Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-03

| aDDeaTance, being filled with debris
| Advices from Jefferson City, Cape Girar-
deau and Charleston, Mo-, state thai
the storm was very severe, and at the
| latter place one life was lost, q woman
| name not given.
sORELY STRICKEN CITY.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March 2S.-Between
and O'Clock last night a tornado
struck this city from the southwest
! northeastward, leaving death and de-
structIon everywhere. Outside of the
clearly defined limits, the citizens knew
! only of q heavy rain accompanied by g
slight wind. Soon came the alarm OF
| fire from a dozen different stations and
| the horrors OF the calamity began to
! dawn on the people. Great stone ware
| houses, halls of amusement and dwelling
| houses all went down before the
MIGHTY POWERS OF THE STORM.
The storm soon ceased and the clouds
scattered and the moon cast its light over
q sorely stricken city. Relief parties
were soon organized. The whole force of
the fire department was at work. At
this writing no definite statement can be
made of the loss Of life, but it is large.
The wrecked portion of the city lies be-
tween Eighteenth, Broadway, Eighth
and Main streets, the destroying elements
passing diagonally across the section,
which Is probably a mile square. At least
200 houses are in ruins. 1t is feared that
at least 200 lives are lost.
Probably the greatest loss Of life o.
CURED at the Falls City hall, which was
IN the center of the tornado. In the
lower rooms of the hall were fifty or
seYeuty-fve
CHILDREN WITH THEIR MOTHERS
and other relatives taking dancing les
sons. There were at least l25 persons on
the lower floors ndItwenty- more at
tending a lodge meeting on the upper
floors when the terrible wind swept down
upon the building. The entire structure
in less than five minutes was u shapeless
mass, burying 200 helpless victims, of
which number few escaped uuinjured.
Conservative estimates place the loss of
life al this point at 100, while other re-
ports intimate the number nearer 200.
At 3 O'Clock this morning thlrty-five
dead bodies had been taken from this
ruin, and fifteen wounded and dying.
Only those OH the third floor had been
reached, the room containing the dane
ing school pupils and visitors not yet be-
ing opened. The following are the names
of the killed brought to the city so far
Identified:
KILLED.
Mrs. Mary Hasson, 1908 Lyle street;
Miss Annie Niles, Portland avenue, be-
tween Sixteenth aud Seventeenth; Mrs.
Mclaughlin, Eighteenth and Baird;
Mrs. Belle Leloff, Seventeenth and
Lyle streets; Mrs. Henderson, Nine
teenth aud Walnut; Tom Puff and Mrs.
Mutual, Jefferson street, between
Eleventh and Twelfth; Sister Mary Piua;
Seventeenth and Broadway; two uu-
known colored at lobe Henry's stable,
Thirteenth, between Grayson and Wal
nut; Nicholas j. Sullivan, 1905 Maya
zine street, burned to crisp; William
Diemer, Sixteenth street, chaTred to q
crisp; Ben Chelt, baTkeeper at Sixteenth
and Magazine street, charred to crisp.
) ohm Emery, saloon keeper, Eighteenth
and Maple, killed under ruins; Moody
Davis, colored boy, Thirteenth
and Walnut streets, buried under
Eclipse or Odd Fellows hall; two I'M
known colored women, alley near
Twelfth street; c. H. Hathaway, Chi
cago; Charles Hessenbrench, Philadel-
pha; Mary Ryan, laundry girl, Louis
willie hotel; Katie McCune, Mary Nc |
Giuty, laundry girls, Louisville hotel; |
Bridget Grove, laundry girl, Louisville |
hotel; Maggie Campbell, laundry girl, |
Louisville hotel; Frank Paine, bar
keeper; J. B Phillips, undertaken, |
East Market street; small child of |
George w. Cusaden; Park Cornell, ia |
West Green street; e. B McCue, DAN |
vile, Ky, killed III Village Wright's
cigar store next to Louisville hotel; un-
known woman, Twenty-sixth and Maya
zine Pat Randy clerk for s. E. Edmunds;
Charles jerks; unknown man. killed in
street car at Tenth and Main; Rev. s.
E. Barnwell, rector of St. John IS Epis-
'opal church; Police Officer White,
Baldwin Mclaughlin, Eighteenth and
Baird streets; August Fletcher, master
If Fails City market; Mrs. Allen Peter
son, Capt. I. Angermeir, Twenty third
and Market streets; A. j. f. McCollom,
Thirteenth and Maple; William Demarr,
Pullman Palace car company; Mrs. F.
dofeStetter, Thirty-siXth and High
treets; Miss Csstleman, Seventeenth
treet; Thomas Angleman, Thirty third
Ind Market.
The following is list of the
INJURED.
Tom Allen, ticket agent Union depot,
eg broken; William Comic, 1916
'wenty-seventh stree, badly injured;
DR.. Woodward. general superintendent,
lightly bruised; Charles Killer, Jeffer-
onville, internally injured; Mrs Lewis
Whitman, Market street. between Tenth
nd Eleventh, back broken; August Tier
an, Sixteenth and Magazine, fatally
rushed in left breast; Mrs. Chris Hoff-
elmer, Eighteenth near Maple, badly
Injured about the head; Mrs. Trotter,
olored, Thirteenth and Madison, leg
roken; DR.. Muguet, Walnut street,
etween Thirteenth and Fourteenth
treets, fatally injured about the head
nd spine dislocated; Mrs. Muguet,
ably hurt about the head, but
OF fatally; IL. NJ. Blackburn. Wood
urn, KY, probably fatally injured;
harles ID. Seminson, Indianapolis. badly
dashed, internal injuries feared; Katie
ilgan, Druised about the body, proba-
iy fatally; ]. H. Mcfarland, ticket
roker. badly mashed and bruised; Vir-
II Wright badly bruised and mined in |