The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-02-25
CYCLONE SWEEPS
INDIANA COUNTY
MUCH DAMAGE DONE FOUR MILES
FROM EVANSVILLE.
SIX ARE KILLED IN ARKANSAS
Heaviest Rains In Years Fall in Blue
Grass State--Government Warns
Against Floods Of the
Ohio River.


were unroofed, barns demolished anC
livestock killed in cyclone which
swept over Center township, four miles
north of Evansville, yesterday. The
cyclones path was 500 feet wide and
a mile long.
The homes of Robert MONT, Cicero
Horribly and others were wrenched
from foundations and the sleeping PEG
pie forced out into the fury of the hal
and rain storm.
Moffit's barn was torn to pieces and
strewn over a wheat field. Cows
horses and hogs were killed by the
flying wreckage, Barns on the Ersk
inc, Motif and Crete farms were
turned over and livestock killed.
Ok Killed In Arkansas.
Marked Tree, Ark, Feb. 24---Six per.
sons were killed, more than a score
were injured, several seriously, and
practically every building In the town
OF Fisher was wrecked by tornado
which swept through the northwestern
portion of this county early yesterday,
according to meager advices received.
Wire communication with the devas-
tated district is completely Frustrated
and the only Information received was
by messenger, who stated that in the
town of Fisher but two buildings are
standing, while the damage In the sur
rounding country is also great. The
dead are; j. s. Bass, Wade Freeze,
Mrs. Stone, two unidentified men and a
child.
Because Of the flooded condition Of
the intervening territory a relief party,
which started from Marked Tree yes.
terday afternoon was forced to aban.
don the effort for the day, Many Of the
dead and injured, it Is stated, are bur
led beneath the wFeckage OF the de-
molished buildings.
~ Kentucky seorn swept.
Louisville, Ky, Feb 24.--Storm and
food conditions throughout Kentucky
snd especially in Louisville and vi
cinity, yesterday in many instances
caused a suspension of business, an
Interruption to transportation by rail
routes, much damage to property, and
has caused people to flee for their
lives.
Rain fell in torrents over territory
extending from Central Indiana south
through Kentucky and into Tennes-
see and central Georgia, but the storm
was the severest in the Bluegrass
state.
One death, attributed to the storm,
occurred in Louisville, when Benton
Keith, a lad of II, hurryiing home
from school in the binding rain, was
struck by a street car and his head
severed from his body. Otto Reisert,
grocer, and his negro helper were
injured by the caying in Of a sewer
under the weight of their horse. A
horse was drowned in the underpass
of the Illinois Central at Eleventh
and Oak streets, and several more
We're swept away and lost in the
flooded creeks near Baskerville, IL
miles out,
The rain fell steadily all night and
most Of the day, the precipitation be-
ing close to four inches in less than
"a hours. Street car traffic in Louis.
vile suffered severely, 1t was stated
this evening by the officials OF the
Louisville Street Railway Company,
that both lines to Iroquois park were
out of commission and would prob.
ably remain so for another day. The
water is more than foot deep at the
entrance to Churchill Downs, and
many stables on the famous course are
flooded.
Landslide Delays Trains.
A landslide on the main line of the
Henderson route. near West Point, has
delayed traffic on that road between
Louisville and st. Louis, the wash,
ing away II trestle on the South.
erns Lexington branch, near Fisher
vile, has delayed all trains, while high
water near Hardinburg has put a,
small branch of the Henderson system
out of commission.
The Kentucky river, swollen by
heavy rains in the mountains, was
mourning volume of water past Frank.
fort, which is expected to increase the
rise in the Ohio when 1t strikes that
stream at Carrollton. Many bridges
In central Kentucky have been car
ried away and much livestock lost.
Southern Indiana Rivers Rage.
In southern Indiana all streams are
rising and the Ohio is above the food
stage at Evansville. Near Carmi, ILL.,. a
Big Four freight wenr into washout,
a brakeman being killed and the con-
ductor injured.
Atlanta, Ga. was visited by heavy
rain. There was considerable pre-
cipitation at Memphis during the
morning hours which gave way to
hard wind storm at noon, aud Nash
vile reported hard all-day rain.
Warnings have been issued by the
weather bureau in Cincinnati to people
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