The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-03
witnesses OF the terrible storm Thurs.
day night. Said they:


of Louisville is one mass OF terrible
ruins-all is woe and horrible disaster.
We were in the city at the time. The
electrical display was the grandest spec
tacle of its kind we ever saw. The
storm began about half-past eight
o'clock. The thunder was simply aw-
full, and by the vivid glare of the light
ming we could see for blocks. All was
a mass of ruins, flying timbers, women,
children and men running here and
there panic-stricken, crying for aid, or
seeking to find friends who were buried
beneath huge masses of ruins.
The storm struck the city from the
southwest and ran in zig-zag direction
across the city, struck the Union Depot
and jumped the river, striking jefferson
vile. At least nine or ten blocks of
that place was destroyed. Before leav-
ing yesterday morning at eight o'clock,
sixty-eight bodies were taken from Falls
City Hall, where there were hundreds
Of people at the time of the accident
The most destruction took place in the
main part of the city. The west end
came in for big share. The awful
tornado did not take straight course,
but jumped up one block and down an
other and here and there. Port Royal,
Henry County, forty miles from Louis
Vile, is reported as being entirely de-
molished.
"At Pendleton, thirty-six miles from
Louisville, $4,000 insurance policy
was found hanging on bush, near the
railroad track. The policy belonged to
a man in Louisville, and had blown all
the way from that city. All sorts of
clothing, pieces of timbsrs and debris
of all sorts were scattered along the
line"
ID. L. Lockwood, baggage master on
the same train, was in the tornado also.
Said he:
II was riding in street car on JEFF
ferson street, between Seventh and
Eighth, when the tornado struck the
car. A heavy telegraph pole was blown
across the car, MASKING it, and nearly
killing lady passenger, whom l car
ried in my arms to place where medi-
cal aid could be had. was uninjured,
but the poor-car driver was blown away
and never heard of or seen since. 1t
was an awful sight. Scores of people
were killed and every thing was one
mass of ruins"
~ was in the Kansas City tornado
several years ago." said passenger,
"but the horrible catastrophe of last
night was the most awful thing ever
saw. saw dozens of dead people being
taken from Falls City Hall, where per-
haps hundred or more were killed.
The Union Depot was completely
wrecked"
Said another: ga steamboat was
bodily lifted from the river and blown
out on the land quarter Of mile.
The Western part of the city seems to
have got the worst of the storm"
81 never saw such time for selling
papers," said a newsboy, who came in
on train No. yesterday morning. Peo-
pie are crazy for them, and almost tear
one to pieces to get them"
The Storm In Tennessee.
GALLATIN, Tenn, March 29.-The
worst storm that ever visited this Sec
tion passed over this city Thursday
night. Two miles from Gallatin houses
were blown down. The brick residence
of John Hibbett was completely blown
away. The walls fell in and killed an
eighteen-months-old baby of John Hib-
bett, also boy twelve years old, son of
Palo Langford. Hibbett is dying and
his wife is horribly mangled. Across
the pike from Hibbett's, VIM. Patter-
sons residence was blown down, injur-
ing five persons. Residences were COM
pletely wrecked and large trees up
rooted and carried some distance.
The worst features of the cyclone
have not been reported. After sweep
ing up Rogana, the storm king began
it's dreadful march. 1t took north
east course and for twenty-five miles
carried every thing in front Of it. Ali
houses beyond Bledsoe up to Eulia,
Macon County, have been blown into
atoms. Fully one hundred people are
crippled in that section and are under
the care of doctors. Men, women and
children are in terrible condition in
that section. Ali kinds of rumors are
afioat Communication by telephone is
cut off.
The town of Fayetteville, Lincoln
County, Jared badly. A negro woman
was killed outright by falling walls and
number of persons were injured.
Chicago Severely visited.
CHICAGO, March 2s.-The storm that
set in last night is still raging at eleven
o'clock with almost unabated fury, a
high wind and binding snow making
pedestrianism an almost impossible
feat. Lake Michigan is in fury, and
the famous North Shore drive, upon
which the palatial mansions of Potter
Palmer, Archbishop Feehan and other
prominent residents are located is being
rapidly swept away. 1t is reported that
the water-works tunnel in process OF
construction from a point on the
Lake Front opposite the Auditorium and
extending nearly mile under the lake
has filled with water. Over half mill
ion dollars have so far been expended
on the enterprise. Telegraph and tele-
phone poles in the city and suburbs
have been blown from their bases, snap
ping wires or so tangling them it will
take several days to get them in proper
order. Trains are all delayed, street.
cars move slowly and the streets are so
filled with snow and slush that walking
is no easy matter.
Attempted to Murder His Whole FamiIv.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, March ga
special to the Tribune from Faulkton.
S. D., says: E. Eckert resident OF
this county, living fifteen miles north