Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-01


who have only canvas to cover them suffei
intensely. The Mayor says $500, 900 would
help these people greatly. The districts are
under martial law against plunderers.
LOUISVILLE, March 31.-WIth four
inches of water-soaked snow, which has
slowly melted during the day, the situation
in the tornado-stricken district has been
gloomy indeed. Night is settling down
dismal and dreary upon the wrecked homes,
and in spite Of all efforts there are many
broken in spirit, though physical wants are
supplied. The lights cleaning through a
vapor-laden atmosphere serve only to reveal
| pictures of desolation.
The streets are in many places ankle deep
in mud and water, and ice cold streams pour
from everywhere. The worst result of the
wet is not so much an additional injury to
property and goods as in suffering to ill-pro-
tected people. Scores of families are shell
tered only by hastily put up boards or can
vas and they are wet and cold. Thanks to
generous and intelligently conducted relief
THERE is PLENTY OF FOOD
and hunger is not now among the miseres.
Much has been done during the day for re-
lief and much more is being done tonight.
The relief committees and agents are active
ly supplying such protection from the
weather as is possible. The most needy are
! first supplied.
In the residence portion of the desolated
district, the snow has greatly retarded re-
pairs. Tonight very few of the houses,
even where least damaged, are habitable.
Much household goods has been exposed to
the weather and proportionately to the
total value involved, much greater loss
has been caused by the snow to house
keepers of moderate means than to business
houses and market streets, or even the to-
bacco warehousemen. The latter have all
succeeded in getting most of their property
under shelter of some sort. The household
effects would not repay the extraordinary
measures taken to save stocks of goods, and
thousands of dollars worth in the aggre-
gate, scattered through some 80 blocks of the
city, will lie in the wet for day or two
longer. On Main street signs have been put
up in manv partly wrecked stores that orders
will be filled as usual and business has been
resumed.
A STATEMENT FROM THE MAYOR.
In an interview with the Associated Press
to-day, Mayor Jacobs said:
We have now about recovered all the bodies
Of those who were destroyed by the recent to--
nado, and am thoroughly satisfied that the
total number of those who were killed outright
and those who will die from wounds sustained
thereby, will not reach $50. While the destruc-
tion of property was very heavy, still the great
est suffering will fall upon our humber classes,
who were living in their modest homes
that had been accumulated by years of
toll. In my Judgment S500000 will go
Coz IL 1,ala 1, e
poor people, but such as these will have to be
cared for, matter at what cost. AS far as
the business is concerned, with the exception of
the leaf tobacco market it has never been sus-
pended, and even in this branch of trade one
half of the warehouses were intact, and all are
now ready for custom, as ample storage room
Notwithstanding only two days had elapsed
after the cyclone, all wrecks and debris had
been removed on yesterday.
have never seen such courage and recuper-
have been afflicted, and while recognizing, as |
some do that the fruits of lifetime of labor |
have been swept away. still they bow bravely |
and with proper humility to their fate. AS far |
as public quiet is concerned, order has never |
been better, and outside of the narrow limits |
of the district swept by the storm, no one would |
know that he was in city that had been |
scourged by fierce and most desolatiug tor. |
nado.
THE DISTRICT UNDER MARTIAL LAW.
While there have been fewer criminal at
tempts than expected. considering the ex-
posed condition of property, one or two in
stances have proved the wisdom of placing
the district under martial law and putting
the State guard on picket duty. Ed Myers,
Isadore Lowenstein. A. j. Marks and Ike
Delman, Russian Jews, are locked up in
Central police station charged with arson,
They were caught building large fire in a
demolished store on Market street between
Tenth and Eleventh, which is in the midst
of the shattered district. The fire was ex-
tinguished before it had made much head
wav.
Mrs. Barnwell, wife Of the rector of ST.
Johns Church, was robbed OF everything
she had. All her jewelry was found TO
have been taken from a bureau drawer, and
q box containing silverware was broken
open and the contents taken away. Even
the body Of the dead minister was not sacred
and his gold watch, which the widow cher
ishes particularly, was taken from his pocket.
On Friday two ladies visited the demolished
house to secure Mrs. Barnwell's sewing ma
chine for her. They placed it on the nave
ment, and while absent within the machine
was carried of. These outrageous cases are,
however, the only ones reported.
RELIEF POURING IN.
me IOIal duOuuI OI lHe TelleI IunO ap-
proximates S11O,OO The Board of Trade
has to-day received subscriptions amounting
10 ST., 600, while numerous checks have
been sent in to the Mayors Office and the
newspaper offices. Among others the Cour-
ier Journal doubled its subscription. The
Louisville and Nashville Railroad SUBJ
'cribed $4,000. At the meeting of the Ex-
,cutive Committe of the Board of Trade Re-
lief Committee this afternoon the following
was adopted:
Resolved, In answer to numerous inquiries
from persons at home and abroad, the Board of
Trade Relief Committee announces that fur
her liberal contributions from Louisville citi-
,ens and corporations are greatly needed, and
ire most earnestly requested. If the contribu-
ions from our own people are not sufficient to
.elieve the distress of sufferers by the storm,
he committee will appeal for assistance from
outside of the city and State. Until then all
voluntary contributions of money will be &C
,epted and used if needed.
w. T. ROTH, Chairman
CHAS. d. JACOB. Mayor
WIN. CoRNwELL JR.,
President Board of Trade.
The total number killed by the tornado
lere Thursday night is SO. This includes
John Schell, a saloon keeper, who died to-