Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-04-03
DREADFUL TIDINGS.
Several States Swept by a Death
Dealing Cyclone.
louisville. KY, Partially Wrecked and
Many Persons KiIied-A Like Dis
aster in Indiana and Iui-
nois Towns.
TIE LOUISVILLE HORROR.

NE LOUISVILLE AOhEOE-
LOUISVILLE, XIV, March %. = The
number of lives lost in the cyclone of
Thursday night is now pretty definitely
known TO be 1O3. and the injured lbs.
The property loss will be about s., 0OO,-
600
The search for victims is going stead
lily on, and each hour adds largely to
the already long list. In many places
the men labor in great danger Of being
buried beneath the lettering walls at
any moment, and other accidents are
looked for mOmentarily
From Seventh street and the river as
far down as-can be seen one continuous
sea of desolation meets the eye and be-
wilders the thousands OF spectators,
who never dreamed of any thing SO ter
rible. Old soldiers who survived the
stormiest battles OF the civil war,
Scared and thoughtful, walk nervously
about, and their disconnected utterances
tell plainly enough that the most horri-
bic catastrophe of their lives has been
suddenly realized.
In discussing the reports of the com
mittees making house TO house investi-
a
ion as to the actual property loss was
developed. The lowest estimate put il
at 81. 900, 900, the highest at S3,OOO,0oo,
and the best grounded upon facts pre-
scented placed it At 81, 500, O0O There is
almost no insurance.
All the entire western portion of Park
land, which lies just beyond the south
western limits of the city, was wrecked.
At Belleview, KY, John Mckee and
two negroes were burned to death in a
building which blew down At En-
inence, forty miles southeast of Louis
vile, several persons were killed. The
whole country around Louisville is one
mass of mingled poles, timbers, trees
and other debris Port Royal, Henry
County, forty miles from Louisville, is
said to have been entirely destroyed.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, March 81 1t is
now estimated that $50 persons were
killed in this State outside this city
and from fifteen to twenty-five in Ten
nessee, to say nothing of the fatalities
in Illinois, Indiana and other States.
Careneac Moreland and two children
were killed at Marion, KY, by Thurs
days storm Mrs. Moreland is serious
ly injured Their house was blown
down and burned. Berry Rich's wife
and child are mortally wounded and
their house was blown to atoms. j. H.
Robinson's daughter was killed and the
house and contents scattered over the
country. The large house of Hutch
Sultinger was carried away and himself
and wife were badly hurt and their child
was found several hundred yards away.
The wounded will reach fifty-five or
more.
A family consisting of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jacob Montague and four daughters,
and the mother of Mrs. Montague, liv-
ing in the country eight miles from
Marion, were crushed TO death by the
falling OF their dwelling.
Later reports from Paducah and that
section increase the amount of damage
done. Farm-houses in every direction
are leveled, live stock is gone, and at
least eight fatalities, including those
at Grand Rivers, are reported. jackson
HARRISON, farmer eight miles from
Grand Rivers. lost his house, barn and
nearly all his live stock. and all his
family except 3-months-old babe.
A Henderson (Ky) dispatch says the
river bank there gave way during the
cyclone of Thursday and three build
ings went with it. Most discouraging
reports come in. In West Louisville
every business house and half the res
licences were either wrecked or swept
away. Tom Logan, aged s years, was
killed and thirteen others were
hurt, John Lawson and Bud Holbrook
fatally. At Pooltown John Wilson,
John Babb and two children were
killed and many injured. There is
scarcely farm house standing in the
county. At Petersburg several build
ings were unrooted
Blackford was all but wiped out
Twenty-one lives are known to have
been lost in that locality and four times
as many injured.
At Pleasureville Mrs. James Ritson
was killed by falling stone from her
chimney The country there for miles
in all directions is strewn with debris of
all kinds. 1T Eddyville. in Caldwell
County hardly house is left standing
Six people, James Hayes and child, two
children of James Hosmer and two
Young NOulSi. dli EOlOItQ. were killed.
The bridge over the Cumberland river
near Princeton is gone and trains on
that road can not cross for weeks The
loss in Caldwell County is $50 900
The most terrible storm that invaded
that section of the State passed through
Webster County Thursday afternoon
about o'clock. 1t was about twenty
minutes in duration, but in that time
eight lives were lost and about thirty
persons were wounded, some of whom
viii die, and about S1o0 900 worth of
property was destroyed. The track OF
the storm, as far as known here, began
at Blocil Fork. on the Ohio Valley rail-
road, and ended at Sebree, on the Louis
Vile & Nashville railroad
Between Hornburg and Clay seven
teen deaths are reported-one woman
and child not yet having been found
For the second time in its history