The true Democrat., 1854-09-13
From the Louisville Courier, August 2S. The Storm of Yesterday-ImmenseL Loss of Life!-Eighteen persons Killed!! Destruction of Property!

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 Destruction of Property!
 Louisville was visited yesterday by a storm which has left traces of its desolating progres. which will long be remembered in this city, Ii was miniature copy of that dreadful hurri cane of 1886, which swept through this coun- +rr crossed the Atlantic and ravaged the coasts of France and Belgium and a large portion oi Germany Almost every house in Ostend was unroofed, and such was the general destruction of roofs that the price of titles rose from 16 to ed at the rate of 50 miles per hour and its TO- hour.
 This region has long suffered from excessive heat and dryness, and early yesterday morning those changes of temperature began to occur, which indicated approaching storms. These winds |" owe their origin to any circumstance which has tendency to disturb the equilibrium of the atmosphere, as change in the tempera- ture or in the amount of aqueous vapor which it contains"
 The storm of yesterday was striking illus tration of the theory of Wm C. Redfeld, the distinguished meteorologist, and was a whirl- wind revolving leftwise. Its lowest point in a southwestern direction was exhibited upon the German Protestant Orphan Asylum It bore the entire roof from row of twentv-one build. ings and sprnkled its path with the ruins. Its greatest range of destruction was in the space between Eighth and Eighteenth streets; extend ing from the suburbs of the city to the river. The large hemp factory, belonging to W. A. Richardson, esq. was stripped of it's entire roof, and It was one of the most substantlel III the city. The factory stands on Twelfth street, Chestnut bo ;p,bo in forty feet in length and were very heavy and substantial. The entire roof was lifted by the storm, carried about 15O yards, and deposited bottom upwards in peach-orchard. Inclining north -eastwardlv from that point, the storm struck the L's of the building of Mr. Lilly, fine, large suburban dwelling, on the west side of Tenth street, between Chestnut and Broad way. The roofs of the L's 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. flour merchant on Fourth street, was unroofed. One half Of the roof was carried across the lot, and dropped in Ninth street. Nearly all of Mir. Johnston's family were at home. and fortunately no one of them was injured The large school edihce-a new building on the cor her Of Ninth and Magazine, had its tin roof stripped ott as though 1t had been sheet of paper short distance from this building stands the Louisville University, at present oc- cupled by the Kentucky School for the Blind The Southwestern portion of the roof of that building was torn up, as though it had been ploughed.
 On Eighth street, one square above the houses of Mr. Fuller, between Magazine and Chestnut, were stripped of considerable DOT ton of their roofs. The large boarding house on the corner of Eighth and Jefferson had a chimney and part of the parapet wall sent through the roof with great violence An inn mense hole was made in the roof, and the shin gles stood on end around the opening. On Main street, between Eight and Ninth, two new buildings among the best and most substantial business houses in the city, were scattered as though they had been made of cards They presented cunous appearance to those who witnessed their destruction. The tall, massive structures seemed to those who were lookno at them when the storm struck them, as though they were sinking rapidly in the ground. The walls caved inwards as though an outside pres sure were squeezing them inwards. and the front and side walls went to the ground and the metal roof stretches almost it's entire lenoth over the ruins. One of these buildings was owned by Mr. Robert Beatty, the other by MesSrs. Wright & Bridgeford. We understand that the owners of these buildings were esti mating the cost of them, up to last Thursday. and found that they had then expended eigh- teen thousand dollars upon them. We thought the foundations Of these stores were as substan- tial as any in the city. Of the character of the superstructure we know nothing The loss is not only a serious one to the enterprsine and worthy owners, but to the region of the city where they were located
 Mir. James Callahan's grocery store was car ried away.
 The residence of Col. Riddle and c. A. Olmstead on Kentucky street, had their roofs blown of.
 On sixth street. beyond Broadway, new frame house was entirely prostrated
 On Walnut between Fifteenth and Seven teenth streets two houses in course of erec ton, by c. Gallagher, were blown down, and some fifteen othersin that vicinity more or less injured.
 The roof of Joseph Rem's house. corner of Madison and Thirteenth streets, was carried off and several houses in that neghborheod seri- ously damaged.
 The house, gates and fencing of the Wash ington Foundry, on Main street, below Ninth. were cast dOWD, ana the gable end Ot the sheet iron establishment of D. Lane on the ad- joining lot.
 The fury of the whirlwind next swept the harbor, and blew the new steamers Meso Mem- phis, " v. Farmer, and the " 4. Eaues, from their moorings, together with number of emp ty tiaboats, rafts, etc., all of which stranded on the falls, and were more or less injured. The New Memphis, a boat of the largest class, was almost total y wrecked. The upper works, or cabins, which were in frame, and nearly con- pletcd, were swept off; the Texas and forward portion of the cabin being blown 50 wards in. to the river, complete wreck. The other DOT tons of the cabin are so shattered, and out of line, that the whole structure will have to be rebuilt The boat struck with such force against the reef of rocks that her seams leak ed, the rudder post was twisted, and she leak ed badly. The entire damage cannot be less than $8,OOO to the cabin.
 The " " Fa,uaer, and " A. Eaues, han. plly sustained but little damage beyond part ing their lines, and the grounding on the reef Tn front of the wharf. The fatboats lodged far out on the falls, and if the river rises they