The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-29
lBy United Press. I

do struck Louisville at 1880 o'clock last
night. Ii entered the southeastern por-
tion of the city at Eighteenth street AID
swept path Eve blocks wide diagonal
ly, reaching III a ragged line to ,Seventh
stree l,yelling every building in its
path probably
rwenty-ive Hundred Houses.
y rough estimate puts the killed at five |
hundred, with th"d .nds injured. The
city is filled with n
CraZed Mass OF People
wildly seeking friends. A large force
of men is at work on the ruins and
about one bandred bodies have been
recovered The buildings on Main
street, from Eighth TO Forrteeuth
streets
Are in Ruins:
not one OF the handsome wholesale
houses being left, and all the tobacco
warehouses are swept away.
One Hundred Killed in One Building.
Falls City ball, a four story building,
was Frustrated while several Masonic
and Knights of Honor lodges were in
session, and one hundred people, men
and women, were buried in the ruins.
Every other house on Market and Jeffer-
son and Walnut streets, from Tenth to
sixteenth streets, Is in ruins. Parkland,
4 Surburb is Swept Away.
At the Union depot, at the foot of
seventh street, the Chesapeake and Ohio
train for Washington was just starting
ont flied with passengers. The building
wa' Frustrated,
Crashing i'm on the Train.
al the passengers were, however, res
cuet out one newsboy. Such desolation
no city has known in this country
Every building, tree and every telegraph
pile, is levelled within the district struck.
The
Cyclone Was Predicted
by the sgual service bulletin yesterday
afternoon, but
No Heed Was Paid
10 its warning. The cyclone came with
a.4nC5ly warning sound, sand in all
buildings struck, the inhabitants were
engaged in their usual avocations. The
district laid waste comprises an area Of
the city
Three Miles Long
and nearly half mile wide. The
greatest loss of life occurred at the Falls
City hall, which stood in the centre of
the devastated area.
Seventy.fve Children,
with their parents, were on the lower
rooms of the building, where the little
ones
Were Taking Dancing Less Ons.
II is said that at least one hundred
aud twenty-five persons were on the
lower floors and that sevcnty-five to one
hundred more were on the upper floors
attending lodge meetings at the time the
wind storm struck the building. The
entire structure In twinkilrg was
wrecked mass, and the
Hundreds Of Victims
were buried under its ruins. Minimum
estimates place the loss of life at thi
point at one hundred. Early this morn
ing
Fifteen Bodies
mad been recovered from the ruins. FIT
teen wounded and dying were taken out
only those on the third floor b I'd bee
reached. the lower floors not yet hav
ing been uncovered Only few minute
elapsed after the burst Of the cyclOn
till the policemen and firemen were a
work upon the ruins of the walls of tn
city hal II was difficult to clear tn
ruins of the women who were foun
digging at tho slate roof with thei
fingers,
trazcd at the Groans Beneath,
eac. of which they thought ascende
from their dying friends.
As soon as the roofing and the mas
OF brick beneath had been removed, te
women
Locked in Each Others Arms
were taken from the debris Mr.. ia
uarron, whose wife had attended IL
loage meeting, was foremost among Il
Seafcffr' and the first person he DIRE
out OF the ruins was his wife, who
Died in His Arms.
lie laid her by the side Of the other de:
anu continued MS search for the livin4
lbtty men aud women were
Taken Our Dead
"a ne next hour, out nc wounds we
lonnd on their bodies
The most stupendous
Spectacle Of Disaster and Ruin
ever witnessed was presented this mo,
Ing. The tobacco market, in which
city prided itself, lay in the path of
storm and today the warehouses,
most to the last, are in ruins.
The Tobacco Industry Ruined.
Among those destroyed are the X
lucky. Pickett, Ninth street, Falls Ci
Phoenix, Green River, Louisville, /
terprise. Central and Planter. The
struction Of the Louisville and Mi
Street warehouses could not have be
more complete. Thousands Of no
heads Of tobacco lay in the mass of
oris, some buried from sight, others
posed to view.
The steamboat Hirbernia, Talla
James Guthrie, Grace Morris and ot