New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-24
LOUISVILLE AGAIN WINDSWEPT
MANY BUILDINGS UNROOFED AND OTHERWISE


Louisville May 23.-Again the Wind has worked
Its will upon Louisville. Dwellings ruined streets
filed with the wreckage OF roofs, with broken
and uprooed trees with remnants Of walls and twisted
wires. No lives are known 10 be lost, and few OIL
the Injuries received are serious. Rain came at
midnight, but people slept peacefully until Just be-
fore dawn today. At O'Clock beated wayiarers
saw low black cloud, with greenlsh fringe, sweep
ing up swiftly from the southwest The blow struck
the south the city first From there on the centre
of the city suffered little, save by chimneys being
blown down and trees uproocd. The full force OF the
wind struck the squares bounded by Broadway, Camp
bell Hancock and Green sts., and there the prin-
cipal damage was done.
When the storm came, eight workmen, under the
charge Of James Dadgan, night foreman in the Dig
Louisville and Nashville roundhouse at Tenth-st.
and Broadway were busy about the engines. As the
wind hit the circular building the roof was lifted
free from all fastenngs and then, the lull came
II dropped squarcy upon the structure. The walls
stood the pressure, but the roof crashed down upon
the Interior The heavy engines were overturned
like tops, but the men escaped almost miIculously
from death. As the roof lifted, each man dved into
the Dit beneath his engine and there lay unscahed
until the storm had passed. The walls are sun
standing and the damage to the building will not
exceed ~, 5,OOO the injuries to the engines VIII bc
less than half that amount.
North of broadway and south of Man-st, In the
squares lying between Hancock and CampoeH s's''
many sleepcrs awakened by the roar oil the
coming storm, and gathered In the streets anu
the yards. They stood only for few minutes, for
AS the storm burst the air was filed with flying
frag ments, and all the people ran for their lives
The roof Of +. ,hanks's dry goods store, at No. $50
East Market-st. was blown completely on, ana the
walls damaged. J. Heins's grocery Is at No.
S:l East Market-st: the front OF the threc-s'ory
building blown in, and the structure was other
Of Ea. Nf-1t
in which building John schoe'daub undertaken does
business. was blown away The house OF DIR. F. c.
Embry ~ No. s41 East Market-st., was also un-
rooted. c. Zeger's meat shop Is AT No. 40 Easl
Markct-st.: this building unroofed. well as the
drug store OF o. F. Harlan. at Market and Campbell
sts.
The roof of the two-sory brick dwelling of DR..
Sewers at No. 6}2 Clny-st was lifted bodily rom
the and carried the street ly the wind
II crashed into the brick cottage of ". j. Johnston.
conduC tor the Shore line, who lives at No. 6''
(layst. The front wall In the cottage caved In, ana
the structure Is a complete wreck. At No. 63O lay
st. the roof and south wall Of the house OF J.
Krizle>e were blown down. y brick cottage at No.
10 IIancock.st. was also wrecked. The roof was
blown of and the front wall collapsed The cottage
was occupied by several colorcd families The roof
was blown from the houses OF J. IIoticr at No. 64l
East Grscnst.. and the building was otherwise dam
aged. Chinncys and roof are gone from the house
Of Mrs. John Ricgel. at No. 1jJ East GreeIfst.
Logan Place. the beautiful little square which WAS
the site Of the old market house. is reminder Of
Baxter square in the days of the great tornado.
Most OF the fence Is blown down and many trees
are uprootcd.
In the West End comparatively little damage WAS
done aside from that at the Louisville and Nashville
clubhouse lIimneyS were blown away from
Fricks drug store at sixth and Chestnut sts.. the
big plate glass windows smashed At CulahSs
BrOadWay.
accidents happened In many places. Forty thousand
dollars will the damage.