The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-29
\ WRECKED TRAIN.

vide, Madison AMI Indianapolis railroad
were fairly stripped OF their signs and gic-
gerbread work.
A WRECKED TRAIN.
A few miles south of Hen willie, about
rEenty-one miles from Louisville, Law an
eLclns with its great iron nose plu lged iato
a bed OF soft yellow mad. On the opposite
sldo lay the massive teAder, and bavoad il
two coaches tippe1 over on Their sides. 1t
was the wreck of train No. 6, e combination
which runs between Indianapolis and Lon
lsVille. The tram was making the best time
possible In the heavy wind, when it struck
q birch tree that had been torn I'D bv its
roots and flung across the track. No one
was injured.
AN APPALLING SIGHT.
When the scene of the Louisville disaster
was reached an appalling sight was pre-
santed. A crowd OF people thron-el the
Fourteenth street station and from there up
Main street to the heart of the city was a
mass of humanity, dodging horses, street
cars and all sorts OF vehicles, in tho middle
OF the street. On either side was wreck and
ruin, brick having the appearance Of hav-
ing simply crumbied to earth. Gangs of
rescuers worked like heroes on the great
masses OF debris in the search for human
victims. Here there lay dead mule, with
clots OF blood at the noslrils, that had been
dragged from tue ruins of the great tobacco
houses, OF which they a:e the most common
adjunct in this souther city. Women and
men darted before mad hocses, whose
weight 1t seemed would crush them to DEATH
MENACING WALLS.
Burly policemen were stationed az the
street crossings to prevent people from at.
tempting to pass through the ruined thor
oughfares, where partially wrecked walls
stood q : q fo hrrr1
efforts wers futile, and men, women AMI
children made Their way down the danger
Gus streets with astounding rackles3lesa
The morbid crowd was not to be held back
imit5 Wild desire to satisfy curiosity, an il
was sight worth their efforts to see. The
wreck was so great taat it beggars attempt
to detail.
Immediately upon tho Bursting of the
cyclone the fire bells sounded, and the
police were at work within ten minutes. A
posse appeared at the Falls City hall. The
walls of the adjoining houses were first
propped, and then began the work of cut
ting through the heavy slate roof that
covered all.
DIFFICULT WORK.
AT first the work was difficult and labor
lous on account of the anxious multitude
that thronged about tho wreck. Women
were found digging at the slate with their
fingers, almost crazed. Every one did noble
work. After an hour of ceassiess lGbor the
first victim, Mrs. Sarah Kelley, was I'M
earthed. She was found sitting in an up
right position, her head bruised and arm
broken. She said that at the first quake Of
the building mad rush was made for the
entrance. Women were Knocked down
and trampled on in their mad haste to
escape. Seeing the overwhelming jam for
the door, several remained behind. The
last she saw of her friends was Just before
efiDor gave way and the ceiling fell. The
work was continued, but none of those
wnom Mrs. Kelley said were near her could
be found.
CORPSES IN A HEAP
The work of excavating was then moved
from the rear of the building to the front,
where it was supposed the greater crowd
was gathered. As soon as the roofing was
removed from the mass Of brick beneath
the first sight that met the eyes was aay-
thing but hopeful Ten women locked In
eaca others arms were drawn out of the
debris. James Hassom, whose wife had
been at lodge meeting, was foremost in
the work, and the first person whom he
drew out OF the ruined building was
his wife, who died in his
arms. He laid her by the side
OF Others who were dead and continued to
WOIh 1Or tne uVlng.
KILLED BY GAS.
Inside of the next hour thirty men and
women were drawn out dead, but with no
wounds on their bodies, and it is thought all
met their death from suffocation. The gas
pipes had broken, which caused the lights to
go out and which saved the ruias from fire
for time, but flooded the debris with vapor
almost as deadly as fire mi yht have proven.
Ways We're pierced into the ruins ami tho
bodies Of the dead and dying were drawn
out. One part of the building was reserved
for the dead, but tne wo1nded were taken
into stores and houses on the opposite side OF
the street, where physicians aud prizes IS ad :
ministered to their souls and bodies. Along
Main street the pathway of the storm ex.
tended from Sixth to Eleventh Streets and
from Seventh to Eleventh, aud not single
buildi & was left standing.
Occaslonally massive stone or iron front
still stood intact, while the entire structure
proper mad been swept entirely away. i his
morning it presented the mos5 stupe lduous
spectacle Of disaster and ruin ever witnessed
RUIN IN THE TOBACCO DISTRICT.
In the path of the Storm lay the prided
tobacco market Of the city, and to-day the
warehouses, almost to the last one, arc in
ruins. They include the Kentucky, Pick
EFT, the Ninth street, Falls City, PHmlix,
Greenover Louisville, En5erprise, Central
and Planters. The destruction of the
Louisville and Ninth street warehouses
could not possibly have been more COM
plete. Thousands of hogsheads of tobacco
lay in the mass OF brick and mortar; some
in view, others buried from sight beneath
the debris.
A HOTEL WRECKED.
The Louisville hotel, between Sixth and
Seventh streets, was unroofed and other
vie wrecked. while the building west.
occupied as a cigar store upon the first
floor, and sleepi g rooms On tne secona and
third, was razed entirely to the ground, not
a siUgle brick remaining in place. In the
destruction of this house many lives were
lost, principally of persons who occupied
sleeping rooms there. Many of them were
young girls employed at the hotel next
door.
gMPROvISED MoRGUEs.
Saloons and other available places have
been turned into hastily improvised
morgues, where bodies are taken as fast as
recovered aud left awaiting Identification.
Patrol wagons are being pressed into
service as dead wagons TO convey co:pses TO
the required places.
FLUE FOR THE STORM.
Eleventh street seemed to serve as a kind
Of flue for the storm. as all intercepting
objects in that line are practically reduced
TO nothiDgness. As it rusaed down this
street it carried with 1t the fronts Of build
incs. whicl are mostly residences, on each