The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-09-06
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Nearly one Buildings I'M
rOOfed--Great of Pros
Perty--Scenes atthe Churches-.The
Funeral, &c

lLAIGSEN oI4IO ElL w OON DELI.
Nearly one hundred Buildings I'm.
rOOfed--Grea of Pros
Perty--Scenes atthe Churches--The
~uneral &c-
Louisville was visited yesterday by a
storm which has left traces of its desc
lating progress which will long be re-
membered in this city. 1t was a minia-
ture copy of that dreadful hurricane of
1886, which swept through this country,
crossed the Atlantic and ravaged the
coasts of France and Belgium and a
large portion of Germany. Almost
every house in Ostend was unroofed,
and such was the general destruction of
roofs that the price of tiles rose fgs !,
l6 to 80 forms per thssaasald. This
hurricane moved attt5e rate of so miles
per ho9r~aaS its rotary movement was
NEESm 100 to $50 miles per hour.
This region has long suffered from ex-
c~essive heat and dryness, and early yes
terday morning these changes of tenn
approaching storms. These winds " owe
their origin to any circumstance which
has a tendency to disturb the equilibrium
of the atmosphere as a change in the
temperature or in the momentum of
aqueous vaper which it contains
IKE STORM OF yesterday was a striking
illustration of the theory of VIM. C.
Redfeld, the distinguished meteorolo-
gist, and was a whirlwind revolving
leftwise. Its lowest point in a south
western direction, was exhibited upon
the German Protestant Orphan Asylum.
1t bore the entire roof from a row of
twenty-one buildings and sprinked its
path with the ruins. It's greatest range
of destruction was in the space between
Eighth and Eighteenth street; extend
ing from the suburbs of the city to the
river.
The large hemp factory, belonging to
W. A. Richardson, Esq, was stripped
of its entire roof, and it was one of the
most substantial in the city. The facto-
ry stands on Twelfth street, near Chest
nut. The timbers in the roof were forty
feet in length, and were very heavy and
substantial. The entire roof was lifted
by the storm, carried about one hundred
and fifty yards, and deposited bottom up
wards in a peach orchard. Inclining
north eastwardly from that point, the
stormsstruek the LIS of the building of
MfseMNy a fine, large sprburban dwell
ing, on the west side of Tenth street,
between Chestnut and Broadway. The
roofs Of the LIS were destroyed and the
walls much injured, The grounds were
strewed with leaves of the trees.
In the opposite square on the corner
of Ninth and Broadway, the residence
of James Johnston, -four merchant on
Fourth street, was unroofed. One-half
of the roof was carried across the lot,
and dropped in Ninth Street. Nearly
all of Mr. Johnston's family were at
home, and fortunately no one of them
was injured. The large school ediice-
q new building on the corner of Ninth
and Magazine, had it's tin roof stripped
of, as though it had been a sheet of pa
per. A short distance from this build
ing stands the Louisville University, at
present occupied by the Kentucky School
for the Blind. The southwestern por-
ton of the roof of that building was
torn up, as if it had been ploughed.
INCIDENTS OF THE STORM. -
A great many minor.incidents marked
the progress of the storm. Roofs of
small buildings were lifted from the walls
and dropped on other buildings already
supplied.
The piles of lumber in the yard of
Mr.. John Graham were scattered on
Magazine and Eighth streets, and the
assortment was mixed quite heterogene-
ously. 1t was the work of a minute for
the storm, but it will take some time to
straighten up matters again in the yard.
The extreme western limit of the raw
ages of this storm was at the locality of
the German Protestant Orphan Asylum,
and the eastern was at the store of the
Brothers Semple, on the corner of Sixth
and Main. Parallel lines drawn from
these two points would enclose a space
over thirty-ive hundred feet in width 4
but as the storm obeyed that law of
meteorology which guides these a~cceler-
ated currents in a north, orth-eastward-
ly direction, the whole width of that
space was not swept by the storm.
We have thus given the details of the
destruction of property, but the awful
catastrophe attendant upon the storm
remains to be detailed. It is the most
dreadful one of its kind that has ever
afflicted u city, and we proceed to
it.
The Third Presbyterian Church stands
on the corner of Walnut and Eleventh
and a congregation were assem-
bled there yesterday morning engaged
in religious worship. In the midst of
their d~evotions, about a quarter past IL
the storm of which we speak,
swept through that portion of the city
in which this church was located. With
scarcely the least warming to the con-
yregation, the side walls of the house
we're pressed inwards, causing the loss
IF many lives, and the injury of many
There were about SIS persons present,
of course we cannot be very ac-
,urate in this estimate. Up to eight
o'clock last night 1S dead bodies had
,een removed from the ruins, and num-
Der of persons seriously wounded
the victims of this dreadful dis
were some of the most estimable
aides in this city, whose sudden death !
las caused a wide spread grief among !
Citations and friends. The disaster was 8
o instantaneous in it's operations that t
re presume that many were killed with
ut perceiving the nature of the fatal !
low. A lady informs US that a door, 7
yhich was ajar, disturbed her and she i
urned to shut, it, and almost at the in /
ant that she turned an immense beam :
Ill where she had been an instant be- |
IRE. It killed a gentleman who was I