The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-13

path News from outside points is not yet
at hand, but rumors of much damage as far
south as Alma have reached here. it being
reported that a number of persons were
killed near that place
The tornado struck Garrison avenue at
the corner of Ninth street and made a clean
sweep from there TO the Texas corner Isaac
Isaacscns store was demolished and the
stock is n total loss. Babcock's grocery
store had the rear end blown out. The fol-
lowing stores were demolished Fleming
Bros, coffee and tea; Hartsfeld's restau-
rant: Smiths grocery store; Martins Sec
ond-hand store; j. Mancer, dry goods;
Mann & Wilson, groceries; city feed store.
Those badly damaged are: J. W. Patrick's
shoe store; Boyd Bros, -four and feed;
Thomas Calderera, fruits; Racket's dry
goods store; Frank Bollinger, liquors
O'Shea & Hirsh, groceries; Z. L. Payne,
drugs; A. & j. Grier, groceries; j. K. Jones,
liquors; Thomas Hocott, groceries; Benno
Stein, dry goods; Thompson's secondhand
store; J. p. Maledon groceries; Kelly's
meat market; T. l.. Beard, groceries; Pat
O'Keefe, liquors.
The upper floor Of the block on the corner
of Garrison and Towsou avenue is used as a
fat. The ruins caught fire from the night
ruins, two OF them being so badly burned
they could scarcely be identified Burgess
Hotel, a three-story brick on Towsou av-
enue. was demolished. There have been
eight bodies already taken frcm the ruins.
Rescue parties are still at work at both
places and expect to find several more
bodies.
MANY VISITORS IN TOWN.
The Federal Court Is in session, and that
brought a great many farmers here who
crowded the cheaper boarding houses and
wagon yards The National House. a two
story frame, went down in wreckage with
fifteen inmates, but all escaped without
serious injury. George Carriers house was
ole Of lie first struck, and it was turned
completely over and is now supported on
the roof. A half pare of glass was driven
through Carriers body, almost severing his
head from the trunk Pagan Fourland's
store, on South Sixth street, was unroofed,
and NJ. w. Burke's foundry was demolished.
The beautiful National Cemetery is a
wreck The huge trees are uprooted. the
lodge demolished and the wall torn down.
Fort Smiths fifty-thousand-dollar High
School building the finest of its kind in
the Southwest, was badly wrecked, but was
one of the few buildings on which there
was any tornado Insurance.
The tornado destroyed two historic build
ings. Judge Parkers residence is badly
wrecked and the old Rector mansion, where
Albert Pike passed his days, is a pile of
ashes, the ruins having caught fire from a
lamp. The First Baptist Church and the
Central Methodist Church were RACED to the
ground and now are only a scattered pile of
kindhng wood. The Church of the Immacu-
late Conception and Brownscomb Memorial
Church lest their spires and suffered other
damage.
Tonight it is thought all the persons in
,the storm-wrecked buildings have been ac-
counted for. The citizens relief committee
has $4,000 in hand for assisting sufferers.
President Robinson, of the Frisco Railroad
unsolicited, sent his check for $1,000 The
Missouri Pacific Railroad also contributed
$1,000. Business is practically abandoned
all over the city and men of all classes are
assisting in clearing the debris.