The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-29
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5CENT5 4 COPY.
[ WEEkLY.l.2 YEAR

i-t-ulceNLA ana Maple 6r31ts. Inc kiiied
were: John L neriek. aged 40 years: his
daug45er, aged Y a-s. and James Fitz-
gerald, neighbor Emerick kept grocery.
Ihe building was a frame ard two stories
high. AT the first gust Of wind the walls
doubled up aud tho roof Dir lD1ed IN.
limerick was crushed by falling timhers
aad vas takel out dead a short time after
ward. His vito was eAtricated IN an
unconscious conduit ~ Later in the
night searching parry saw tinv hand
pro.ruding from the debris and the ma lglad
corpse Of the abv soon lay beside It's dead
father. Fitzgerald, who was a louisville
and Nashville brakeman and b arded across
toe street, "a az missed this morning and n
search in tho ruins was mad5 for him.
About o'clock his blackened aud brui ed
corpse was dug out.
1oetwo top stories Of Hambergsr, Strong
a Co. 5 four story building arc demolished.
Moore Il Stark, Julius Louehheim, Louis
Grammar, and a printing establishment on
the northwest corner Of Seventh and Main
streets, suffered considerably.
A large building occupied by the Falls
City Bank and otner firms escapsd wltha
damaged roof and windows.
The immense building occupied by Har-
bl on q Gastright at Nos. 707 and 709
Main street, was blown in and the property
damaged many thousands of dollars. A
large building occupied by L. Noses. a
wholesale clothing dealer, was entirely de-
mollshed by its collapse to the street.
PICKED UP BY THE WIND.
A thrilling experience was that of Mrs.
Mary Roemel. who kept a dry goods store
at Colgan and Seventeenth streets Her
house was a new brick. At the time OF the
storm her nephew, Willie Killmier, was
With her. Whom the walls began TO shake
and threaten to fall, both rushed 20 the
front door just as the whiriwind was pass
ing It gathered in both and carried
them into the air distance of forty feet.
They were hurled against a fence and re-
mained unconscious until they were found
by neighbors few minutes a'er. Both
viii recover. The house was DESTROYED aud
nothing will be saved.
The residence # Daniel Heml9ck, No 1910
seventeenth street, was large brick
structure, yet 1T was swept away as il il
were paper. The family escaped.
McCullo IS stables we e swept out Of ex-
istence. and the horses and wagons are
scattered and lost.
Charles Beck had a wholesale grocery at
Seventeenth and Maple stre3ts but it was
leveled to the ground.
PARKLAND's DEVASTATION.
All the entire western portion Of Park.
land, which lies just beyond the southwest +
ern limits OF the city, vas wrecked. Toe
Storm struck that place before reaching
this city. Its course was n most peculiar
one. 1t did not move in a direct line.
moving down path before it, but went
about its dreadful work in q zig
gag fashion. The Daisy line de-
pot was almost totally DESTROYED. and
the track covered with debris for several
hundred yards. The Masonic temple was
injured in the upper foor, but without
much damage. the churches escaped, with
tho exception Of the Baptist; which was
twisted )ne. The track of the storm in
Farmland was shout three blocks
@ide' p,is IN such zig-zag man
ner that il is almost impossible
to measure the exact rack. Wes5 of the
town from the direction in which the storm
had come path several hundred ysrdy
wide Is moved down, trees beng cut down
like stalks Of grain before a scythe.
JETFERsoNvILLE STRUCK.
Jetfersonville was struck by the cy-
clone at 3 O'clock. Il was very dis
tinctlY heard two miles ia
the county. where people wondered what it
meant. Fortunately not q person was
killed in Jeffersonville, though some were
badly hurt. a terrible, funn3l-shaped cloud
was seen approaching up the river by
several persons, who say it looked like q
black double funnel with tue narro westi
part in the middle. It's roar could be heard
long before it strnck tho city, and the peo-
pie were alarmed by it.
DEATH IN A 0RoGGERY.
At tho corner OF Sixteenth aud Magazine,
streets In Louisville three men were caught
in the falling timbers of tho two-story gro-i
Gerry and barroom OF Nick Pneneman and,
burned to black and charred mass. They
were Bud Sullivan, William DiemerI
and Benjamin Schildt. The first
t~o were laborers and the latter was an.
undertaken. Seven people were in the
house at the time Phleneman, the owner.
alone escaped with his life, being badly
burned and bruised.
At an Odd Fellows hall at Thirteenth
and Walnnt streets a colored lodge was In
session, and about eight colored men were
slightly injured.
AN HUMBLE HERO.
Next to the old Eclipse hall welt a ped-
der named McCreary with his wife and
child. be first knocked hole in the side
wall and dragged out his helpless wife and
child over a seemingly impassanle pile Of
debris, but bis work did not end there. He
thought Of another woman and two help
less children who were imprisoned up
stairs and he rushed back into
the ruins and dragged them. out
just in time. Two minutes after the last
child was dragged out flames were licking
at everything around that would burn.
Diagonaily across tho street the colored
0 Id Fellows hall and l. Ieb's dry goods
store were completely demolished.
On Chestnut street, from Thirteenth TO
Seventeenth, almost the entire neighDor-
hood was wrecked
AROUND BAXTER SQUARE.
The devastation through the streets sur.
rounding Baxter square was complete, and
at some times most freakish. st. Johns
church was completely wrecked.
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