Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-03

| story brick building. 1t was leveled
| and together with all it contained, is al
| actual loss.
The Catholic buildings on Seventeenth
and Broadway, the sisters home
parochial, Father Derni's residence ano
the Sacred Heart church were all blown
down, and Sister Plus was buried
Shortly after, when taken out by rescu-
ing parties, she was dead. All of the
other sisters, however, escaped without
injury.
Maj Gault, of the Louisville and
Nashville, and his family, who lived in q
| tWo-story brick house, were sitting in an
| upstairs room, when the building began
| rocking. Still they apprehended no dan
| ger, and did not become really alarmed
| until the walls fell in upon them 4.
| Maj. Gault succeeded in getting out
| without injury to himself, and then no
| ticlng that his wife was not with him he
hurried back into the ruins to look for
her. The unfortunate lady was found
| buried in pile of bricks. By superhu-
man effort her husband succeeded in eX
| Treating her, and her uncOns ciOus form
was carried to a neighbOring dwelling
| thai had escaped the general
| destruction, where she was soon
| resuscitated. A physician was sent
! showed she was not badly hurt.
SCENES AS NIGHT APPROACHES.
AS night closes in It's fold the devas-
tated city of Louisville hundreds of
| widows and orphans are bowed down
with the weight of deepest grief.
Wreck and ruin have settled down in
its very midst, and spectators of the
dead whose funeral pyres are heaps of
bricks and mortar seem to rise uD and
enshrOud in awful halo of their presence
the entire city. Bands of brave rescueTs
continue their work, but as night comes
on they seem to work more silently
though no less arduously, and take on
the gruesome appearance of Shouls. AS
each remnant of piles of wreckage is
lifted it is with anticipation of uncover
ing to view the lifeless form or death
set features of q human victim of that
awful storm. Perhaps a wTiggling mem
Der of a buried man may start searchers
and cause them to
DRAW PACK AGHAST
for a moment, but with braced nerves,
which are almost drawn to tensions of
steel, they continue their labor, and
tenderly lift the unfortunate and carry
him to an ambulance only to see him eX-
pire in the arms of q wife. mother or
friend.
The Importance of such scenes ever
whisper sounds so louu that the ut
terer hesitates, and half expects TO see
the dead aroused from his eternal sleep.
But there is no time to consider the dead.
for the living may yet be buried beneath
its mountains Of debris, and with sad
look at the departing "dead wagon
they then turn and delve again with re-
newed energy into the great mass in
search of crushed and mangled human
ity.
AS the night grows darker its work be-
comes awful. Even the advantage of
light and its fear-dlspeIling qualities are
denied them, for all electric wires were
torn down by the storm and left the CITY
to be
ENsHROUDED IN DEEPEST GLOOM.
1t grows so dark in the shadows of the
orumbling walls that still stand as silent
sentinels over the dead that every object
with semblance OF human form must be
grasped to prove its flesh or stone. Still
the untiring and strong hearted workers
continue to dig. There is no estimating
the number of those who lie buried III
who the missing members of their fami- |
lies are, and mothers and fathers stand |
wildly on the ruins and call on the AL |
mighty to deliver them at least their |
dead. Hardened hearts move with deep |
sympathy, and idle men throw aside !
their coats and dive into the dirt and |
CRIME like veritable gophers. The |
streets are thronged with multitudes of |
sorrowlng people. They stand upon |
corners with tear-dimmed eyes, SOL
EMMY discussing the dreadful catas-
trophe, or move from one point of wreck |
to another, gazing at the scenes of ruin. |
There are at least 900 families home
less in the streets that were happy yes
terday in the single possession of their
homes.
THRILLING EXPERIENCE
Was that of Mrs. Mary Roellell, who |
kept a dry goods store at Colgan and
Seventeenth streets. Her house was q
new brick. At the time of the storm
heE nephew, Willie KiIlmir, was with
her when the walls began TO shake and
threaten to fall and both OF them were
nearly frightened to death. Without
pausing to think, they rushed to the
front door just as the wbirlwind was
passing. 1t gathered them up and car
ried them IN TO the air a distance of
forty feet. At Maple they were
both hurled against fence and
there unconscious until they
were found by the neighboE5 a few mo-
nents later. DR.. Anderson was sum-
moned to attend them. He found that
the lady was badly bruised and perhaps
internally injured. Kfllmir s. right arm
was broken at the wrist, his ankle was
'prained and there was deep cash in
his throat. No vital was touched though,
and he will recover.
The house was destroyed and not
hing will be saved.
ST. LOUIS OFFERS AID.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March 2S.-On learn
ng the extent Of the calamity at Louis
yille. KY. Mayor Noonan OF this city to-
lay wired the mayor OF Louisville ex-
ending the city's sympathies aud prof
'erIng substantial aid if needed.
LIBERAL ACTOR.
Richard Mansfield, the tragedian show
ng here who is booked for an engagement
or the week, has wired Henry Waiter
on OF the Courier-J Journal Offering to
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