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

several feet ana utterly destroyed.
The track OF the storm In Falkland was
about three blocks wide, but in such
zgzag manner that It is almost imposs
Die to measure the exact track. To the
west of town, from the direction in
which the monster had approached,
ath several hundred yards wide is moved
down, trees being cut of like stalks of
| grain before the reaper's scYthe.
| JEFFEIwoNvILLE WAS STRUCK
by the cycloue at 'clock. 1t was very
distinctly heard two miles in the country
where people wondered what it meant.
Fortunately not person was killed in
Jeffersonville, though some were badly
| hurt.
PROPERTY LossEs-MoRE DEAD.
| LOUISVILLE, KY, March 28.-The
loss at 81 900 900, the highest at S. ,oOO,-
| 600 and grounded on the facts presented
we place it at 81, 500, 200. There is al
most no Insurance.
| Following are additional known to be
| dead: Peter Fuller, married, fifty four
years of age, carpenter, resides at SIP
| Sixteenth street, body recovered; Thorn
| as II. Puff. married, thirty-six years of
| age, punchman at B. E. Avery & Son IS
! pillow factory, residence 1922 Columbia
| street, body recovered; Leopold Falken-
stein, single, twenty-five years of age,
employee of George Jones, quarryman.
body still in the ruins of the Falls
| CITY hall; Mrs. Steider, wife
of Alonzo Steider, butcher at 3l03 Port
| land avenue, died at home from the
mud pnnaiva6 of Falls
city hall. She was a sister to Miss
| Emma Hostetter, whose dead body was
| recovered tonight.
One unknown, stout, bald headed
man of about thirty FIVE or forty years
| of age, head split in twain; VIM. Sabric,
sailor, single, twenty four years of age,
killed by crushing in Of family residence
81 Chapel street.
HORRIBLE CREMATION.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, March 2S.-At the
| corner Of Sixteenth and Magazine streets
a most horrible cremation of the bodies
| of three men occurred. These men were
| caught in the falling timbers of the two
story grocery and barroom of Nick
Phineman and burned entirely to q
| blacxened and charred mass. They were
Bud Sullivan, William Deemer and Ben
Schldt, the first two laborers and the
latter an undertaken. Seven people were
in the house. at the time, and Nick
Phineman, the owner, escaped with his
life alone, being badly burned and
bruised. To Times reporter MIR.
Phineman told the following story:
81 was. standing at the bar at the back
of the store and was talking to three
men who are now dead and two other
men. About $3.50 O'Clock we heard a
terrible roar aud tearing sound and then
the house rocked back and forth. Ben
SChildG had just said he was going
home, but he had scarcely said it when
the door was blown to and we were
caught. l tried to open it, but could
not. My wife and children screamed but
ran safely out the back way, but they
bad scarcely gone out before that part
Of the house was gone. We tried the
window, but just then
THE FLOOR FELL IN
and Schildt, Sullivan and Deemer went
through to the cellar. 1 chung to the
side of the house and escaped through
broken window with two other men. The
screams of the men were terrible to hear
as they were held in by the roof and tie
building rapidly blazed and burned.
They cried for help, but we could do
nothing. We tried, but il was in vain,
aud crushed and mangled they burned to
death before our eyes. They were soon
burned to death and their horrible cries
for help were SOON stopped, but it was
horrible.
1t was three hours later before the fire
was stopped and the wreck cleared away
enough to get at the three men, and so
black and charred were they that Sulli-
van IS father and Deemer' $ brother were
unable to recognize them. They were
burned to crisp, and they could only
be identified after long search. 1t was
~ O'Clock when the bodies were re-
moved, and they were Immediately car
ried away to their respective homes.
Sullivan was an employe OF the Pullman
shops.
At Thirteenth and Walnut streets, the
Odd Fellows hall, colored lodge was in
session. About eight colOred men were
slightly injured. 1t was at first reported
they were killed.
Next to the old Eclipse hall at that
corner dwelt peddier named McCleary,
with his wife and child. 1t was reported
last night he was burned, but he ap-
peared this morning He first made q
out his helpless wife and little child over
a seemingly
IMPAssABLE PILE OF DEBRIS.
But his work did not end there. He thought
another woman and two children were impris-
oned upstairs, and he rushed back into the
ruins and dragged them out just in time. Within
two minutes after the last child had been
dragged out the flames licking up every
thing around.
On Chestnut street. from Thirteenth to Sew
enteenth,. almost the entire neighborhoo1 was
wrecked. The devastation through the streets
surrounding Baxter square was complete. st. :
John s church was completely wrecked. Trees !
IN the park were uprooted, fountains /
were laid fiat, and the very mud /
from the streets was taken up and !
dashed against the wrecked houses and walls. |
The tornado took the middle of the Louisville |
City Railway company's building at Twelfth and |
Jefferson streets. southwest corner, leaving the
ends standing. 1t looks as If an immense scoop |
had been taken out of the middle. The track of /
the tornado ended at Twel. tn street on Jefferson
and while the destruction between Eleventh and |
Twelfth SO terrific, the block between |
Twelfth and Thirteenth was intact except
An UNRooFED HOUSE OF TWO,
besides the city railway company's building. !
The residence of Edmund n. Gibbs, contractor, |
at I131 West Jefferson, was a total wreck. In |
81 hone viii Iod &c