Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-29

and children linger about filed with dread
anxiety lest they recognize in the shapeless
masses remains OF some relative or friend.
IN MOURNING.
Al night closed in its folds the devastated city
OF Louisville scores of widows and orphans are
bowed down with the weight of deepest grief:
Wreck and ruin have settled down in its very
midst, and specters of the dead whose funeral
pyres are heaps of bricks and mortar, seem to
rise up and enshroud in the awful halo of
their presence the entire city. The band of
brave rescuers continue to work, but as night
comes on they seem TO work more silently
though no less arduously.
As each remnant of the piles of wreckage is
lifted IL Is with anticipation OF uncovering to
view the llfeless form or death set features Of a
human victim of the awful storm.
But there is no time to consider the dead, for
the living may yet be buried beneath the
mountains of debris, and they turn and work
again with renewed energy into the great mass
in search OF crushed and mangled humanity.
AS the night grows darker the work becomes
more awful. Even the advantage OF light ana
its fear-dispelling qualities are denied them for
all the electric wires were
TORN DOWN BY THE STORM,
And left the city to be enshrouded in the deep
est gloom. 1t grows SO dark in the shadows of
the crumbling walls that still stand as silent
sentinels over the dead, that every object with
asemblance TO human form must be grasped, to
prove whether it be flesh or stone. Still untir-
ing and strong hearted workers continue to dig
III the merciless, storm-made graves of the
dead. There is no estimating the number of
those who lie buried in their tract. People are
still learning OF missing members of their teni-
lies, and mothers and fathers stand wildly gdz-
ing on the ruins, and crying ON the Almighty 20
deliver TO them at least their dead. Hardened
hearts move with deep sympathy, and idle men
dive into the dirt and CRIME.
The streets are thronged with multitudes of
sorrowlDg people. They stand upon the cor
ners with tear dimmed eyes solemnly discuss
ing the dreadful catastrophe or move from one
point of the wrecked district to another, gazing
at the scenes OF rum.
WITHOUT HOMES.
There are at least a hundred families home
less in the streets that were happy yesterday in
the possession of their homes.
one poor woman, be .Ween her half stifed
sobs told how that very evening her husband
had paid a building association the last dollar
they owned upon the ir house and now all that
remained was confused mass of brick and
mortar.
There are many other cases almost parallel to
this. Not only were houses dashed TO the
ground, bur the furniture, in many instances,
Hundreds of thousands OF dollars worth of
goods lay last night upon the business streets at
the mercy OF thieves. 1t now seems almost in
possible to find store houses for tae vast amount
of merchandise.
At many places towering walls OF brick are
osclllatlng IN the air, ready to descend at any
moment. The points OF danger are guarded by
the ponce and military company, who drive
the surging crowds at the point of the bayonet.
IDENTIFYING FRIENDS AND RELATIVES.
At the entrances of the various dead-rooms
stand breathless mob clamoring for admit
tance; but they are invariably refused, unless it
be to identity some relative or friend Occa-
sionally, when one Of the latter enters. sound
OF halt sob and half shrek reaches the outer
doors.
The telephone wires are all down, and it will
take daVS IN thpO1 and
again.
The search for victims is going steadily on,
and each hour adds largely to the already long
list.
In many places men labor in great danger of
being buried beueath the totterirg walls at any
moment, and other accidents are looked for
momenEarily.
ADDING TO THE HORROR.
An inspection of the water-works this after
noon showed the pumping pipe to be COM
pletely wrecked. Until repairs are completed
no pumping can be done, and there Is only
about enough water in the reservoir to last five
days. At the end OF that time the public viii
have to depend on wells. 1t cannot be told
now, however, how long it will take TO repair
the water-works.
Crushed and blackened ruins mark the spot
where last evening stood the splendid large
Union Depot at Seventh and River streets
When the crash came the Louisville Southern
ready to pull out again, but both were caught
by the falling mass and crushed like shells.
About a dozen people were injured but il is
thought none fatally.
The wide river was disturbed by the fury of
the tornado and is yet angry. What was left of
the depot by the wind is momentarily threat
ened by the strong waves that surge under and
about the platforms
From Seventh ard River streets as far down
as can be seen, one continuous scene of desola-
ton meets the eye, and bewilders the spacta-
tors, who never dreamed of anything so terrible.
Everywhere is wreck and ruin.
SOME DFT.Tr
The Carpenter x Annear Iron Works. on
Eighth street, four-story building, was blown
down, and some of the employees injured.
The wholesale liquor establishment of Brown
stantly caught fire. By hard work the firemen
managed to control the blaze. The buildings
adjacent to it were considerably torn up. and it
Is quite positive that several dead lay beneath
the ruins.
The great building at No. $50 Main street oc-
cupied by s. +. Gunther, the tobacco man, H.
molished, as was also the immense building oc-
cupied by H A. Thierman u Co., wholesale
liquor dealers and distlllers.
III nearly all the business houses wrecked
some one was injured, and fears are expressed
that when the debris is finally cleared away
many bodies Will be found.
Market street this evening looks like ruined
village, as the devastation on this thoroughfare
is nearly complete. Not building escaped par
tial or total demolition. Pedestrianism through
the street is almost impossible because of the
resided over the stores, and nearly in every case
there are reports from thee of broken limbs or
severe injuries and otherwise to one or more of
each little group.
The cyclone seemed only to have swept
Broadway from Fifteenth to Ninth streets but
nearly all the houses between these streets and
on the inteTsectiug streets are demolished.
From fifteenth to Sixteenth are mostly small
frame houses occupied by colored families. The
roofs were torn of, but not great amount of
damage done, and none of the occupants were
hurt From Sixteenth down to Nineteenth
however, the destruction was terrible. In these
three blocks the houses were larger and OF a
much better quality. Nearly every one of them
was demolished, but in most cases the occupants
escaped with but slight injuries.
The Catholic buildings at Seventeenth and
Broadway streets. five in number were all
blown down. and Sister Fius was killed. All
the other sisters escaped without injury,
At the corner of Sixteenth and Magazine
streets one of the most horrible incidents oc-
cured. Three men were caught in the falling
| ti.nbers of a two-story building and burned en-
| tirely to blackened and char:ed masses in full
| view of the people in the street. They were
! Bud sullivan, Wm. Deemer and Ben. Sierildt.
| Nick Phinemsn, the owner OF the building. es-
| capped badly burned and bruised. 1t was three
| before the fire was stopped and the wreck
| cleared away enough to get at the three men:
| hut so charred were they that friends were IN
| able to identify one from the other.
At Thirteenth and Walnut streets, in Odd
| Fellows Hail. q colored lodge was in session.
| About eight cOlored men were badly injured