Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-03-29

per part OF the house ruined; 1890, hi7, no
limbaugh, dry goods house, ruineu,,,,
one injured 1892. Dutton Instalmen. ~, ~" ~
pany, furniture, the rear and ml1 ,ue-,,a
the establishment crushed in; 1855, uco o.,,',
| W. Cuscaden, the rear down and nouI
ruined above the first floor; 1882, rIan1
bettler, jeweller. rear of establlshii,vi,r,'
| demolished: 1910 and 1912, 4. helghl.,
| chinaware, house ruined and entirely piOyH
in in the rear; 1914, corner of EieVs,n1.;h,,
| Abe Toomey. a grocer, whole rear anu IL
warehouse adjoining RACED TO the groininiu,
| 100. ". A. Pfeffings, druggist, buliu,I1s
wrecked above and store badly damageu
| 1902. Val Knapp, hardware, building en- Ho
| tirely down in rear; ll04, Great Atlaheio
and Pacific Tea Company on ground noOI'
| Jerome b. Curran and Frank h. StgBci
above, building wrecked, occupants ~
capped by ladders after the front wall ha S
| been blown out, Mrs. Stigger hurt llqo,
! Fred. Bauer. stoves and tnware, tho
| building completely wrecked IN Wv
rear and above first floor; iiy1'
| Shubach Il Brothers wallpaper estao,,
ment extended back and through i05 ana
! 40 Eleventh street. The whole place i III
ruins. The buildings from 11O0 TO ilOS ives,
Market street belonged 10 II. Scieman, ana
they are nearly complete loss. No. lllV.
! Frank COrsO, fruits. rear and upper paIt
demolished; 1ll2, Il. Hickman, boots an q
shoes on ground floor. a. Hoffman ana
Louis Whitman, residence above buildins
ruined and Mr. Whitman probably fatally
| injured by jumping from the thlrd-nOoI
| front window: TIA. VI. b. Sternberger'
merchant tailor, building badly wrecked
but family safe; ZIG, Harder & Son, toys
and stationery, building wrecked II rear
no one injured: Ills. 4. LAUDER d sou
jewellers, building down IN rear; llzo'
Philip Harmm. saloon, place nearly cVur'
pletcly ruined; ll22, i. Simm, Jr., natter
house smashed to fragments.
CHILDREN KnLED.
| Two Of Simm's children were killed anu
Mrs. Simms injured; ll26. 1l28, ana lI9o
Falls Civ Hall and T. J. Schen Sons.
total wreck with loss Of life amounting 20
hundreds; 1872. q. Winter, saloon, bull q
inc wrecked in rear. no one hurt; ISL, -
j. Schanz, druggist, building wrecked IN
rear, no one hurt: 1856, Lazarus. dry goous'
! building damaged in rear. but the Occu-
pants escaped without injury; 1888. cor
Der of Twelfth street. 4. ii. watkins a
Co, Proccrs, badly damaged IN rear
Az Eleventh street. James Mellots resi-
dence. rear demolished, but no one III,
iured 4l4 aud 4l6 Eleventh street escaped
with but little injury 4l8 Eleventh street,
occupied as n bar-room and grocery, COM
plctcy ruined; 4S4. occupied by Moses
Hundlev and family, smashed 70 spInter5
bv the falling OF No. 436. but no one IN
iured: 1876. occupied by Mrs. Bridget Hol-
leran and julius 7. Albert as resi-,
deuce. 1t was q three-story brick and
tho top story was blown OF. No one
was hurt. j. II. Crccelius y Co.'
| drugs. Tenth aud Market, wall blown
in on Twelfth-street side; A. Vllllers'
shoes. Twelfth and Market, rear wall blow
in; jerry Turner, saloon, Eleventh and
Market. uurOOfcd Flavoring Extract COM
rany. Eleventh and Market, unroofed ana
rear wall blown in: Jacob Korb, Ninth and
Market, completely wrecked: Mrs. Max
Wood. grocery. Eighth and Market, I'M
rooted aud east wall blown in Hiss \.
Cliupet. saloon, 1903 west Market. IN
rooted aud rear wall blown in; George 4.
Corbin, photographer, rear wall blown
down: II. 5. Robertson, residence. EShth
and Market, RACED to the ground; J.. }.
