Eau Claire Weekly Leader (Newspaper) - March 31, 1890, Eau Claire, Wisconsin WHOLE NO 2846 CLAIRE WIS MONDAY MARCH Si 1890 NO 66 GRAND THIS ENTIRE WEEK AT The WIDE SPREAD of the Terrible Work Thursdays Cyclone Continue to in of gathering and the and thun der were iis At about 8 oclock it begun to mm and the storm gradually increased in intensity The rain changed to hail and the people kept within doors j The signal service in the afternoon pre Number of Dead at Louisville Now Estimated at 150 with as Matty More Fatally e thought iv would hit Louisville At the disaster came The heavens were black as ink Then was a deep threatening roar as the cyclone struck the southern portion of the city then the buildings were Crushed Like Kmr and a broad swath of destruction Property Loss Over the result The path of the tornado was Loss of Life and Property in Sur amir SPECIAL KNEE PANTS SUITS CORDED OR PLAITED j At BEAUTIFUL SUITS AT Confirmation Suits in Rig Variety PRICES VERY LOW Suits They arc equal to custom work we guarantee a Our Prices less than half what charge fit The Star Co Blue Front East side AT SALE OF The Immense Stock of Hardware late tlie Huebener Estate 212 South Barstow is now on the market Come along and see the Greatest Bargains in Stoves Oils Paints Shelf and Heavy Hardware Fine Guns Etc ID 41 A 0 f to LOUISVILLE Ky March 29 m tho in i was unchanged of interest is still at the pile of debris that represents what four storied Falls City hall In fares leading into Market street near the scene of the disaster thousands of persons are standing watch ing the devoted band of laborers remov ing debris bit by bit in the hope of un covering the mutilated form of a victim The ruins are illuminated hy a number of locomotive headlights placed so as to shed a flood of brilliancy into the pit that has been driven down through tlu conglomerated mass of broken brick j splintered beams and twisted iron The j men as they in the glare of the reflectors cast huge shadows that lend an evil the observer Inside the ropes the gray cloaked Stern with the fagged out police and the ama guardians who have volunteered to perform this onerous duty gratuit As each body is taken up from beneath the covering of and is carried down the heap to the waiting stretcher half suppressed cheers go up from the crowd This is in the of occurrence After the body is placet on the stretcher and cov ered over reverently it is taken to tho morgue in Buckleys saloon across the street where Coroner Miller and his assistants receive it Up to tho present hour eightysix bodies have Uen taken from the Falls City hall and the ut and It is tbo that there are at least KortT tbo The latest and most intelligent estimate of the total number of the dead through out tho city will not exceed 150 this is careful and accurate At 9 oclock the body was re moved from the ruins of Virgil Coa cigar store next to the Louisville hotel It was that of Mary who in life was a chambermaid at the hotel her remains were sadly soiled and ated by the enormous weight of debris above This swells the list of dead in the cigar store tr ten It IK ajl of save in tho IIH have been found and tho estimate given above is nearly correct There is but little sensational feeling attached to the discovery of bodies as in the main they are those of people who wen not aUy known in thy com m unity hring working people and others of u retire station in life from Seventeenth and Maple northeast erly across the city past Seventh and Broadway Sixteenth and Chestnut Twelfth and Broadway and thence to the Union depot at tho foot of Seventh street The worst ruin was wrought b devastated Us among the large and substantial The center I otl Market and Main streets and it seems as if the demon of the storm did its worst just when about tp leave us The was and a half People living outside of the track of the storm were unaware that anything unusual had happened and where the cyclone had swept there was utter and death Great buildings tumbled like toy bouses Churches factories and warehouses went down like cardboard People fled in terror death in their ruined homes There were agonizing screams for help were hastily summoned Half a lires broke out in as many differ ent parts of the city Meantime the cyclone departed as nait came The gray daylight of the morning re a scene of desolation LEVEES Thursdays Storm tho Cause uf Serious In Mississippi Embank men limiting ton Has Flooded the Tillage Country from Five to Seven Feet Levees Below Memphis Melting Like Breaks Near at Helena FURNITURE are special inducements on fur ot description in tne way of new designs new styles of fin ish good durable work ttt lowr prices Our assortment of wood mantles and fittings is unsurpassed by any house lin the c Dont fail to see our goods and get prices before placing your order MATTHEW BROS FURNITURE CYCLONE IN JACKSON COUNTY Terrible 63 65 67 69 4th St 409 and 411 East Water St MILWAUKEE WISCONSIN The World Moves AQU we move it the And of the STAR GROCERY 113 Bridge street Oar so well known to the public is sum