Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-28

On either side was wreck and ruin.
Great heaps Of brick and store pre-
sent the appearance ~ having
simply crumbled 20 earth. Gangs
Of rescuers are at work on the ruins
and debris in search Of the victims
of the awful calamity. The wreck
Is so great that 1t beggars all at
tempt at detail. Immediately
upon the first burst of the cyclone
the fire bells sounded. The police
were Mt work within ten minutes
y posse appeared at the Falls City
Hall. The wrecked walls Of the adj
Joining building were first propped
up. and then began the work OF
cutting through the roof that COW
cred all. After an hours ceaseiess
work the first victim, Mrs Sarah
Kelly, was unearthed. She was
found sitting upright, her head
bruised and
ONE ARM ERoKES.
She said that at the first quake
she made n rush for the entrance.
Women were knocked down and
trampled on. Seeing the over
whelming jam Mt the door several
remained behind. The excavstces
then moved from the rear to the
fgunt where it was supposed the
greater crowd gathered. AS soon
as the roofing had been removed, and
also n mass OF brick beneath, ten wom-
en- locked IN each others arms
We're drawn out. Inside the
next house sixty men aud women
were drawn out dead, but with no
wounds. Ii is thought that all met
their death from suffocation. The
gas pipes. being broken, flooded the
debris with vapOr almost rs deadly
a. the fire might havep proven. Ways
were pierced into the heart Of the
ruins and the bOdies recovered of
tn edead and dying.
Along Main street the pathway OF
I the storm extended to Eleventh
Street, and from Seventh to Eleventh
not a single building was len stand
ing.
This morning presented one Of
the most sturendOus spectacles OF
disaster and ruin ever witnessed. In
the course of the storm lay the great
tobacco market. Today the ware
houses are Ia ruins. Thousands
OF hogsheads OF tobacco lie in a
mass OF brick and mortar.
THE LOUISVILLE HOTEL
j. unroofed, and otherwise wrecked.
1 The next building west, occupied
as a cigar store upon the first floor
and sleeping rooms upon the second,
is raZed 20 the ground, not a single
brick remaining in its place. In
the destruction Of this house many
lives were lost principally
Iersons who occupied sleeping
rooms there. Many Of them were
girls employed at the hotel. Saloons
and other available places have
been turned into hastily improvised
morCues, where the bodies were
taken rs they were recovered, and
there await Identification. Eleventh
Street seemed TO serve as n
kind Of Hue for the storm.
All intervening objects in that
line were practically reduced To
nOthingness. Down It carried the
fronts Of buildings, mostly resi-
Lences, on either side, leaving in
many instances the furniture and
other fixtures uumoltsted. Jefier-
son and Market streets are in almost
IS tad a condition as Main. Hun
dreds OF wagons are busy carrying
away soilei and broken furniture
from the shattered houses.
At u O'Clock the opening Of a
portion OF the debris Of Falls City
hall caused a draught, whereupon
A sMOLDERISG FIRE
broke out and fiercely sprsah, rapid
IL forcing the workers to desert the
place. As soon rs the fire made
Roadway the grosns Of the imprison-
ed people became shrieks. SO graf
was the horror the watchers grew
frantic, screamed and ran about
like mad, the terrible suffer
ings, which they were unable
10 alleviate, driving them TO
despair. Several lines Of hose were
soon used on the flames, but 1t
was more than an hour before the
work could he proceeded with. 1t
was then carried on with much diff
ficulty on account Of the heat. Up
70 II O'Clock only about twenty
five dead bodies and twenty five
wounded had been taken from the
wreck.