Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-04-03

LOUISVILLE, KY, March S1.-If posi-
bic the throngs of sight-seers were even
larger than the day previous, when the
woeful spectacle was first unfolded tc
the light of day in all its hideousness
/ Early trains brought hundreds of curl
Gus visitors and agents of relief from
neighboring cities and towns to swell
the multitude of those who wended with
a local interest toward the scene, and
/ the guards had much difficulty in main.
/ tanning their lines against the pressure.
All night long the searching parties con-
/ tinUed their labors and the sound of rat
/ Ting wagons rose out of every street.
| Carpenters and timers worked like
beavers the whole day trying to repair
broken roofs and strengthen dangerously
( weakened walls. Gangs of linemen were
getting the tangled and broken wires OF
/ the telephone and telegraph out of the
( way for further repairs. Meanwhile the
/ solemn tolling of church bells, the fire.
/ quent passage of laden hearses and long
/ lines of funeral carriages gave note to
! the hurrying crowd that the tornado's
( victims were
Passing TO Their Last Abode.
Careful estimates by competent under
1 writers and salvage agents are nearly
agreed that the damage to buildings of
all classes, to domestic goods and COM
mercial stocks, will aggregate close to
/ 50, 500, 900. with liberal allowance for
rebuilding and repairs.
The main point of comforting thought
3 IL that tha in-a of lifa will
nearly so great as first supposed. At a
late hour last night ninety-four names
were borne on the list of the dead, and
of those but three were taken from the
ruins during the whole of yesterday.
The Work of Burying the Dead
went on with ghastly, systematic brisk
ness yesterday. All of the hearses in the
city were taxed to their utmost. One
procession contained five hearSes, con-
veying the bodies of the unfortunate
laundry girls, Maggie Mcclure, Mary
Ryan. Bridget Crow, Maggie Campbell
and Mary McGinty, whose funeral ser
vices were held at the Cathedral at the
same time. Humboldt lodge, /. o. o.
F., remained at Cave Hill cemetery dur
ing the afternoon and received, one at a
time, the funeral professions of the ten
Ins mDerS OF tnat fraternity killed at Cne
Falls City hall. The burials, with the
ritual services of the order, occurred at
half hour intervals.
So Urgent Were the Demands
on the undertakes that as a rule but
two hacks were allowed to each funeral
Even with this arrangement the facill-
ties were inadequate, and the electric
street cars via Green street and Baxter
avenue to the cemetery were called into
requistion as more rapid means of
funeral conveyance. Twenty-four fu-
neral professions passed out Broadway
en- route to Cave Hill. The funeral of
Rev. DIR. Barnwell, pastor of st. Johns
Episcopal church. took place at noon.
His son, Dudley Barnwell, was buried at
the same time. The owners of carriages
and hacks raised their charges to $40 per
hour for the use of their vehicles and as
a consequence all the carriages available
in Jeffersonville and New Albany were
brought to this city. Some of the
colored people and the poorer of the un-
fortunate families were forced to use
express and transfer wagons.