New-York tribune., 1890-03-29
FARMLAND TORN TO PIECES.
THE BIG STORM VISITED THE SUBURBS OF
LOUISVILLE FIRST.
GREAT DAMAGE TO PROPERTY IN PARKLAND
AND JEFFERsoNvILLE - MIRACULOUS Es-
CAPEs OF THE PEoPLE-No LIVES
LOST IN EITHER oITY-ANTIcs


LOST IN EITHER oITY-ANTIcs
OF THE STORM.
Louisville. March 2s.-Al the entire west
ern portion of Parkland, which lies just oeyono
the southwestern limits of this city, was wrecked
by the storm The storm struck ParKland before
reaching this city, and it's course was most
peculiar one 1t did not move IN a Greet line,
moving down a path before 1t, but went about
its dreadful work in zig-zag fashion, SO that IL
is almost impossible to measure the exact track
traversed by the storm 10 the west OF the town.
from the direction in which the storm had come.
path several hundred yards wide is moved down,
the trees being cut off like stalks of grain before
the reaper's scythe.
On the outskirts of the town the two-story
brick house of Mr.. Keepers struck by the
wind The heavy tin roof was rolled up like
niece of paper and carried long distance. Mrs.
Keppers was i'll with pneumonia. and when the
roof was blown of them her husband and an
other man at ono. picked up the bed upon which
she was lying 10 carry her to a place OF safety.
The work was not too quickly begun No sooner
had they reached the yard with their burden than
the full force of the wind struck the roofless
building and swept ii down if it were egg
shell.
A number Of houses were blown down, but
the inmates were all up and had time to escape.
TIE frame schoolhousc was lifted from its fonnda-
iions and moved several feet onward. The Daisy
Line Depot almost totally destroyed, and the
track was covered with rubbish for several hundred
Yards Mr. Howard's house or Virginia ave, a
two-story structure, badly wrecked in the
rear Mrs. Howard was caught in the wreck.
but not seriously hurt. j. G. Browns two
story frame house, short distance away, was
,,ipo
Jacksonville, just across the river from this
city, was struck by the tornado at o'clock.
The noise and whir of the storm distinctly
heard two miles in the country, where people
wondered what it meant. Fortunately not per-
son was killed in Jacksonville. though some were
badly hurt East of Front st. the damage is as
follows:
T.. b. Dfendorfer and Eugene Dorsey roofs gone loss
500 T Colihert roof ssoc Old Orphans Home and
property OF NJ. " Mccain, totally destroyed, with coal
stables S. 900 bass property roof and rear
gone, 81 Oo0 Maybury property, roof, $500 house Of
Captain William Howard. totally gone. 81 Oo0 two tene
ments Maybury property occupied by John Noonan and
Henry Elmer and walls Lent So 500; Orvill West
house slightly damaged Matte McCures house. damaged ;
Judge Ferguson; home roof gone, 5000; Benjamin Con-
ways and Charles Coins's houses, total wreck; tho
steamer Lancaster pilot and stsrboard guards gone
loss 900 F. Baer house root gone and other damage
$500 Absosn Singleton. roof 5000 James Burke and
Judge Jewets houses totally destroyed 10000 house
OF j. G.. Howard damaged; house OF I. j. Hawkins and
Thomas Mckinney. totally destroyed house o. Fillmore
Hill roof blown OF.
The houses of Mayor T. f. Wardec and Mr.
Miller, on Locust-st. and Densfords barber-shop
on Wast., were struck by lightning. The
chmneys of the steamer ShalcroSs carried
away.
The destruction of property is enormous, and
is estimated at not less than 100000. The
force of the wind was terrible and carried every
thing before it. skif was lifted bodily from
the river and blown into the sccond-story window
of the house of w. \. ". Dorney.
The terrible funnel-shaped cloud was seen CON-
ing up the river by several persons. among them
Walter Dean who says it looked like black
double funnel, with the narrowest part in the
middle. Its could be heard long before il
struck the city, and people greatly alarmed
by it.
At the house of the Rev. T. G. Bosley Jacob
Green and George Jones were in the second story
when it fell, but mraculously escaped Miss
Leila Jewett was slightly hurt about the head
when the house fell. An old lady badly in
jured about the legs in the old Orphans Home
when il fell. These were the most serious acci-
dents. IL is simply wonderful that one
killed. This morning the roof of the main en-
trance Of the Government depot blew away, barely
missing John Wilson and team of horses.