Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-04-04
The Worst Loss of Lite in the
City Occurred at The Falls
City Hall.
The Wreckage Takes Fire and Gre
mates Scores of the I'm
prisOned Victims,
The Streets are Filled With DaZed
Frenzied, Terror-Stricken Men,
Women and Children.
At Metropolis, Illinois, and Marion
Kentucky, the Loss of Life
Was Terrible.
Worse Than Anticipated.

Worse Than Anticipated.
LOUISVILLE, March GA tornado
struck Louisville at 7:3O o'clock last
evening. It entered the southeastern
portion Of the city at Eighteenth street
and swept a path five blocks wide dag
onally, reaching in a ragged line to Sew
enth street, dwelling every building in it's
path, probably $500 houses. The city is
filed with a crazed mass of people, wildly
seeking their friends. A large force of
men are at work OF the ruins, and about
200 bodies were recovered this morning.
The buildings on Main street from Eighth
to Fourteenth streets are in ruins, none
of the handsome wholesale houses being
left, and all the tobacco warehouses were
swept away. On Market street the Falls
city hall, a four-story building, was
blown down, while several Masonic and
Knights of Honor lodges were in session,
and 2W men and women were buried in
the ruins. Every other house on Market,
Jefferson and Walnut streets from Tenth
to Sixteenth streets, is in ruins. PARK
land, a suburb, is swept away. At the
Union depot, at the foot of Seventh
street, the Chesapeake & Ohio train for
Washington was just starting out, filled
with passengers. The building was pros
trated, crushing in the train. All the
passengers, however, were rescued, ex-
cept n newsboy. Such a desolation
40 city has known in this century.
Every building and telegraph pole in the
district struck, was levelled. A cyclone
was predicted by the signal Office bulle-
tin yesterday afternoon, but no heed was
paid to it's warning. The area devas-
tated is half a mile wide and three miles
long. Outside of the clearly defined
limits the citizens knew only of a heavy
rain accompanied by high wind. Soon
came the alarm of fire from a dozen diff
ferent stations, and the horrors of the
calamity began to dawn upon the people.
Great stone warehouses, halls of amuse-
ment, railroad stations and dwelling
houses all went down before the mighty
powers of the air. The storm soon
passed on, the clouds scattered and the
moo cast it's light..over the sorely strick-
en- city. Relief parties were soon organ
lied, and put to work on the ruins.
Within ten minutes q posse appeared at
the Falls city hall wreck. The walls of
the adjoining houses were first propped
and then began the work of cutting
through the heavy slate roof that Gov
cred all.C Mrs. Sarah Kelly was first un-
earthed. badly injured. Excavating was
then begun in the front of the building
where it was supposed a. greater crowd
was gathered. AS soon as the roofing
and the a of brick beneath was re-
moved, the first sight that met the eye
was anything but hopeful. Ten women
locked in each others arms, we're drawn
out of the debris. Jas. Hassom, who had
been at a 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
concluded to work for the living. Inside
of the next hour -
, SIXTY MEN N WOMEN .
were drawn out dead but with no wounds
on their bodies, and it is thought all met
death from suffocation. The Louisville
hotel between Sixth and Seventh streets
was unroofed and otherwise wrecked,
while the building west, occupied as a
store on the first floor and sleeping rooms
on the second and third, was RACED en-
tirely to the ground, not a single brick
remaining in place. In the destruction
of this house many lives were lost, prin-
cipally of persons who occupied the
sleeping rooms there. Many Of them are
young girls employed at the hotel next
door. Saloons and other available places
have been turned into hastily ~improvised
morgues, where the bodies are taken as
fast rs recovered, and left awaiting iden-
tifcatiOn. At12 O,elock tho onanin0 M