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Show SrucTn blow. cnes 1" Louisville After tho J.cslruc tivc Tomwlo-Clennng Away the Wreckage. AN ESTIMATE OP THE KILLED. Th, Hnmber is About 150-There Were 100 Persons Injured-There Have Been 88 Dead Bodies Recovered. Lousviixe. March 29.-Temporary roofs are being put on wherever possible pos-sible Hundreds of hogsheads of ex nosed tobacco are being carted to the Souses. In spite of all effort,, however, several thousand hogsheads remain re-main unprotected on the second, third and fourth floors. There will be considerable consid-erable danger in reaching these, as they Beem ready to topple over into the street. .... t j The stroets in districts the worst darned darn-ed are still picketed. Elsewhere wagons wag-ons and all but mere sight seers are allowed al-lowed to pass. Hundreds of men are busy trying to cave goods. Many of those employed in tho wreckage are paid by the board of trade committee. Whenever help is desired de-sired it is given. At Falls City all the men under the direction of the chief of nnlice are still at work. On the site of the ruined hall nre mounds of brick mortnr, benms, luth and wild confusion, and mon are digging nt the base of them. HUNTING FOR THE DEAD. In all sixty-seven bodies have been taken out. The Inst is thnt of C. Lnznrus, a small shop-koopor at 1130 West market etroet, next door to Falls' city hall. He wns in attendance upon n lodge meeting. The body was mnngled nlmost beyond recognition. It was taken to the tem-jiorary tem-jiorary morgue, established in a barber shop across the street. 4.t the Planters' warehouse tho body of Ed. Moran, a foundry man in Dennis Long's Iron pipe works, wns discovered wedged between beams nnd logsheds of tobacco. The remains were taken to his homo on Twelfth street, nenr mnin, whero his wife and four little ones hnvo been kept in anguished suspense When the corps was brought iu the woman nank, almost fainting into a chair, covering cover-ing her face with her hands, while the two smallest children clung to the chair waiting in sympathy, and the two older became frantic with grief. Up to early this morning eighty-six bodies had been taken from Falls City hall and the cellar at Eigthteenth street and Magazine street. The general belief be-lief is that nt least forty more bodies nre in the dancing hall ruins. THE NUMBER OF DEAD. The latest and most intelligent estimate esti-mate of the number dead throughout tho city will not exceed 150. This is n careful nnd fairly nccurate estimate. The Masonic committee wired the following fol-lowing to Leander Burdick, grand mas-ler, mas-ler, nt Toledo Ohio: "From what we enn gather there nre nbout 400 houses destroyed; 300 persons injured, of whom twenty per cent will probably die from injuries; there nre 125 dead now. The citizens seem desirous ef caring for their own dead nnd injurod. IX THE TORNADO'S TRACK. The I.ntcst, News of tho Disaster from Various Points. Louisville, Mnrch 29. Spccinl dispatches dis-patches regnrding the storm any that the new manufacturing town of Grand river, near Paducah was struck by the blast, nnd a dozen houses wore blown down. Two persons wero killed a womnn and (. boy. Twenty peoplo were hurt. All telegraph lines were destroyed. At Farmington much dnmage was done to buddings. No loss of life in this place. At Paducnh there was but little dam-nse. dam-nse. Telegraph lines nre ell down, nnd it is thought that the storm through the section not heard from may be one of great disaster. , London, Kentucky, reports much damage dam-age to property, but no loss of life. The Eminence, Ky., blast was very Bevere. The house of Joseph Kenny was blown down nnd a 3-year old child nnd Louis Maddox, his brother-in-law, was killed. Mr. Kenny was fatally hurt. His wife nnd babe were seriously injured. in-jured. WE, FIRE AND CYCLONE INSURANCE. There is about one hundred thousand dollars life insurance on -those killed upon laborers and middle clnsses of people peo-ple in smnll ten-cent companies and Knights of Honor. About fifty thousnnd dollars in the Knights of Honor will be promptly pnid by an assessment of eight cents upon members. The remaining fifty thousnnd ilollars in ten cents a week companies mi)y brenu those companies, realizing nly a small part to holders of policies, the tire insurance ia only twenty-five thousand dollars. The cyclone insurance is only two thousand dollars, held by to liquor dealers, their joint losses wing eight thousand dollars. Plate Rlass insurance six thousand dollars. IN FALLS CITY HALL. When the hurricane struck it, in the "nam hall were Mile. Appe with her (lancing school numbering sixty-five, of whom it is feared not more than twenty escaped. Tnese were children with mothers and fathers. In the room on the second floor wns the executive committee com-mittee of Romnn Knights consisting of seven members in session. Iheo. Englemier, upholsterer at twenty-third and Market streets, was f'led. Jewell Lodge Knights and tidies of Honor was in session on the Ihird floor. Nearly one hundred nnd Mty members were present when the building fell. Of these thought not more than fifty escaped. Humboldt dge I. O. O. F., consisting of seventeen seven-teen members was holding a meeting on the same floor. Those who escaped ere badly injured. It is now pretty near certain that the entire loss of life will not go much above one hundred, if that point is reached. J-P to this writing the total number of bdie8 recovered and missiug who, it is reasonably certain are dead, is 83. In edition are about a dozen so badly injured in-jured that death may ensue. From 150 to '-00 persons are injured to an extent wfth noticing. Probably 5oo to loco hf'e very slight scratches. |