Los Angeles herald., 1890-03-28
FEARFUL HAVOC.
A Terrible Tale of Woe and
Destruction.
Louisville, KY, Wrecked by
a Cyclone
Loss of Life Estimated at From
. 1000 too1, 500.
Terrific Storms Throughout the
Mississippi Valley.
Heavy Storms in the Northwest.
Railroad Traffic Impeded---Is
Wiggins's Prophecy
Fulfillede
Associated Press Dispatches. |


New YORK, March 2S.-2 a. ma
report just received here says the chief
operator of the Western Union Company
at Louisville, KY, has arrived at Jeffer-
sonville, Ind, across the river from
Louisville. He reports terrible destruc-
ton there, almost the entire western
portion of the city of Louisville being in
ruins, and 1000 to 1900 supposed to
have been killed. This information is
said to come over the railway wire be-
tween Jeffersonville and indianapolis.
CHICAGO, March 2S-1 :15 a. NIT is
rumored that Louisville, Ky, has been
swept by cyclone and that there has
been serious loss of life The report is
not yet confirmed, and it will be very
difficult to get information, although
every effort is being made. All the
wires to Louisville from every direction
have been down since early last evening.
CINCINNATI, March 27.--Midnight-Th
storm must have been terrible in the
Ohio valley. There has been no COM
municatiOn by wire along the Ohio river
all night, from Cincinnati down. The
Kentucky and Tennessee wires from
here are all gone.
CINCINNATI, March 2S.-Information
has just been received as follows: A
cyclone struck Louisville in the south
western portion and took northeasterly
direction. An eyewitness, who has
arrived from Jeffersonville, says: II only
saw the course of it from Fourteenth and
Walnut to Eleventh and Market streets.
From this latter point it followed it's
course to Seventh. and River, where it
left the city, andstriking across the river
reached Jeffersonville at the foot fSpring
street. Little damage WAS done in
Jeffersonville. However, in Louisville
the debastation is terrible, and the loss
of life will certainly reach hun
dreds, if not thousands. In one
building at Twelfth and Market
two lodges and a dancing school were
in session, there being in the building
perhaps one hundred people. Not one
OF them tonight is thought TO have
escaped l saw six or eight corpses
taken out in fifteen minutes.
There was scarcely anything
left that would indicate that this heap
of rubbish had ever been building, and
if any of its inmates escaped it was by
miracle
CHICAGO, March 27.-The following
dispatch was received by the Associated
Press at 2:30, from its Louisville repre-
sentative, by railroad wires, and is be-
lieved to be an authentic statementof
the situation:
LOUISVILLE, March 27.-Shortly after
9 9o'clock tornado swept over this city,
wreckiTg two or three hundred houses,
and killing two hundred people.
The wind came from the South
west. The Union depot at the foot OF
Seventh street, was blown into the
raging torrent of the Ohio river.
A train of cars which was making
up for the Louisville Southern road,
went over with the building. The city
hall, on West Market street, was
wrecked In the hall were over
one hundred people, and but a few
of them escaped alive. Many buildings
after falling caught fire and the inmates
were burned. All the streets are blocked
with debris, fallen buildings or telegraph
and electric light wires.
The Storm General.
CHICAGO, March pa severe storm,
a which reached here at noon, has been
general throughout the Northwest.
Snow fell heavily this afternoon for an
hour, then turned into rain and sleet,
accompanied by furious gale. The
telegraph service tonight is crippled in
all directions. aas fe}
In the Ohio Valley.
CINCINNATI, March 27.-There was 6
heavy thunder and rain storm in this
city this evening, lasting over two hours
South and southwest, through Ken
lucky, Southern Indiana and Southern
Illinois and Middleand Western Tennes
see wire communication is entirely in
terrupted tonight by the storm. Meage
news from the upper Ohio valley reports
it's falleverywhere.
Southern Illinois.
CAIRO, Ills., March ga wind ant
hail storm passed over Cairo this morn
ing. No damage was done here, bu
considerable damage is reported iron
Birds Point, Mo-, where it is reporte'
several houses were wrecked; also alon
the line of the Mobile and Ohio railway
All wires from the city are down, an,
there is no chance of obtaining furthe
information.
Struck by Tornado.
A tornado struck the town of MetroI
oils, Illinois, this evening, doing grea
damage to property. Many houses wer
blown down. The loss of life as yet
not reported. Mill Greek Mills was ais
visited by the storm and considerabl
damage is reported. The wires al
down for six miles, and no further info
nation can be obtained tonight.
Around St. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, March 27.-There was
severe rain storm and high wind in tn
city this afternoon, but beyond fe