Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-03-27
BIG STORM over
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
louisville Suffers Much Des.
trnction Of Property.
EIGHT JERsoNs BADLY INJURED.

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Wind BIowed at a Velocity Of so
Miles an Hour-c0ld Wave Follows
storm-Telegraph Wires Down.
Louisville, KY, March 26.-Eight
persons were injured and extensive
damage was done to city and subur-
ban 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 Hildcbrand, badly bruised,
Henry Bohlsen, Jr. cut by flying
glass.
Gus Wilberding, bruised.
Benjamin Rittman, patrolman, jaw
injured.
Alexander Lawson, bruised.
The storm was central over the
central Mississippi and Ohio valleys.
and, according to the weather bureau,
has moved northeastward to the At
lantic, with cold wave close on its
heels.
In Louisville, the wind attained
velocity of so miles an hour and the
rain fell in torrents, accompanied by
heavenly pyrotechnics terrifying to
the timid.
The entire city was for time flood
ed, Third avenue, near the Confeder-
ate monument, being feet deep in
water. Street car service was sus-
pended for several hours, and one or
two lines remain at a standstill.
The roof of the main building at the
industrial school of reform was blown
completely off, falling clear of the
building on the ground and panic
ensued among the 100 boys sleeping
In that section of the school. The
boys when they heard the roar OF the
wind and the crash of the falling roof
began to rush for the ground floor.
They were finally stopped without
any one being injured. The building
was flooded
Two hundred and forty five inmates
of the Masonic Widows and Orphans
home were marched into the center
OF the building after the storm had
torn away part OF the roof. 1t
was feared the building would col
lapse.
In an area of dozen squares, of
which Preston street and the Louis.
vile and Nashville crossing 10 the
central point ten houses were un-
rooted and several persons were hurtt
The residence of Henry Duberg. on
the Eighteenth street road q mile
from the city limits, was blown away
and his family OF eight had Q re.
markable escape from death. Near
the Duberg home Alexander. lawson
was caught under the debris of his
wrecked home and severely injured.
Reports from various parts of the
city indicate that about $50 houses
were more or less damaged.
A part OF the distillery of Bernheim
Bros. was unroored and the wires OF
both telegraph companies from Louis
vile to the south were laid low,
Many residences in the fashionable
section OF the city were damaged by
both wind and water and several
plants devoted to manufacturing suf-
fered heavily. The establishment of
the Caldwell manufacturing company
nad two walls blown In and several
distilleries reported severe damage.
The trolley, telephone telegraph and
electric light feed wires were in an
almost inextricable mass such of the
Fourth street crossing of the Louis
vile and Nashville and the line to Ja-
cob Park, it Is said. will not be allie
TO resume business before Monday.
The street car service on the other
lines reached normal conditions be-
fore noon. Very few trains arrived
IN Louisville on time today. as the
flood damage. delayed all of them.
From Bedford came the report that
the rain there amounted almost TO a
cloudburst and all traffic on the Mo
non was at astandstiIl.
Trains from Indianapolis and Chica-
go were delayed Indefinitely by reason
of the storm nsar indianapolis.