The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-27
EIGHT PERSONS ARE HURT
BY STORM AT LOUISVILLE
Many Buildings Partly Wrecked,
Wires Torn Down and Rail-
ways Crippled.
ISOLATED ALL MORNING

LOUISVILLE, Ky, March 26-Eight per-
sons were injured and extensive damage
was done to city and suburban property by
a storm which swept over Louisville. The
injured are:
GEORGE REISS, policeman, skull frac
tured.
HENRY SCHMIDT, skull fractured.
FREDERICK BAUER. leg broken.
CHARLES HILDEBRAND, badly
bruised.
HENRY BoHLSEN, JR., cut by flying
glass.
GUS WILBERDING, bruised.
BENJAMIN RITTMAN. patrolman. jaw
injured
ALEXANDER LAWSON. bruised.
The storm isolated the South from the
North to-day. Communication was cut off
by every route available to the Western
Union company. In vain were efforts made
to find an insress. Destruction or paraly-
sis of telegraph facilities by storm was SO
widespread and unparalleled that not a
wire was working south through Richmond.
Nashville, Memphis any of the great
centers of electrical control on either side
of the Alleghenies, from the Atlantic west
ward far beyond the Mississippi By great
exertion a circuit was finally established
south from Louisville, penetrating the vast
territory which had been thoroughly,
for weary hours. shut off from the rest of
the world
of sixty miles an hour. and the rain fell
in torrents, accompanied by heavy pyrO-
technics, terrifying to the mind The entire
city for a time flooded, Third avenue
near the Confederate monument, being
three feet deep in water. Street car service
was suspended for several hours.
The roof of the main building at the
Industrial School of Reform was blown off,
clear 10
and panic ensued among the one hundred
boys sleeping in that section of the school
TWO hundred and forty-6ve inmates OF
the Masonic Widows and Orphans Home
We're marched into the center of the build
ing after the storm had torn away a part
of the roof. 1t was feared the building
In an area of a dozen squares in which
Preston street and the Louisville & Nash
ville's crossing is the central portion, ten
houses were unroOfed and several persons
We're hurt The residence of Henry Du-
bourg, on the Eighteenth-street road, a
mile from the city limits, was blown away
escape from death Near the Dubourg home
Alexander Lawson was caught under the
debris of his wrecked home and severely
injured.
indicate that about $50 houses are more or
less damaged. No fatalities were reported
nor was the loss in any one case heavy
yet. summing up the damages which were
siderable. Many of the finest residences in
the fashionable section of the city were
damaged by both wind and water and sew
eral plants devoted to manufacturing suf-
fered heavily. The establishment of the
Caldwell Manufacturing Company had two
walls blown in and several distiIleries re-
ported serious damage.
The roof of the grand stand at Churchill
Downs and several of the stables were
slightly damaged but Secretary Brice an
nounces that they VIII be placed i'm perfect
condition soon. The damage in Louisville
was greatest from Preston street east to
Seventh and from Ormsby south into the
country.
The trolley. telephone. telegraph and cleo
tric light feed wires were in an almost in
extricab bic mass south of the Fourth-street
crossing of the Louisville & Nashville and
the line to Jacob Park will not be able to
resume business before Monday The
street-car sery ice on other lines reached
normal conditions before noon.
Very few trains arrived in Louisville on
time to-day. flood damage in Indiana de-
layed all of them.
Reports of Damage throughout the State
were received during the day. At Owens
boro John Bait, a Street-car motorman, was
badly injured by the wall of building fall
ing on him. The warehouse of the CONT
mental Tobacco Company there was I'M
rooted and many thousand pounds of to-
bacco ruined by water.
Damage amounting to $4,000 is reported
from the northern part of Montgomery
county.
cloudburst swept the country adjacent
to Petersburg KY. but no lives were lost
A levee broke near Henderson, Ky. wash
ing away several bridges and delaying all
railway traffic.