Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-03-30
WHIRLPOOL OF DEATH.
Probably Exaggerated Estimates Of the
Financial Loss.

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Financial Loss.
THE DISASTER IN SMALL TOWNS.
Entire Families Wiped Oxt in One
Instant : Recover ing the
Mangled Rem.aias.
ESPECIAL DIsrArcHEs TO an sRcoRD-us1os.I
THE DEADLY. CYCLONE.
Further Particulars and Details of the
Terrible W7nd.Storm.
CHICAGO March 29th.-The stories from
the storm stricken section of the country
have not yet been reduced to anything like
accuracy. The loss to life was large, but
not so great ss first reported. The work Of
recovering the dead from the debris at
Louisville is attendant with narrowing
scenes, and the hearts of relatives and
friends are wrenched with pain on finding
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taken from the reins. The people who
were psnic-stricken yesterday have become
somewhat calm, and are earnestly at work
in assisting the injgred.
The destruction of the electrical wires
made the work di4icult last night, and the
gloom was made more awful by those who
sought missing member of their families.
and would stand gazing wildly on the
ruins, yet filled with dread anxiety lest
they recognize in the shapeless masses the
remains of some loved one.
The streets in the neighborhood are
tbronged with idle people who have but
little interest in the scenes about them,
beyond to discuss the disaster and to repeat
stories of narrow escapes. Hundreds of
people have been made homeless, and their
worldly goods are exposed to the prey of
thieves. Many walls stand, menacing those
who seek in the neighborhood for their
buried household goods.
The water-tower was destroyed and a
water famine is probsble. The telephone
system is destroyed. Not a railroad is
running regularly. There is an estimated
financial loss of S., 100000. About 1,0OO-
600 tons of coal were moored at Louisville
on barges, and most OF it is under the
water.
The boundaries of the districts IS wept by
the hurricane at Louisville, as nearly as
may be described by streets. are as follows:
Coming from the southwest the wind be-
gan its destruction at Broadway, sweeping
round between Fifteenth and Sixteenth;
thence northwesterly diagonally to Chest.
nut; on Chestnut the damage is between
Sixteenth and Fourteenth; on Walnut, be-
tween Fourteenth and Twelfth; on Green,
between Seventeenth and Tenth; on Mar
ket, between Eleventh and Tenth; on
Main, from Eleventh to the Louisville
q otel in the middle of the square between
Sixth and Seventh. Between Sixth and
Eleventh the hurricane swept to the river
and then leaped across to Jeffersonville.
HEARTRENDING SCENES.
LOUISVILLE. March 29th.-0n the site of
the ruined hall are mounds of brick NOR
tar, beams, laths, wild confusion and men
digging at the base of them hunting for
the dead. In all sixty bodies have
been taken out there.
The last was that of C. Lazarus, small
shopkeeper at 1139 West Market street.
next door to the Falls City Hall. He was
in attendance upon lodge meeting. His
body was mangled almost beyond recogni-
ton. 1t was taken to temporary morgue
established in a barber shop across the
street.
At Planters warehouse the body of Ed.
Moran, foundryman in Dennis Longs
iron pipe works, was discovered wedged
between the beams and hogsheads of to-
bacco. The remains were taken to his
home on Twentieth street, near Main,
where his wife and four little ones have
been kept in suspense. When the corpse
was brought in the woman sank almost
fainting into a chair, covering her face
with her hands, while the smallest chill
dren clung to her skirts wailing in sympa-
thy, and the two older ones stood by dazed
with sorrow. The family will be in want.
This is only one case out of several dozen
similar. But the citizens are coming up
brayely with subscriptions, and all needs
are being promptly met for the present.
LIFE INSURANCE.
There is about $1OO, 600 life insurance on
those killed. This is upon laborers and
the middle classes of people, in small, ten
cent companies, and the Knights of Honor
About $500 in the Knights of Honor will
be paid promptly by the assessment of
naming $50, 900 in the ten-cents- a-week
companies may break those companies,
realizing only small part to the holders
of policies.
The fire insurance is only $25.000. The
cyclone insurance is only 2,000 held by
two liquor dealers. Their joint losses are
$500. The plate-glass insurance is s., 900.
CHILDREN CRUSHED TO DEATH.
At the Falls City Hall. when the hurri-
cane struck it on the main hall, were Miss
App, with her dancing school, numbering
sixty-ive, of whom it is feared not more
than twenty escaped. These were children
with their mothers and fathers.
In one room on the second floor the
Executive Committee of the Roman
Knights, consisting of seven members was
in session. Theo. Engelmeir, an uphol-
sterer, at Twenty-third and Market streets,
was killed.
Jewel Lodge No. 2, Knights and Ladies
OF Honor Association, met on the third
floor. Nearly $50 members were present
when the building fell. OF these it is
thought that not more than fifty escaped.
Humboldt Lodge, 1. o. o. F., consisting
of seventeen members, was holding a meet
ing on the same floor. Those who escaped
were badly injured.
ONLY ONE HUNDRED KILLED.
1t is now pretty certain that the entire
loss of life will not go much above 100, if
that number is reached.
Up to this writing the total number
whose bodies have been recovered and the
missing, WDOul II Is reasonably certain are
dead, is eighty-eight. In addition there
are about dozen who are so badly injured
that death may ensue.
From $50 to 200 persons were injured to
an extent worth noticing. Probably from
500 to 1000 have very slight bruises or
scratches.
CLEARING UP THE WRECK.
Temporary roofs are being put on wher-
ever possible. Hundreds of hogsheads of
exposed tobacco are being carted to ware
houses. In spite of all efforts, however,
several thousand hogsheads remain unpro-
tected on second, third and fourth floors.
There will be considerable danger in reach
ing these. They seem ready to topple into
the street.
THE DAMAGES ovER-EsTIMATED.
A good many of the estimates of the
damage of property has been too high
The actual loss from financial standpoint
will not be so great as supposed at first.
The tobacco warehouses are not hurt to
the extent stated. Nearly all of the de-
molished were old buildings and compare.
lively small sum will put the new ones
in repair again.
The river is strewn with floating debris
from the storm, from Tenth street to the
Waterworks, and hundreds of skiff, are
plying about collecting the splintered wood
work All day Yesterday the foam. crested