Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-04-04


before it struck the city, and people we're
alarmed by it. An estimate of furniture
ana other property ruined cannot be
mace. IL was fortunate the cyclone
struck before the people went to bed or
greater destruction would have resulted.
THE TRACK OF THE TORNADO.
The warehouse of Patterson, Henry &
Co., pork packers, at Fourteenth and
Walnut streets, is so completely wrecked
that il will probably have to be RACED and
rebuilt. On Chestnut street, from Thir-
teenth to Seventeenth, almost the entire
neighborhood is wrecked. The devasta-
tlon through the streets surrounding
Baxter square is complete and at the
same time most freakish. st. Johns
church was completely wrecked, trees in
the park were uprooted, fountains we're
laid Hat, and the very mud from the
streets was raked up and dashed against
the wrecked houses and walls. Brand &
Bethers tobacco house, on the south side
OF the square, was not quite demolished,
but the building was almost ruined. The
freakish tornado took the middle of the
LOUISVILLE City Railway company's build
ing, at the corner Of Twelfth and Jeffer-
son streets, southwest corner, leaving the
north n south ends intact. It looks as
II an immense scoop had been taken out
of the middle. DR.. Geo. W. Grifith's
house had both the east and west walls
torn away. The interior of the whole
house was thus left exposed, but the
north and south walls were left standing,
The track of the tornado ended at
Twelfth street, on Jefferson; and while
the destruction between Eleventh and
Twelfth streets was so terrible, the block
between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets
was intact, except an unroofed house or
two besides the Railroad company's
building. The scene at the ruins of Vir-
81! 5. Wright's cigar store, at 1:2O o'clock
this afternoon, where four bruised and
mangled bodies of the Louisville hotel
laundry girls we're found, was simply
horrible.
THE TOBACCO HOUSES.
The Crescent tobacco warehouse on
Main Street is a total wreck and the
amount of tobacco lying open to the
weather on that thoroughfare is almost
beyond comprehension. Some of the
wrecked houses contained 500 and
1000 hogsheads. On Main street be-
tween Tenth and Eleventh streets a car
was lifted bodily from the track and
hurled with such force against the side
of one of the brick walls as to not only
demolish the car entirely but to also in
stantly kill a team of mules attached to
it. Along Market, Main and Jefferson
streets all the telegraph poles have been
torn down and the wires strung across
the street like tangled braid. Beautiful
Baxter square is the scene of most won
derful devastation, perhaps never before
witnessed. The trees have all been up
rooted or twisted from their stumps,
except a row of sturdy beech
that defed the fury of the elements,
On Market street, in a number of places
the front walls of buildings are torn out
and the remainder left standing. It
seems as if the angry element had a
special mission to wipe from the face of
the earth the Louisville tobacco business,
which is famed owe the world. Only
three warehouses are left standing; four
teen we're h~ourishing yesterday.
THE TOBACCO
The loss of property will be nearly
doubled if heavy rain falls within forty
eight hours. There has been some snow
tonight, which melted at once but not
enough to do considerable damage. The
principal single item of property in dam
ger is tobacco, of which 100000 worth
is exposed.
KILLED IN METROPOLIS.
METROPOLIS, March 28.-The cyclone
OF last night cut a clean swath about a
quarter of a mile wide clear across the
town, wrecking property of all descrip-
lions and burying men, women and
children in the debris of falling buildings.
The number OF victims cannot be ascer-
tanned with anything like accuracy, but
1t is reported several hundred people
were killed or wounded, and between two
and three hundred houses we're swept
from their foundations and dashed to
pieces above the heads Of their unfortun-
ate occupants. Scores have been removed
from the ruins.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE IN MARION.
MARION, KY, March 28.-This city was
devastated by the same storm that
wrought such ruin in Louisville. There
was great loss Of life.
N NASHVILLE.
NASHVILLE, March 28.-A storm struck
this city about 9 o'clock last night, but
beyond unroofng a few houses and blow
ing down a number of signs, did no
damage. The town of Fayetteville, Lin
coin county, Jared badly. A negro
woman wa killed by falling walls, and a
number Of persons were injured. The
loss will be about 100000.
The TOrnado's Work.
LOUISVILLE, March 29.-The weather
to-day is clear, the sun shines brightly
and spring like. The work of recovering
the bodies buried under the debris of
Thursday nights tornado goes bravely
on with largely augmented forces. The
excellent work done by the board of
trade committee in canvassing and learn