Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-12
LIST OF DEAD REACHES FIFTY.
Later Reports Add to the Terror of the
Awful Scene.


| II looks as though fifty persons have
been killed and the death list is grow.
| ing hourly Hundreds of persons have
been injured, some fatally and others
not so badly. Many fine residences
were razed to the ground.
The tornado. after passing through
| the residence district. did its worst
work In that portion of the business
districts in which the older buildings
are located, and the totals of damage
do not amount up very rapidly, al
| tn Ugh many buildings were partly or
wholly ruined. For this reason it is
probable that $500, 900 will cover the loss
| of buildings arid contents. including the
new $4,000 High school building. which
was directly in the path of the storm
and was badly wrecked.
The debris of many of the buildings
| in the lodging house district caught fire
and those unfortunates who We're not
at once extricated alive, persisted mis-
erably by being burned or smothered
to death.
Many people in the outside districts
were killed In the crash of the falling
residences All nurses and doctors
that can he pressed into service are be-
| ing utilized and there are scores of
temporary hospitals through the city
| in addition to the regular hospitals,
where the injured are being taken.
| The morgue is taxed to its utmost ca
pacity and additional bodies are being
brought in every few minutes. Alto
gether. the scene at the place Is sick
enipg and horrible. ..-..-.,-,.-.....-.
RAIN FOLLOWED WIND AND FIRE
A heavy rain followed the terrible
tornado and 1t was probably twenty
minutes before all the city awoke to
the fact that 1t had been visited by a
| calamity. The fire department was
called out and in less than thirty min
utes from tie arrival of the tornado,
| the streets We're crowded with people
and willing hands were ready to rem
der all the aid that the emergency re-
quired. Men and women clad in their
night clothes, from the neighboring
houses, were seeking shelter and call
ing for absent members Of the family
| or friends who failed to escape from
the wreck of the buildings in which
they had been living. Men. women
and children sought refuge in OKeefe's
saloon and We're afforded shelter. In
the back part of the saloon n number
of injured were stretched on the floor
with only their night clothes to pro-
tect them from the chilly midnight
air.
Miss Wood. one of the nurses of
the st. John hospital, did all that could
be done to relieve the immediate
wants of the injured in Mr.. O'Keefe's
saloon. The drug stores were crowded
and the clerks were kept busy filling
| prescriptions and otherwise doing
their share towards relieving the suf-
ferers
The telephone wires were nearly
all down and 1t was impossible to
communicate with any distant point
in the outskirts of the city. The
streets We're so filled with the debris
that 1t was difficult for carriages to
get around
AN APPALLING SCENE.
r1.. L.,
palling and destructive ever wit
messed In the history of the city and Is
without Il parallel In this section of
the Southwest
The following lisa partial list of the
dead and injured:
Dead-George Carter, Edward Far
rell. Irene Farrell Roy Farrell. Frank
Richardson. George Lowell, - Muir
dock unknown woman, Mrs. Shehan's
baby, j. j. Riley. John Marsten. un-
Known man, unknown woman.
Ritter, Louis Ingel. John Bolt, two
unknown negroes, Mrs. Burgess, Mrs.
WIN Lawson.
in1ured-Mrs. Braden, arm broken
d. l.. Grimes, collar bone broken
- Martin, chin fractured and side
WIN Lawson, back injured; Bell Har-
din. chest mashed; Tony Eberhardt,
his bruised; +. l.. Hubbell, back hurt
H. II. Crownholder, back injured; a.
r. Stafford. back injured; - Ash
worth, chest crushed; DIR. Cate. both
arms broken: Mrs. Cate, badly
mashed; Mrs. Gates mother,
seriously crushed: Minnie Bur
CESS, spine injured, Mrs Ed.
Terrell, injured about chest, Mrs,
Hugh Rogers badly bruised about
body Mr.. and Mrs. Ritter, caught UNI
ler, falling walls; Mrs. +. II. Brown,
body crashed.
Mssng-J. l.. Clayland and wife,
Miss Lawson.