Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-03-29
The CITY OF SORROW
Work at Louisville to Recover the
Dead.
THERE ARE PROBABLY $50 DEAD
The Death Losses Are Heavy in
Scores of Towns.
BOWLING GREEN WAS NOT TOUCHED.
THERE ARE PROBABLY $50 DEAD
BOWLING GREEN WAS NOT TOUCHED.
THE SCENE TODAY.
The List Of Dead VIII Probably Not
Exceed 15O.

LOUISVILLE, KY., March 29.-The situation
in the devastated district is unchanged The
great center of interest is still at the pile Of
debris that represents what was once the four
stored Falls City Hall In the thorough
fares leading into Market street near the
scene OF the great disaster thousa ands OF
persons are standing untiringly watching tho
devoted band Of laborers removing the debris
bit by bit in the hope of uncovering the mutt
lated form of a victim. The ruins were illumi-
mated all night by a number Of locomotive
headlights, placed SO as to shed food of bril-.
iancy into the pit that has been driven down
through the conglomerated mass of broken
brick, splntered beams and twisted iron.
Inside the ropes the gray-cloaked sentinels
OF the Loyal Legion keep guard with the
fagSed-out police. As each body is taken up
from beneath the covering of debris and 10
carried down the heap TO the waiting stretcher
hat-suppressed cheers go up from the crowd.
Inns Is the average half-hourly occurrence.
THE SCENE AT THE MoRaUE
After the body is placed on a stretcher and
covered over reverently it is taken TO the i'm.
proviscd morgue in Buckleys saloon across the
street, where Coroner Miller aud his assistants
receive It, Up to the present hour eighty-sik
bodies have been taken from the Falls CITY
Han and the cellar at 18th and Magazine
streets. 1t is the general belief that there are
at least forty more bodies in the dancing hall
ruins. The latest and most intelligent estimate
OF the total number of the dead throughout the
city will not exceed 80 persons This is care.
ful and fairly accurate.
At o'clock the last body was removed from
the ruins of Virgil a Co.'S cigar store next to
the Louisville Hotel. 1t was that of Mary Nc
Bride, who in life was a chamber maid at the
hotel Her remains were sadly soiled and mu-
tllated by the enormous weight of debris from
above. This swells the list OK
dead in the cigar store to ten.
The las man taken out was the Chicago tray.
cling man, J. d. Hathaway, who met his death
while lighting a cigar in the little place.
1t Is believed that all of the dead. save
IN the dancing hall, have been found, aud
the estimate given above is nearly cor.
rect. There is but little sensational feeling at
tached to the discovery of the bodies as in the
main they are those of people who were not
generally known in the community, being
working people and others Of retired station
in life.
MODERATE VIEW.
The Masonic committee has wired the fol-
lowing to Leander Burdick, grand master, at
Toledo, Ohio:
From what We can gather there are about 400
houses destroyed. Three hundred persons are
injured but still alive, of whom 20
per cent will probably die from their
injuries. One hundred and twenty
five are now dead Tho citizens seem de.
sirous of caring for their own dead and in.
jured Only one lodge room was destroyed,
but no lives were lost. As far as known only
one Mason was injured, and he not danger.
ously. Signed Levi C. Goodale, deputy mas
ter; Jacob II. Bromwell, G. L. Seay, Charles
H. Fisk.