Connecticut western news., 1890-04-02
IN THE CYCLONES PATH.
The Latest Returns from the
 Desolated District.
BURNING LOUIsvILLEs DEAD.

BURYING LOUISVILLE'S DEAD. The Number of Victims Has Not Reached
 One Hundred Thus Far-Golconda, Ind.,
 averitable Golconda-Fifty Lives Lost
 in Clay, Ky.-News from Elsewhere.
 LOUISVILLE, March 31.-If possible, the throngs of sightseers were even larger than the day previous, when the woful spectacle was first unfolded to the light of day in all it's hideousness Early trains brought hun dreds of curious visitors and agents of relief from neighboring cities and towrS 1o swell the multitude of those who wended with 8 local interest toward the scene, and tre. guards had much difficulty in maintaining their lines against the pressure. All night long the search parties continued their labors, and the sound of rattling wagons rose out of every street. Carpenters and timers worked like beavers the whole day trying to repair broken roofs and strengthen dangerously weakened walls. Gangs of line men were getting the tangled and broken wires of the telephone and telegraph out of the way for further repairs. :, Funeral Bells Polling.
 Meanwhile the solemn tolling of church bells, the frequent passage of laden hearses and long lines of funeral carriages gave note to the hurrying crowd that the torna- dos victims were passing to their last rest ing places ,As Careful estimates by competent under writers and salvage agents are nearly agreed that the damage to buildings of all classes, to domestic goods and commercial stocks will aggregate close to g., 100000, with a liberal allowance for rebuilding repairs. Ninety-four Dead. | The main point of comforting thought is that the loss of life will not prove niariy SO great as at first supposed. At a late hour last night ninety-four names were borne on the list of dead, and of these but three were taken from the ruins during the day.. | Burying the Dead.
 The work of burying the dead went on with ghastly systematic briskness Sunday, 1 and all of the hearses in the city were taxed to their utmost. One procession contained | five hearses conveying the bodies of the up- fortunate laundry glrls-Maggie Mcclure, Mary Ryan, Bridget Crow, Maggie Camp bell and Mary McGinty-whose funeralserv- | ices were held at the cathedral at the same 1 time r Carriages S1o per Hour. | Humboldt lodge, l. O. O. F., remained at Cave Hill cemetery during the afternoon, and received one at time the funeral pro sessions of the ten members of that frater- nifty killed at the Falls City hall. The burals. with the ritual services of the order, occurred at half-hour intervals. So urgent were the demands on the undertakers that as a rule but two hacks were allowed to each funeral Even with this arrangement the fatilitiei were inadequate and the street cars, via Green street and Baxter avenue to the ceme- tery, were called into requsition as mora rapid means of funeral conveyances. l Twenty-four funeral processions passed out Broadway during the day en route to Cave Hill. The funeral of Rev. Dr. Barnwell pastor of St. Johns Episcopal church, took place at noon. His son, Dudley Barnwell, was buried at the same time. The owners l of carriages and hacks raised their charges to $1O per hour for the use of their vehicles and, as a consequence, all the carriages available in Jeffersonville and New Albany were brought to this city.
 Some of the colored people, and the poorer of the unfortunate families, were forced to use express and transfer wagons.
 Rcd Cross Workers Present.
 Miss Clara Barton, president of the Ameri can National Association of the Red Cross, with Dr. J. B. Hubbell general field agent 1 of the association, and J. H. Moreland foreman of their work at Johnstown, Pa! have arrived here
 Miss Barton will look over the field from this point for time, and then extend aid in the direction most needed. Her assistants are now located within call through sec tions where danger and suffering are threat ened.
 All Thursday evening storm had been gathering and the lightning and thunde, were ominous. At about o'clock it began to rain and the storm gradually increased in intensity. The rain changed to hail ant people kept within doors The signal serv ice in the afternoon predicted cyclone. but no one thought it would strike Louisville At S:25 the disaster came. The heavens wer, black as ink There was deep, threatening roar as the cyclone struck the south western portion of the city. Then the buildings were crushed like egg shells and broad swath o ] devastation was the result.
 | On Came the Whir1wind.
 The Courier-Journal says: The mighty stroke of the tornado fell with suddennes that scarcely gave time for quickened hear beats before those hearts were stilled il death. Twice before the wrenching asundel of life and homes and castles of trade tn, impulse of the gale fought impa tiently to ac complish the work reserved for the whirlinS tiger of the air, whose avaunt couriers they were. Twice, for five furious minutes each they strove and passed on, screeching thei baffled rage. Then came lull, but only fol little space, and then the tornado thun dered over the doomed territory with terri ble lightnings constantly ablaze.
 The Path of the Storm.
 From Eighteenth and Maple streets diagonally across the city, crushing dwell ings and business blocks like egg shells, top bling down church steeples and wrenchinl warehouses to fragments, the dread visitan passed to the river front, leaving to mari the boundaries of ruin a broad swath o wreckage and dead and mangled humanit, impaled and weighted down or burning il the ignited debris =
 This belt of destruction extended from tn west side of Sixth street as far as Ninth ant Main, and an equal width across to tn point where the city was first touched. Tn loss of life and property is at present incal culable. It will require long days of pain full search and computation to reach
 proper estimate, but it is certain that III such havoc has ever been recorded b1fol, for an American city from such a caus. ' add to the sudden horror of the sceise, ii came 10 selze upon the shapeless I'll " '';, consume the helpless wounded and q st! U :, dead. Louisville is not left alone to F ,i U this dreadful visitation.
 An Hour of Awful Suspense.
 Only a few minutes elapsed after th burst of the cyclone when the DO ice an' 6remen were at work upon the ruins c Falls City hall. It was difficult to clear tn ruin of women who were found digging q the slate roof with their fingers crazed a the groans beneath each of which the