The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-04-02
TERRIBLE CYCLONE !
TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE DEAD.
LouisviIle's Great Loss.
Hundreds of Business Houses De-
stroyed, and Many Lives Lost
In the Storm.

SlTOIGQs anu fUdfiJ LIVES --N~N
in the Storm.
LOUISVILLE. March 2s.-Loaisyille is a
scene Of woe and wreck unparalleled IN IFS
history. In tue center Of the city lie mass
Of crushed buildings, prostrated by the force
of an awful tornado. while thousands OF
men, women and children are wringing their
hands and weeping in q crazed way over the
loss Of relatives and friends.
1t is well nigh impossible yet TO give ae-
curate figures Of the loss Of life Certainly
no less than $500 beings lie in that mass OF
crushed houses and homes.
The spectacle is one Of incredible horror,
debris and death. Over one hundred man
gied forms have already been dug from the
ruins and the work has only commenced.
WITH FRIeHrrUL VELOCITY.
The tornado came with.a violence almost
npossible to conceive or describe. II en-
tered the city at half past o'clock last even
ing. Ii first struck the southeastern portion
Of the town and swept path five blocks
wide
With such fiightfnl volociety did it come
that ii leyeled every building in its path.
To show its immense power it seized the
most substantial structures made Of stone
and iron and moved them down like wheat.
Solid structures, made for the special pur-
pose Of warehouses, TO contain large stocks
OF heavy material, were Frustrated as with
an aerial iiail
Fully 2,50o houses are a mass Of shapeless
rains.
cRAzED MASS oF PEOPLE.
The city is filed with crazed mass Of
people wildly seeking friends. A large force
Of men is at work on the ruins and about
100 bodies have been recovered. It is i'm
possible to get names.
Buildings on Main street from Eighth 10
Fourteenth street. are in ruins. Not one Of
the handsome wholesale houses is left. and
all the tobacco warehouses are swept away.
On Market, Fall City Hall. four story
building, WAS prostrated. while several Ma
sonic and Knights of Honor lodges were in
session, and 100 people, men and women,
are buried in the ruins.
Every other house on Market and Jefier-
son and Walnut. within from Tenth to Six
ieenth streets. Is in ruins. Falkland, sub
( urb. Is swept away At the Union depot. at
the foot of Seventh street, the Chesapeak
and Ohio train for Washington was just
starting out filled with passengers. The
! building was prostrated. crashing in on the
train. All the passengers were, however,
rescued but one uewsboy. Every building,
tree and every telegraph pole is leveled with
/ in the district struck.
THE cYcLoSE PREDICTED.
The cyclone was predicted by the signal
service bulletin yesterday afternoon, but
no heed was paid its warning The cyclone
came with a scarce warning sound. and in
all the buildings struck the inhabitants
were engaged in their usual avocations,
without an effort 20 escape when their
homs IS collapsed. The district laid waste
comprises an area Ofthe city three miles
long and nearly half mile wide
THE RIVER CROSSED.
The cyclone crossed the river, striking
Jacksonville, Ind, badly wrecking, Front
street. which is on the river front, but no
lives we're lost Hundreds Of wounded have
bet n taken to their homes and the hospitals,
an all the physicians in the city are en-
gagged in attending them. At O'Clock seven
fires were burning. They were all extin-
guished.
LOUISVILLE KY, March 3O.-If possible
the throngs ofsigh,-seeers we're even larger
than the day previous, when the woeful
spectacle was first unsolded to the light Of
day in all its hideousness.
Early trains brought hundred of curious
visitors and agents Of relief from neighbor-
ing cities and towns to swell the multitude
Of those who wende with a local interest
toward the scene and the guards had much
difficulty in maintaining their lines against
the pressure. All night long the searching
parties continued their labors and { be sound
of rattling wagons rose out on every street.
Carpenters aud timers worked like beavers
tile whole day trying TO repair broken roofs
and strengthen dangerously weakened walls
Glngs of linemen were getting the tangled
I'd brC ken wires ofthe telephone and tele-
ra N out Of the way for further repairs.
Meanv hile the solemn tolling of church
bells, the fr quent passage Of ladened hearses
and long lines Of funeral carriages gave note
to the hurrying crowd that the tornado 5
victims we're passing to their las, abodes
THE loss PLACED At TWO AND ONE HALF NIL
LIONS
Careful estimates by competent under
writer's and salvage agents are nearly agreed
that the damage 10 buildings Of all classes,
to domestic goods and commercial stocks
will aggregate close to s.. $4,000, with a lib
eral allowance for rebuilding and repairs.
The main point of comforting thought is
that the loss of life will not prove nearly so
great as first supposed. At late hour last
night % names were borne on the list Of
the dead, and Of those but three we're taken
from the ruins during the whole of yester-
day. 1t is nov thought the death roll will
not exceed $50.
BURYING THE VICTIMS.
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