Connecticut western news., 1890-04-02
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 Not Single Building Standing.
 Not single building was left standing in the path of the storm on Main street from; Seventh to Eleventh streets Occasionally a massive iron or stone front still stood in. tact, while the entire structure proper had been swept away. The tobacco market, on which the city prided itself, lay in the path of the storm, and the warehouses almost to the last one are in ruins. Among those de stroyed are the Kentucky, Pickett's, Ninth Street, Falls City, Phoenix, Green River, Louisville, Enterprise, Central and Plant. ers'. The destruction of the Louisville and Ninth Street warehouses could not have been more complete. Thousands of hogs heads of tobacco lay in the mass of debris.
 Fire Adds to the Horror.
 At 12 o'clock the opening up of a portion of the debris of Falls City hall caused draught to penetrate the ruins, whereupon the smoldering fire broke out with tremen- dous ferceness. It spread rapidly and forced the workers to desert the pile. a As soon as the fire gained headway the groans of the imprisoned people became shrieks, and so great was the horror of the moment that the watchers were frantic and screamed and ran about like wild, the terrible suffer- ings which they were unable to alleviate driving them to despair. -
 Several lines of hose were soon throwing water on the flames, but it was more than an hour before the work could be proceeded with, and then it was carried on with much more difficulty than before on account of ! the heat Up to 12 o'clock only thirty five dead bodies and twenty five wounded and dying had been taken from the wreck
 His Wife and Children were There. At about II 80 o'clock the room where the children were dancing was reached. Mir. Louis Simms, of l, ,14 Market street, had for hours been moving about in an agony of grief in front of that portion of the wreck where this room had been, for his wife and four little children were there. When the room was reached Mrs. Simms was the first one found, and she was fatally hurt. Then ! within ten minutes of each other three of the Simms children were recovered. They were unconscious, and there is only faint possi- bility that they will live. While the father was imploring the workers to get his other child fire broke out and work was suspend ed. The last man taken out alive before the flames started was John Hepden, of 2, 1O2 West Broadway.
 Two Hundred Still Buried.
 Mrs. Whitman, wife of Policeman Whit man. jumped from the third story of the hall. She was terribly injured and will hardly live. There are 200 or more people yet in the debris. and the proba abilities are that few, if any more, will be recovered alive. Of those taken out dead only small number were. identified. Everything ia choas. There is no system, and under the circumstances none could be expected. The store and residence of Isaac Slaughter, ,OOs Market, was totally demolished in the rear. Four children who were sleeping upstairs were protected from the falling wall by the head of their bed Mrs. Slaughter, who was sleeping in the front room, was lifted from her bed and blown out of the window into the street. One arm was broken, and some internal injuries are feared. The foul story brick building of M J. Doyle was lief, complete wreck. All the other building. on the square on both sides of the street were unroofed, and most of the upper storie! utterly gone. Even after the force of tht wind had been broken the remnants lifted ( street car from the track and blew it fifteer feet. All the force of the cyclone seemed | centered on Falls City hall. '' -,'-Ir |