Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-04-03
THE GREAT STORM.
Reports From Various Points In
Kentucky and Tennessee.

1t is now pretty near certain that
the entire loss of life from the tornado
in Louisville will not so much beyond
100, If that number is reached. Up
to this writing the total number OF
killed at all places whose bodies have
been recovered, aud Of the missing,
whom it is reasonably certain are
dead, is So. In addition to those there
are about dozen who are so badly
injured that death may ensuc. Any
where from $50 to 200 persons are in
jured to an extent worth noticing, and
probably 500 10 1000 have very slight
bruises.
Dispatches received from points in
Kentucky show that the storm created
terrible havoc. The town OF Grand
Rivers, twenty seven miles east OF
Louisville, was nearly SWEET away.
Matte Beck and John Etheridge (boy)
were killed aud nineteen others in
jured. Passing from Grand Rivers
the cyclone struck the railroad bridge
over the Cumberland river, disabling
it, thus cutting of all trains. All the
telegraph lines were destroyed, and
only through the relief train sent out
from Louisville could the facts be
learned. At Pennington, twenty miles
south, there was great damage to
buildings, but no loss OF life. The
section of country around Eminence,
KY, was visited by the cyclone and
buildings were wrecked. Two per-
sons are known 10 have been killed
and others fatally injured. The wound
ed in Marcen will reach So and at
least dozen of these will die. One
feature OF it was that both physicians
were fatally injured, leaving the town
in Il bad way as far medical attend
auce is concerned. A relief committee
is at work providing food and shelter
for the destitute. The storm did great
damage at Elizabethtown. Nathan
Pauley's daughter was killed and no
fatally hurt. Other people were Sc
riorsly injured. Fatalities are report
ed at several other points in the
country. AT Sulphur Springs the
daughter OF Gideon Coombs was killed
and several people badly hurt.
News of the terrible storm from
points in Tennessee is slow to obtain.
Every house and building between
Bledsoe and Eulia in the path OF the
storm was blown away and hundreds
of people injured, and they are with
out food or shelter. 1t is reported
that the whole town Of Dixon SPRINGS,
in Smith county, was swept out Of
existence by the angry cyclone. Wire
communication is interrupted. Those
injured by the storm near Gallatin
will probably recover. The Chesa-
peake q Nashville road suffers greatly
in two places. About 600 feet OF the
high trestle works were destroyed and
two 300-ton iron bridges were blown
off the pillars and wrecked. The loss
to stock and other property is esti-
mated at ~, 0C0, 900. A dispatch from
Marion, Ky, says large portion Of
that town was destroyed and eighteen
lives lost A family consisting OF Mr..
and Mrs. Jacob Montgomery and the
four daughters and mother of Mrs.
Montague, living in the country eight
lliles from Marion, were crushed to
death by the falling OF their dwelling.
A family boat, moored about five miles
above the mouth of the Green river,
was dashed to pieces against tree,
and man named Kassier and his wife
and sister were drowned.