to everybody will testify that we are cheaper iban any other place in city n 14 1C A white C of Ills March uy clono passed through Jackson county Thursday death uid destruction in its path About twenty rive are reported killed Sixteen j are reported killed in and n bout j aud D or tli of Campbell hill in tho ern part of the county Several were killed about Popular ridge in the south ern part of tho county At irand four were killed three children arv ing great destruction of iri reported All deaths and not yet known except by train nnd it is tt use long enough to fuller details BLACKFORD NEARLY ANNIHILATED a FMV Intl let ter from Ivy con firms the of iho at that point I he hUien that entire town supt by a tornado on lint few remain and arc wen Thu damage and JOSH of the country are very but nothing reliable is there ww no change ti m to the of tno country Rl on m 11 an i ST Mo March i 3 p rn a cyclone thr little town of in j the northwestern part of this county and in nn it into a of ruins Fire were literally to but by good fortune the of foir of them wen at church rud injury The i1 nd Royer and his family four and by a they The house wa blown to pir The frame church wari blown off and of the heavy i Jrom their n dowi into si tion was at no one waa hurt Jap sell 60s 70s This ii the beat earry for Wabasha Flake pr eack Gorman Our Daily f G 25 Strictly LOO 5 Sweet Old SOc Vx I nad and J SMITH 113 Bridge St MONEY LOAN 20000 TO 20000 und Ind Shortly 6 oclock a lr just city an of u arm barns valuable and In equity at ut fifly htiildinjri n of ble The total Josa to Behold Main street from Seventh to Twelfth IB ruin So is Market street for the corres distance Jefferson from Tenth to Thirteenth Walnut from Thirteenth to Chestnut from Thirteenth U Seventeenth and Broadway in the neighborhood of Eighteenth and Nine are filled with debris and lion Even at this hour it is impossible to give any accurate list of killed and wounded It will take days to that i The ground floor of the Falls City hall was given over to market men there being thirty butchers and twentyfive gardeners stalls There was no one iu this part of the building so far fts known On the second floor front were three small rooms two of tot the toilet and one an Next back of thin was a large ball room then the kitchen and then a small hall where Miss Apii taught dancing classes On the tin re floor were lodge rooms Miss App teaching a dino ing class of children and there j were in the room mothers fathers and 1 other attend ants of the youngsters ag sixty or more u luid all the others are in the ruins with of several taken out dead I Iu one of the rooms on tlie floor the executive body of tho Roman Knights was in session there being seven in attendance All of but one es caped death i On Moor Jewell Lodge No 2 and Ladies of Honor was hold of the and there weru Over ISO the building fell A mere handful of these escaped On tho same Moor Humboldt No 140 I O O F hud gathered there in the room But a few of are alive and the few who aiv badly hurt In tiie Tho terrible cyclone swept tho resi portion of the West End doing innuendo damage to property The loss of was considerable and the of of tho totally demolished would setm U the pos i of any of any of the inmates hav ing scaped alive In dozens of thu were entirely razed to the ground yet in many of thorn dents escaped uninjured or slightly to tain fiendish in injuring a house had ita front cut front it the rist unharmed water works nro ruined The through which aJl fhe is forced into the reservoir WOH demol ished by tho city supply is thus cut ofT nnd it not known how long it will take to repair tho a water famine is suru to follow All of tho wnre blown out The ntandpipe wny JIX feet high and was built of brick iron and wood nnd vafi four feet in diameter on the The under veteran did gallant a scon of river met and snatching hie from tho foaming stream The H hernia City James and other boain were torn from their Bud carried down fill without in the Through the herculean of thn life savers and the crow of City of Madi non however all brought into port The frry W C Hite with many was matched from IK tilt falls There are various estimate ai to thn material A calcula tion makes it about it at considerably more than that figure Dunu Marh Srvice observer sayn the the characteristic feature nf a tinct an motion a of varying from to pfr hour a spiral movement a vertical axis with nn enti an and A third a with earth at ir ARKANSAS CITY March Thursday nights storm caused two breaks in the levee near It is re ported that ia over wide and still growing It is ing a volume of water and IE flooding tlie country for miles The town of Huntington is from fivo to seven feet under water and the water is still rising On the Arkansas side o the river fnere is not a house that in not under water The Mood is four feet deep in some places The St Louis Iron Mountain and Southern railroad truck between here and Trippe U washed out All trains been on the Ouachita division At least half of the people have bien compelled to leave