The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-09
LOUISVILLE DISASTER.
LESS TERRIBLE THAN AT FIRST SUP
POSED.
Fuller Accounts of the Cyclone--Only a
Hundred. Killed.

The cyclone of last Thursday wa:
one of the most destructive in the
history of this country. It swept
through the States of Tennessee
| Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana
Great damage was done to property
and many lives were lost. The great
es5 destruction occurred in Louis
allie, the first accounts of which were
appalling. The following paragraphs
are culled from the telegraphic ac.
counts Of the terrible storm. and give
some idea Of it's extent and destruc.
tiveness:
The cyclone struck Louisville at
7.3O p. m. It entered the southeas
tern portion of the city at 18th street
and swept a path five blocks wide
diagonally. reaching in a ragged line
to 7th street, leveling every building
in it's path. On Market street the
Falls City Hall, a fou-story building
was blown down while several Ma
sonic and Knights of Honor lodges
were in session and one hundred men
and women were buried in the ruins.
The district laid waste comprises an
area of the city three miles long and
nearly half mile wide. Outside Of
claarly-defned limits the citizens
knew only of a heavy rain, accompa-
MED by high wind. But soon came
alarms of fire from different stations,
and the horrors Of the calamity began
to dawn on the people. Houses, halls
Of amusements, railroad stations, all
went down before the mighty Of the
air. More than two hundred houses
were destroyed and many We're dam
aged. A telegram dated Saturday
says: up to this writing the total
number killed at all places where
bodies have been recovered and OF
the missing and Of those whom it is
reasonably certain are dead is so.
In addition to these there are above
a dozen so badly injured that death
may ensue. From $50 to 200 persons
are injured to an extent worth noting
and probably hard on to 1000 have
very slight bruises or scratches that
do not inconvenience them" Refer
ring to the wreck of the Falls City
Hall, the account says: ':Ten women,
locked in each others arms, were
drawn out Of the debris. James Har-
rison, whose wife had been at a lodge
meeting, was foremost in the work,
and the first person whom he drew
out of the ruined building was his
wife, who died in his arms. He laid
her by the side of others who were
dead and continued to work for the
living. Inside Of the next hour thirty
men and women were drawn out
dead, but with no wounds on then
bodies, and it is thought that, they
all met thei. death from sufocatlN
The gas pipes had been broken:
which caused the lights to go out
and which saved the ruins from fire
for a time, but flooded the debris
with vapor almost as deadly as fire
might have proved. Ways were
pierced into the ruins and the vic
tins were drawn out dead and dying
One part Of the building was reserved
for the dead, but the wounded We're
taken into stores and houses on the
opposite side of the street, where
physicians and priests administered
to their souls and bodies"
The board Of trade meeting helo
Friday morning authorized the state.
ment that there would be no call fol
aid from outside. The lowest estl-
mate puts the property loss at ST.,
100000; the highest at S3,000,O0O, and
the least, founded upon the facts
presented, placed at S2,5OO;00. There
Isl almost no insurance. Falkland
suburb, is swept away.
At the Union depot, at the foot 0:
7th street, a Chesapeake and Ohio
train was Just starting out filled with
passengers. The building was pros
trated. crashing down on the train
All the passengers, however, were
rescued except one newsboy. A dis
patch from Louisville dated March
31st says: The water supply IS run
ming very low. Every effort Is belns
made to complete temporary stand
pipe to be finished by Wednesday
Before that time, probably by to
night. the city will be almost entirely
without water. Strong appeals are
being made for all to observe the
strictest economy in its use, but they
do not seem to be effective. Enough
water will be reserved as a protec
ton against fire. The total subscllp
ton now amounts to S4S,000. This
added to $4,000 from the city makes
$4,000 at the disposal Of the relic:
| committee. The ruins are still under
police guard. All streets are nov
| open and the electric cars are run
ming. Business everywhere will bt
resumed to-day.
The tornado struck the town o
Bowling Green, Ky, and completed.
| wipedit out. Bowling Green has
population Of about 5000 inhabitant'
and the loss Of life is conjectured t.
be correspondingly large.
ONLY 90 KILLED IN INLoU1sS1LLE.
LoU1sv1LLE,!Ky., April 1.-The tota
number killed here by the tornado o
Tuesday night is SO. It is fearet
| that R. R. Barton. of Pittsburg, /
dead in the ruins. So fan about IS
badly wounded persons have beer
found. Several of these who wer
hurt are at the hospital in q dyin:
condition.
The State Legislature this after
noon appropriated 100000 for relic
| of the sufferers by the cyclone.
| HENDERSON, Ky, April 1.-Th
total of the killed in Webster count
| is 40 and of wounded so.
|