Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-29
APPALLING!
The City of Louisville, ky.,
Swept by a Cyclone.
The Number of Dead Will Reach
Into the Hundreds,
While the Injured Will Number
Thousands.
SEVERAL HUNDRED BUSINESS HOUSES
DEMOLISHED.
THE WARNING OF THE SIGNAL SERV
ICE BUREAU WAS UNHEEDED.

ICE BUREAU WAS UNHEEDED.
Not a Business House Left on Main
Street from Eighth to Fourteenth
Streets-A Clean Sweep in the District
Struck-The Union Depot Falls Crush
ing Passenger Train, but the Passen-
gers Miraculously Escape - Wide
Spread Disaster in the Wake of the
storm which Also Visited 3 ruthern
Illinois and Indiana-Else where.
CINCINNATI, March 29.-The following
was received from Louisville, KY, Fri
day morning about o'clock:
A tornado struck Louisville at 7:3C
Thursday evening 1t entered the south
eastern portion of the city at Eighteenth
street, and swept path five blocks
wide diagonally reaching in ragged line
to Seventh street, leveling every build
ing in its path, probably $500 houses.
A rough estimate puts the killed at 800,
with thousands injured. The city is
filled with a crazed mass of people wild
ly seeking friends. A large force of men
is at work on the ruins, and about lOO
bodies have been recovered. 1t is inn
possible to get names.
Buildings on Main, from Eighth to
Fourteenth, are in ruins. Not one OF
the handsome wholesale houses are left,
and all the tobacco warehouses are swept
away On Market street, Falls City hall
four-story building, was Frustrated
while several Masonic and Knights o.
Honor lodges were in session, and Ion
people, men and women, are buried
under it. Every other house on Market
and jefferson, and Walnut from TentF
to Sixteenth streets, is in ruins. Port
land, suburb, is swept away.
Depot and Train Crushed.
At the Union depot at the foot o
Seventh street, the Chesapeake and Ohi'
train for Washington was just starting
out filled with passengers. The build
ing was prostrated, crashing in on tn
train. All the passengers were, how
ever. rescued but one newshoy. Sucl
desolation no city has known in thi
century. Every building, tree and evel
telegraph pole is leveled within the dis
triCt struck.
1t Was Predicted.
The cyclone was predicted by the sig
nal service bulletin Thursday afternoon
but no heed was paid its warning. Th
cyclone came with scarce a warnin
sound, and in all the buildings struc
the inhabitants were engaged in thel
usual avocations, without effort to escap
when their homes collapsed. The dis
trct laid waste comprises an area of tn
city three miles long and nearly half
mile wide.
The Ruins on Fire.
ats O'Clock seven different fires wei
burning at one time. They were all el
tinguished. No trains have arrived frol
Cincinnati or Lexington or the south
the Louisville and Nashville, Southel
or Chesapeake and Ohio last night. A
the railroads with the exception of II
Pennsylvania lines are compelled to su
pend operations.
In Indiana.
The cyclone crossed the river, strikir
Jetfersonville, Ind, badly wreckin
Front street, which is ON the river, b
no lives were lost. Hundreds of wouu
ed have been taken to their homes al
the hospitals All the physicians in Il
city are engaged in attending them.
The Killed.
The following is partial list of Il
killed at Louisville:
Mrs Mary Hasson, Seventeenth al
Lytle streets.
Miss Annie Nyles, Portland avenU
between Sixteenth and Seventeenth.
a Mrs. - Mclaughlin, Eighteenth al
Baird streets.
Mrs. Belle Lelloff, Seventeenth al
Lytle streets.
Mrs. Peterson, Nineteenth and Vain
streets.
Thomas Puff. works Avery foundr
His wife's back was broken
Mrs. Nuttall, jefferson street, betwe
, Eleventh and Twelfth.
Sister Mary Plus, Seventeenth n
Broadway.
Two unknown colored men at TIC
Henry's stable, Thirteenth betwe
Gravson and Walnut.
Nicholas J. Sullivan, 1905 Magazi
street: burned To a crisp.
William Diemer, Sixteenth street,
tween Magazine and Chestnut; char
to a crisp.
John Emerich. saloon keeper at Eli
teenth and Maple; killed under
ruins.
Moody Davis. colored boy, ThlrteeI
3. and Walnut; buried under Eclipse
Odd Fellows hall
it Two unknown colored women; al
neay Twelitl.
Thaddeus Mason. ouisville.
c. Il. Hathaway. Chicago.
Charles Hessenbreuch. Pmladelpf
Frank Paine barkeeper.
/, J. =. Schildt, undertaken; 339 Z
- Market ftreet
. A small child Of George w. c
lts caden
Do lark Cornell. llO4 West Green str,
Mary RYAN. Katie McCune. Mary
Ginty. Bridget Grove. Maggie Gar