Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-29
DEATH AND DESPAIR.
Further HeartrendiBs Accounts
Concerning the Awful Tor.
nado in Kentucky.
STATEMENTS MADE eY Eye
WITNESSES.
The Work OF Reseuing the Mansled
Dead.-Widespread De-
VISITATION.
By Telegraph to the SEusl
THE LOUISVILLE HOLOCAUST.
Latest Particulars From The Seems
OF The Disaster.

OF The Disaster.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, March 2s.-A
ll:30 am. the room az the Falls Cit
Hall where he children We're dane
ing, was reached. Lewis Simons
Jr., had for hours been moving
about in agony in front Of that pOr
ton Of the wreck where the room
had been, looking for his wife ant
four children there. When tht
room was reached, Mrs. Simons wa:
fohnd fatally hurt Then within
aoout fifteen minutes Of each other
three ofthe Simons children wer,
recovered, they were unconscious
and there is only faint possibility
Of their living. While the father
was imploring the workers % gel
his other child the fire broke out
and the work was suspended.
The last man taken out alive be-
fore the flames started was Hepden.
A thrilling experience was that Of
George II. Capito, who was
present at the meeting Of the
knights of Honor IN the lodge room
on the top floor. He slys tie frs;
intimatiUn Of danger was two dis
tinct BOOKINGS Of the building, about
which time the windows were blown
from their castings, and Immediately
after the plastering began TO drop
from the ceiling.
"a wild rush was made for the
anterOOm, which carried me with
is, and l had lust reached the door
when the entire floor gave way and
We were precipitated to the base-
ment, blinded and almost suiIOcated
by the cloud Of dust, and crushed
and jammed by falling iimbers- In
some way the door frame fell with
me ami maintained an Upright posi-
ton when il stopped, and | was
enabled to extricate myself from
the debris and make an exit 10 the
street through the adjoining house,
whose doors We're knocked IN.
II at once returned over the ruins
with several men and eXtinguished
the fire that had then begun. BY
this time the rain was falling in tor
rents. The lightning flashes only
gave momentary views II the posi-
ton of the ruins and blinded every
body. The entire building collapsed
in front and rear. OF the east and
west walls nothing is Standing above
the second story. There were near
ly hundred members present at
our lodge meeting. Fully two
thirds of those were ladies. Be
sides our lodge, another order was
holding Il meeting on the same floor
with us. A hand was rehearsiDg on
the second floor, and n p3Tty Of dec
orators were at work in the large
bail preparing for an entertainment.
So far as / could judge, there were
less than n dozen, ali told, who got
Dut unhurt, and the groars that Is
sued from the
EROEEN AND TWISTED HEAP
were proof that scores were still
here unable 10 esca-e.v
100 p.m.-It is now thought that
he deaths will number about $50.
4 large force Of men have been sent
put TO make a thorough canvass OF
he devastated district and report
he losses Of life and property n
July as possible. They will try %
mike a statement tonight. The
loss is at present estimated
II nearly a million dollars.
The work Of rescuing the mangled
lead goes bravely on. Hundreds OF
anxious men are working as they
never worked before for the bodies
II friends ami relatives that lie
buried in the mass OF brick and NOR
ar that covers the site where -es-
erday stood Fails City HaH. Cries
II men, women and children are
heard on every side and a surging
,rowd Of 10000 people blocks the
.treets for squares. II is a sight 10
,trike anguish to the soul The pen
: pOwerless to express the awful
Genes that each succeeding minute
-Oll through the ghastly panorama.
The bodies Of the dead and wounded
Ire being dragged from beneath the
uins all AROUND the district and
men, women and children linger
lbout, filed with dread and anxiety
est they recognize in the shapeless
the remains Of some relative
~ friend.