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Show THE SCKNE AT FALLS CITV HALL. It was There the Greatest 1.oks of Life Occurred. Louisville, March 23. The wrecked portion of the city lies between Eighteen, Eigh-teen, Broadway, Seventeenth and Main streets, the destroying elements passing diagonally across this section, which is probably a mile square. At loast two hundred houses are in ruins. It is feared that at least two hundred lives aro lost. Probably the GREATEST LOSS OF LIFE occurred at Falls City hall which was in the center of the tornado. In the lower rooms of tho hall wore 50 or 75 children with their mothers and other relatives taking dancing lessons. There were at least 125 persons on the lower floors, and 75 more attending lodge meetings on the upper floor, when the terrible wind swooped down upon the building. The entire structure in less than five minutes was A SHAPELESS MASS of I ric'.J nnd mortar burying 200 helpless help-less victims, of which number few escaped es-caped uninjured. At 3 o'clock this morning THIRTV-FIVE DEAD B0DIE3 had been taken from this ruin, and fifteen fif-teen woundod nnd dying. Only those on the third floor had been reached. The room containing tho dancing school pupils and visitors has not yet been opened. |