for the high lands A serious break is reported below Eulow landing The are trying te repair the levees but it is feared that thuir efforts will be unsuccessful and that great loss of life will occur out of Louisville is one mass of mingled poles trees and other debris i Train No over the same road came in at C and Mr Williams were eye of the terrible storm Said they It is beyond description The centor of Louis terrible TIMBER LAND SHARKS Charges That Federal Officials Hare is ono mass of terrible is WOE AND HORRIBLE We were entering at the time The electrical display was the greatest spec tacle of its kind wo ever saw The storm began about The thunder was simply awful and bythe glare of the lightning we could see for blocks All was a mass of ruins flying timbers women children and men running here and there panic stricken crying for nid or seeking to tuul friends who wore buried huge masses of ruins Tho struck the city from the southwest and ran in a direction rty struck the union do put and Damped the river striking sonville At least ten blocks of that place destroyed ing ut t were taken from Falls City hall where there were of ivt tho time of the accident most tion took place in tho main part of tho city Tho West end in for a share The awful did not taku a straight course but up ono block and down another hero and thyre Royal county forty miles from is reported as be demolished At thirtythree j taken SUrrin And Compelled Them to able Pine Lands for Necessary Provisions Indians Propose to Send a Delegation to Washington to Hare the Matter Investigated ASHLAND March 29 Sensa tional charges against government em point have made in an letter by A leader among the Indians on orth reservations Ho charged in effect that certain federal officers had sought to take Advantage of the destitute almost starving condition of a part of the Indi ana to compel them to trade off valuable pino lands for a few thousand dollars worth of provisions and that the in collusion with pine sharks or land speculators in the ncheine Indi ans purpose to send delegation to ALONG THE RIVER Killed Injured Iu I EVANSVILLE Ind March receive from Point township Tosey county on the Rising rivor state that nearly 100 people were killed and in jured There is no chance of obtaining anything reliable from that section A brakeman ou tho Ohio Valley rail rond arriving here at 11 oclock last night reported that at Blackford and vicinity in Union county Kentucky ou river not less than fifty houses were curried oft their founda tions demolished thirty Uvis wore lost A woman and her two chil dren whose names could not be living opposite Newburg mileH away in their house by tho waters iiy WHS found hanging ou a bush near tho track Tho policy belonged to a man in Louisville had bwn blown all tho way from All of rvf debrin of all sorts wore scattered along the line D L Lockwood master on the name train was in the tornado nlno Hft said I was riding on a street car struct between Seventh and Eighth when the tornado struck the car it and nearly killing a passenger whom I carried in my arms to a place medical aid could be had I was uninjured but the poor Away and never heard of or seen tunco It an awful sight Scores of were killed and everything was ono of I in the tornado HOV years ago wild n passenger but this was tho most awful I ever saw 1 niw of deml jxoplo from Kails itv where ix hundred or were killed The was com bod ily lifted from the river und blown out on tho land n of a mile The i Washington and lay the matter before the commissioner of Indian WISCONSIN CENTRAL ABSORBED Tlie Complete of Road March ay A special to the Evening Wisconsin from New York K of attorney fur the Wisconsin Central Rail road company has been several completing arrangements for tho transfer of tho Wisconsin Central to thn Northern Pacific The papers have been and submitted to of both companies and hare approved by OH Tuesday of veek tlie board of trustees of the North err will meet and ratify the agreement and tho Wisconsin lino will immediately thereafter be turned to tho Villard While it hiw known for n long a tion WHS being arranged between tin two uni u union of to i certain luid been brought the full extent of the not been mudo public until time Like March le below here are melting like mush Two breaks have occurred near Green ville another on tho opposite side in Arkansas and still another is reported at Helena During the night u hurricane waa blowing and lashing the furiously the water civil and here are holding meetings aud collecting help for the sun erera trti part of UH city of tho storm mid to IN TENNESSEE A in tho March Word has juat been received that the tow bunt Nail City was caught by the Thursday night ut milew entire tow wan uai in coal one fuel und two produce barges Six of the cruw were are not Tho Nail City wan uninjured TARIFF AND k X R O Dun Jt Co Thi tt On NKW YORK March Cou review of Until the severe sturm TRUSTS y vn iil R G Dun Rays of Thursday which swept over anil damage at and other which cannot yet be ea the weather for tlie week