neighboring building, pierced
him just below the right shoulder and
passed
Clear Through His Body,
came out just above the right hip, kill
ing him instantly. He was picked up
by trembling hands and borne to his
home on Magazine street, between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth. Marvellous
to relate, there was not man or woman
or child seriously hurt in the track of
the tornado extending from Thirteenth
to Seventeenth street on Chestnut.
Chestnut street in one of the beautiful
portions is almost completely wrecked,
yet all the people are bravely encour-
aging one another, and giving thanks
that loss of life is not added to the fearful
destruction of valuable property. The
devastation on Chestnut street begins
half way between Thirteenth and Four
teenth streets and extends tc the middle
of the block bounded ON the east and
west by Sixteenth and Seventeenth
streets. On the north side of the street
not more than six buildings in the three
blocks escaped. and most of them were
so irretrievably damaged that they will
have to be razed, as they cannot be re-