Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-03
At THG FALLS CITY
The Effect of the Great Cyclone
Rapidly Disappearing.
Number of Killed Now Known
to Be Seventy-Six.

,mpIete List as Furnished by the Cor
Oner-The Work Of Relief Systematic
ally Proceeding Poor People the
Heaviest Losers In JefTersonville, Ind.
Great Damage Done in Tennessee.
LOUISVILLE, April 3.--The work of re-
pairing the damage done by the cyclone
il pressed forward energetically. Walls
are going up and roofs reappearing on
all sides. The work of clearing the
streets entirely of wreckage was begun
Tuesday.
Relief.
The work of relief rs now proceeding
Systematically. A half-dozen clerks are
kept busy taking the statements of those
in need. another pays out the necessary
sums of money, and still another records
both the name of the applicant and the
amount paid out. 1t is next to impossi-
bic for one family to draw twice and
not be recorded. The name, address,
amount of property destroyed, all are
carefully filed in the blank lines of the
application.
Nothing but absolute need is relieved,
and that only for the present. Only a
few were as large as $50, and they were
for burial expenses. The majority were
So and S. distributions.
Insurance.
1t has been decided by the under
writers that where a building has been
only partially destroyed the fire in
surance will be allowed to stand il
proper repairs are made. When build
ings are totally destroyed the insurance
is Cancelled, but premiums paid in ad-
vance are refunded.
While at work making repairs at the
Falls City tobacco warehouse Monday
night, Ernest O'Leary fell, receiving in
iurie5 which will probably prove fatal,
An examination of the ruined district
shows several buildings which withstood
the greatest violence of the wind.
The "Fort Nelson" building at Eight
and Main was in the very center of the
storm, but suffered little damage. 1t Il
one of the most substantial buildings il
the CITY, its walls of brick and ston'
being unusually thick. Its cornlcinl
and roof were considerably damaged
and big gap made in the top rear wall
| but it suffered little enough to demon
| strate the fact that the strongest build
ing is the safest in great wind storms
and that it is possible to erect structure
that will escape the most furious vista
ton ever known in this country.
In Jeffersonville.
Out of about eighty houses destroyed
by the tornado in Jeffersonville the own
ers of four-fifths of this number are poo
people, whose little homes were thei
only possessions. All the homeless one
have been given shelter by their NOR
fortunate neighbors, but the situation
over there has been much underestl
mated, and it is a mistake to suppos
that no assistance is needed in the littl
city across the river. In the blocks bt
sween Market and Front and Mulberr
nearly every home is ruined, and tn
inmates lost the most of their furniture
Some of them succeeded IN savm
only the clothing they wore upon thel
backs. Since the terrible accident OF
CURED Daniel Phipps has fed and give
shelter to thirteen families. John Fee
guson, grocer, has provided for
equal number.
A meeting of the Commercial clu
was held al the city hall Monday nigh
and speeches favoring the asking ft
outside assistance were made. Thus IL
subscriptions to the amount OF onl
about $3.50 have been sent in.