The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-03-29

down. bat the inmates were al np and
every one msracalously escaped. only few
being injured and they net seriously.
The track Of the Storm in rarklsnd wss
about three blocks wide.
To west of town from the direction in
which the wind came. . patch several hun
dred yards wide Is moved down. trees
being cut OF like stalks Of grain before the
reaper's scvthe-
Jeffersonvilie Was struck hy the cyclone
tive miles N the country. where the people
not one person was killed in Jefersonville,
although some were badly hurt
Scores Of business houses and residences
were more or less damaged, some stores
being nearly demolished. Dozens Of peo-
PIE had marvellous escapes from instant
death.
According TO the latest reports this even
ing IL is hoped none Of those injured viii
die
The damage to steamers on the river was
considerable. II Is believed tonight the
loss and damage to property in Jefferson
vile viii aggregate fully hall million.
Among many incidents reported Is .
singular story. w. A. poruey's residence
is half block from the river. When the
tornado struck the river front IL picked up
. skih moored there and carrying IL along
dashed IL through the second story win-
dow Of the porney residence.
At the Strouss house, corner OF Spring
and First streets. Q large number of peo-
pie gathered for shelter. Hail. brick and
tumhling walls fell around them, but
strange to say. though the building was
almost totally wrecked. none were badly
hurt
At the foot OF front street q ccaf occu-
pied by Henry wilkins and children and
wife. capsiscd and the inmates would have
been drowned but for . number of car
works employees, who heroicaIly risked
their own lives and saved them-
At the corner Of Sixteenth aud Magazine
streets one Of the most horrible incidents
occurred. Three men were caught in the
falling timbers Of two-story building and
burned entirely to . blackened and charred
mass in full view Of the people in the street.
The devastation through the streets sur
rounding Baxter square is complete. and
~ the same time peculiar. ST Johns
church Is complctsly wrecked. trees in the
parks uprooted. fountains were laid 6at
and the very mud from the streets rakcd
up and dashed against wrecked houses and
walls.
The tornado took the middle OF the Louis
vile City railway building 1t Twelfth and
Jefferson streets. southwest corner. leaving
the north and south ends intact II looks
as II an immense scoop were taken out Of
the middle.
The track of the tornado ended At
Twelfth and Jefferson streets and while
the destruction between Eleventh and
Twelfth was terrible, the block between
Twelfth and Thirteenth was intact, except
an unrooied house or two.
The scene at the ruins Of Virgil wright's
cigar store this afternoon. where the four
bruised and mangled bodies OF the Louis
vile hotel laundry girls. Maggie Ryan.
Maggie Campbell. Mary Grove and Mary
McCinty, were found was simply horrible.
At 10 tonight rescuing party heard
cries at the rear of n fallen building.
Twenty men rushed 10 the SPOT In q short
time twenty strong arms dragged the
heavy timbers from the plsce seventy
feet beneath the level Of the surrounding
pile, the form OF woman was seen. When
the rescuing p1rty reached hsr she was
stlu ofeekolnGs ouS 4as UNCONSCIOUS MONS
of the crowd knew her.
The tobacco warehouses on Main street
are total wrecks. and the amount Of tobacco
lying on the thorough fare is almost be-
yond dcomprehension. Some Of the wrecked
houses contained l. 800 and :. 500 hoesheads.
All sorts Of stories are afoat as 70 the
number OF lives lost at Falls City hall. As
sociated Prs - reporters. after careful
search tonight, can find trace OF forty-fivc
bodies taken out.
One Of the most desolate looking sections
in the devastated district is Chapel street.