Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-29

! Advices from Jefferson City, Cape Girar-
| deau and Charleston Mo-, state that
the storm was very severe. and at the
latter place one life was lost, a woman ,
name not given.
sORELY STRICKEN CITY.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March 2S.-Between
3 and O'Clock last night a tornado
! struck this city from the southwest,
northeastward, leaving death and de-
s;ructIon everywhere. Outside of the
clearly defined limits, the citizens knew
only of a heavy rain accompanied by a
| slight wind. Soon came the alarm OF
| fire from dozen different stations and
the horrors OF the calamity began TO
dawn on the people. Great stone ware
houses, halls of amusement and dwelling
houses all went down before the
MIGHTY POWERS OF THE STORM.
The storm soon ceased and the clouds
scattered and the moon cast its light over
sorely stricken city. Relief parties
were soon organized. The whole force f
the fire department was at work. At
this writing no definite statement can be
made of the loss of life, but It is large.
The wrecked poI ton of the city lies be-
tween Eighteenth, Broadway, Eighth
and Main streets, the destroying elements
passing diagonally across the section,
which is probably a mile square. AT least
| 200 houses are in ruins. 1t is feared that
at least 200 lives are lost.
Probably the greatest loss of life oc-
Cured at the Falls City hall, which was
IN the center Of the tornado. In the
lower rooms OF the hall were fifty or
seventy-fve
CHILDREN WITH THEIR MOTHERS
and other relatives taking dancing les
sons. There were at least l25 persons on
the lower floors ,anditwenty- five more at
tending lodge meeting on the upper
floors when the terrible wind swept down
upon the building. The entire structure
ia less than five minutes was shapelesS
mass, burying 200 helpless victims, OF
which number few escaped uninjured.
Conservative estimates place the loss of
life at this point at 100, while other re-
ports intimate the number nearer 200.
At 3 o'clock this morning thirty five
dead bodies had been taken from this
ruin, and fifteen wounded and dying.
Only those on the third floor had been
reached, the room containing the dane
ing school pupils and visitors not yet be-
ing opened. The following are the names
of the killed brought to the city SO far
identified:
KILLED.
Mrs. Mary Hasson, 1908 Lyle street;
Miss Annie Niles, Portland avenue, be-
tween Sixteenth and Seventeenth; Mrs.
Mclaughlin, Eighteenth and Baird;
Mrs. Belle Leloff, Seventeenth and
Lyle streets; Mrs. Henderson, Nine
teenth aud Walnut; Tom Puff and Mrs.
Mutual, Jefferson street, between
Eleventh and Twelfth; Sister Mary Plus,
Seventeenth and Broadway; two un--
known colored at lobe Henry's stable,
Thirteenth, between Grayson and Wal.
nut; Nicholas j. Sullivan, 1905 Maya
zine street. burned to crisp; William
Diemer, Sixteenth street, chaTred to
crisp; Ben Chelt, barkeeper at Sixteenth
and Magazine street, charred TO a crisp;
John Emery, saloon keeper, Eighteenth
and Maple, killed under ruins; Moody
Davis, colored boy, Thirteenth
and Walnut streets, buried under
Eclipse or Odd Fellows hall; two I'M
Twelfth street; G. H. Hathaway, Chi
cago; Charles Hessenbrench, Philadel-
pha; Mary Ryan, laundry girl, Louis
vile hotel; Katie McCune, Mary Nc
Ginty, laundry girls, Louisville hotel;
Bridget Grove, laundry girl, Louisville
hotel; Maggie Campbell, laundry girl,
Louisville hotel; Frank Paine, bar
keeper; ]. B. Phillips, undertaken,
East Market street; a small child of
George W. Cusaden; Park Cornell, ia
West Green street; e. B. McCue, Dan
vile, KY, killed IN Village Wright's
cigar store next to Louisville hotel; IN
known woman, Twenty-sixth and Maya
zine; Pat RaIdy clerk for S. E. Edmunds;
Charles jerks; unknown man, killed in
street car at Tenth and Main; Rev. S.
e. Barnwell, rector of St. John g Epis-
copal church; Police Officer White,
Baldwin Mclaughlin, Eighteenth and
Baird streets; August Fletcher, master
of Falls City market; Mrs. Allen Peter
son. Capt. T. Angermeir, Twenty-third
and Market streets; A. j. +. McCollom,
Thirteenth and Maple; William Demarr,
Pullman Palace car company; Mrs. E.
Hoffestetter, Thirty-sixth and High
streets; Miss Castleman, Seventeenth
street; Thomas Angleman, Thirty third
aud Market.
The following is a list OF the
INJURED.
Tom Allen, ticket agent Union depot,
leg broken; William Gentle. 1916
Twenty street, badly injured;
Mr.. Woodward. general superintendent,
slightly bruised; Charles Killer. Jeffer-
sonville, internally injured; Mrs. Lewis
whitman, Market street. between Tenth
and Eleventh, back broken; August Tier
nan, Sixteenth and Magazine, fatally
crushed in left breast; Mrs. Chris Hoff-
heimer, Eighteenth near Maple, badly
injured about the head; Mrs. Trotter,
colored, Thirteenth and Madison, leg
broken; DR.. Muguet, Walnut street,
between Thirteenth and fourteenth
streets, fatally injured about the head
and spine dislocated; Mrs. Muguet,
badly hurt about the head, but
not fatally; Il. NJ. Blackburn, Wood
burn, KY, probably fatally injured;
Charles d. Seminson, Indianapolis. badly
mashed. internal injuries feared; Katie
Kilgan, bruised about the body, proba-
bly, fatally; j. H. Mcfarland, ticket
broker, badly mashed aud bruised; Vir-
gil Wright, badly bruised aud pinned in