The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-04-04
ODDITIES OF THE CYCLONE.
miraculous Stories from Louisville-R,
vised List of the Dead.

Miraculous Stories from Louisville-Re-
vised List of the Dead.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, April 2.-There are hun
dreds of the most interesting and miraculous
incidents connected with the tornado, show
ing the queerest sort of freaks of the wind
A block of iron casting weighing over l5O
pounds was blown into the second story of
the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southern railway
building near the Union depot. Nobody
knows where it came from, and the nearest
building from which it could have come is
nearly 100 yards away. Great sheets of iron
roofing were dropped upon DIR. Barry's
farm, near Turner's Station, forty miles
from the city, on the Short line In the
ruins Of house on West Main street clock
was found clinging 80 the wall 1t was a
large office clock, but no one in the vicinity
had ever seen it before and no one knows
where it came from 1t was badly broken,
but the hands still pointed to $50 p. m. A
large slab of marble was found in a resi-
dence on Madison street which was never
there before. 1t will weigh over 100 pounds
At Baird's drug store-on Market, above
Ninth-two bird cages with the birds were
blown in through the skylight. The cages
were not injured and the birds are as full of
song as ever. When the building occupied
by Brand g. Bethel, the tobacco men, on
Green street, went to pieces portion of the
frame work dropped through the roof of a
little cottage just east of the factory. 1t
consisted of heavy timber, to which were
mortised four upright pieces of timber.
When this came through the cottage the
family were sitting around the table in the
dining room, and the four uprights simply
pinned them in, but did not hurt them in
the least. 1t was one of the most wonderful
escapes yet heard of,
Below will be found list of the seventy
seven dead according to the count of the
coroner
George Schmidt, William Stephens, Chris Mil.
ler, William Hoey, Henry Leugo, Rudolph saen-
ger, John Rehl, Charles Schaefer, John Kelsall
Gustav KutZeb, Gustav Kutzeb, Jr Walter
Gaddy (colored). Maggie Gaddy (colored), Robert
Gaddy (colored) James Smith. Henry King, Car.
rie Baker Annie Stautte Mrs Horan Geneyieye
Simms Louis Smms Jr, Peter Fuller Thomas
J. Puff s. f. BaTnwell, Dudley Barnwell Frank
Paul, Jr., Fritz Depp, Alexander Mckee Ada
Helm tcoioredl Bridget Grow, ii. Moore, Car-
ence Lusher, Mary Plus, Walter Davis (coloredl
Jack Barmann, William Clifford George W Eos.
ter, Rudolph Lipps Ed Moran, Moses Lazarus
Maggie McCombs, Bud Sullivan, John limerick
limerick infant, J, b. Schildt, William Diemer
Charles Siebert Theodore Engemeier, A. Steu.
bling, Elmer Il. Barnes, John q Hamilton Annie
Niles, j. Flieoner, j. NJ. Stephins. Mary Nc
Laughlin, Bridget Kelly, Salhe Bishop, William
II. Good, b. F. Randolph, Mary Ryan Parker
Cornell, Maggie Campbell, Mary McGinty John
Renoat, Charles jerks, Dietrich Denker, Engel.
best Schell John Raidy Emma Hopstatter, f
Petty, Thaddeus Mason, William Geissel William
Hebb, Mrs. Hasson Mrs Belle Lelof Mrs Peter
This is not claimed an entirely accurate
or complete list, but it is nearer the exact
truth than any published yet