Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-04-04
Scores of Them are Living in Tenn.
porary Board or Canvas
Shelters.
The Levees Along the Mississippi
Have Broken in Different Places.
Flooding the Country.
Plantations are Being Overlooked
Which We're Never Sub
merged Before.
Great Loss Of Property and Some
Loss of Life Will Result From
the I%nundatiOn.
The Condition of Louisville.

SAS AuAuNlAOAl
The Condition of Louisville.
LOUISVILLE, March 31.-With four
inches of w~ater-soaked snow, which has
slowly melted during the day, the situa-
ton in the tornado stricken district has
been gloomy indeed. Night is settling
down dismal and dreary upon the
wrecked homes and in spite of all efforts
there are many broken in spirit though
their physical wants are supplied. Scores
of families are sheltered only by hastily
put up boards or canvass, and they are
wet and cold. Thanks to the generous
and in~telligently conducted relief there
is plenty of food and hunger is not now
among the miseries. The snow has
greatly retarded repairs. Tonight very
few of the houses, even where least dam
aged, are inhabitable. Much of the
household goods have been exposed
to the weather and proportionately a
total value involved. Much greater loss
has been caused by the snow to house.
keepers of moderate means than to bust
ness houses on Main and Market streets,
or even to the tobacco warehouse men.
In an interview with the associated press
to-day Mayor Jacobs said: 1--WE have now
about recovered all the bodies of those
who we're destroyed by the recent
tornado and l am thoroughly satisfied
that the total number of those who we're
killed outright and these who will die
from wounds sustained thereby will not
reach 100, while the destruction of prop
erty was very heavy, but still greater sui
fering will fall upon our humber classes
who we're living in their modest homes
that had been accumulated by years of
toll. In my Judgment 100000 will go
far towards making whole the losses of
these poor people, but such as these will
have to be cared for, no matter at what
cost. And as far as business is CON
cerned, with the exception of the leaf
tobacco market, it has never been sus-
pended, and eve in this branch of trade
one-half of the warehouses are intact,
and all are ready for custom as am
pie storage room has been acquired in
other portions of the city. Notwith-
standing only two days had elapsed af-
ter the cyclone, all wrecks and debris
had been removed on yesterday. I have
never seen such courage and recupera-
tive power as has been evinced by all
who have been afflicted, and while recog-
nizing, as some do, that the fruits of a
life time labor have been swept away,
still they To- bravely and with proper
humility accept their fate. From the
morning after the cyclone they have been
at work repairing the damages they have
sustained. AS far as the public is con-
cerned order never has been better, and
outside Of the narrow limits of the dis
trict swept by the storm no one would
know that he was in a city that had been
sscourged by a fierce and most desolat-
ing tornado"
A REMARKABLE EXPERIENCE.
LOUISVILLE, March 31.-The total
number killed by the tornado here Thurs
day nights ninety-three. So far about
$50 who were badly injured have been
discovered. The majority of those who
we're seriously hurt are at the various
hospitals, and several of these are not
expected to live. When the cyclone ap-
preached on Thursday, a steam ferry
was in mid river, crossing to Jefferson
vile from Louisville. Superintendent
Dorsey of the ferry company, Pilot
Mullen and Captain Dugan were in the
pilot house. They saw the storm ap-
preaching from the southwest. but feared
no danger, as it rarely comes from that
quarter, but to be prepared the boat was
headed to run up stream before the wind.
Suddenly they were enveloped in a vast,
solid sheet Of water, flashed through
by vivid lightning. Horrible rushing
noises drowned all other sounds. In the
cabin thirty-fv passengers we're run
ming to and fro, panic stricken, while
some of the crew tried to hold the doors
shut. It was all over in an instant and
the boat had beeIa lifted bodily and
turned around end for end and heading
for Kentucky instead of Indiana. A
dead calm succeeded for q short time.
The boat finally landed in Jefferson. A
special from Henderson says the total
number of killed in Webster county is
forty, and of wounded eighty. Nearly
all are in a. poor section known as
Black Ford. A relief corps has been
sent from Henderson. A coat was found
which contained papers showing that it
had been blown from Paducah, a hun
dred miles away.
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