Evening journal., 1890-03-29
she DIed in His Arms.


locked in each others arms were taken from
The debris.
she Died in His Arms.
Mr.. James Hasson, whose wife had at
tended the lodge meeting, was foremos
among the searchers, and the first person he
drew out Of the ruins was his wife, who diet
in his arms. He laid her by the side OF tht
other dead and continued his senrch for th,
living. Thirty men and women were taker
out dead in the next hour, but no woundi
We're found on their bodies, and it Is believed
all were sufFocated The gas pipes had beer
broken, causing the lights to 20 out and saw
ing the ruins from fire for the time, but flll
ing the debris with the deadly vapor. The
breast of the ruins was pierced and the dead
and dying taken out One part Of the build
ing was reserved for the dead, aud the
wounded were taken into the stores and
houses on the opposite side Of the street.
where physicians and priests did what they
could TO alleviate their sufferings.
Not a Single Building Standing.
Not a single building was left standing IL
the path of the storm on Main street from
Seventh TO Eleventh streets. Occasionally
massive iron or stone front still stood in.
tact, while the entire structure proper had
been swept away. The tobacco market, on
which the city prided itself, lay in the path
Of the storm, and the warehouses almost tc
the last one are in ruins. Among those de.
stroyed are the Kentucky, Pickett's, Ninth
Street, Falls City, Phoenix, Green River,
Louisville, Enterprise, Central and Plant
ers. The destruction Of the Louisville and
Ninth Street warehouses could not have
been more complete. Thousands Of hogs.
heads of tobacco lay Ia the mass Of debris.
Fire Adds 10 the Horror.
at IL o'clock the opening up Of . portion
Of the debris Of Falls City hall caused q
draught 70 penetrate the ruins, whereupor
the smoldering fire broke out with tremen
dous fierceness. 1t spread rapidly ani
forced the workers to desert the pile. a
soon as the fire gninod headway the groan
Of the imprisoned people became shrieks
and 50 great was the horror Of the m0men
thnt the watchers were frantic and screame,
and ran about like wild, the terrible suffer
ings which they We're unable 70 alleviate
driving them to despair.
Several lines Of hose were soon throwing
water on the flames, but IL was more thar
an hour before the work could be proceeded
with, and then il was carried on with mucl
more difficulty than before ON account 81
the heat. Up TO " O'clock only thirty
dead bodies and twenty-five wounded anC
| dying had been taken from the wreck
His Wife and Children were There.
| At about 1 $50 o'clock tho room where tn,
children were dancing was reached. Mr.
| Louis Simms, of J., ia Market street, had foi
hours been moving about in an agony ol
/ grief in front Of that portion OF the wreck
where this room had been, for his wife ant
| four little children were there When the
| room was reached Mrs. Simms was the first
ono found, and she was fatally hurt. Ther
within ten minutes of each other three Of Tho
/ Simms children were recovered. They wert
| unconscious, and there Is only faint posi-
/ bility that they will live While the father
was imploring the workers to get his other
child fire broke out and work was suspend
| ed. The last man taken out alive before tn,
flames started was John Hepden, Of 2, 10.
West Broadway.
Two Hundred stiu Buried.
Mrs Whitman, wife Of Policeman Whit
man, jumped from the third story Of TIE
hall. She was terribly injured and will
hardly live. There are 200 OF more pe0pl,
yet in the debris, and the probabilities ar,
that few, if any moro, will be recovered
alive. or those taken out dead only a small
number were identified. Everything il
choas. There is no system, and under the
circumstances none could be expected The
store and residence Of Isaac Slaughter, ,O0s
Market, was totally demolished in the rear.
-Four children who were sleeping upstairs
were protected from the falling wall by th,
head Of their bed Mrs. Slaughter, whe
was sleeping in the front room, was lifted
from her bed and blown out of the window
into the street. One arm was broken, and
some internal injuries are feared. The fou,
story brick building Of NJ. J. Doyle was left
a complete wreck All the other building.
on the square on both sides of the street
were unroofed, and most Of the upper stories
utterly gone Even after the force Of tn,
wind had been broken the remnants lifted I
street car from the track and blew it iifteer
feet An the force Of the cyclone seemed
conferred on Falls City hall.