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Show LATKU r.YUTICl l.AKS. A Detailed Report Sent by the Associated l'resa Representatives. Louisville, Ky., March 23. It is very evident that it was not a cyclone, as the effect was too wide spread. For miles in either direction from the city occasional roofs were b!own off and trees were uprooted. up-rooted. As a spatial train sped toward the fated city bearing associated 'press representatives rep-resentatives from Indianapolis the evi-I evi-I dence was first noticable fully fifty miles out. First came to view Rn occasional dead tree broken to pieces. Then larger nnd more substantial trees, nnd finally giants of the forest. Many little towns along the Jefferson, Madisonville & Indianapolis road are fairly stripped of tho signs and gingerbread ginger-bread work. When the scene of the disaster was reached AN APPALLING SIGHT presented itself. Crowds of pooplo thronged Fourteenth Street station nnd from there up Mam street to the heart heart of the city was a mass of humanity, human-ity, and on either i ide was WRECK AND Rl'IH. Groat heaps of brick and stono presented pre-sented the appearance of having simply crumbled to the earth. HANGS OK RESCUKKS were nt work on the ruins and debris in search of the victims of tho awful calamity. calam-ity. The wreck was so great that it beggars any attempt at detail. Immediately upon tho first burst of the cyclone the tire bells sounded. 1 he police wore ut work within ten minutes and a posso nppoarod nt Falls City hall wreck. Tho walls of the adjoining ad-joining building were first proppod, and then began the work of cutting through the roof that covered nil. Aftor nn hour or censoless work the first victim, Mrs. Saruh Kelly, was unearthed. Sho was found sitting upright, hor head bruisod, nnd one arm broken. She said at the first quake the crowd made a rush and made for tho entrance. en-trance. Womon were knocked down and tramped on. Seeing the overwhelming jam nt the door several remained behind.' The excavation thou moved from the rear to the front where it was supposod tho greater crowd had gathered. As soon as the rooting was removed and the mass of brick benoath, ten vouien,locked in each others arms, were drawn out. Inside of the next house sixty men und women were ' DRAWN OUT DK.AH, but with tio wounds. It is thought they till met death from suffocation, tho gas pipos boing broken nnd flooded the debris de-bris with vapor almost deadly as tire might have proven. Ways were pierced into tho breast of tho ruins and bodies of the dead and dying wore pullea out. Along Main street the pathway of the storm exteudod to Eloventh street, and from Seventh to Eleventh not a building is standing. This morning presents ono of the most STUPENDOUS SPECTACLES of disaster men ever witnessed. In the course of tho storm lay tho great tobacco markot. Today tho warehouses nro in ruins. Thousands Thou-sands of hogsheads of tobacco lay in n mas3 of brick and mortar. THE LOUISVILLE HOTEL was unroofed and otherwise wrecked. The next building west, was occupied as a cigar store on tho first floor. Sleeping Sleep-ing rooms were on the second and third. It was razed to the ground. Xot a single sin-gle brick remain in place. In the destruction of this house many lives were lost, principally persons who occupied occu-pied sleeping rooms there. Many of them wore girls employed at tho hotel. Saloons and other available places were turned into HASTILY IMPROVISED MOHOCKS, whore the bodies wero taken as soon as recovered and loft awaiting identification. identifica-tion. ' ELEVENTH STREET seemed to servo as a kind of fluo for the storm, all intercepting objects in that Hue being practically reduced to nothingness. noth-ingness. Down it carriod fronts of buildings, mostly residences, on either side, leaving in many instances furniture and other fixtures unmolested. Jefferson Jeffer-son and Market streets are in almost as bad a condition as Main. Hundreds of wagons are busy carrying away soiled and broken furniture from shatterod bouses. A FIRE BREAKS OUT. At 12 o'clock the openirg of a portion of the debris of Falls City hall caused a draught whereupon a smoldering fire broke out fiercely and spread rapidly. It forced the workers to dosert tho place. As soon as the fire made headway THE GROANS OP THE IMPRISONED PEOPLE became shriols so great that it was simply sim-ply horrible. The watchers grew frantic, screamod and ran about lika mad, THE TERR1HL KSUFFKRINOH which they were unablo to alleviate driving thorn to despair. Several lines of hose were soon throwing throw-ing water on the flames, but it was more than an hour before the work could be proceeded with. Then it was carried on with much difficulty on account of the heat Up to 12 o'clock only about twenty-five dead bodies and twenty -five wounded had been taken from the wreck. |