Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-29

ture, or rather what Is left Of il, OF
the kerb and are guaniing Il tonight
preparatory TO seeking other home
tomorrow. Add TO all this the ire
queni appearance Of smbulances anC
wagons carrying loads Of human
freight 10 the hospitals or homes G
mourning families, and you have q
slight idea Of the sad appearance o.
Louisville tonight.
Major Gait and family, who live
In a two story brick house, were sit.
ting in an upstairs nom when sud
denly
TIE WALLS FELL UPoN THEM.
Major Gait succeeded in getting out
without injury, but his wife wa,
buried in the ruins. She was not
badly hurt, but the shock to her
nervous system was great, and she
Is now lying dangerously i'll.
Three lives were lost at the corner
Of Eighteenth and Maple streets.
The killed We're John Werrick, aged
81, his daughter, aged 4 years, and
James Fitzgerald.
Werrlck kept a grocery and at the
time OF the accident there were in
the store proper his wife, daughter
and Fitzgerald. at the first gust OF
wind the walls doubled up aud the
roof dropped ia. Werrick was
crushed 10y the falling timbers and
taken out dead. His wife was ex-
tTicated in an unconscious con-
ditiOn. Later on IN the night
rescuing party saw q tiny hand
I pTUtrqding from the debris, and the
mangled form OF the baby girl soon
lay beside its dead father. The body
Of Fitzgerald, a Louisville x Nash
vile brakeman, was later taken
out.
Eleven men were crowded into
the little barber shop OF John Berth
er, 1858 Broadway. When the
storm burst the roof was torn OIL,
the second story carried away and
The side walls were tumbllng in
when the men broke through the
windows and doors, and
RAN INTO THE STREET.
Not one Of them was hurt, but the
building was totally destroyed.
In going down Main Street in an
opposite direction TO the course pur-
sued by the tornado the first evil
dences OF serious destruction are the
topless and windoWless houses on
the north side. Between Sixth and
Seventh streets the wind took the
roof from and deranged the top
story OF building occupied 10y SUIT
clifIe & Owens. Their stock Of
boots and shoes was greatly dam
aged.
Next the two upper stories OF
Agerst * Co.'s four story notion |
store We're destroyed. The top
stories OF Bamberger, Strong & Co.'s !
four-story building were demolished. |
\ thrilling experience was that |
Of AIns. ROemele, who kept n dry
goods store at Colgan and Seven
teenth streets. At the time Of The |
storm her nephew. Willie KiIlmicr, |
was with her. When the walls be-
gan to shake both oii them rushed 10 |
the front DOOR, just As The whiriwind |
was passing. IL gathered in both Of I
them aud carried them into tine air /
a distance Of forty feet. At Maple
Street they were both hurled against |
a fence and remained there uucOH-
sciOus until they were found 10y
ngighboFs 4 few minutes later. The
lady was ta;ly bruised and
PERHAPS HURT INTERNALLY.
Killmier,s ri4ht arm was brpkeu.
his ankle spralned and there was 4
deep cash in his throat.
Al the entire vessern portion Of
which lies just beyond
the southwestern limits % the city,
was wrecked. Tine storm struck
that place before reaching the city,
and its course was a most peculiar
one. Ii did not move in a direct
line, moving down path before Il,
but went about its dreadful work IN
a zig-zag fashion.
In the outskirts OF the town the
twO-stoTy brick residence Of Mayor
Keepers was struck 10y the wind
and entirely demolished. The &C.
escaped. 4 great number
of houses were blown down but the
inmates We're all up and every one
escaped, only n few
oeing injured, and they not seii-
Dusly.
The track OF the storm in Park
land was about three blocks wide.
To the west Of the iowa, irDm the
in which the wind came,
1 Path several hundred yards wide
r,nsuua~..I .fmur-v. Nlna.
pr like stalks Of grain before
TIE REArER's sCYTHE.
Jacksonville was struck by the
cyclone at O'Clock. IL was very
distinctly heard two miles in the
where the people wondered
what il meant. fortunately not n
person was killed in Jacksonville,
though some were badly hurt.
Scores Of business houses and resi-
iences were more or less damaged,
some Of the stores being nearly de-
nolizhed. Dozens of people had
escapes from instant
death. According TO the latest re-
ports this evening It is hoped that
none OF those viii die. The damage
10 steamers on the river front was
Ii is believed tOnig ut
hat the loss and damage TO property
In Jacksonville will aggregate fully
half a million.
Among the many incidents re-
ported from there is the singular
story Of 4. a. Dorney, whose resi-
.ience is half block from the river.
When the tornado struck the river
front it picked up n sSiff mOorer
there, AMI, carrying it along, DASH
ed it through the second story win
low Of the DJrney residence.
At the Strauss House, corner of
Spring and First streets, n large
number of people gathered for shell
Ter. a hail Of brick and tumbling
walls fell around them, but strange
10 say, though the building was al
most totally wrecked, none were
Jadly hurt
At the foot Of Front Street the
,oat occupied by Henry wilkins
.h,ee children and wife was capsized
Ind the
INMATES WOULD HAVE DROWNED
Jut for number Of car works em-
ployes, who keroically risked their
,wn lives and saved them
At the corner OF Sixteenth and
Magazine streets one Of the most
horrible incidents occurred Three
men were caught in the falling Of n
wO-stoTy building and buried en-
.irely in a blackened and
,harred mass, in full view Of the
,eOple in the street. They were
5ud Sullivan, William Deemer and
Ben Schildt. Nick Pineman, the
,wner Of the building, escaped, badly
Iurned and bruised. it was three
iours before the fire was stopped
md the wreck cleared away enough
o get ct the man, and 50 charred
we're they that friends were unable
o identity one from the other.
AtThirteenth and Walnut streets,
n the Odd Fellows Hall, a colOred
Odge was in session. About eight
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