New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-04-02
. AWFUL CALAMITY.
A Cyclone Sweeps Over Louis
vile Carrying Death and,
Destruction in Its Path.
Great Buildings Tumbled Like
Toy Houses Before the
Winds Awful Force.

LOUISVILLE, special.-A calamity IN
precedented in the history of Louisville oc-
Cured last night. At 1928 O. clock cyclone
Of unusual violence crossed the city from
southwest to northeast, leaving death and
destruction in its path. The list of killed
and wounded am cunts into hundreds.
The loss OF property amounts into millions.
All the evening the storm had been gather
ing, and the lightning and thunder were
ominous. About o'clock it began to rain,
and the storm gradually increased in inten-
sity. The rain changed to hail, and people
kept within doors. The signal service in the
afternoon predicted a cyclone, but no one
thought it would strike Louisville. At 1925
che disaster came up. The heavens were
black as ink. There was a deep, threaten
Ing roar SO the cyclone struck the southern
portion Of the city, then the buildings
crushed like egg shells, and broad swath
of destruction was the result The path of
the tornado was from Seventeenth and
Maple northeasterly across the city past
Seventh and Broadway, Sixteenth and
Chestnut, Twelfth and Jefferson, and
thence to the union depot at the
foot of Seventh street. The worst ruin
was wrought among the large and
substantial structures on Market and Main
streets, and it seems as if the demon of the
storm did its worst just when about to leave
Us. The whole thing was over in minute
and half People living outside the track
Of the storm were unaware that anything
unusual had happened, and where the cy
clone had swept there was utter destruction,
ruin and DEATH Great buildings tumbled
like toy houses. Churches, factories and
warehouses went down like cardboard.
People fed in terror from death
( in their ruined homes. There were
agonizing screams for help Surgeons were
hastily summoned. Half dozen fires
broke out in as many different parts of the
city. Meantime the cyclone departed as
quickly as it came The gray daylight of
the morning revealed a scene of desolation
that is sickening to behold. Main street,
from Seventh to Twelfth, is a ruin. So is
Market street for the corresponding dis
tance Jefferson from Tenth to Thirteenth;
Walnut, from Thirteenth to Fifteenth;
Chestnut from Thirteenth to Seventeenth,
and Broadway, in the neighborhood Of
Eighteenth and Nineteenth, are filled with
debris and destruction. 1t is impossible to
give an accurate list of killed and wounded.
1t will take days to do that.
SCENES AT NIGHTFALL.
LOUISVILLE, Special. 49, As night closes
in its fold the devastated city of Louisville,
hundreds of widows and orphans are bowed
down with 8 weight of deepest grief Wreck
and ruin have settled down in it's very
midst, and spectres of the dead, whose
funeral pyres are heaps of bricks and
mortar, seem to rise up and ensbroud in
the awful halo of their presence the entire
city. The hands Of brave rescuers continue
their work, and as night comes on they
seem to work more silently, though no less
arduously, and take on the gruesome ap-
pearance of ghouis. AS each remnant Of
the piles of wreckage is lifted it Is
with the anticipation of uncovering to
view the lifeless form or the death-set fea-
lures Of a human victim Of that awful
storm. Perhaps the wriggling member of a
buried man may start the searchers and
cause them to draw back aghast for mo-
ment; but with braced nerves that have
been almost to the tension of steel for one
whole night and day, they continue their
labor and tenderly lit the unfortunate and
carry him to all ambulance only to see
him expire in the arms of wife, mother
or q friend. In the presence of
such scenes, even whisper sounds so
loud that the utterer hesitates, halfexpecs-
ing to see the dead aroused from their eter-
! nal sleep. But there is no time to consider
the dead, for the living may yet be buried
beneath the mountains Of debris, and with
sad look at the departing dead wagon
they turn and delve again with renewed
energy into the great mass in search
crushed and mangled humanity. AS night
grows darker the work
BECOMES MORE AWFUL.
Even the advantage of light and its fear.
Edlspelling qualities are denied them, for all
the electric wires were torn down by the
storm and left the city to be enshrouded in
the deepest gloom. It grows SO dark in the
shadows of the crumbling walls that still
every object with the semblance of human
form must be grasped to prove it
hesh or stone. Still the untirlng and
strong hearted workers continue to dig in
/ the merciless storm-made graves of the dead.
I TERRIBLE DESTRUCTION.
J LOUISVILLE Specialize storm
seemed only to have swept Broadway from
I Fifteenth to Ninth, but nearly all the
houses between these streets and on the in
IGYsrsecting streets We're demolished. From
Fifteenth to Sixteenth are mostly small
frame houses, occupied by colored fami-
lies. The roofs were torn of, but
none of the occupants were hurt.
From Sixteenth down to Nineteenth, how
ever the destruction was terrible. The
Catholic buildings at Seventeenth and
Broadway were the Sisters home, the pa
srochial school, Father Disney's residence
end the Sacred Heart church. They were
all blown down, and Sister Plus was buried
In the ruins. When taken out by rescuing
party she was dead All Of the other Sis
ters escaped without injury Three lives
were Lost at the corner Of Eighteenth
and Maple streets. The killed We're: John
limerick, aged forty years his daughter
'ssed tour years, and James Fitzgerald,
70 naghbor. Several men were crowded
Into the little barber shop Of John Reuther
Iwhea the storm burst The roof was torn
off and carried away, and the walls were
Stumbling in, when the men broke the win
Idows and doors and ran into the street.
Not one Of them was hurt in the least, but
che building was totally destroyed. Ia go
ing down Main street in an opposite dirsc-
f2ion to the course pursued by the tornado,
THE First EVIDENCES
Of serious destruction are the topless and
windoWIess houses on the North side, be-