The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-29
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all without fires in tue furnaces. How
ever, all were safely brought into port
The ferryboat, W. g. Site, with many |
passengers, was
Snatched From Doom
inst us she neared the tails. One of the |
narrowing incidents of the disaster was
the killing of the Rev. Stephen E. Barn |
we'll, rector of St. Johns Episcopal
church, and his young sou Dudley Mrs.
Barnwell was so badly hurt that she
may die.
The Fire Fiend's Work.
At one o'clock the opening up of
portion of the debris of the Fall City
ball caused draught through the
ruins, whereupon the mouldering fire
broke ont with tremendous ferceness
1t spread rapidly and forced the workers
to desert the pile. AS soon as the fire
gained headway the groans OF the i'm
srisoned people became shrieks and so
great was the horror of the moment that
the watchers were frantic and screamed
and
Ran bout Like Madmen;
the terrible sufferings which they were
unable to alleviate, driving them to de-
spair. Several lines Of hose were soon
throwing water on the flames, but it
was more than an hour before the work
could be proceeded with, and then it
was carried on with much more difficulty
then before an account of the heat. Up
to twelve o'clock only about thirty five
dead bodies and twenty-five wounded
and dying were taken from the wreck.
Trains are Delayed.
! CINCINNATI, March 23-Conductor r.
B. HolbonrU, of the Louisville and Nash
vile train, which arrived at II a. 10
said to q reporter: "All along the line
coming out of Louisville, telegraph poles,
wires and timber are scrttered in all di
rections. We were delayed for that rea-
son. at LAGRANGE, twenty-seven miles
ut from Louisville, there was mach
damage done. At Eminence, forty
miles south east of Louisville,
Several Persons Were Killed.
The whole country coming our oF
Louisville is one mass of ming}e tim
bers, trees and other debris" Another
trainman said: 1.-The storm struck the
city from the southwest and
Ran in Zigzaz Direction
across it, struck the depot and jumped
the river striking Jeffersonville. A
least niue or ten blocks Of that pIac,
we're destroyed. Before leaving this
morning, at O'Clock, sixty eight bodies
were taken from Falls City Hall, wher.
there were hundreds of people at the
time of the accident. The greatest de
struction was in the main part OF tn
city.
At about o'clock the room where
the children were dancing was reached
Louis Simms, Jr., of 1924 Market street
had for hours been moving about III
An Agony ..of Grief
in front Of that portion Of the wrec
where this room had been, for his vii
and four children were there. Whel
the room was reached, Mrs Simms wa
the first one found, and she was fatal
hurt. Th.n, about fifteen minutes @
: each other, three of the Slmms childrel
3 were recovered They were uncon
scious, aud there is only faint poss
bility that they will live.
While the father father was implorin
] the workers to get his child, fire brolz
e out, aud work was suspended. Their
G are
, Two Hundred People in the Debris
e aud the probabilities are that few, if an
= more will be recovered alive. OF thos
taken out dead only small numbe
were identified. Everything is chao
There is no system. A mans voice W.
q heard in corner and light showed tt
q SCARED face of Virgil Wright BE W;
:. penned in with mass OF bricks an
mortar In his hand he
Held Pistol
6 with which he was trying to Esd lis su
feripgs His arm was so bruised, hos
{. ever, that he was
u Unable to Pull the Trigger,
:, and he was rescued quite badly wounde
% % but able to walk The water works Al
~ ruined. The ciey water supply is tn
~ cut off, consequently
d The tobacco industry is fearful
ir crippled.
The west end came in for a big sbar
The awful tornado did not follow
= straight course, but jumped upon ol
~ block and down another and here a,
there. Port Royal, Henry count
81 forty miles from Louisville is report'
'' As Being Entirely Demolish he'd.
At Pendleton, thirty 'bree miles fro
Louisville, a 81 900 insurance poll
IS. was found hanging on u bush near t
he railroad track. The policy belonged
be man in Louisville, and had been blov
w all the way from the city. A sorts
clothing. pieces of lumber and deb
of all sorts were scattered along the liz
Stilled in Death.
= LOUISVILLE, KY, March 90 The &C
rier Journal of to-day says: The nigh
strike of the tornado fell W
,ro suddeaness that scarcely ga
''0 time for quickened heart beats
fore these hearts were stil!ed in dea
Twice, before the wrenching asunder
life and homes and castles of trade,
rn. impulses of The gale fought furiously
tho accomplish the work reserved for
Iuo .to whirling tiger Of the air, whose aw
'n1 VIZ coursers they were Twice, for five
III rions minutes each. they strOye. 2