Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-03-30

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tured. will recover: G. W. Robinson. Z
hampton street, head cut and shoulde
diSlocated; Nottingham, head badl
bruised, but probably not fatally: Mrs
Kate Frazier. Sixth street. head and fac
badly mashed and probably internal in
turies; j. p. Mcfarland. ticket broker
badly mashed and bruised: Ed Mintet
head bruised and confused wounds: wifi
OF Sergeant Geo. Coleback. slightly in
Jured; VIM. Good. taken out of Falls eli,
hall ruins with both of his legs and thre,
ribs broken. lie is internally injured an,
will die: John Blare. superintendent, rib
and leg broken; two children of Loui
Simon, Jr., aged five and four years. re-
spectively, two older girls and IA Servan
were all taken out Of the Falls city hall
slightly injured; Mrs. John Brock. lef
arm broken; Mrs. Renouf slightly in.
jured; Mrs. Jennie Whitman. back brok.
en-. She jumped from the third story OF
Falls city hall; Mrs Dora Nieman, taken
out slightly injured. Immediately upou
the burst of the cyclone, fire bells wera
sounded and police were at work. Within
ten minutes posse appeared at the Falls
city hall wreck.
The tornado struck the city
in the southwest, and the track
OF death and destruction lies across
the city TO the Fourth Ward. Out
side OF this limit the people knew only Il
rainstorm with heavy winds. Suddenly
there was an alarm of fire from ten diff
/ ferent stations, and the citizens began TO
/ realize that some calamity was upon
them. Huge stone warehouses. heavy
| blocks and dwelling houses crumbled be-
| fore the mighty wind. As suddenly as
the tornado came, so suddenly il de-
parted, leaving a stricken city in its
wake. The entire fire department and
volunteer relief parties were soon at
work in the wrecked portion of the city.
which lies between Eighteenth. Broad
way and Main streets. The section is
about mile square. and the ruins con-
tam about 200 houses. The center of the
tornado was at Falls City hall. and il was
probably there that the greatest loss of
life occurred. Some Seyenty-tiVp little
children, with their mothers and friends.
were attending dancing school. On
nOor above there were about 100 men aud
women attending a large meeting. This
big building was crushed 10 shapcless
mass of brick and mortar in less than
four minutes and il is feared that 200
persons lie in the ruins. but few who
were in the building have been seen since
the storm. II was at Falls City hall that
the first relief party went to work. The
Wild multitude that Swarmed about the
wreck made the work more difficult and
impossible at times Women aud men
ran before mad horses and all the efforts
to keep order were futile. Crazed women
could not be removed from the ruins and
they persisted In digging at the stone
with their fingers in their frantic efforts
to find theirdying loved ones. Ii was nearly
hour before the first person, Mrs. Sarah
Kelly. was rescued. She was found kneel-
ing and arms broken. She related her
experience. When the building began to
shake every one rushed for the entrance.
Mothers grabbed their children and
trampled upon Others in their haste to
escape. Twice tried 10 get to the door.
and twice | was Knocked down and
pushed back | started the third time.
when the tiOOr gave way, and that was
the last ] saw of my friends. Following
Mrs. kelly's direction. work was con
tinued at the place whore she was rescued.
For an hour the men labOred. but none of
Mrs. kelly's friends could be found. Then
the work of excavation was moved to the
front Of the building where IL was
thought tho larger crowd had gathered.
The horrible sight exposed hY the re-
moyal of the roofing gave a little hope
to the surging crowd Nothing could be
seen but a mass of bricks. after some
work, ten women. locked in each others
arms. were drawn out of the debris: nine
were dead James llassen, who was fore
most In the work, discovered that the
first person taken out OF the ruins was
his wife. She died in his arms. lie placed
her beside the other dead and braVely
worked for the living. During the next
hour thirty dead bodies were taken out.
They bore no wounds and must have met
their death by suilucatiOn. Tho gas
pipes We're broken and the ruins were
building and the wounded We're takpu 10
houses and stores along the street, Every
| house was turned into hospital,
The storm.swept district is about four
squares in width and where the full force
/ of the cyclone was felt few buildings were
] If af.RIfnn IIBtaHrsaaa at huilainmS
| toppled over like 81 many pins and among
| the number was the ill-iated Falls city
hall. the Louisville hotel, the union
depot on Seventh aud Water streets aud
several large wholesale houses on Main
street. About 100 bodies have been res
cued from the ruins Most OF those en-
braced in the list are fatally injured.
The work Of rescuing the dead and dying
goes on, and every hour adds new victims
of the cyclones awful work. Some place
the number Of dead at 800 and the
injured that many or more. The loss Ia
property in the city OF Louisville Is be-
lieyed will reach Sl5,OO0OOO. Fully
twenty five residences in Jeffersonvlle
are wrecked, and strange to state, not a
single death and small number of In
iured are reported. The loss Qf property
In JefTersonville will roach slO.Oo, Tn,
j. NJ. x !. passenger train. south bound
from indianapolis. was wrecked by the
storm AT vienna, tilIt' Wii'S iiph ".h'i
sonVille. last night and the englneel
, was killed in the accident, 1t i believed
that not less than 100 dead bodies are still
under the wreck Of Falls City hall.
LOUISVILLE. March 29.-Thc latest esti
mate of the dead places the figures be
tween 100 aud $50 people. One hundred
, bodies have been recovered. lie damag'
, to property approNlmates s3.0nWo y
; I,onisville alone In Jeticrsonyille u i
Ia Many nl tho Wrppkp
> houses are a menace to life and TO prop
] erty that escaped the fury Of the storm
and they have been ordered torn down
! Gangs Of men under the direction OF cit
f. officers are cleaning away the debris iron
. the streets. The embargo ON business ha
been raised and traffic has been resumed
The picture OF sorrow and desOlatiOn T.
% he Witnessed ON Market street. whcr
q homeless women aud children were wan
K dering about viewing the places fror
I where they 50 narrowly escaped. hanlu
!. description. Main street Is thfonged Wit
- people contemplating the ruins, and httl
= work Il being done except the tobacc
5 warehouses. where as many men as coul
; be- secured are employed In removing ih
4 thousands Of hogshcads OF tobacco
< places of shelter.
/, The swath of the tornado whic
y wrought such terrible destruction In IN
= city is clearly marked through the slau
y kflOllN lIOiil ! duiNohs t'hh WhiNn
Il The whirlwind must have entered Ken
y tucky. give details of much damage. I'll
i new town of Grand River, On the Gun
l. berland, was destroyed aud several lio'
{, ple we're killed. In Laurel county man
is houses were razed to the ground. Fro
II Crittenden county the same story come
g Heavy storms are reported from near
N all the river counties. In Christian AZ
70 Trigg In the southern part OF the sta
at the loss of life and property was Nel
IN heavy. East Of Louisville no serlo
4 damage is reported.
s. UopKINsvuI.E. KY, March 29.-Repor
u. of a most distressing nature continue
a. be received from all sections OF TINS a.
i, adjoining counties that were swept
w the cyclone. In some places entlreiarn
lB houses. harms and fences were laid was'
ill Loss i'm property is beyond compilatia
~ The town Of Caledonia was entirely q
~ stroved. A freight train was wrecked
" a tree bcing blown across the engine, a
,ri Peter Burns. the engineer, and Nillia