Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-03

and ran about like wild, the terrible
sufferings which they were unable to
alleviate driving them 10 despair. Sew
eral lines of hose were soon throwing
water on the flames, but it was more
than an hour before work could be
proceeded with and carried on, which
was done with much difficulty on &C
count of the heat.
At :25 O'Clock the room was reached
where the
CHILDREN WERE DANCING.
Mr.. Louis Sims had been for hours
moping about in agony in that portion of
the wreck where this room had been, for
his wife aud four little children were
there. When the room was reached
Mrs. Sims was the first one found and
she was fatally hurt. Then within about
fifteen minutes each of the three Sims
children were recovered. They were un-
conscious, and there is only faint pos
sibility of their living. While the father
| was implOring the workers TO get his
other child, fire broke out and the work
| was suspended.
The last man taken out alive before
the flames started was John Hopden of
| 2l09 West Broadway, and just previous
to that a woman who was unable to give
her name. It is impossible to tell the
| extent of injuries TO either.
The friends OF Claude Goldman, chief
| train dispatcher of the Louisville South
ern, are looking for his body, which is
supposed to be buried in the debris. He
| left home to meet his brother at the de-
! pot last night and has not since been
! heard from.
The work of rescuing rnangled dead
men worked as they never worked before
| for bodies of their wives, fathers, moth
ers, brothers and sisters that lie buried
| in the shapeless mass of brick and mortar
| that covers the site whsre yesterday stood
the Falls City hall. Cries OF
MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN
rend the air on every side. A surging
crowd of 10 900 people block the streets
for squares about the scene of the catas-
trophe. A large force of police guard
the avenue to keep back the pressing
masses of curious humanity that are
gradually forcing their way to the awful
scene of calamity. Five hundred men
stand by the wreck, dazed and helpless,
too weak or too lazy to lend
helping hand to the brave squad of
anguish to the soul of the bravest.
Words are powerless to express the awful
scenes that each. succeeding minute rolls
through the CHASTITY panorama. Bodies
mangled and shapeless beyond re"pgni-
ton are being dragged from beneatr.the
ruins every few minutes. Men, women
and children linger about the scene,
peering into the faces of the dead as the
bodies are carried out with dread anxiety
lest they recognize in the
sHAPELEss MASS OF FLESH
and bone, a semblance of features OF
some relative or friend.
Coroner Miller stands at the door of
his temporary morgue in McGrathin's
saloon, opposite the wreck, directing the
disposition OF bodies.
The following bodies have been taken
from the debris this morning and placed
in the morgue; most Of them have been
identified and claimed by rela-
tives Rudolph Senger, mechanic,
Louisville and Nashville railroad, |
No. 124 Zane street; Genevieve |
Sims, four years, 1924 West Market |
street; Henry Lingo, Fifteenth and |
TYLER avenue; Esquire James M. Ste |
vens, Eighth g. d Jefferson streets; john |
Reicht, 749 fteenth street; Charles |
Riebert, Chapel street between Main and |
Market; - Sullivan, Main street be- /
tween Fifteenth and Sixteenth; j. |
Fleischer, Twelfth street between JEFF |
ferson and Market; Miss Mary Schatter, |
Twenty eighth and proposed extern
sion Of Madison street; A. Streuel-
ering, East Market street; Elmer F.
Barnes. 326 Chapel street; Annie Miles,
1921 Portland avenue; Clarence Lorezer,
3l5 Ninth street; Robt. Hamilton, resi-
denoe unknown; Mrs. John Koran, 1841
Portland avenue; four unknown men,
mangled beyond recognition.
At 8 o o'clock this morning while Coroner
Miller was standing over corpse in his
improvised morgue man, pale as deaf b
and yoiceless from excitement, rushed IN
and hoarsely whispered: Mr.. Miller
Your brother is
BURIED IN THE RUINS.
The coroner was nearly overcore by
the terrible news, but the young man
who was standing by assured the coroner
that he had seen his brother at the corner
of Fourth and Market about O'Clock,
or just about the time the casualty oe- /,
CURED. Others maintain, however, that
Mr.. Miller and a party OF candidates
were seen to go into the build
ing few minutes before It fell. Thous-
Rnds of unfounded rumors are crculat-
ing i'll every quarter of the city and it is
confidently hoped the report of Mr.. Mil
Ter s death is groundless.
Market street this evening looks like a
devastated village. Devastation along
this thoroughfare is complete. The storm
seems only to have swept Broad way from
to Nineteenth, but really all the
houses between these streets and on in
tersecting streets were demolished. Most
of the cottages, however, and low frame
buildings escaped without serious injury.
From Fifteenth to Sixteenth are merely
small frame houses, occupied by colored
families. Roofs were torn off, but not
much damage was done and none of the
occupants were hurt. From Sixteenth |
DOWN to Nineteenth, however, the
DESTRUCTION WAS TERRIBLE
Mr.. Peter Speth and family, who live
It 1913, were quietly seated in their par
or when the storm burst in all its fury.
The building swayed and tottered and |
inally the walls of the second story
reeled and fell with q resounding crash.