Carr. engineer, Ninth and Market, rear end
ofbuilding blown in: Herbert Williams, sa-
loon. 1875 Market, rear wall blown in and
unroofed: l.. Schmidt. saloon, 1882 Market
street. unrOofcd: Rhodes Furniture Com
uany, ll47 Market street. rear wall blown
in. The immense irOn-tOundry of Ain,lee
| COchrane 4 Co. was completely RACED 10
the Ground, the re4r wall alone remaining
standing; a. l.; Rice, saloon 9l' MAJ kS'
street, rear wall blown IN and unroOied :
Jacob L. Gilians. shoes. Ninth and Market
streets. uur0ofcd. and the walls blown n
in o. tie east SIDE OF tie street.
hiaior Gait, Of the Louisville and Nash
| vile railroad. and his family, who lived IN
a two-storv brick house, were sitting in an
upstairs room when the building BEGAN
rocking still they apprehended no dan
| GER until the walls fell in upon them. The
| house and furniture are destroyed. Major
Gait IS uninjured, but his wife Is danger
| ,,1etv "A from the shock.
Three lives were lost corner OF Eigb-
teenth and Maple streets. he killed
were: John limerick, forty years old; his
| daughter, four years old. and James Fitz-
gerald, q neighbor. Limerick kept o gro
cerv. The building was frame one, two
stories high. At the first gust Of wind the
walls doubled,up and the roof dropped IN.
limerick was crushed by falling TIMBER,
afterwards. His wife was extricated
and was taken out deead a short time
in An unconscious condition. Later IN the
NIGHT the searching party saw tiny hand
protruding from the d1bris, and tire man
clcd corpse OF the baby soon lay beside lts
dead father
about three blocks wide. but in such a ZIG
zag manner that 1t IS almost impossible 10
measure the exact track. To the west O,
the town, from the direction III which the
storm had come, n path several hundred
yards wide ismowed down. the trees ben
cut of Ike stalks OF gram before tn
scvthe. Jacksonville was struck 10y
the Cyrlone at O'Clock. IL Was very
distinctly heard two miles III the country
where the people wondered what II meant.
Fortunately not "A person was killed IN JET
fersonville, though some were badly hurt.
A terrible unuei-slAped cloud was seen
approaching up tbe river 10y several per
sons, who say it looked like black double
funnel with the narIOwest part IN the mid
die. Its roar could be heard long before
ii struck the city, and the people were
alarmed by II.
loss or LGFE AND DAMAGE.
In discussing the reports OF the commit
tees making the house-tO-house inyestiga-
tion considerable diversity of opinion rs
10 the actual property loss was developed
The lowest estimate put 1t at ~ 10000.
and the highest at $1,000 900, and the best
founded upon facts presented placed 1t Of
-. 500, 600
There is almost no insurance. It wa:
finally voted that the chairman OF The
committee should prepare a statement t.
be authoritative for the use of the Asso
ciated Press. This was approved by Q
majority Of the committee. 1t Is "a fol
lows:
To he People:
| nc fAIliillN lfitl Ills ONfilhhtu III.
CITY of Louisville by the cyclone of last
night spread over the territory Of oul
city, covering a space 400 yards wide
and three miles long through the business
and residence portion of our city. The
loss Of life is IN the neighborhOod, It j
believed. of some sevcnty-fiye persons
end the loss to the city III damage TO house.
and grounds it is believed not 20 exceed
81 900 900. While the calamity is q great
one, our citizens feel able TO cope with il
and are not cast down. but viii at once
proceed 20 repair and resume in the chan.
nels now interrupted. In all other por
tons OF the city business is resuming il.
usual channels Signed bv the Relief Com,
mite. OF the Board OF Trade, William 4
Ref, Chairman.)
Damage i'm other Places.
A dispatch from Metropolis, ILL.,, says
The cyclone of last night cut clean swat
about a quarter OF a mile wide clear acros,
the town, wreckng property Of all de
scriphOns and burying men. women, anC
children IL the d-bris Of the falling build
iugs The number OF victims cannot b,
asccrtained with anything like accuracg
but il Is reported that several hundred
people were killed or wounded and be
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