The Russellville Democrat., 1890-04-03
RUssELLvILLE POPE ARK. THURSDAY, APRIL


 I whose wife had been at the lodge meet ing, was foremost in the work, and tho first person whom he took out of the
 ruined building was his wife, who died
 in his arms He lay her by tho side of the others who were dead and continued
 to work for the living | Inside of tho next hour thirty men and women were drawn out dead, but with no wounds on their bodies, and it is thought all mot their death from sui | location. The gas pipes had broken. l which caused the lights to go out and saved the ruins from fire for the time, but flooded the debris with a va- DOT almost as deadly as tho fire might
 have proven. Ways were pierced into l the breast of the ruins and bodies were
 drawn out dead and dying. Ono part of
 the building was reserved for the dead, but the wounded were taken into the
 stores and houses on the opposite side of the street, whore physicians and priests administered to souls and bodies. Along against the pathway of the storm, extending from Sixth to Tenth streets, and from Seventh to Eleventh, not single building was left standing Occasionally massive stone or iron front still stood in the air. whilc the en- tire structure proper had been swept away. This morning it presented the most stupendous spectacle of disaster and ruin ever witnessed, Tn the course of the storm lay the prime tobacco mar ket of the city, and to-dass tho ware houses almost to the last one lay in
 ruins. They include the Kentucky,
 Pickett's, Ninth-street, Falls City,
 Phoenix, Green River, Louisville, En- terprise, Central and Planters. The destruction of the Louisville and Ninth street warehouses could not possibly have been more complete. Thousands of hogsheads of tobacco lay in the mass of brick and mortar, sope exposed to view and others buried from sight be- heath the debris.
 The Louisville Hotel, between Sixth | and Seventh streets, was unroofed and otherwise wrecked, while the building | west, occupied as cigar store upon the first floor, and sleeping rooms upon the second and third, was razed entirely to
 the ground, not single brick remain ing in place. In the destruction of this
 house many lives were lost, principally of persons who occupied sleeping rooms there. Many of them were young girls
 employed at the hotel next door. Saloons and other available places have been turned into hastily inn provised morgues, where the bodies are taken as fast as recovered and left | awaiting Identification. Patrol wagons are being pressed into service as dead
 wagons to convey the corpses to the | designated places.
 Eleventh street seemed to serve as a kind of fue for the storm, as all inter ccpting objects in that line arc prac-
 tically reduced to nothingness. As 1t
 rushed down this street it carried with
 it the fronts of the buildings, which are | mostly residences, on each side, leaving in many instances the furniture and
 other contents unmolested. Frequently from the center of some three-sided dwelling the unbroken chandelier is still swinging.
 Jefferson and Main streets are almost in as bad condition as others, and wag- ons are carting away soiled and broken furniture from homes that were yester- day but are to-day no longer. The
 massive trees in the park on Jefferson street have been twisted and broken
 like rods, and lay crossed and piled upon each other.
 The storm district in Louisville is de- scribed as extending from Eighteenth
 to Seventh street, and from Main street to Broadway. This includes territory about mile square, and across this sec ton tho cyclone swept diagonally.
 Main street is the principal wholesale street of the city, and Market street, one of the leading retail streets, also lies within this district This street is one string of stores for distance of over two miles. extending from Preston street to Twenty-second. In nearly all the buildings there are families resid- ing above the stores. The business sec tion of the visited district runs south to about Walnut street. and from there to Broadway it is residence quarter, and many of the finest homes in the city are located in that place. There are also several large churches in tho district. The Union Depot is on the river bank at the foot of Seventh street, at the mouth of the canal, and the Louisville bridge crosses tho Ohio river at Four buildings are located in the quarter where the damage was done, and the courthouse is just outside of it, on lief ferson, between Fifth and Sixth streets. The Falls City Hall, which was de- stroyed, is on the south side of Market, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets. The village of Parkland, which is said to have been laid waste, is residence suburb, which lies at the southwest corner of Louisville, just outside the city limits.
 Scenes Described by Eye-witnesses.
 CINCINNATI, March 29.--Conductor R. E. Holborn, of the Louisville & Nash vile train which arrived at half-past eleven o'clock yesterday morning, said to re porter: All along the line com ing out of Louisville telegraph poles, wires and timber are scattered in all directions We were delayed for that reason. At Lagrange, twenty seven miles out from Louisville, there Is much damage uOhe-
 At Eminence, forty miles southeast of Louisville, several persons are killed. The whole country coming out of Louisville is one mass of mingled poles, timbers, trees ard other debris"
 Train No. s, over the same road, came in at twelve o'clock. Brakeman c. Rickctts and Mir. Williams were eye witnesses of the terrible storm Thurs day night. Said they:
 Tt is beyond description. The center of Louisrille is one mass of terrible ruins-aA is woe and horrible disaster
 We were in the city at the time. The electrical display was the grandest spec taele of it's kind we ever saw. The storm began about half-past eight o'clock. The thunder was simply aw- ful, and by the vivid glare of the light ming we could sec for blocks. All was