Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-29
lice were at work, and within ten min
utes posse appeared at the Falls City
hall wreck.
ITs EFFEcTs wIpEsPREAp

4 ualI HTeCk.
ITS EFFECTS WIDESPREAD.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March 2S.-The eff
feots Of the storm were widespread. For
miles IN either direction OF the city an
occasional roof was torn off, and trees
lifted out OF the ground by the roots. As
| a special train sped toward the fated
| city, bearing Associated Press represent
tatives from Indianapolis, evidences were
| first noticeable fully fifty miles out.
Many little towns along The Jefferson
| vile, Madison and Indianapolis rail-
road were fairly stripped OF their signs
| and gingerbread work.
| When the scene OF disaster was reached
an appalling sight was presented. Crowds
| of people thrOnged Fourteenth street
station, and from there up Main street to
| the heart OF the city was mass OF
| humanity. On either side was
WRECK AND RUIN.
Masses of brick and stone In heaps
| presented the appearance OF having sim
| ply crumbled 10 the earth. Gangs Of
| rescuers worked like gophers on the
| great masses OF debris in search for
| human victims % The awful calamity
| Women and men darted before
mad horses, whose hoofs it seemed
| would crush them to death.
Policemen were stationed at street
| crossings to prevent people from
| attempting TO pass through ruined thor
| oughfares where partially wrecked walls
| stood as menace to human life. but
| their efforts were futile and men, women
aud children made their way down dan
| ness. The morbid crowd would not be
held back in its wild desire to satisfy
| curiosity, and 1t was u sight worth their
efforts to see. The wreck was SO great
| il beggars attempt at detail.
Immediately upon the burst of the
cyclone the fire bells sounded and the
| police were at work. In ten minutes II
| posse appeared at the Falls City hall.
| The walls OF the adjoining house were
first dropped, and then began the work
of cutting through the heavy slate roof
| that covered all. At first the work was
difficult and laborious, on account of the
| anxious multitude that thronged the
wreck. The most difficult task was to
clear the ruin of women, who
were found digging at the slate
WITH THEIR FINGERS,
crazed at the groans beneath, each OF
which they thought assembled from their
own dying. Everyone did noble work.
After an hour of hard labor the first VIC
tim, Mrs. Sarah Kelly, was unearthed.
She was found sitting in an upright posi-
ton, her head bruised and one arm
broken. She said: At the first quake
a mad rush was made for the entrance.
Women were knocked down and trampled
kIa 20
the overwhelming jam at the door, sew
eral remained behind. The last l saw Of
my friends was just before the floor gave
way and the ceiling fell.''
Work was continued, but none Of those
whom Mrs. Kelly said were near her
could be found. The excavation was
then moved from the rear OF the build
ing TO the front, where it was supposed q
greater crowd was gathered. As soon as
tLe roofing was removed and the mass OF
brick beneath, the first sight that met
their eyes was anything bus hopeful.
Ten women,
LOCKED IN EACH OTHERS ARMS,
were drawn out OF the debris, all dead
but one. Mr.. James Hassen, whose wife
had been at the lodge meeting. was fore
most in the wreck, and the
out of the ruined building was his
wife, who died in his arms. He laid her
by the side of the others who were
dead, and continued to work for the
living. 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 death from
suffoegtion. Gas pipes had broken,
which caused the lights to go out aud
which saved the ruins from fire for the
time, but flooded the debris with vapor
almost as deadly as fire might have
proven. Ways we're pierced into the
building and bodies drawn out dead and
dying. One part of the building was re-
served for the dead, but the wounded
were taken into stores and houses on the
opposite side of the street, where physi-
clans and priests administered to souls
and bodies. Along Main street the path
of the storm extended from Sixth to
Eleventh streets. and from Sew
snth to Eleventh not single
building was left standing. Occasion
ally massive stone or iron front still
stood, while the entire structure proper
had been swept entirely away.
This morning il presented the most
stupendous spectacle of disaster and ruin
ever witnessed. In the course OF the
storm lay the pride tobacco market of
the city, and to-day the warehouses.
almost to the last one, lay in ruins.
They include the Kentucky, Picketts,
Ninth Street, Falls City, Phoenix, Green
River. Louisville, Enterprise, Central
and Planters.
The Louisville hotel, between Sixth
and Seventh, was unroofed and otherwise
wrecked, while the building west occu-
pied as cigar store upon the first floor
and sleeping rooms upon the second and
third, was RACED entirely to the ground,
NOT A SINGLE BRICK
remaining in place. In the destruction |
or this house many lives were lost, prin-
cipally of persons who occupied sleeping
rooms there. Many of them were young
girls employed ct the hotel next door.
Saloons and other available places
have been turned into hastily impro-
vised morgues where the bodies were
taken as fast as received and left await
ing Identification. Patrol wagons are |
being pressed into service as dead wagons |
to convey eorpses to required places.
Eleventh street seemed to receive the |
f,rll foroo oR af0ru1 A raazhad /