Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-04-04

through, ~whereupon the smoldering
FIRE BROKE OUT
through the windows fercely. It spread
rapidly and forced the workers to desert
the place. AS oon as the fire gained
Roadway the groans of the imprisoned
people became shrieks, and so great was
the horror OF the moment that the watch
ers grew frantic and screamed and ran
about like wild, the terrible suferings
which they were unable to alleviate driy-
ing them to despair. Sever. lines of
hose were soon throwing water on the
flames, but it was more than an hour be-
fore the work could be proceeded with,
and then it was carried on with much
difficulty on account of the heat. The
dead now numbers one hundred and fifty.
Forty men have been sent out by the
board of trade to make a thorough can
yass of the district and report the loss of
life and property fully. They will try to
furnish the Associated Press a statement
tonight. The work of rescuing the
mangled dead goes bravely on. Hun
dreds or anxious men worked as they
never worked before. for the bodies of
their wives, mothers, brothers, fathers
and sisters that lie buried in the shape
less mass of brick and'mortar that covers
the site where yesterday stood the Falls
CITY hall. Cries of men, women and
children rend the air on every side. A
surging mass of
10000 PEOPLE BLOCKS THE STREET
For squares about the scene of the cat
astrophe. A large force of police guards
the 9 to keep back the pressing
masses of curious humanity that are
gradually forcing their way to the awful
scene of calamity. Five hundred men
stand by the wreck dazed and helpless,
too weak or too lazy to lend a helping
hand to the brave squad of rescuers. It
is enough to strike anguish to the soul
OF the bravest. Words are powerless to
express the awful scenes that each sue
ceeding minute rolls through the CHASTITY
panorama.
BODIES MANGLED AND
Beyond recognition are being dragged
from beneath the ruins every few min
utes. Men, women and children linger
about the scene with faces filed with
dread anxiety lest they recognize in the
shapelcss mass of flesh and bone a SEM
blance of features of some relative or
friend.
MARKET STREET
This evening looks like a ruined village.
The devastation of this thoroughfare is
nearly complete. Between Ninth and
Tenth streets the roofs we're blown off,
walls blown in and two or three build
ings entirely wrecked. Between Tenth
and Eleventh streets the same is true,
and no lives lost. The next square had
some narrow escapes, much damage and
was the location Of the Falls city hall, in
whose wreck such a large number lost
their lives. Eleventh street is reported
having a few houses slightly damaged
and a number ruined, but no fatalities.
Eighth and Ninth streets had consider
able loss from collapsed buildings. The
immense iron foundry of Ainslee, Coch-
rane & Co. was RACED to the ground, the
rear wall alone standing. The storm
seemed only to have swept Broadway
from Fifteenth to Nineteenth streets, but
nearly all the houses between those
streets and on intersecting streets we're
demolished. Most of the cottages and
low frame buildings, however, escaped
serious injury. From Sixteenth down to
Nineteenth street the destruction was ter
rible. Peter Speth and family, who
live at 1903, were quietly seated in the
parlor when the storm burst with all it's
fury. The building swayed and tottered,
and finally the wall of the second story
reeled and fell with a resounding crash.
All of the family remained huddled in
the hallway and escaped without injury.
The furniture and building were de-
stroyed and the total loss will be about
$4,000. Adjoining is the residence of
MI. WEIGH, 1916. It was literally demol-
ished, but the family miraculously es-
capped. Many other similar instances are
reported. Three lives were lost at the
corner of Eighteenth and Maple streets.
The killed were John limerick, aged 40,
his daughter, aged 4, and James Fitz-
gerald. Eemerick kept a grocery at that
corner and the building blew in on them.
In going down Main street in an oppo-
site direction to the course pursued by
the tornado, the evidence of the serious
destruction appears.
WHOLESALE HOUSES ARE DESTROYED
And their stocks ruined. A thrilling
experience was that Of Mary Roemele,
who kept adry goods store at Colgan and
Seventeenth streets. Her house was
new brick. At the time of the storm her
nephew, Willie Killmier, was with her.
When the walls began to shake and
threaten to fall, both of them rushed
to the front door just as the whirlwind
was passing. It gathered in both of
them and carried them into the air a dis
lance of forty feet. At Maple street they
were both hurled against a fence and re-
NAMED there unconscious until they
were found by neiehbors. Both were
considerably injured. All the entire
western portion of Falkland, which lies
just beyond the southwestern limits of
the city, was wrecked. The storm struck
that part before reaching the. city, and
it's curse was a most peculiar one. It
did not move in q direct line, moving
down a path before it, but went about it's
dreadful work in zig gag fashion.
The churches escaped with the exception
Of the Baptist, which was twisted some.
The track. of the storm in Falkland was
about three blocks wide, but in such q
zig gag manner it is almost impossible to