The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-03-30

RELIEVING SUFFERERS
Financial Assistance Offered on All
Sides = Reports of Disaster
and Death From Other
Places.

confusion, and men are digging at the |
base Of them hunting for the dead. In |
,.ll 81 bodies have been taken out, tho last |
being that of G. Lazarus, N small shop |
keeper nj 1136 West Market street, next |
door 10 the Falls City hall. He was in at |
tendance upon a lodge meeting. The |
body was manglcd almost beyond recog-
milton and taken TO u temporary morgue
established in barber shop across
the street. At Planters warehouse the
body of Ed Moran, a foundryman In Dem
mis- Longs iron pipe works, was discov-
cred wcdgcd between the beams and
hocshcads Of tobacco. The remains were
taken to his home on Twelfth street,
near Main, where his wife and
four little ones have been kept
i'm anguished suspense. When the
corpse was brought in the woman
sank almost faint!ng into a chair. cover
ing her face with her hands, while two of
the smallest children clung to her skirts
wailing i'm sympathy, and two older ones
stood by daxed with sorrow. The family
will be in want. This IL only one case out
of several dozen similar ones, but the citi-
zens are coming bravely with subscrip-
tions, all needs being promptly met for
the present. There is about 100000 life
insurance on those killed, upon laborers
and middle classes Of people In small 10
cent companies and Knights of Honor.
About 5000 I'm the Knights OF Labor will
be promptly paid by an assessment 81
cents upon the members remaining. Fifty
thousand dollars in the 10 cents a week
companies may break these companies,
realizing only small part to the holders
OF policies. The fire insurance is $4,000
and the cyclone insurance only 5000.
held by two liquor dealers. Their joint
losses are 5000.
Plate glass insurance Is 5000 at Falls
City hall. When the hurricane struck II
i'm the main hall was Miss App with her
dancing school 10 the number OF t5. OF
whom not more than 20 escaped. These
were children with their mothers and
fathers.
In one room on the second floor the ex-
o,utivo committee Of the RomanlK nights,
consisting of seven members, was In ses-
sion. Theodore Engclmier, upholsterer
at Twenty-thirl and Market streets, was
killed.
Jewel lodge, No. 9, knights and Ladies'
of Honor, was in session on the third
fioor. Nearly one hundred and fifty were
present when the building fell. OF these
Il is Thought that not moro than fifty es-
capped.
Odd Fellows. consisting of II members,
was holding meeting on the same floor.
Those who escaped are badly injured.
Ii is now pretty near certain that the
entire loss Of life will not go much above
100. IL that number is reached.
Up to this writing the total number of
whose bodies have been recovered and
missing who II is reasonably certain are
dead is NJ. In addition there are about u
dozen who are so badly injured that death
may ensue.
From 40 TO 200 persons are injured to
an extent worth noticing. Probably from
500 to 1000 have very slight bruises or
scratchess -
A good many of the estimates of dam
| age TO property have been too high. TIE
actual loss from financial standpoint
will not be so great rs supposed al first.
| The tobacco warehouses are not hurt to
| the extent stated. Nearly all Of those
demolished were old buildings and com
parativcly small. The river Is strcwn
with floating debris from the storm from
| Tenth street TO the water works, and
hundreds Of skiffs are plying collecting
day the foam crested waves rolled eight
| feet high and vessels were iu great dam
| ger, but through the alertness of their
masters none suffered much. Several
coal barges sunk at different points.
A thrilling scene occurred at the st.
vile, where Rev. X. II. Ger m0 was hold
ing services. The building, a handsome
brick, swayed and rocked, and the west
wall began To bulge inwardly under the
terrific pressure of the wind. The roof
blew of with n loud report. Women
screamed, and one lady. Miss Caroline
Rueple, tainted, but Rev. GcrsInan re.
manned cool and led his flock safely to
the parsonage, where all remained until
| the danger was over.
Jeifersonville while not officially seek
| ing assistance can lind many places w,iurs
aid will bc of the utmost Importance
Many are rendered homeless and pcnni
less. Some are thrown from comfort q
poverty. but the people are not discour
aged. They have gone to work and thi.
morning timers and masons were at worl
| on numerous house-tops. The damage IN
houses, furniture, ETC., IL large. Not lest
| than two hundred houses were wrecked.
Tonight L. Is believed that the estimate
Of the dead aud injured at Falls City hal
have been over-marked and that the tota
number in the building when IL crashed
in was not half as great as the firs
guesses placed Il. Mrs. Mary Holscber
| who was in attendance at the meeting oi
the knights and Ladies OF Honor ON th,
top floor, says that instead of there being
800 up there, there were about q;
dancing school on the floor below was
also smaller than at first reported. Sh,
says the first intimation they had OF wha
was coming was n binding flash Of light
ming and n gust of wind which shook tho
buildings. People become frightened ana
were preparing TO leave the building. bu
before they could ge, their wraps the win
dows were blown In, the gas went out ant
moment later the floor cavcd undel
their feet. Mrs. Holscher became uncoD
scious and knew no more until the r,'s
cuers took her out from the debris.
The executive committee ~ the rclie
fund has received large number of al
ditional subscriptions, and all cases o
destitution whep immediate action i
necessary have been cared for. 1o-mor
row a thorough system will be put IL
operation by which everybody who need
aid will be given relief. Wherever house
are not too badly damaged repairs vii
| be made az once. The nnount Of The fun.