has been favorable for At Detroit Chicago aitd bonie in the volume of business was At Ml Paul tradt wad at Kan sas City there WOH no marked nient at Ht thn volume of trade in all communication boen cut off by a tornado which lion canned loss and at both thu iron and glows arc with no change in coal Tho money markets of the interior arc fairly aup OH to foreign money markets are also favorable throughout nt cities con show great over butt year of make it certain that at a part of thin is dun to in trade in the mar itre much by tive and manipulation than is It can Kuid thac the industrial situation IHM improved though like a rally in thn market reported ivt But a upecu latira of 100xiO tons said to be ied by a Mrm in the copper trade in hanging over the pip iron mar ket and at the same time prices of Ala bama and Virginia iron are weaker nlno ix further fall of to 50 per ton and priest of there and OIK dzy Howard Tlie farm Harmon f t ios taken ii of j mrt and of Hiw of output ir i that MU may re If president who man of MUir fr for the MII March of ty tnn No of hfc your DETAILS Or THE CHr Hull ity y of county rtn father brother in way fall to thir W F Srnith had with him South Uttr to valu of hwill to New to th ard Trust company of of Sargent county to of in North Dakota W K arid cleric Price Thi of and at j Al phia no improvement but at ton appear to be increas ing their No Huch an are at son are well known j account for much of tho I of uncertainty in A If VV h I tho duty on any article whether j it b or linn 1 U or the other and the to at wi 1 aJUr thn in The by any corn wherever it in iev power jf li Within u tin of the mild winter ai Hut um nent nature and at this i occurring out tlie country hiring the dayn ffr thI 27 M ll ttr tfi or a of if March worst storm that over visited this passed over thin city about ID oclock p in Twy irom were blown down The brick iif John WHK blown away The fell in and an IK old of also n boy 12 old of Julo ford is and hid wife in horribly mangled Across the pik from William WILS blown down injuring five wiro completely wrecked and were uprooted and curried The nearly wild unroofed and Mr nnd three ladies were in 0111 when the roof fnl in son received painful injuries Thn only of The worst of not After the HH dread ful march It took n mill for twentyfive miles carried tn mill of il Ail up to have blown into Fully 0111 Inm did ifi and under of women ami are in a terrible condition in that All kinds of run i urn lire ion ly off 1 W of here and n barren people an killed but could not of tho five of horribly at nnd is entirely only on and iui uji und hurled into the AT ANr NTS CAIKO IllH March gal hero on the river sunk thiintieu and houiM rind on thn Ohio river Iri city it blew one from UH foundation thw water No nn hurt Thn at the mio of miles an At Mill and barriH blown down nnd Mrn m1 hurt the lornado an March U on what in ood uu that Miller will from of th Paul rail road 1 July 1 ing only tho of the of both too much for one to muni report thu in to A J now of Um road to p ho to ty W C now superintendent at That the First of every m all kinds of Jobs on Silk Hats no matter of what nature they are and A Win March Ex of the Kx bank died Friday night of pneu monia Two ago ilia wife died nnd ever wince he luid in but WIH only to Hi Mr of ITo had a ill Torty nt 1 on a The of I and owners tire wild a to a There ha been in Cancer of the Nose in NTS n nn mr nnl An my il ny U it I in nnl my Ill tiit itI In un mini I iil I to I wno li S s anI Thin nil Uir IM mil I no of tlic MKM M T Hull on co EASTER CARDS AND BOOKLETS hurl itton on u f fil froH ine find informed of Una ii rir the Jlm horn f of a ut tl r of Ih in i of r Jrom vr itn will rt STORIES Of EVE WITNESSES tnl Jit i nr R Ti of tli Tille Raid to n New line of Fine Writ ing Papers for Fashion able Correspondence Type Writer Papers Ribbons and Carbons at reduced prices i Every requisite in So ciety and Commercial Stationery i New patterns in Pic ture Frame Mouldings Picture Frames made to order in the most ar i manner Nwh at n iti All ang line for a a in fallinx of l loi V whi lo din in the f ani path f fk property into the i v Jl Had of ruoti jit n for Man h EAU CLAIRE Book and Stationery Co by l in held n th fairly n MJJ on chattel of W K of Laoj At h fr ut St of killed Thr for tfi t Chill liL for of homes ID city or any par ot country lru i Company to be first class II A T T E R 3 218 STREET Drs Kierstead Wesley fi Co Of inl rivals Nervous and Chronic Diseases MEN MARRIED MEN TO THE LADIES CATARRH FATAL or AND DEATH TREATMENT AND CURE DISCHARGE FROM THE EAR NOISES IN THE HEAD TO THE DEAF onx of I In KHU timi KH rand Opera House April I 4 FOUR 4 Tlo trie Only PAT ROONEY The Witchm f lln Star Miss Katie Rooney IK CHV QUARTETTE ft Nn York Star Company JOSIK KM MA HOWARD J A M KS W II f J A rm R WM and CAST For the in the popular mus ical comical in one and two 10 30 and ASANA Pats New Wardrobe PAT RODNEY The Irish Comedian The Superior of nil Dancers and the Actor on NO KX FRA for thio Best of All Show O L Bus Man 11
