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

the moment that watchers grew frantic
and ran about like wild, the terrible
eufferings which they were unable TO
alleviate driving them 10 despair. Sew
eral lines of hose were soon throwing
water on the flames, but il was more
than an hour before work could be
proceeded with and carried on, which
was done with much difficulty on ac-
count of the heat.
At 20 o'clock the room was reached
where the
CHILDREN WE'RE DANCING.
Mr. Louis Sims had been for hours
moping about in agony in that portion of
the wreck where this room had been, for
his wife aud four little children were
there. When the room was reached
Mrs. Sims was the first one found, and
she was fatally hurt. Then within about
Fifteen minutes each of the three Sims
children were recovered. They were I'M
conscious, and there is only a faint pos
sibiIity of their living. While the father
was imploring the workers TO get his
other child fire broke out and the work
was suspended.
The last man taken out alive before
the flames started was John Hopden of
2l09 West Broadway, and just previous
TO that a woman who was unable to give
her name. It is impossible to tell the
extent of injuries TO either.
The friends of Claude Goldman, chief
train dispatcher of the Louisville South
ern, are looking for his body, which is
supposed TO be buried i'm the debris. He
left home TO meet his brother at the de-
pot last night and has not since been
heard from.
The work Of raspuiDU fuapulpd dead
goes hravely on. Hundreds of anxious
men worked as they never worked before
for bodies of their wives, fathers, moth
ers, brothers and sisters that lie buried
in the shHpeless mass of brick and mortar
that covers the size wh~re yesterday stood
the Falls City hall. Cries of
MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN
rend the air on every side. A surging
crowd of 10 ZOO people block the streets
for squares about the scene of the catas-
trophe. large force of police guard
the avenue to keep back the pressing
masses of curious humanity that are
gradually forcing their way to the awful
scene of calamity. Five hundred men
stand by the wreck, daZed and helpless,
too weak or too lazy to lend
helping hand to the brave squad of
Tescuers. 1t is sight to strike
anguish TO the soul of the bravest.
Words are poweTless to express the awful
scenes that each succeeding minute rolls
through the CHASTITY panorama. Bodies
maugled and shapeless beyond recogni-
ton are being dragged from beneath the
ruins every few minutes. Men, women
and children linger about the scene,
peering into the faces of the dead as the
bodies are carried out with dread anxiety
lest they recognize in the
sHAPELEss MASS OF FLESH
and bone, q semblance of features of
some relative or friend.
Coroner Miller stands at the door of
his temporary morgue in McGrathin's
saloon, opposite the wreck, directing the
disposition OF bodies.
The following bodies have been taken
from the debris this morning and placed
in the morgue; most Of them have been
identified and claimed by rela-
lives: Rudolph senger, mechanic,
Louisville and Nashville railroad,
Sims, four years, 1924 West Market
street; Henry Lingo, Fifteenth and
TYLER avenue; Esquire James NJ. Ste
yens, Eighth and Jefferson streets; John
Reicbt, 749 Fifteenth street; Charles -.
Riebert, Chapel street between Main and
Market; - Sullivan, Main street be-
tween Fifteenth and Sixteenth; J.
Fleischer, Twelfth street, between JEFF
ferson and Market; Miss Mary Schatter,
Twenty eighth and proposed extern
sion OF Madison street; A. Streuel-
ering, East Market street; Elmer f.
Barnes, 326 Chapel street; Annie Miles,
1921 Portland avenue; Clarence Lorezer,
Sl5 Ninth street; Robt. Hamilton, resi-
dence unknown; Mrs. John Koran, 1871
Portland avenue; four unknown men,
mangled beyond recognition.
At 8 CLOCK this morning while Coroner
Miller was standing over corpse in his
improvised mOrgue man, pale as deai b |
and voiceless from excitement, rushed III
and hOarsely whispered: MIR. Miller
your brother is
BURIED IN THE RUINS.
The coroner was nearly overcome by
the terrible news, but the young man
who was standing by assured the coroner
that he had seen his brother at the corner
of Fourth and Market about O'clock, |
or just about the time the casualty oc-
Cured. Others maintain, however, that
Mr.. Miller and party of candidates
were seen TO go into the build
ing few minutes before it fell. Thous-
ands of unfounded Tumors are circulat-
ing in every quarter of the city and it is
confidently hoped the report of Mr.. Mil |
ler's death is GToundless.
Market street this evening looks like 6 |
devastated village. Devastation along |
this thoroughfare is complete. The storm |
seems only to have swept Broad way from |
Fifteenth to Nineteenth, but really all the |
houses between these streets and on in |
tersecting streets were demolished. Most !
of the cottages, however, and low frame |
buildings escaped without serious injury. !
From Fifteenth TO Sixteenth are merely |
small frame houses, occupied by colored |
families. Roofs were torn off, but not
much damage was done and none of the
occupants were hurt From Sixteenth |
down to Nineteenth, however, the
DESTRUCTION WAS TERRIBLE.
Mr.. Peter Speth and family, who live |
at 1913, were quietly seated in their par
Ior when the storm burst in all its fury.
The building swayed and tottered, and |
finally the walls of the second story |
lad md foil a