Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-03-29

troll the blaze. The buildings s6jacen
we're eonsiiefsbiy torn up, snd it 10 auitl
certain that several persons lay dead BE-
meath the ruins. Several meo we're ini AIRED
N the Qasen's ware store Of Charles Rosen-
helm { Co.'S A large number Of stores
lost their roofs.
The Board Of Ttude msss upesins VA
held this morning. cd sathcrisss the stare-
mens that thefs
WIN b 10 Call Tor A.
from outside. Property los sstimated .,
from $500 900 to oI 900 600. The death
will number $50. The voFk Of rescuina
the mangled dead goes brsvely on. hun
dred ANXIOUS men worked - they never
worked before for bodies buried in the
shspeless mass Of brick and mortar that
covered the site Of Falls City Hall. A
surgins crowd Of 10 900 people block the
streets for squares about the scene. The
bodies Of Is men, 8 someo. and one year
old girl taken from the debsis. and identi-
fed. most Of them claimed by relatives.
Market street this evening looks like .
ruined village. The devastation on this
thoroughfare is nearly complete. No. 434
Market street smashed to splinters BY the
falling Of No. 436. The immense iro1
foundery of Aiasiee, Cochran + Company.
completely rszed to the ground. the rear
vail alone standing.
The storm sss4ed 70 only have swept
Broadway from 18th to 30, and nearly all
the houses between these streets and on
intersecting streets we're demolished. Most
Of the cottages and low frame saildings
escaped serious injury. From llth to 10th
we're mostly email frame houses. occupied
by colored families. Roots were torn OF,
but not great amount Of damage vas
done. None Of the occupants were hurt.
From 10Th to 18th the destruction was ter
rible. Peter Speth and family. Who live At
No 1908, were quietly seated in their par
lor when the storm burst. The building
swsyed, tottered, and finally the walls Of
sounding crash. All Of the family re-
mained huddled in the hallway and escaped
injury. The furniture and building were
total loss about % 800
The residence of Mrs Welsh. No. 1918,
was literally demolished. The members
Of the family escaped Loss about s5 900.
Mrs. John Brown lived At No. 1917. She
caught by falling timbers and pinioned
10 the ground, but her husband exsricated
her and she was no. seriously Injured. Her
home 10 mass Of ruin. At No. 1919.
Mrs. Shultz's fine two story brick building |
vas levelled and all it contains 10 . total
oss. The members of the family ran out |
= hen they heard the crash, barely saving |
heir lives. The Catholic buildings on 18th |
'treet and Broadway, Sisters Home, par
,chial school. Father .Disney's residence
md Sacred Heart church were all blown |
iown. Sister Plus was buried in the ruins |
md killed. All the other sisters escaped |
injury.
rhs City in Gloom and tho Citixsns In |
Grief.
The city 10 enshrouded in deepest gloom
.onight. Electric wires are down and few |
ghts shine in the devssted section. The
,treets are thronged With multitudes Of |
people. At leasta hundred families are
homeless. One poor woman told how that |
very evening her husband paid the building |
association the last dollar they owed on
he house, now all that RENAME 10 a con |
fused mass of brick and mortar. Many other
cases are almost parallel to this. Hundreds
Of thousands of dollars worth Of goods lay |
ast night upon the business streets at the |
mercy of thieves. 1t now seems slmost |
m possible to fn storehouses for this vast |
amount of merchandise.
At many places towering walls Of brick |
Dscillis,ing in the air seemed ready to
descend at any moment. Points Of danger |
were guarded by police and military COM
psny, who drove the surging crowds back
At the point Of the bayonet.
At the entrance Of the various "dead
rooms" stand mob IGNORING for admit
lance, but invariably refused unless to
Identify some relative or friend. Coroner
Miller has ordered no body to be inferred
until viewed BY him.
The telephone wires are all down. The
search for victims>is going steadily on. In
many places men labor in great danger of
being buried beneath tottering walls.
From 7th and the river, as tar as can be
seen, one continuous desolaiion meets the
eye, and bex ildrrs thousands of specta- |
tors At the corner of l6,h and Magazine
streets, three men, caught in the falling
imbers Of a two story grocery and the bar
room of Nick Phienemsn, were burned en-
tireiy to black and charred mass. Seven
people were in the house at the time, and
Nick Phieneman alone escaped with his
life, being badly burned aud bruised.