The evening world., 1890-03-28

Louisville disaster reached here about
9.l5 this morning. through Conductor
Robertson. of the Jacksonville. Marion
md indianapolis Railroad, who brought
in his train over the Ohio and Mississippi
track, Ills own road being blockadod by
trees and telegraph poles, blown down by
the cyclone.
Mr.. Robertson Is confident that there
is great loss of life, his estimate being
that the total will reach 500.
Mr.. Robertson was at supper in the
Metropolitan Hotel in Louisville at ex
actly 8 o'clock. when there was n crashing
nnd roaring on the outside and oil the
diners made a rush for the street.
Once there they were confronted by AL
ditionnl terrors. for the mir was full of
flying bricks and signs and roofs, and to
add to the horror of the occasion, every
thing was inky darkness.
The roarin.. crashing sound seemed 10
pass on into the darkness. aud in the
tracf left by it there sprang up in every
direction long shoots Of flame.
Then from the masses of ruins which
the fumes lighted up came shrieks and
sobs and means.
The confusion caused by the tornado
was FOOD succeeded by that OF people
running TO and fro, % IL tire-en-
gines rumbling over the debris with
which the streets wero strewn.
For q time everybody seemed paralyzed
with fears and apparently in doubt
whether to fee or wait for whatever the
rates had III store Tor thom.
The work of rescue was ~ once begun,
and along that part Of tho tuwa' in which
Mr.. Robertson was the sidewalks were
soon piled high with crushed, mangled,
wounded and dead victims Of the storms
wrath.
Wagons of all kinds we're pressed into
service, and the lead and wounded were
hauled away as rapidly AZ the darkness
and the confused condition Of the streets
would permit TO the houses outside the
path Of the cyclone.
Mr.. Robertson remained in the town
but an hour after the storm struck it. and
consequently had but q very limited OPP
%portunity for observation, but what lie
saw is sufficient TO show that when the
full extent of the catastrophe is known
it will be one of the worst in the nations
history.
The storm came from the southwest.
and seems to have been IA veritable
cyclone. The force of the wind wa
hardly felt above the Gait House. but be-
low that SO far as could be seen by the
light Of the blazing runs everything was
laid fiat on the earth.
The fires that were known to be burn
ing when Mr.. Robertson left were as
follows:
On Fourteenth street; at Eighth and
Walnut. between Seventh and Eighth
a big foundry on Fourteenth street; the
Kentucky FIGURING Mills.
The Falls City Hall. in which two or
three secret societies we're holding meet
inss, was laid fiat on the ground.
In the main hall a dance was in progress
at the time. and it is believed That fully
three hundred lost their lives in this
building alone.
The sheds at Seventh street depot were
blown down. covering the Louisville and
Southern trains which were being made
up, ana injuring large numbers of
Street, cars were blown from their tracks
in many cases and crushed against the
walls OF buildings. A large number of
wounded who had received their injuries
in this way were already reported.
When the fire broke out in the ruins on
street a man. his wife and little
girl we're seen wedEsd under the debris.
Though they shrisksd and moansd. and
the spectators made almost hsrCulsAn
Storts to release them from their position,
i was impossible TO ave them. and they :