The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-03-29
Swept the City of Albany, Ind.
Houses Crushed and Man
ufacturing Plants
Wrecked
LEAPS OVER BUSINESS CENTER
Strikes Earth Again Mile Away
Hurricane Cuts Path Six Blocks
Wde-Velocity of So Miles an Hour
Reached by Wind-BuiIdinss In
Louisville Also Damaged.

LOUISVILLE ALSO OdHidSCos
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Louisville, Ky-More than SO per-
sons were killed and nearly 200 in
jured when a cyclone swept the city
of New Albany. Without warning the
storm, with a velocity Of 50 miles an
hour, struck the city and swept a path
of wreckage and destruction at some
crushed level with the ground or borne
away bodily, and manufacturing plants
crumbled. The principal damage was
wrought in residential and manufac-
turing sections in the northern out
skirts of the city. The main business
center of the city was not touched.
The gale struck the CorydOn pike.
about two miles below the city, and
after it had wrought considerable DAM
age in the space of five or six minutes,
moved southwest and entered New AL
bany, at State street, near Ealy, this
being one of the thickly populated res
idence sections. With terrific speed
It tore through the street for dis
lance of three blocks, laying every
thing low that stood in the way.
Reaching the intersection of State and
wi cfr
the city, distance of one mile, to the
outskirts, where it came down again
and struck the earth at Vincennes
street and Charlestown road. Here it
played frightful havoc with three
blocks of homes and shops along Vim
cennes street before it rose again and
passed away.
The damage done on the Corydon
pike, below New Albany, was very
great, according to persons who were
caught by the gale at this point. A. M.
Floyd, manager of the Cumberland
Telephone Co., reported that hundreds
of trees were uprooted and carried
with great force through the air and
Uttered over the ground in the wake
of the storm as it moved in the direc'
tion of the city.
Many Small Homes Wrecked.
Many small homes along the pike
were wrecked and scores of persons
injured. George Strack, Councilman
from the Fourth Ward, his wife and
six children, who lived in handsome
new $500 home, were in their house
when the cyclone approached. All took
refuge in the cellar. When the cy-
clone struck the house was carried
away bodily. Mr.. Strack suffered in
juries about mis- face and his ear was
torn off. His brother Henry, who was
with him, suffered a broken shoulder.
Every available physician has been
pressed into service in attending the
injured, and every hospital has been
filled to it's capacity. The injured
taken to ST. Edwards Hospital had
filled all available rooms and wards
and overlooked into the halls. st. Ed
wards is the only public hospital in
the city and arrangements were being
made to transfer many of the injured
to Louisville institutions which had
offered their facilities.
A school building used by negroes
was destroyed.
Twenty-Five children were in the
building. Some of them are thought
to have escaped, but the total number
of victims will not be ascertained I'M
til the wreckage has been cleared
away.
Fairview Cemetery, in the east end
Of New Albany, was swept and COM
pletely demolished by the cyclone.
Trees throughout the cemetery were
blown over as if they were so many
tombstones were leveled and |
the sections office was swept away.
There was hardly a trace of the struc-
ture after the storm passed. Fairview
Cemetery was known as the most
beautiful burying ground In Southern
indiana