Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-04-03
TERRIBLE TORNADO.
$500 Hundred Houses Wrecked
in Louisville, KY.
From Five Hundred to Eight Hun
dred Lives Reported Lost ana
Hundreds Wounded.

CHICAGO, March ga tornado at
Louisville, KY, last night destroyed
$500 houses and resulted in fright
full loss of life, variously estimated at
from 500 to 800.
CHICAGO, March 2S.-The latest in
formation from Louisville says the
central and western parts of the city
are badly wrecked. Portland, sub
urb, has been swept away. The indi-
cations are that the loss of life is from
250 to 800. About forty-tive business
houses have been destroyed on Main,
Market. Jefferson and Walnut streets
from Tenth to Sixteenth street. The
telegraph wires in the city are pros
trated and the only outlet from the
main Office as yet IL from tho Penn
sylvania depot The telegraph com.
pany is hurrying men and material to
Louisville from all directions as rapid
ly as possible.
LOUISVILLE, March 2S.-A large
force of men is at work on the ruins
and about $50 bodies have been re-
covered. Buildings on Main street
from Eighth to Fourteenth street are
in ruins. Not one of the handsome
wholesale houses is left and all
the tobacco warehouses are swept
away. Every building, tree and
telegraph pole is leveled within
the district struck. Such desolation
no city in this country save Johnstown
has known in this century. The dis
trict laid waste comprises an area of
the city three miles long and nearly
half mile wide. Hundred Of the wound
ed have been taken to their homes and
hospitals. A rough estimate places
the killed at 400.
LOUISVILLE, March 2S. 1850 p. m.--
1t is now thought that the deaths will
number about one hundred and fifty.
A large force OF men have been sent
out to make a thorough canvass of the
devastated district and report the
losses of life and property as fully as
possible. The property loss at pres
ent is estimated at nearly a million
dollars. The work of rescuing the
mangled dead goes bravely on. Hun
dreds OF anxious men are working as
they never worked before for the
bodies of friends and relatives that lie
buried in the mass OF brick and mortar
that covers the site where yesterday
stood the walls Of the city hall. The
cries OF men, women and children are
heard on every side, and .surging
crowd of ten thousand people blocks
the street for squares. 1t is a sigh to
strike anguish to tho soul. The pen
is powerless to express the awful scenes
that each succeeding minute roll
through the CHASTITY panorama; the
bodies Of the dead and wounded were
being dragged from beneath the ruins
all around the district, and men, wo-
men and children linger about filled
with anxiety lest they recognize in the
shapeless masses the remains OF some
relative or friend. Along Main street
the pathway Of the storm extended
from Sixth to Eleventh. and not sim
gle building was left standing. Occa-
sionally a massive stone or iron front
still stood intact, while the entire
structure proper, had been swept away.
This morning was presented the most
stupenduous spectacle of disaster ana
ruin ever witness ed. In the course of
the storm lay the tobacco market of
the city, and the largo warehouses al
most to the last one lay in ruins.
Thousands of hogsheads OF tobacco lay
in the mass of brick and mortar. The
Louisville hotel was unroofed and 9TH
erwise wrecked, while the building on
the west, occupied as a cigar store on
the first floor and sleeping rooms on
the second and third, was RACED en-
tirely to the ground. The destruction
of this house cost many lives. Many
were young girls employed at the ho-
tel next door. Saloons and other
available places have been turned into
hastily improviscd morgues where bod
les are removed and left awaiting iden-
LITIGATION.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, MARCHES At 9
o'clock this morning u special train
with relief committee and corps OF
surgeons On board left for Louisville.
night, says the streets from Louisville
hotel to the depot on Fourteenth street
were filled with debris and that the
death rate will certainly reach 800.
JEFFERsoNvuLE, IND, March %
A tornado of disastrous proportions
visited this city at $50 last night.
Residences on Market street from Wal.
nut and West Spring are total wrecks,
also from Walnut street 70 the extreme
western portion OF the city. On Front
street for distance OF sixteen blocks
all buildings are down and the thor
oughfare presents terrible sight.
Fortunately, no one was killed, but
many were injured.