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Awful Destruction.
The Beautiful City Of Louis
vile Wrecked by Il
Cyclone.
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE KILLED.

A cyclone struck the city of
Louisville. Kentucky, the night of
the 9th. 1t struck the southw est
portion of the city shortly after nine
o'clock. At that hour the streets
were alive with people and life in
all its activity and brilliancy was at
its height.
Tie first intelligence to the out
side world was sent from Jefferson
vile, Indiana, across the river from
Louisville, by the chief telegraph
operator Of the Western Union Telc-
graph Co. at Louisville, who had
escaped to Jcffcrsonvillc from the
wrecked city.
Early reports gave estimates OF
loss of life reaching to 1900 and
1000. An extra OF the Examiner at
6 80 u. M, 2Stb, says hundreds
are dead,
From the Examiners account the
following description OF the begin.
ming of the calamity is taken:
Shortly after nine O'Clock the
wind began its violence and in n
few moments it became gale.
Then with awful swiftness the furi-
Gus whirlwind burst. a roar of
sound, q swirl of furious wind. and
then the terrible confusion of crashing
timber and falling stone, followed
by dreadful silence for moment.
Buildings were blown from all
directions. As they were crushed
into shapeless masses the structures
caught fire and the flames burst into
the air and in moment the ele-
ments were all in conflict.
1.-The wind in wild fury swept all
before it, The river below the city
was whirled into an awful wrath and
at many points overlooked its
banks"
In Louisville the devastation was
terrific and the loss of life will GER
tainly reach hundreds if not thou
sands. In one building two lodges
and dancing school were in scs-
sion, and there were in it about one
hundred people. 1t is supposed not
one of them escaped. An eycwit-
ness saw six or eight corpses taken
out in fifteen minutes.
AT 3:15 q. m. despatch said 80
bodies, mostly of women and chill
dren, had been taken from the
ruins of Falls city hall.
Henry Mason, member of the
Legislature for Hancock county,
was in Wright's cigar store when the
building fell, and was instantly
killed. OF II girls imprisoned in
Wright's cellar three have been takel
out dead.
The Union Depot, at the foot OF
Seventh street, was blown into the
Ohio river. A train making up fol
the Louisville Southern road went
over with the building.
Many buildings after falling
caught fire and the inmates have
been burned. All the streets arc
blockaded with the debris of thu
fallen buildings and telegraph ant
electric light wires.
1t is practically impossible TO csti
mate the loss of life. Thousand
may be buried beneath the ruins
The fire adds fearful feature to til,
desolation. The loss of propert,
can only be counted in millions.
In the streets through which pas
sengers went to reach the railway
station there were dead and dying
and from facts and flying rumor!
there was reason to believe that tho
number of the dead would rcacl
one thousand.
One of those who escaped TO In
dlanapolis by rail thought from TIN
actions of the fire department tina
its works were destroyed and tina
there was difficulty in getting waite
on the flames.
Street cars were blown from tn
tracks and crushed against the wall
of the buildings. For a time every
body seemed paralyzed with fear
apparently in doubt whether to he
or not. The work Of rescue sool
began, however. Wagons of al
kinds were pressed into service ant
the dead and wounded hauled away
as rapidly as darkness and the con
fused condition of the streets woul
permit, to houses outside the patl
of the cyclone.
The cyclone visited many town
IN the West and Southwest, causin,
loss of life and property, but authen
tic accounts are all meagre.
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