The Russellville Democrat., 1890-04-03
vile. is reported as being entirely de- rnoliahad

was found hanging on bush, near the railroad track. The policy belonged to
 man in Louisville, and had blown all
 the way from that city. All sorts of | ' pieces of timbers and debris h of all sorts wore scattered along the h line h
 D. L. Lockwood, baggage master on ii the same train, was in the tornado also. v Said he:
 ssI was riding in street car on lief T ferson street, between Seventh and 2 Eighth, when the tornado struck tho car A keavy telegraph pele was blown ' across the car mashing It. and nearly killing lady passenger, whom I car ried in my arms to place where medi- cal aid could be had. was p.linjured, but the poor-car driver was blown away I and never heard of or seen since. It Il was an awful sight. Scores of people T were killed and every thing was one t mass of ruins" h
 'I was in the Kansas City tornado W several years ago." said passenger, i, ''but the horrible catastrophe of last a night was the most awful thing I ever saw. I saw dozens of dead people being q taken from Falls City Hall, where per i, haps a hundred or more were killed. i. The Union Depot was completely wrecked
 Said another: "A steamboat was bodily lifted from the river and blown P out on the land quarter of mile. a The Western part of the city seems to have got the worst of the storm" ;"
 "I never saw such time for selling n papers" said newsboy, who came in n on train No. yesterday morning. Peo- t pie are crazy for them, and almost tear e one to pieces to get them e
 The storm in Tennessee. h
 GALLATIN, Tenn, March 20. The s worst storm that ever visited this sec 8 tion passed over this city Thursday a night. Two miles from Gallatin houses o were blown down. The brick residence b of John Hibbett was completely blown il away. The walls fell in and killed an r. ighteen-months-old baby of John Hib- fl bett, also boy twelve years old, son of s Palo Langford Hibbett is dying and | his wife is horribly mangled Across the pike from Hibhetes, Wm. Patter- sons residence was blown down, injur- ing five persons. Residences were com pietely wrecked and large trees up u rooted and carried some distance
 The worst features of the cyclone q have not been reported. After sweep h ing up Rogana, the storm king began II it's dreadful march. It took north e east course and for twenty-five miles W carried every thing in front of 1t. Ali o houses beyond Bledsoe up to Eulia, f, Macon County, have been blown into q atoms. Fully one hundred people are i, crippled in that section and are under q the care of doctors. Men, women and q children are in terrible condition in that section. All kinds of rumors are ', V afloat. Communication by telephone is ~ cut off. '
 The town of Fayetteville, Lincoln U County, fared badly. A negro woman is was killed outright by falling walls and a number of persons were injured. lt
 Chicago Severely Visited.
 CHICAGO, March 2S.-The storm that P set in last night is still raging at eleven o'clock with almost unabated fury, a b high wind and blinding snow making sl an almost impossible ri feat Lake Michigan is in a fury, and b the famous North Shore drive upon u which the palatial mansions of Potter is Archbishop Feehan and other a, residents are located is being le rapidly swept away. It is reported that q, the water-worlSs tunnel in process of | from point on the !, Lake Front opposite the Auditorium and '' extending nearly mile under the lake P has filled with water. Over half mill II ion dollars have so far been expended Hela o.,J 4.ln | n phone poles in the city and suburbs D have been blown from their bases, snap si ping wires or so tangling them it will " take several days to get them in proper V order. Trains are all delayed, street. r, cars move slowly and the streets are so ii filled with snow and slush that walking is no easy matter. il
 Disastrous Work at JefersonviIle, Ind.
 JEFFERsoNvILLE, Ind, March 26 A c; tornado of disastrous proportions visit le ed this city at $50 last night Its u course was from the east and went due fl west, running one-half the buildings in ls it's way. Residences on Market street, 2. from Walnut to West Spring, are total wrecks also from Walnut street to tho q extreme western portion of the ', " h. 5ance of eighteen blocks, all " of the buildings are down and the u presents terrible sight. c' noone was killed, but many e are badly injured. The rain at the time was coming down in torrents ae- V by hailstones the size of wal rS nuts. The wind blew furiously, and the O sound which it caused was deafening to it near Women and children in their u night clothes ran through the streets a, almost frightened out of their wits. al
 Hurricane at Cincinnati.
 CINCINNATI, March 29.-A violent b. wind storm passed over the city yester- W lay morning and caused considerable oi iamage among the hilltop suburbs. VI The hurricane struck about a. m, blow fl ing away great trees and swaying houses b In it's path. Houses were unroofed and nj fences splintered and destroyed. yt
 At Madisonville, barns and outhouses p were blown down. At the Sixteenth .' district colored school on Auburn ave- " quo the storm struck with terrible :" Iorce. The tin roofing seemed to rise IS with wings from it's lodgment, car . wing with it the copings and consider lble woodwork. The pupils were as- u for study, and it is little less N than miraculous that there was no ono U In harms way. The children were k panic-stricken, but were safely re- e moved from the building. The damage C will not exceed $500.
 Several Lives ImpcrIIed.
 CHIcAGo, March 2s.--News has been received that the superstructure over the intermediate crib, about two and g half miles out in the lake, was de- .i stroyed by last nights storm, and that 2, the employees there had been for hours .linrinr tn thn rnlns with fhair livna l