The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-16


are being held in the morgue for iden-
LITIGATION. The list Of
CoLoRED PEOPLE
killed so far as learned up to 10 pm.
is as follows:
James Walker
Mrs. Nora Nicholson and two chill
dren.
Lucy. Ballinger and daughter
Charley Cox, son of Eliza Cox
Mary Lake and three children-Le-
ttia, John and Fatus.
An incomplete list of the wounded
is as follows:
Tom jenkins, wife and FIVE children.
MI. and Mrs. Henry Miller and two
children.
A heavy silver of wood was driven
through the thigh of Granville Jen-
kins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Halsen and
little son. with B. F. Woodward. were
in the cellar at the formers residence
and were covered with debris.
Mr.. and Mrs. Halsell were both pain
fully bruised about the thighs, sup
posed to have been blown through
window
Eliza Cox (coloredD, hurt in the
breast
Harriet Lake Ccolored, cut and
bruised
Ben cephes Ccolored), his wife and
SUI Clarence all nave Kinds bIohSAA
and are in a, precarious condition
Lettie and Lummie Burns are badly
hurt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Brown, badly
bruised. Mrs. Browns arm is broken.
Ike Shearer, son of Rev. Shearer,
who was killed. is badly bruised.
THE GREATEST NUMBER
of fatalities are reported from the
colored settlement along Post, Oak and
Lincoln streets, between Curry ana
Lost streets. where several people
were killed outright. Very few of the
persons in the demolished houses are
able to tell just how the storm burst
upon them, and only in one or two
instances were parties able to get out
of its deadly path.
Mrs. j. P. King and Two children
are seriously injured
Philip Nichols received painful hurts
about the head.
Mrs. John Irvine and four children
are all more or less injured
W. s. Boutwiek, who was in the
same residence, is cut very seriously.
Otto Ballinger, whose family were
all killed. is badly hurt about the
head.
Hester and Mamie Nicholson col
ored). of the family of which six were
killed, are seriously hurt.
Dave Herring and Mrs. D. L. Pierce,
who alone escaped death al their
home, are perhaps fatally hurt.
Mary Patrick (colored) and three
children are all badly hurt.
Matte johnson (colored). head hurt,
and injured internally; Will die.
John and Alice Newhouse (colored)
and four children. badly hurt.
Harriet Hendricks (colored), both
legs broken.
Miss Eva Pierce, daughter of D. L.
Pierce; left leg and right arm broken
MI and Mrs Wright Clark, pain
fully hurt.
The number Of missing is large and
includes great many children, and
it is quite probable that most of them
are dead.
It is quite conservative to estimate
that the list of fatalities will reach
sixty while the injured will reach one
hundred. AT least
FIFTY HOUSES ARE WRECKED.
Most of them are small cottages, ex-
cept in Fairview and Washington ave-
nues. where the handsome residences
of L. F. Ely, Captain ]. D. Saller Mrs
Pat Mattingly and James Falls also
succumbed. The loss will reach at
least $l50000 and but little if any of
il was covered by cyclone insurance.
About the most graphic description
given by any of the injured was that
OF W. S. Bostwick, who said:
Il was at Mr.. John Irvine's house
when l heard the noise Of the APP
preaching storm. Just as looked out
saw Captain Berges' house blown
into the air, and then Mr.. Shearer's
house. The air was filled with great
trees and timbers and every conceiv-
able kind of article. / was fascinated,
petrihed. for l saw that it was coming
directly upon us and that it could not
be long in reaching us. 1t was a black.
serpentire cloud. twisting, writhing in
the center, but at the bottom IL seemed
to be moving steadily. l woke up
from my slumher and called to the
family. who were in the house, and
asked them not to run out. l feared
that We would all be struck by flying
timberS.
THEN CAME AN AWFUL CRASH,
a sense of suffocation, and when it
was over the house was gone and my
self and family were scattered about
the yard and under the debris. 1t
was over in such a short time that 1
cannot give you an idea of how long
ii was"
In just few minutes the police Of
fcers were appealed 10 for shelter for
the dead and wounded. and ambu-
lances and all kinds Of conveyances
were pressed into service. A vacant
store-room on the north side of the
side and the courtroom were trans
ferred into impromptu morgues and
hospitals for the wounded down town,
while every residence left standing in
Fairview is filled with wounded.
The physicians and druggists re-
sponded promptly to the cali for sue
cor and drugs and everything needed
came spontaneously. Hundreds of la
dies responded to the call of humanity
and with a score of physicians were
soon at work Color and caste disap-
peared in the supreme moment of woe
and desola
Thanks to the excellent police ser
wee. the crowds were restrained every
where about the improvised hospitals
and citizens and physicians found their
labor more effective on account of non
interference. The cries Of the injured
were supplemented by the
AGONIzED SHRIEKS
OF those who. passing from corpse to
corpse, al last found some loved one,
perhaps a husband or a. wife or son or
daughter. Mr.. Montgomery's wife and
two or three children are dead. The
children are terribly mangled. One
of them, about five years old, had the
TOP Of her head knocked off Another
child was found dead 500 yards from
the house.
On West Houston street several are
dead A man named Bill Hamilton is
fatally injured Mr.. Cepheus and child
tcoiored) are reported dead. Several
negroes have been picked out of the
creek dead. A young white woman,
unidentified, was found dead 300 yards
south of Ely's residence. Every mo-
r1lend brings new victims 1t is likely