The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1870-02-02
Terrific Storm.

The Louisville Courier Journal of the 18th gives an
account of destructive storm which visited that re-
gion on the 10Th While the wind and hail were not
SO destructive in the city in other localities the tor
rents of rain did considerable damage. We extract
the following from account given by that journal:
The effect all the creeks and rivers is something
bordering on the mraculous-utterly unprecedented.
Salt River was pouring out such flood as to drive
boats to the Indiana shore, notwithstanding the Ohio
was also rising with great rapidty. Kentucky river
is said to be higher than known and is running
entirely across the Ohio. Licking and the Big Miami
are pouring out perfect torrents while the rapdty Of
the rise in the Ohio river at this point is entirely
precedened at the present stage of water The river
all day rose at the rate Of six inches per hour Such
rise, 1t is said, was never known before. At dark
last night the sidewalks from Fifth street. nearly the
entire distance to the west side Of Fourth were under
water All of the cellars for some distance up Fourth
street and all along the levee, filed with water
forcing the occupants to leave. Between Sixth and
Eighth streets the levee the water entered the
houses. All along Water street the residents were
some OF them moving up stairs and others leaving for
higher ground. The wharf space was greatly crcum
scribed, and steamers compelled, in some in
Stances to deposit freight in the cross Streets The
stevedores were busy all Sunday night and yesterday
in removing freights beyond the reach Of the en-
croaching waters. silva.
1HC seoiiu ecSuis W udfS Deel very general Al
Cave City and vicinity, in Hart county eighty four
miles south of the city, the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad, the tornado terrible resulting in
great loss of life and property Fifty houses were de-
molished, ten persons killed outright, ten MORALLY
| wounded, and eighteen slightly wounded Sixty fam
lies were rendered homeless by the disaster special
reporter dispatched to the scene and the full par
ticulars will be found elsewhere At Glasgow junction.
six miles south of Cave City, the storm was most dis
astrous. From passenger by the train which arrived
at $50 last evening, five hours behind time we learn
that every house between Cave City and Glasgow june
ton was blown down and twenty persons killed and
large number wounded at Glasgow junction and yicn
ity Trees were uprooted and twisted off, fences scat
tered like straws and houses carried off their founda
tons and torn to fragments by the force of the storm
At GAINESVILLE, Tenn, the storm of wind and rain
accompanied by the most vivid lightning, the most
severe ever experienced in that section.
The storm commenced about 10 AM. Sunday, and
continued until Monday about AM. Monday morn
ing torrents of rain poured necessarily The Bank Of
GAINESVILLE and the National Bank were both unroofed
Houses barns trees and fences were blown down. and
also other damages. The railroad bridge across the
Cumberland had some braces carried away by drift
| wood; damage slight The water in the Cumberland
is rising very rapidly and OVERLOOKING its banks The
damage as far be learned, is not supposed to
be very great. The storm the most terrific ever
experienced within the memory of the Oldest nhabi-
tants E..[
The storm also severe at other points, but owing
to the prosraon of the telegraph lines particulars
could not be obtained.