Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-03-30
CYCLONES DEADLY PATH
A Terrible and Devastating Cy-
clone in Kentucky Leaves
Destruction in Its Wake
The Loss of Life Appalling, as
the Death Roll Numbers
Thousands
Louisville Suffers Most in the
Loss of Life and of
Property

AAAN'f ohN PiaNN0s "a WI hhhN
having devasted that region. No accu-
rate reports are obtainable. Rumol
places the loss OF life ia Louisville at
|, 500 and in Jeffersonvile at 500
LOUISVILLE, March 27.-A tornado vis-
tied this vicinity this evening. creating
fearful havoc and destruction of life. An
estimate Is that the deaths will reach
1000. Jeffersonville, Ind, is reported to
have been swept by the storm. causing
the loss of 600 lives.
CHICAGO, March photographic com
municatiOn with Louisville was cut off
some time ago. There are reports of a
great calamity there.
Specials to the Herald report that a
violent wind. hail. rain and snow storm
prevailed all over the northwest, in
some places approaching the fury Of a
cyclone. A heavy snow has fallen in
Minnesota and Dakota. the fall at Yank-
ton amounting to twelve inches. In Kan
sas, Nebraska and Iowa the thermometer
at late hour tonight showed drop of
fifty degrees since 10 o'clock this morning
The wind was the most severe in southern
Illinois and Indiana. At Olney. ILL.,, a
number OF buildings were demolished and
unroofed aud many people injured. but
only two or three fatally. Miss NJ.
SpOnsler was buried in the ruins of her
millinery store and seriously injured.
She may not recover. The residence of
w. Mathes was completely crushed and
the family were in the ruins. but all es-
capped serious injury except Mrs. Mathes.
who Is in a critical condition.
A late special says that Metropolis. a
small village in Illinois. about thirty five
miles from Cairo, was destroyed by the
storm, and several hundred people were
killed and injured.
NEW YORK, March 27-Thc Western
Union Telegraph company report COM
municatiOn with Louisville entirely cut
off In all directions. 1t Is therefore i'm
possible 10 obtain any news direct from
city. The offices reached nearest there
can give no information except that a
general storm OF great violence is raging
all through that region. Rumors are in
circulation Of great loss Of life and prop
erty. but nothing authentic can be
learned,
CscEsArI, Marph n, a. N. Infor-
nation from an eye witness has lust
reached here as follows: The cyclone
struck louisville in the southwesterly
portion and took a nOrthwesterly direc-
ton. only saw the course Of ii from
Fourteenth and Walnut streets TO Elev-
enth and Market streets. From this
latter point | followed its course To Sew
cnth and the river. where il left the city
and striking across the river reached
JeifersOnyille at the foot OF Spring street.
Little damage was done in Jeffersonville,
however. In Louisville the devastation
is terrific and the loss Of life will GER
tainly reach hundreds II not thousands.
neo building at Twelfth and Market
ing pern;r,,n, LODGES aud q daneing school
is thought to have escaped. ! stood and
watched them working on this ruin ana
saw six or eight corpses taken OUT III
fifteen minutes. There Is scarcely any
thing left that would Indicate tins heal
of rubbish had even been building. and
| IL any of its inmates escaped II was by
nothing less than miracle. The path OF
the cyclone was about square ana q
half in width.
CuIcAoo. March 27, . a. ma special
dispatf h to the Herald just received from
| Louisville. KY, estimates the loss OF life
at 200. The Falls City hall, where tht
Knights and Ladies of Honor were hold
ing a meeting and dance was in pro
gress, was completely demolished and bu
few escaped with their lives. Many o
the wrecked buildings and the debris II
| the path of the tornado caught hre ant
many people were burned to death. Iher'
Is scarcely a wire working out OF Louis
willie, and this information was received
over a railroad wire IRON an once on lh'
outskirts of the city.
ST IoI-Is March r. y7.-Considerab BILE dam
age is reported from Birds Point, Mo.
where a tornado struck the town an,
blew down several houses. There is mucl
damage, also. along the line OF the MoDll
a Ohio railroad. All wires from Carr
are now down. and there Is no chance I
obtain further information from the sur
rounding country.
LOUISVILLE. Ky. March ss-Followln
Is a partial list OF the injured: Nirg
Wright, bruised about the bodyi J. II
Riley. station master OF the union dep0
bruised on side and breast; Tom A Her
ticket agent at union depot. leg broken
l.. L. Smith. check agent oi transl,
company. hip fractured; VIM. Conley; y
Seventh street. badly injured; To.
Moore. Madison street. bruised aud Gu
about the head; w. X. Woodland. genera
superintendent of the MOnOn railway
Slightly bruised: VIM. Lindsay, gatema
OF union depot, bruised about the body
Chas. Taylor, Jeffersonville, NJ. d., inter
nally injured: Green FOw; baggage ma
tor at union depot. arm broken; Claren'
Lewis. ticket agent at union depot bac
sprained; Mrs. Louis Whitman, Mark'
street. back broken; Tom Moor
injured about the body; Green PoN
eli fcolored). Guthrie street, should'
dislocated: Fletcher Pull man. Adan
Express messenger, pinned down ih n
ear and taken out slightly hurt; fr'
Stone. No. 1905 West Green street. LEFT Il
dislocated: John Morrow, Charlcsto
Ind. left hand cut. hurt inside; Hen
Seeoer. Fifteenth and Walnut streets, i
broken: August Tiernan, SiXteenlh ~
Magazine streets, fatally crushed ~ e
breast: Nick Tiernan, same place; bad
cut I'm the head; Mrs. Chris. Hohe
S heimer. Eighteenth, near Maple stree
badly injured about head: Major Ga
Eighteenth and Broadway. besides J
wife and two daughters, badly hurt ,
not dangerously; Mrs. Trotter coli,
broken; Lieut. Howard Green, betwe
Thirteenth and Fourteenth, streets y
- children hurt. slightly injured abo
Y head. DIR. Muguett Walnut. betwe
" Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets,
tally Injured about head and spine, d
located: Mrs. Muguett, badly hurt abe
head, but not fatally; Thon
l. Falk, both legs broken Inc
lowing eight colored men were q,
badly hurt at Eclipse hall whlle noldl
A session Of Adam lodge. !. o; q: f.; >
Brown. about the head; Nick Newmi
both ankles dislocated; Phil Smi
hadly cut on the head; Frank Beck
hadly cut about the head; William NJ
edith. cut on the head; q. w. Mansiit
cut on the head james Lyons, cut on
head. John Coople, American Expi
VII wagon and slightly bruised. The colo
norier at the Seventh street depot
pinned down by beam and had his a
and shoulder broken; Mrs. Joseph Sc
al Twelfth and Walnut streets,
. siiohtiv Injured: Mrs. Sullivan, at Tel
,cK and Walnut streets. had an arm brok
John Warren. engineer on the Chesapei
x ohio, was thrown from his cab acr
the track, but was not seriously nv
George Pitt, fireman on the Z. y.
- PAT Roberts. switchman, escaped W
- bnt slight injuries; Burt stag
y Fourteenth a nd Broadway. .sligh
John w. Brown, of the firm of VIII
brown Il White, West broadway, sho
der hurt, not seriously; Mrs. Brown,
,ts we're cut and bruises, not serlous,y' n II
inson. ninned between falling walls. ba
bruised; Charles Bainrode, badly burn
II. hi. blackburn, Woodburn, KY, pT
ably fatally wounded; G, ID. Senol
'nd indianapolis, badly mashed ,andd ana ld,sI ah