, 1890-03-30
%THEL0UISVILLE HORROR
Dead Bodies Still Being Ex-
tracted From the Ruins.
The Total Number of Killed
Will Not Exceed $50.
Financial Loss Not So Great as
First Reported.

LOUISVILLE, March 29.-Up TO an
early hour this morning eighty six bodies
were taken from the Falls City hall and
the cellar at Eighteenth and Magazine
streets. The general belief is that there
are at least forty m~orebodies in the dane
ing hall ruins. The latest and most in
telligeni estimate of the total number of
dead throughout the city will not exceed
$50. This is careful and fairly accurate.
The Masonic committee wired the follow
iLg TO Leander Burdick, Grand Master, at
Toledo. Ohio: From what we car gather
there are about 400 houses destroyed and
300 persons injured, of whom 20 per cent
will probably die from their injuries. One
hundred and twenty five are now dead.
The citizens seem deslrous of caring for
their own dead and injured"
On the site of the ruined hall are
mounds of. brick. mortar. beams, and
laths in wild confusion and NEE digging
at the base of them hunting for the dead.
In all sixty-seven bodies have been taken
out OF there, the last being that of G.
Lazarus, a small shopkeeper at 1876 West
Market street. next door to Falls City
hall. He was in attendance upon the
lodge meeting. The body was mangled
almost beyond recognition and taken
temporarily to the morgue established in
the barber shop across the street.
At the Planters warehouse the body
OF Ell Moran. a foundryman IN Dennis
Longs iron pine works. was discovered
wedged between beams and hogsheads of
tAhAaaA IT, ~o- -o.o - L.
home in Twelfth street, near Main, where
his wife and four little ones have been
kept IN anguished suspense. When the
corpse was brought in the woman sank
almost iainting into a chair, covering her
face with her hands, while the two small
est children chung to her skirts, wailing in
sympathy, and the two older ones stood
by dazed with sorrow. This Is only one
case out of several dozen similar, but the
citizens are coming up bravely with sub
scriDtions, and all neeis are being
promptly met for the present. There is
about 800. 900 life Insurance on those
killed. mostly in small ten-acnt companies
and Knights of Honor. About $50, 900
in the Knights OF Honor will be promptly
paid by an assessment of eight cents upon
the members. The remaining $50, 900 IN
the ten cents a week companies may break
those companies, realizing only a small
part to the holders of policies. The fire
insurance is only S25, 900; cyclone insur-
ance, 81, 900, held by two liquor dealers
their joint losses, 8 5000; plate glass in
surance, 81, 900.
At Falls City hall, when the hurricane
struck it, in the main hall were Miss App
with her dancing school numbering sixty
five, of whom 1t 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, con
sisting of seven member, was in session.
Theo. Engelmeir, an ~upholster at Twenty.
third and Market streets, was killed.
Jewel Lodge No. 2. Knil hts and Ladies
of Honor. was in session on the third
floor. Nearly $50 members were present
when the building fell, and of these it is
thought not more than fifty escaped.
Humboldt Lodge, |. o. o. F., consisting
OF seventeen members, were holding a
meeting on the same floor. Those who
escaped are badly injured.
A good many of the estimates OF dam
age to property have been too high. The
actual loss from a financial standpoint
will not be SO great as supposed at first.
The tobacco warehouses are not hurt to
the extent STAYED. Nearly all of those
demolished were old buildings and com
paratively small. The river is strewD
with floating debris from the storm from
Tenth street to the water works and hun
dreds of skiffs are plying collecting the
splintered wood work. All day Yesterday
the foam crested waves rolled eight feet
high and vessels were in great danger,
but through the alertness of the masters
non suffered much. Several coal barges
were sunk at different points.
A thrilling scene occurred at the st.
Louis Evangehc church in Jacksonville,
where Rev. Fl Nj. Gersman was holding
services. The building. a handsome brick,
swayed and rocked and the:west wall be
gan to bulge inwardly under the terrific
pressure of the wind. The roof blew off
with a lond report. The women screamed
and lady, Miss Caroline Ruepl, faint,
ed, but Rev. Gersman remained cool and
led his flock safely to the parsonage,
over.
The relief committee of the Knights
and Ladies of Honor tonight report that
aster 100 people in their hall. They have
made a careful canvass, showing that
twenty three are dead, thirty one
wounded. five known to have escaped
unhurt and the remainder still nj
counted for. Some of these latter iuay
be dead or injured, but it will not be def
nitely known before tomorrow or perhaps
Monday. The undertakers will have
more than they can attend to tomorrow.
In all there will be at least thirty
funerals.