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

actual loss.
The Catholic buildings on Seventeenth
! and Broadway, the sisters home,
| parochial, Father Derni's residence and
! the Sacred Heart church were all blown
down, and Sister Plus was buried.
| Shortly after. when taken out by reScu-
| ing parties, she was dead All OF the
| other sisters, however, escaped without
! injury.
Maj. Gault, of the Louisville and
! Nashville, and his family, who lived in
two-story brick house, were sitting in an
! up stairs room, when the building began
| rocking. Still they unprecedented no dam
| ger, and did not become really alarmed
until the walls fell in upon them.
| Maj. Gault succeeded in getting out
without injury to himself, and then no.
| ticILg that his wife was not with him he
| hurried back into the ms to look for
| her. The unfortunate lady was found
| buried in pile of bricks. By superhu-
man effort her husband succeeded in ex-
Treating her, and her unconscious form
was carried to q neighboriug dwelling
thai had escaped the general
obstruction, where she was soon
resusctated. A physician was sent
for and attended her, and developments
showed she was not badly hurt.
SCENES AS NIGHT APPROACHES.
AS night closes in It's fold the devas-
tated city of Louisville hundreds of
with the weight of deepest grief.
Wreck and ruin have settled down in
its very midst, and spectators of the
dead whose funeral pyres are heaps of
bricks and mortar seem to rise uD and
enshToud in awful halo of their presence
the entire city. Bands of brave rescuers
continue their work, but as night comes
on they seem to work more silently
though no less arduously, end take on
the gruesome appearance of ghouls. AS
each remnant OF piles Of wreckage is
lifted it is with anticipation of uncover
ing to view the lifeless form or death
set features of a human victim of that
awful storm. Perhaps a wTiggling mem
Der of buried man may start searchers
and cause them TO
DRAW BACK AGHAsT
for moment. but with braced nerves,
which are almost drawn to tensions of
steel, they continue their labor, and
tendeTly lift the unfortunate and carry
him to an ambulance only to see him ex-
pire in the arms of a wife, mother or
friend.
The Importance of such scenes ever
whisper sounds so louu that the ut
terer hesitates, and half expects TO see
the dead aroused from his eternal sleep.
But there is no time TO consider the dead,
for the living may yet be buried beneath
its mountains of debI -, and with sad
look at the departing "dead wagon
they then turn and delve again with re-
newed energy into the great mass in
search of crushed and mangled human
ity.
As the night grows darker its work be-
comes awful. Even the advantage of
light and its r-dlspelling qualities are
denied hem, for all electric wires were
torn down 10y the storm and left the city
to he
ENsHROUDED IN DEEPEST GLOOM.
It grows so dark in the shadows OF the
crumbling walls that still stand as silent
sentinels over the dead that every object
with semblance OF human form must be
grasped to prove its flesh or stone. Still
the untiring and strong earted workers
continue to dig. There is no estimating
the number of those who lie buried IN
their track. People are still learning
who the missing members of their fami-
wildly on the ruins and call on the AL
mighty to deliver them at least their
dead. Hardened hearts move with deep
sympathy, and idle men throw aside
their coats and dive into the dirt and
CRIME like veritable gophers. The
streets are thronged with multitudes of
sorrOwlng people. They stand upon
corners with tear-dimmed eyes, SOL
EMMY discussing the dreadful catas-
trophe, or move from one point of wreck
to another, gazing at the scenes of ruin.
There are at least 300 families home
less in the streets that were happy yes
terday in the single possession of their
homes.
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE
Was that of Mrs. Mary Roellell, who
kept a dry goods store at Colgan and
Seventeenth streets. Her house was a
new brick At the time of the storm
her nephew, Willie Killmir, was with
her when the walls began 10 shake and
threaten to fall and both of them were
nearly frightened to death. Without
pausing to think, they rushed to the
front door just as the whirlwind was
passing. 1t gathered them up and car
ried them IN to the air a distance of
both hurled against a fence and
remained there unconscious until they
were found by the neighbOrs a few mo-
ments later. DR.. Anderson was sum-
moned to attend them. He found that
the lady was badly bruised and perhaps
internally injured. Killmir's right arm
was broken at the wrist, his ankle was
sprained and there was deep cash in
his throat. No vital was touched though,
and he will recover.
The house was destroyed and not
thing will be saved.
ST. LOUIS OFFERS AID.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March 2S.-On learn
ing the extent of the calamity at Louis
vile. Ky, Mayor Noonan of this city to-
day wired the mayor of Louisville ex-
tending the city's sympathies aud prof.
fering substantial aid if needed.
LIBERAL ACTOR.
Richard Mansfield, the tragedian show
ing here who is booked for an engagement
for the week, has wired Henry Waiter
son of the Courier-Journal. Offering to
contribute his entire Easter weeks
profits to the storm sufferers.