Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-04-03
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

LOUISVILLE, March 26-A tornado
struck Louisville at 7:30 o'clock last
night. 1t entered the southeastern por-
tion of the city at Eighteenth street, and
swept path five blocks wide diagonally,
reaching in a ragged line to Seventh St,
leveling every building in its path
probably $500 houses. A rough esti-
mate puts the killed at 500, with thous-
ands injured. The city is filled with a
erazed mass of people wildly seeking
friends.
A large force of men is at work on
ruins, and about 100 bodies have been
recovered. 1t is impossible to get the
names of those killed or injured. The
buildings on Main street from Eighth
to Fourteenth street are in ruins. not
one of the handsome wholesale hOlses
being left, and all the tobacco ware
houses were swept away. On Market
street, Falls City Hall, 4-story build
ing, was blown down while several Ma
sonic and Knights lodges were in ses-
sion, and 100 men and women were bu-
ried in the ruins.
son and Walnut streets from Tenth to
Sixteenth street is in ruins. Parkland,
suburb is swept away. At the Union
Depot, at the foot of Seventh street, the
Chesapeake and Ohio train for Washing
ton was just starting out filed with pas
sengerS. The building was demolished,
crashing in on the train. All the passen-
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newsboy. Such desolation no city has
known in this century. Every building,
tree and telegraph pole in the district
struck was leveled.
The cyclone was predicted by the Sig
nal Service bulletins yesterday after
noon, but no heed was paid to the warn
ing.
LOUISVILLE, March 29-The dawn of
another day has brought new hope, new
life and new strength to the people of
this sorely stricken city, and to-day all
is hustle and activity where yesterday
listleSs inaction and the stupor of grief
prevailed. The extent of the calamity.
awful as it is, has proved to be much less
than at first supposed.
The actual loss of life is now estima-
ted at not over $50, but it may be in
creased by the death of a score or more
of the badly injured. The damage to
property, too, has assumed smaller pro-
portions, and many hundreds of build-
ings reported as being utterly ruined in
the confusion and excitement of yester-
day are, in calmer mood which prevails
to-day, seen to be only partially wreck
ed and capable of speedy repair
On the north side of the street, oppo-
site Falls City Hall, the debris is piled
up as high as the second story windows.
About fifty carts and wagons are driv-
ing to and fro, carrying the immense
loads of brick and mortar away as fast
as the rescuing party throw them from
the ruins. The work is now progressing
in thoroughly systematic way.
Next to Market and Main streets, JEFF
ferson street probably suffered more
than any other portion of the city From
Ninth to Twelfth street the destruction
was complete. The sidewalks and
ST. eets were a network of wires, tele-
G aph poles, trees and remnants of
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totally blocked by the eroofings torn from
the stores, some of which had been car
ried by the hurricane two squares or
more.
Wagons were unable to reach many
Of the homes of those who were anxious
to move the remainder of their furniture |
All day to-day men were busy cleaning
the streets to allow transportation, and |
placards were posted on many of the |
houses and trees offering three, four and |
five dollars for laborers. Women and |
children were pressed in to work to |
clean the debris away. The police and
privates of the Louisville Legion were
stationed at every corner to keep back |
the crowds which thronged to see the
destruction.
Between Tenth and Eleventh streets
The destruction to property was small in
with the total destruction
IN the square below.
The track of the tornado across Wal
nut street was confined principally to
he two squares between Twelfth and
FOurteenh streets, and within this limit
'nly the houses on the north side of the
street were grealy damaged, with the ex