The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-04-02
CYCLONIC DESTRUCTION
wHIRLING WINDS WRECK A PORTION
OF LOUISVILLE, ky.

Destruction at Metropolis, ni.-Dis-
patches Telling of the Isiin In the storms
Track.
Louisville (Ky.) dispatch: A tornado
has swept over this city, wreclling 200
or 800 houses and killing 200 people.
The wind came from the southwest.
The Union depot at the foot OF Sew
entlf street was lifted from its founda-
tion and turned over into the raging
torrent OF the Ohio river.
train OF cars making up for the
Louisville Southern road went over with
the building.
Falls City hall, on West Market street,
was wrecked. In the hail were over 100
people, and but few OF them escaped
alive.
MANY buildings after falling caught
fire and the inmates were burned.
G. i. Johnston, a telegraph OPERATOR
who was an eye witness, says:
1.-THE cyclone struck Louisville I'm the
southwestern portion and took a north
casterly direction. | only saw the course
of it from Fourteenth and Walnut TO
Eleventh and Market streets. From this
latter point ii followed its course To
ptNfubH SlIttb dilO bllc TtNfT, WDtTe III
left the city and striking across the
river reached Jacksonville at the foot
OF Spring street.
Little damage was done i'm Jefferson.
vile, however. In Louisville the de-
vastation is terrific and the loss OF life
will certainly reach hundreds, il not
thousands.
"In one building. at Twelfth and Mar
L. ii. "A Oh A
were in session, there being in the build
ing perhaps 100 persons, not one of
whom is thought to have escaped.
II stood and watched them working
on this ruin and saw six or eight corpses
taken out i'm fifteen minutes. There is
scarcely anything left that would indi-
cate that this heap OF rubbish had ever
been building, and If any OF its in
mates escaped il was by nothing less
than a miracle.
1.-THE path OF the cyclone was about a
square and a half in width. All streets
are blOckaded with the debris of fallen
buildings or telegraph and electric-light
wires. This dispatch is carried around
the city to the bridge and sent by rail
road wires"
Cairo Qll.) dispatch A tornado
SlIuth MtbIODoltSs lll., dJ D - CIOth III VIC
evening, doing great damage to property.
Many houses were blown down. and it
is reported that several hundred people
were killed and injured, but all wires
are down and it is impossible to get de-
tails
Metropolis is town of about 1000 in
habitants. 1t is situated on the Ohio
river, which at that point is n broad
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which have threatened the towns along
its banks. 1t is the county seat of
MasSac county, and lies directly south
OF the center of the county. This town
has but one railroad, the Terre Haute,
which, running south through the
county. turns at Metropolis and follows
the course OF the Ohio up the river TO a
point opposite Paducah, Ky, There the
road crosses 10 the Kentucky side and
becomes the Newport News & Missis-
sippi Valley.
ST. Louis (Mo0 dispatch: 1t is. re-
ported that at Mill Creek, small sta
tion twenty-five miles moth OF Cairo.
several houses were blown down and "a
number of people injured. Owing TO the
wires being down it is impossible TO get
particulars
that town was visited by disastrous wind
storm, accompanied by hail the size OF
hens eggs. Davidson Elders house was
wrecked, and Mrs. John Richmond, Mr..
Elders daughter. and Messers. Nc
Cracker and Smith of Nashville, H.,
who were in the house at the time had a
miraculous escape, getting of with a
few bruises and scratches.
A Cnocio1 frnp, Naebyfllo 4 -
cyclone struck that place with terrific
force, and that not pane OF glass II
left In n window with western exposure.
At Little Prairie, few miles away,
the storm destroyed the residence of
William Rhine and Mr.. Rhine was badly
hurt, his leg and arm being broken. He
is also internally injured and not ex-
pected 10 live. Two of his children
were carried a quarter OF mile 10 the
home OF David Smith. They were un-
injured. Smiths house was destroyed
He rushed out with his little girl and a
to live.
A special from Carbonate, H., saws n
disastrous cyclone passed through Jack
son county. AT Graud Tower coach of
the Grand Tower 81 Carbonate railroad
was blown from the track. A number
OF houses were leveled 10 the ground and
three lives are reported lost. Near
Murphysboro Mr.. Linsley's dwelling was
literally blown to pieces, his child
killed, and his wife dangerously injured.
st. Louis (Mo.) dispatch: Officers Of
lower Mississippi steamers arriving here
report much distress in the overlooked
districts south of Memphis, and the out
look for their next crop quite discour-
aging. Should the water not drain off
by the last of April IL will seriously in
terfere with their planting. Over 1000,
900 empty sacks have been shipped to
points between Memphis and Vicksburg
and have been filled with earth and sand
and used in strengthening the levees.