Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-03-30

occurrence. After the body is placed
on the Stretcher and covered over rev
erently, it is taken TO the improyiSed
morgue in Bucklay's saloon across the
street. where Coroner Miller and his as
siStantS receive il. Up TO early this
morning
EIGHrN-SIN BODIES
had been taken from the Falls City
Hall. and the cellar at Eighteenth and
Magazine streets. II is the general be-
Sief that there are at least forty more
bodies I'm the Dancing Hall ruins. The
latest and most intelligent estimate of
the total number of the dead through
out the city, will not exceed $50 per-
sons. This is careful and fairly accu-
rate.
On the site of the ruined Hall there
are mounds of brick and mortar and
beams and lathS. i'm wild confusion and
men digging at the base of them hunt
ing for the dead. In all 81 bodies have
been taken out there The last is that
of c. Lazarus, a small ShOp-keeper AT ll35
West Market ST., next door 70 the Falls
City Hall. He was in attendance upon a
lodge meeting. His body was mangled
almost beyond recognition, and was
taken 10 the temporary MOrgue eStab-
liShed in a barber shop across the street.
AT the Planters Warehouse, Eleventh
and Main, the body Of Ed. Moran, a
fOundryman i'm Dennis Longs iron pipe
works, was discovered about IL o'clock,
wedgcd between beams and hogSheadS
of tobacco. The remains were taken TO
his home on Twelfth street. near Main,
where his wife and four little ones had
been kept i'm anguiShed suspense at his
absence. When the corpse was brought
I'M the woman sank almost fainting into
chair and covered her face with her
hands. while her two smallest children
clung To her skirts weeping in Sympa
thy. and the two older stood by dazed
with sorrow The family will be in
want, and this is
ONLY ONE CASE
out of several dozen similar, but the
citizens are coming up bravely with
subscriptions and all needs are being
promptly met for the present.
The total insurance. il is believed,
will not exceed Sl25,OOO. OfthiS, $780,
600 is life insurance. The life inSur-
ance is upon laborerS and middle class
people. and I'm small ten cent companies
and the Knights of Honor. About $50
600 is i'm the Knights of Honor, and will
De promptly paid by an assessment of
eight cents upon the members. The re-
naming $50. 900 i'm the ten cents a week
companies may break these companies,
realizing only u small part 10 holders OF
policies.
The cyclone insurance amounts to
only -, 600. or this $1,000 is held by
j. T. Callahan and ZOO by Mattingly
Il Co., both liquor dealers. Their joint
losses are $500. The plate glass inSur-
ance amounts 10 -. 900. At the Falls
City Hall, when the hurricane struck,
I'm the main hall were Miss App with
her dancing school, numbering about
siXty-fye. of whom il is feared not more
than twenty-five escaped. These were
children with their mothers and fathers.
I'm one room on the second floor the EX-
ccutive Committee of the Roman
Knights. which committee consists OF
seven members. was i'm session. TheO.
Englemeir. am uphOlSterer az Twenty
third and Market streets. was killed.
The remains will be inferred on Sunday
afternoon by the Roman Knights,
Jewel Lodge No. ., knights and La
dies of Honor. was i'm session on the
third floor. There were nearly $50
members present.
WHEN TIE BUILDING FELL
and of these TO is thought not more than
fifty escaped. Humboldt Lodge No. l46,
u. o. O. f.. consisting of seventeen
members
III is now pretty near certainty that
the entire loss of life from the tornado
in this city will not go much above one
hundred. IL that number is reached. Up
to this writing the total number killed at
AN places whose bodies have been re-
covered and of the missing who il is rea-
>ouab.y certain are dead, is s.. In adj
ditiOu to these there are about a dozen
who are 50 badly injured that death may
eu>ue, although fatal results are not an
ticipatcd iu most OF the cases. Anywhere
from one hundred and fifty 10 two hun
dred people are injured 10 an extent
worth noticing. and probably five hun
drcd 20 one thousand have slight bruises
or scratches that do not Inconvenience
them.
A good many of the estimates of dam
age 90 property have been very much
too high The actual loss from a hnan-
cial standpoint will not be SO great aS
was supposed at first. The great de-
maud now is for bricklayerS. and it is
thought that surrounding cities will
supply AN that are needed. Probably
l. 800 of these can bee given employment
and contractors announce that they Will
pay them $3.50 day. 1t was rumored
this morning that the local brick layers
would demand = a day.
All floating crafts are i'm the best OF
condition this morning. The mostdam
age was done.
AT THE PUMPKIN PATCH,
where six pieces were lost, and at Capt.
Duffy, landing one small boat of coal,
belonging TO Wood Il Son. of PittSburg,
was sunk. The boat contained about
5. 900 bushels and was valued at Sl,5OO.
At Cook. Hoffman II Co.'S landing,
were sunk three boats. belonging TO
ThoS Fawcctt II Sons. and two bargeS
of ;. :. Crump x Co., both of PittSburg.
loaded with coal and containing 11S.0OO
bushels. valued al about $4,000. The
coal and boats were owned by Pitts
burg parties. and it is thought will
prove a total loss. as also the boat
sank i'm Capt Duffy'S fleet Capt. Dave
Penny. Of the City of OwndeSboro Of the
Louisville x Evansville mail line which
arrived i'm port last night from Evans
willie after a rough voyage, reports that
dwelling house at Knob Creek. owned
and occupied by Mr.. Jennings, was
blown to the ground and demolished.
He and his family succeeded in getting
out without being hurt. The contents
OF the house were all destroyed.
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