Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1890-04-02
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The Fsi1s CITY hsli. eour-ssory build.
Ing, was blown down while several Ma
sonic ana Knights Of Honor lodges we're
In eession, and one hundred mon and
women were buried in the ruins.
Nearly Every House Gone.
Every other house on Market, Jefferson
and Walnut streets from Eleventh to SIX
teenth street, is in ruins. Parkland. .
suburb, is swept away. At the Union depot
ut the foot Of Seventh street chesapeake
l. Ohio train for Washington Was just
starting out filled with passengers. The
building was prostrated, crushing in on
the tiain. All the
Passengers Were Rescued
except one newsbov. Every building, tree
and telegraph pole in the district struck
was leveled. The district laid low was an
area three miles long and nearly half mile
wide.
The streets are thronged with multi
tudes OF sorrowing people. They stand
upon the corners with tear dimmed eyes,
solemnly discussing the dreadful catastro-
pine or move from ono point of the wrecked
district to another, gazing at the scenes OF
ruin. There are at least 100 families home
less in the streets that we're happy yester.
day in the possession OF their homes. One
poor woman, between her half stitied sobs,
told how that very evening her husband
had paid to q building association the last
dollar they owed upon their house, and
now all that remains is confused mass Of
brick and mortar. There are many other
cases almost parallel to this. Not only
we're the houses dashed to the ground, but
the furniture in many instances was en-
tirely destroyed. Hundreds of thousands
of dollars worth of goods lay last night
upon the business streets at the mercy Of
thieves. It now seems almost impossible
to find store houses for the vast amount oi
merchandise.
At many places towering walls Of brick
are rocking in the air, ready to descend al
any time. The points Of danger are
guarded by the police and military COM
pany who drive the surglng crowds back at
the point of the bayonet.
At the entrances Of the various dead
rooms" "atand breathless mobs, clamorine
for admittaDce, but invariably refused nm.
less it be to identify some relative OF
friend. Occasionally when one Of these
enters q sound, half sob, half shrek
reaches the outer doors.
The telephone wires are sll down and il
win take ten days to get them up end
working again. The search for the victims
is going steadily on and each hour adds
largely to the already long list. In many
places the men labor in great danger Of be.
ing buried beneath the totteriug walls al
any moment, and other accidents An
looked for momentarily.
An inspection of the water works show,
the stand pipe completely wrecked. Until
repairs are completed no pumping oan be
done, and there is only about enough water
In the reservoir to last Ave days. At ths
end Of that time the public will have te
depend on wells. 1t cannot be told hov
long it will take to repair the water works
Crushed and blackened ruins mark tha
spot where last evening stood the splen-
did, large union depot at Seventh and
River. When the crash came the Louis
vile Southern train had just come in and
the I. and NJ. was ready to pull ont
but both were caught BY the falling masa
and crushed like shells. About . dozer
people were injured, but, II 10 thought
mono fatally.
The wide river. disturbed by the fury o.
the tornado, is yet angry, and what VA
left Of the depot BY the wind 10 momsn
tarily threatened BY the strong waves thai
surge under and about the platforms
From Seventh and River - far down u
oan b seen one continuous sosne Of desc.
lation meets the eye aud bewilders th,
spectator. who never dreamed Of anything
20 terrible. Everywhere il wreck and
ruin.
The storm seemed only to have swep
Broadway from Fifteenth to Nineteenth
but nearly all the houses between thss,
strests. and on interesting streets, wer,
demolished. From Fifteenth to Sixtesntl
are mostly small frame houses, occupies
BY colored families. The roofs we're Tor,
Oh, but no great amount of damage wa.
done, and mono Of the occupants vsr'
hurt. From Sixteenth down 70 Nineteenth