Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-28
A TORNAD0'S WORK.
A Portion Of Louisville, ky- Wiped
Out by Last Nights
Cyclone.
THeEE NILES OF DISTRICT LAID
WASTE.
Upwards of Three Hundred Lives
Known TO Have Been
Lost.
THOUSANDS OF PERSONS BADLY
INJURED.
Houses Blown Down: Sending
Relief 10 the Suf-
fererS.
A TORNADO'S WORK.
THREE MILES OF DISTRICT LAID
WASTE.
THOUSANDS OF PERSONS BADLY
INJURED.

fererS.
BE- Telegraph TO the SEwsl
THE LOUISVILLE TORNADO.
Details OF Last Nights Calamity
SEINE HsarfrendinE Scenes
LOUISVILLE, March 2S.-The toy
nado entered the southeastern por-
ton Of the city at Eighteenth Street
and swept path five blocks diagon-
ally, reaching in ragged line to
Seventh Street, leveling every build
ing in its path, probably $500 houses.
4 rough estimate puts the killed Mt
Ave hundred, with thousands in
jured. The city is filed with a
craZed mass Of people, wildly seek
ing friends. A large force OF men IS
at work on the ruins. Two hundred
bodies have been recovered. The
buildings on Main Street, from
Eighth to Fourteenth, are in ruins.
Not one Of the handsome wholesale
houses Is left, and the tobacco ware
houses are swept away. On Mar
ket Street the Falls City Hall, n
four-stcry building, was blown down,
while several masonic and knights
Of Honor lodges were III session.
One hundred men and women are
buried in the ruins.
EVERY HOUSE IN RUINS.
Livery house on Market, jefferson
aud Walnut Streets, from Tenth 10
Seventeenth, is in ruins. The park
land sutufb j. SWEPT away. such
dssolation no city has known in this
country. Every building, tree and
telegraph pole IN the district was
struck aad levelled. The cyclone
was ~. dieted by the signal service
yesrerday, but no heed was paid to
the warning. The cyclone came
with scarce any warning sound, and
in all the buildings struck the in
habitants were engaged in their usual
vacations. The district laid waste
COMPRISES an aria Of three miles,
nearly half a mile wide. Among
the bodies identified are Mn. May
Hedges, Louis Simmons and four
children; Miss App, dancing school
teacher; George Porter, clerk; Ben.
Randolph, James Rock, Peter
Ctomley, Mrs. Harrison, Mrs Buff
fet, Chris. Miller, Mrs. LangtOn,
Nrs. Adam Mills, Mrs. Charles
Hassom, Rev. y. Barnell, Pastor
II. james of the Episcopal church,
and one child.
FIFTEEN UNIDENTIFIED BODIES
are living in heap at the Falls City
hall. There are other heaps all over
the city. The cyclone crossed the
river. striking Jacksonville, Indi-
ana, ami badly wrecking Front
street on the river front, but no
lives were lost. Hundreds Of
wounded were taken 10 their homes
and 10 the hospitals. All the physi-
clans Of the city are attending them
ATS O'Clock seven fires were burn
Iug, but all have been eXiinguished.
ANOTHER TOwS GONE.
CINclxSATI, March GA dis
patch states that the tornado struck
The town of Bowling Green, KY,
and completely wiped il out. Bow
ling Green has n I,Opulatian Of five
thousapd. The loss Of life is copiec-
tured to be large.
GONE TO THEIR RELIEF.
ISpIAsAPoIIs, March 2s.-lt is
impossible 10 get information from
Louisville. The wires are all
down. Nothing has been heard
from the Associated Press cor
respondents, who should have
arrived at the scene by $50 n. m.
a. b. Lewis who left Louisville
last night. SAYS the streets from the
Louisville Hotel TO Fourteenth street
are filed with debris. Part Of the
upper story Of the hotel mentioned
has been carried away. The BULL
ing adjoining is reduced 10 kindling
wood. He says the death list will
certainly reach eight hundred. A
relief committee from the Indiana
polls Board of Trade LEFT this morn
ing for Louisville, with surgeons and
thousand dollars ash to rtH We the
immediate wants Of the destitute
and suffering.
THREE HUNDRED BUSINESS HOUSES
DESTROYED.
LOuIsvILfE, 1890 n. m.-The
The central and western parts OF
the city are badly wrecked. Port
land suburb has been swept away.
The indications are that the loss
Of life will ba from go 10 800. Three
hundred business houses are de-
siroyed on Market, Jefferson, Main
and Walnut streets from Tenth 10
Sixteenth.
The wrecked portion Of the city
lies between Eighteenth, broadway,
seventeenth and Main STREETS. The
destroying elements passed diagon-
ally acrUSs the section, which is
probably mile square, At least 200
houses are in the ruins IL is feared
that NJ least 200 lives are lost.
Probably the greatest loss OF life
occurred at the Falls city hall,
which was in the centre Of the
tornado. In the lower rooms OF the
hall were fifty or seventy-five
children with their mothers
and other relatives taking dane
ing lessons. There were at least
one hundred aud twenty-five per
sons on the lower floors, and seven
ty-five more attending lodge meet
ings on the upper floor, when the
terrible wind swOoped down upon
the building. The entire structure,
in less than five minutes, was a
shaye!ess mass Of brick and mortar,
burying two hundved helpless vie
tins, OF which number few escaped
uninjured. At three O'Clock Thu
morning thiIty-five dead bodies had
been taken from this ruin and IF
teen wounded and dying. Only
those on the third floor had been
reached. The room containing tie
dancing school pupils and visitors
has not yet been opened.
THE DEAD IDENTIFIED.
Early this morning over fifty dead
had been identified, amoug them
Mrs. Mary HassOn, Miss Annie
Nyles, Mrs. Mclaughlin, Mrs. Belle
Leloffe, Sister Mary Peirs; seven
servant girls employed IN the Louis
vile hotel and an equal number Of
1ale helps; and the Rev. w. +.
BarnweIl, rector Of st. Johns Epis-
copal church. Several employees Of
the Union depot were killed and
many fatally hurt.
For miles in either direction from
the city occasional roofs were blown
Off and tries uprooted. AS the spe-
cial train sped toward the fated city
bearing the Associated Pres repre-
sentatives from indianapolis, the
evidences were noticeable fully fifty
milte out. There first cams to view
occasional dead bodies, then n tree
broken TO pieces, then larger and
more substantial trees, and finally
giants Of the forest. Many little
towns along the Jefferson, Madison
vile and indianapolis Railroad
were fairly stripped Of their signs
and gingerbread work. When the