The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-04-03

linger about the scene with faces filled
with dread and anxiety lest they rec
ognize in the shapeless mass of flesh
and bone the semblance of the TEA
lures of some relative or friend.
| Market street this evening looks
like ruined village. The devastation
on this thorough fare is nearly COM
complete.
Tornado is better word than
cyclone for the storm which wrought
such sorry havoc in and around Louis
vile. 1t started on Wednesday in the
Rocky Mountains, with the storm CEN
trail in Eastern Ohio. Tomatoes form
ed on Thursday night owing to the in
termingling of the warmer air moving
rapidly northward toward the storm
centre and the colder air making down
from the north. At the points where
these met tornadoes formed and did
great damage in Kansas, Illinois, Ten
nessee, Kentucky, Indiana and the
western portion of Ohio.
By the sudden condition in such a
case Of vast amount of water into a
thick black cloud, a whirling motion
is given to the air, which soon takes
the shape of vast funnel, descending
lower and lower into the quiet atmos-
phere beneath as the rapidity of its
motion increases. This long, revolv-
ing column of black cloud draws up
in its vortex all the objects in its path
On a narrow track, from a few yards
to less than half mile in width,
trees are unroofed, houses unroofed or
carried up into the air by this fearful
power of suction. When a tornado
passes over the water it becomes
water-spout.
By the aid of a map the course of
the tornado of Thursday evening can
be traced. 1t appears to have started
on its destructive course just west Of
Metropolis, ILL.,, which stands on the
northern shore of the Ohio river, about
forty miles above its junction with the
Mississippi. After passing over Me.
tropols the tornado travelled almost
due east for something over 100 miles,
visiting Bowling Green, KY, in its
course. 1t was then DETECTED to the
N. N. E., which brought to Louisville,
113 miles distant. 1t is possible that
its destructive course was not stayed,
even after it had crossed the Ohio.
Taken in all its bearings it was proba-
bly, the most destructive tornado that
has ever swept through the territory of
the United States since the settlement
of the country. Some of the past
storms of this character have, however
been very destructive to both life and
property.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March 3d.
Ninety-four bodies have been recover
ed, and it is supposed five or six more !
may be found in out-of-the-way places. |
OF the injured, to a noticeable extent, |
the closest estimate is one hundred and j
twenty-one. /
Funeral professions have followed !
each other in quick Succession to Cave |
Hill, st. Louis, Bertrand and the other |
cemeteries, and the city has been all
day in mourning. Many of the funer-
ais have been with military, Masonic
OF other honors, and some of the scenes
have been very impressive. Masses
have been said at the Catholic churches
and sermons preached at the Protest
ant. Hearts have been touched that
had long forgotten sentiment in bat
ting with the world.
Yesterday went down in the history
OF the Falls City as Funeral Day.
From morn till late afternoon the bells
tolled their solemn farewells, and the
tens of thousands of sympathizers and
mourners in the city were joined by
thousands from points as far away as
Nashville and indianapolis and Cincin-
natl, while every intermediate station s
sent its quota. From the interior of
Kentucky came many visitors both to
see the destruction here and tell of their !
own section.
1t was from some of these that the !,
ull story Of the storm at Eddyville. &,
Blackford and Clay, heretofore only {
united at, was obtained. The number
of dead at Eddyville, heretofore given
Is SIX, Is now known to be eleven. In
md about Blackford, Twenty-Five IA
alltles are recorded, and several of the
dJured will doubtless die, while the de-
tructlon of all kinds of property is past
LOUISVILLE, KY, April 1.-The
otal number killed here by the tor
lado of Thursday night is ninety
hree. 1t is feared that B. R. Barton,
II Plttsburg, is dead in the ruins. So
ar about $50 badly wounded persons
lave been found. Several of those
Who were hurt are at the hospital in a
lying condition.
A COUNTY STRICKEN.
With the dawn came messengers
rom all quarters praying for aid. Not
My had Clay suffered, but the whole I
omty had been swept by the storm.
'eath had visited every farm. Where
uman life was spared brute existence
'as taken. A hurried and incomplete O
stlmate places the number of animals n
illed at 1000. a a
1t Is singular fact that of the fifty e
ilfty-flve persons killed in CLAY and ie
lclnlty over thirty were children. and n
most instances they seem to have d
'st their lives by being dashed to the g;
nth. A pltiful case is that of COL a
ed family on the farm of Baxter How 81
1, eight miles from Clay. The father d.
ld mother were crushed to death. but G
ree children, one of them a HELPLESS -
ipple. were not injured to any extent.
II the farm OF James Holloway hole
'enty-five feet deep and sixty in cir
was dug in a meadow. and b,
1t trace of the dirt can be found. Oh
The Storm at Other Points. in
HENDERSON, KY, April 1.-The y y
tai of the killed in Webster county al
forty, and Of wounded eighty. he he
EVANSVILLE, Ind. March ga es s
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