Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-04-05

THE last week in March was made
 by the prevalence of a
 furious cyclone east of tho Rocky
 extending from the mid ile of Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin | and Michigan, on the north, to Texas, northern Mississippi and Alabama on the south, and from west ern Kansas to the eastern part of Kentucky. More or less damage and loss of life occurred throughout this vast area, but the great force of the cyclone was expended through Ken lucky, passing eastward to the At lantic Ocean. The city of Louisville was in the direct path of the dreadful visitation and it (. cut it's way through the most thickly settled DOT tion of the city, carrying death and devastation in it's path. Huge edifices, and some of them the most strongly built, were crushed like egg-shells, and the people, so suddenly overwhelm- ed with the fury of the elements, found themselves without the least warning in a melstrom of fury. The exact number of lives lost will, per haps, never be known, but at least two hundred were instantly killed and a thousand more or less maimed. To add to the horrors of the situation, fires broke out in the fallen buildings and the torrents of falling rain was unable to quench them. Sorrow and gloom rests upon the ill-fated city as the task of laying away the dead is carried on as expeditiously as the pe- culiar circumstances demand. The calamity excites the sympathy of the whole civilized world and relief for the unfortunates is pouring in from all quarters. Never in the history of our country has such a dreadful visitation taken place. Added to this phe- nomenal scourge the floods have over flowed the levees along the Mississippi river and the whole country is inun- dated and farms, houses and towns washed away. The city of New Or leans, just emerging from the great jeopardy of an unprecedented flood that rushed through many of it's principal streets, is again threatened with a still greater calamity by the rising waters that have not yet reached it.
 The United States signal service has warned it's people to prepare for it and predicts the entire destruction of that city. Even Memphis, that has always been considered above the highest possible floods, is partly submerged and is threatened with great danger Further storms of rain and snow arc reported throughout the Mississippi valley that will augment the volume of angry waters beyond all human calculation and it seems almost i'm
 possible that an appalling loss of life and property can be avoided. Every effort is being put forth to alleviate the sufferings of the unfortunate peo
 pie, but in spite of all that can bC done there is little hope of reaching more than a mere fraction of them. Il
 is believed that the channel of the Mis-
 sissippi river has become clogged witt debris and sediment that forces tho waters through the numerous crevas
 ses upon the adjacent level lands that lie below the water level. If such bt the case there can be no conjecture a: to the ultimate extent of the terrible flood, and new channel may possibly be cut by the waters. Surely our planet is passing through an era of unusua
 meteorological conditions that beal calamity and death in their train.