The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-06-01
crushed to death
IDA JONES, a waitress,
beneath a fallen wall.
Eatally -ouodad.

IDA JONES, a waitress, crushed to death
beneath fallen wall.
Fatally wounded:
CHARLES ADAMsoN. unmarried.
Mrs. Capt MAHAN, badly crushed.
Mrs J. 7. HANNA, crushed.
Mrs. MURPHY, skull fractured.
CHARLES SToNER, Santa Fe conductor.
LITTLE MAGGIE KING. daughter OF the late
]. n. King, wounded.
ED FoRsYTHE, a printer, bones fractured
and internal in juries.
SYLVIA FoRsYTHE, printer, skull fractured.
WALTER + FoRsYTHE, a printer. internal In
juries.
EB-Sherif THRALLs child, internal In
juries.
Mrs ROBERT MILLARD. internal injuries.
JAMES MILLER, republican candidate Tor
attorney-genera. leg and arm broken
Lieut.. WILLIAM FRENCH.
Cadet SIMMONS OF the salvation army.
MATTE HODGES.
GUY Colby.
DICK WEAVER.
CARRIE MITCHELL.
f. j. FoRsYTHR.
Prof Mayer and Hart Upson are miss
ing and between forty and fifty more are
injured, but none seriously. The greater
portion OF the city was completely de-
vastated and the entireS community, con-
slsting OF between 1000. and 5000 people,
were thrown into statf OF CONSERVATION,
and dread and fear actuated all. The
shouts OF the rescueEs mingled with
the cries of the suffering, while
those unhurt dashed from their homes
but partially dressed. The wind fin
ally subsided, and in brief time every
available man in the city was engaged in
the work of rescue, conducted under the
leadershipsof George Whittier. president of
the council. Order was soon brought out
OF chaos.
Work of the Storm.
The storm came in a manner that no
two can agree in describing. Some say it
came in twisted shape, while others say
1t did not have the characteristic funnel
shape of tornado, while still others say
that it simply descended in the shape of
storm cloud. The appearance of things
this morning, however, leaves no doubt
but that it was twister, and a genuine
twister at that, for trees have been torn
from their roots and houses were turned
right about face.
The Lutheran church, a massive frame
building, one OF the most substantial of
its kind in the city, was taken up, turned
completely over, and now stands with the
floor upward as solid apparently as ii it
had been built In that way. 1t is not
small building either, for it had a seating
capacity of 700 people.
The old court house, solid two-story
| stone structure, was completely demol-
ished and reduced 10 gravel and splinters.
with the exception OF one lit
tie frame Office that a pair
of donkevs could draw from its founda-
tions; and that was left standing intact by
the side of the ruins of an old court house.
Its stately neighbor OF yesterday, the pres
byterlan church, a very nice and sub
stantial frame edifce with seating ca
pacitv OF ZOO. was reduced to the merest
splinters. The frame parsonage beside it
was comparatively unhurt. The SDincknel
block on the north of Washington-ave.,
which is the main street of the city, was
yesterday an imposing row of six brick
buildings. Today it Is q pile of little
splinters, pieces of brick and pulverized
glass and mortar. Tive .ewspaper offices,
reasonably large plants, the Monitor Press
and Voice, were in this building, and moth
ing is left OF them but the pied type and
broken machinery beneath the ruins.
| The beautiful Standard block of yester-
day is today wreck and ruin. 1t would
| not have more holes in it if twenty pieces
OF artillery had been playing on it for the
past twenty-fonr hours. 1t was a beauti-
full block. consisting OF about six six-story
| brick buildings built about five years
ago. In this block the Wellington Daily
| MdI and Sumner County Standard
were published. These two plants were
worth not less than 5000, 900 Yesterday.
Today they are apparently not worth 200
cents. The postoffice was also located in
this block, next to the Standard office.
On the opposite corner of the street was
thriving foundry and stove works. Itwas
wholly demolished Ali these ruins are
on the north eide of Z. Harvey
ave. and they are terri
BILE sight to behold. 1t is
ton-ave. Every house on each side of the
street is uprooted, the back walls are out
of the most of them, and brigade of
soldiers, each armed with a gun loaded
with buckshot, could not have broken the
glass OF every window in this entire block
more effectively than the storm did. The
splendid opera house is practically in
ruins, the Phillips house across the street
from it is completely wrecked, as if
thousand men with axes had
been hacking for week. The
house was death-trap, and
it is expected that before night it's
ruins will have yielded half-doZen
bodies. The beautiful Cole & Robinson
brick block, one of the rooms of which
was occupied by the Alliance mercantile
exchange, is also q complete wreck.
In the collapse this building caught fire
and two inmates, Mrs. Sasher and her
sister. Miss Strand, were literally roasted
alive there. The episcopal church is in
splinters, while a very small frame house
near ii survived the devastation without
a acratch