Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-03

the two-story brick residence OF Mayor
Keepers was struck by the wind. The
| heavy tin roof was rolled up like piece
of paper and carried a long distance.
Mrs. Keepers was i'll with pneumonia :,
| and no sooner had the roof been blown
off than her husband and another man
picked up the bed upon which she was
! lying, to carry her to a place of safety.
The work was not too quickly begun.
/. No sooner had they reached the yard
with their burden than the full force of
the wind struck the roof and the building
| and swept it
DOWN LIKE SHELL.
| A number Of houses were blown down :,
but the inmates were all up and had time
to escape. frame schoolhouse was
| lifted from its foundation and moved
| several feet and utterly destroyed.
The track OF the storm in Falkland wal
about three blocks wide, but in such
| zigzag manner that 1t is almost impossI-
bic to measure the exact track. To the
west of town, from the direction in
which the monster had approached,
path several hundred yards WIDE is moved
down, trees being cut off like stalks of
grain before the reaper's scYthe.
JEFFERsoNvILLE WAS STRUCK
by the cyclone at o clock. 1t was very
distinctly heard two miles in the country,
where people wondered what it meant.
Fortunately not person was killed in
} effersOnville, though some were badly
hurt.
PROPERTY LOssEs-MORE DEAD.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March 28.-The
lowest estimate puts the actual property
loss at 81 900 900, the highest at So, OOO,-
600 and grounded on the facts presented
we place it at 81, 500, 900. There is al
most no insurance.
Following are additional known to be
dead: Peter Fuller, married, ffty-four
years OF age, carpenter, resides at 5l2
Sixteenth street, body recovered; Thorn
as 81. Puff, married, thirty-six years of
age, punchman at B. F. Avery 4 Son 9
pillow factory, residence 1922 Columbia
street, body recovered; Leopold Falken-
stein, single, twenty-five years of age,
employe of George Jones, quarryman,
body still in the ruins of the Falls
City hall; Mrs. SteiGer, wife
of Alonzo Steider, butcher at 3IO3 Port
land avenue, died at home from the
shock and injuries received at the Falls
city hall. She wac q sister 10 Miss
Emma HOstetter, whose dead body was
recovered tonight.
One unknown, stout, bald headed
man of about thlrty-fiye or forty years
of age, head split in twain; VIM. Sabrio,
sailor, single, twenty four years of age,
killed by crushing in of family residence
81 Chapel street.
HORRIBLE CREMATION.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March 2S.-At the !
corner of Sixteenth and Magazine streets |
a most horrible cremation of the bodies |
of three men occurred. These men were |
caught in the falling timbers of the two |
story grocery and barroom of Nick |
Phineman and burned entirely to |
blsckened and charred mass. They wers |
Bud Sullivan, William Deemer and Ben |
Schlldt, the first two laborers and the |
latter an undertaken. Seven people were |
in the house at the time, and Nick |
Phineman, the owner, escaped with his /
life alone, being badly burned and
bruised. To a Times reporter Mr..
Phineman told the following story:
81 was standing at the bar at the back
OF the store and was talking to three
men who are now dead and two other
men. About $3.50 O'Clock we heard q
terrible roar and tearing sound and then
the house rocked back and forth. Ben |
Schildt had just said he was going |
home, but he had scarcely said it when |
the door was blown to and we were |
caught. 1 tried to open it, but could
not. My wife and children screamed but
ran safely out the back way, but they
had scarcely gone out before that part
of the house was gone. We tried the
but just then
BEAUTIFUL DAY.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March %. - The
" leather to-day is clear AMI the tenn
perature is spring-like. The work of
bodies buried under the de-
bris of Thursday nights tornado goes
bravely on with larger forces. A pref
tier, brighter day could hardly be i'm
agined, and 1t seems scarcely in keeping
with the sad scenes being witnessed in
the center of the tornado's track on
Market and Main streets, as the remains
Of the unfortunate victims are brought to
view from time to time. The fine
weather, however, is very favorable for
the work of clearing up the debris and
of valuable goods in the tobacco
and mercantile district to safe shelter
from the elements.
TO-day's developments will in ali |
probability disclose the full extent of the
terrible affection visited upon the city.
SCENES OF DEsoLATIoN.
Frank Raoul lay in pine box dread
fully mangled. He had been killed
while standing in Ikeburg's saloon on
Main street.
The body of Frank Hoy was also lying
here.
One of the most desolate looking SEQ
ions of the devastated district is Chapel
treet, a narrow thoroughfare one block in {
ength, extending rom Main to Market {
treets between Tenth and Eleventh. |
Sot a house fronting on it but what was
orn to fragments, and the debris lines
10Th sides so that there is scarcely room
o pass through the center of the street. !
The damage, however, is mostly confined
o portions OF homes and most of the
ouses above the first story. Strange as
may seem, Notwithstanding the terrific G
Orca of the wind and the air hang 6iiad 1 Q