Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-06
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1ns SCENE AT LOUISVILLE.
A Richmond Iady's Description Oh '"'
Effects of the Cyclone.

Richmond kady's DescF'p'
Effects of the Cyclone.
The following letter is from a lady IN
louisville ~ her mother in this CITY, ana
though never intended for publcatl9h
proves 10 be more interesting tnan Tue
average newspaper account;
LOUISVILLE. XII
SIG wrsr BROADWAY, March ~. lsgv'
NJ Dear Nother.-Of course you have
heard the terrible news. Nothing csc u
talked of here. Business IS almost sus-
pended and tine city IS under paiI OK
gloom. Yesterday we went-brother' MIS-.
Cary. and Ito see the wreck WHICH li.li. IN. ne
tornado had wrought IL was s;ght -
make one's heart sick-rblock after block or
ruined. shattered homes. We saw mite
child. wrapped in o light shawl, standing
in thu cold wind IN front Of the place where
her bonse had been. She looked so pitia-
bic as she stood there in the cold. Ahttie
further on there was an old woman, dressed
in : thin calico wrapper. Nhe Hah IaIu'
tirmly-sct look as sac went about correct
Ing her furniture. She was lust loilo",ne
the men ont as they carried away her
stove Then there wac q woman who
hurried past IA with little child IN her
arms. and she shivered a. she passed.
Poople stood outside their homes gazing
so sadly on the ruins around. Ono woman
lost four OF her children bv the falling
walls. An Episcopal church was swept
away and the rector. with hls little boy
killed This ha, caused great greet, rs the
man was much beloved.
The worst of 10 all was the destruction
of the hall where two hundred or more
people were gathered. Ii was completely
demolished. and all TO be seen now Is n
huge mass OF bricks and timber, Men are
working there all the time 10 End the
bodies OF those who were imprisoned by
the falling walls. Already, l believe about
fifty or seventy-hve have been found. 1t
Is an awful task. and there Is much dim
Guilty IN finding workers. FIFTY OF the
seminary students were busy there yester-
day and last night. Brotheramong the mum.
Der. did not want him To 20, but he said
there was no possible danger and he felt
that he must help. At every turn they
came upou haudIerchiefs clothed with
blood, bonncts, and other traces of those
buried beneath. While we were standing
yesterday looking 10 the ruins we heard
rough cry OF stand aside and the dense
crowd that blocked the whole street parted
to let IN patrol wagon that had come to
carry of the dead. SO 1t went ON ell day,
and SO IL viii be- for some days 70 come
The greatest sight is Nam street whero
eleven immense warehouses besides several
| blocks of wholesale houses We're utterly
ruined. In some the iifth-story roof Is
/ standing and the whole front torn down.
and ut the very top fastened to the ceilings
are huge hogsheads that may fall at any
moment. In many places the front wall
/ remains. but inside D q mass of ruins. At
/ ono 81 lrc the show-WindOw was unhurt,
! but inst behind it we could see the rooms
/ crowded with the ruins of the walls aud
roof II Is said that in some places the
] mantel with the iric-0-JrGc was lett intact,
| while the wall above It WAS utterly de
| strOycd. But no one can gam an idea
Of the extent OF the disaster without
seeing il. II is unlike anything / ever
! saw. and so far beyond that | cannot com
| pare n. II seems 10 have been thoroughly
/ caprici0uS, for in many instances strong,
massiyo-iooAiug buildings wcr2 destroyed,
while Just next some rlc Sety-lCOking tgam'
building remains untouched. But must
not dwell ON this any longer. The papers
will give vou the news. We are Thankful
that We are safe. for the path of the storm
was very near rs only three blocks away
Now tho alarm is about n water-tdmlnc
No water cam be pumped into the reservoir
because the tornado blew away some o
the works. and things look gloomy III tina
direction.
Thursday night ! did not 90 the Shak
spaare Club ON account of the storm
Once thought would 90 anyhow, and !
/ had 7 would have been out at the terrible
moment.
Everything IS gloomy here, gayetios ar
! suspended. and all talk OF some means o
relief for the sufferers.