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A FEARFUL STORM.
LOUISVILLE , KENTUCKY VISI-
TED — TEliltIBLE LOSS OF LIFE.
DEVASTATION IN ILLINOIS—THE STORM
GENERAL THROUGHOUT THE WESTERN
sTi-raa—SIGNAL SERVICE REPORT.
A dispatch from Louisville, Friday Kentucky, night
says: Shortly alter 9 o’clock wrecking
a tornado swept over this city,
two or three hundred houses, and killing
two hundred people. The wind came
from the'southwest. The union depot, lifted at
the foot of Seventh street, was
from its foundation and turned over into
the raging torrent of the Ohio river. A
train of cars making up for the Louisville
Southern road went over with the build¬
ing. Falls City hall, on West Market
street was wrecked. In the hall were
over a hundred people, and but few of
them escaped alive. Many buildings af¬
ter falling, caught fire aud the inmates
were burned. All the streets arc block¬
aded with debris of fallen buildings or
telegraph and electric wires. A later
dispatch says the loss of life by the cy¬
clone at Louisville is estimated at 80().
The path of the cyclone was about a
square and a half in width.
THE STORM IN ILLINOIS.
A Chicago dispatch says: The storm
which reached here at noon Thursday
has been general throughout the north¬
west. Snow fell and then turned into
rain and sleet, accompanied by miles wind,
blowing thirty-five or forty an
hour. A wind and hail storm passed
over Cairo at 4 o’clock Thursday after¬
noon. Hail stones weighing damage over three is
ounces fell. Considerable
reported from Bird’s Point, Mo., where
blew it is reported down several the storm houses. struck Also towns along and
the line of the Mobile and Ohio railroad.
All wires from this city are down. A late
special says that Metropolis, a small vil¬
lage in Illinois, about thirty-five miles
from Cairo, was destroyed by the storm,
and several hundred people were killed
and injured.
At Olney, Ills., the storm was very
severe, unroofing houses, overturning
barns and wrecking windows and chim¬
neys. The electric light station build¬
ing was unroofed; Schmidt’s restaurant
was unroofed; the cornice of Spring's
grain store was blown off. The wind
then tore down two frame buildings be¬
longing to the Clark estate, unroofed the
stores of Messrs. MeLane and Newell, and
Dr. Allen’s office,and completely wrecked
Herrin’s brick shoe store. A two-story
frame building, occupied by shop, Mrs. M.
Sponsler as a millinery was
crushed lik^ p.n egg shell and
Mrs. Sponsler buried in the ruins.
She was quickly extricated and found to
bo seriously injured. Robert Goldy’s Byres’
building was unroofed and John
residence wrecked. The storm struck the
house of Dell Harrell, which was com¬
pletely demolished. The family sought
safety iu the cellar and escaped unhurt.
The adjoining residences of Dr. Marshall
and II. D. Morse were badly damaged.
The residence of Mr. Mathes, near by,
was lifted from its foundation and crushed ,
burying the family iu the ruins. All es¬
caped serious injury save Mrs. Mathes,
jvho now lies in a critical condition. The
dwelling of John Bourrell was blown
completely away, not a vestage of it re¬
maining. The streets present a desolate
appearance, being tilled with debris.
A special from Nashville, Illinois, says
a cyclone struck that place with terrific
force, and that not a pane of glass is left
in a window with a western exposure.
The city hall, a large frame structure,
was demolished. Martin Porter’s livery
stable is a wreck; Sawyer A Co.’s cooper
shop, a brick building, is demolished.
At Little Prairie, a few miles distant irom
here, the storm destroyed the residence of
Win. Rhine, and Mr. Rhine was intern¬
ally injured and is not expected destroyed. to live.
David Smith’s house was He
rushed out with his little girl, and a tree
fell on them. Neither is expected to live.
Fritz Ivrum’s house was blown away, and
he and his wife arc probably fatally in¬
jured. Henry Taylor and family had a
like fate, also two young ladies—Miss
Morris aud Miss Maggie Simmons—both
of whom will die from their injuries.
There is a Polish settlement directly in
the path of the storm, which has not been
heard from, and it is feared great loss of
life has occurred there.
A special from Cairo, 111., says the
storm struck there at 4:30 p. m. The ba¬
rometer registered 29.5, the lowest record
for years. The wind, while it lasted,
oiew witn great violence. The largest
hail ever seen there fell in large quanti¬
ties. Three houses were blown from theix
foundations at Bird's Point. At Mill
Creek, two miles north of Cairo, several
houses were blowm down and a number ol
people injured. is Owing to the w ires be¬
ing down it impossible to get particu¬
lars. At 9 p. in. the wind was register¬
ing 60 miles per hour.
A dispatch from Carbondale, IU., say*
a disastrous cyclone passed through Jack-
son county Thursday afternoon. A num¬
ber of houses were levelled to the ground
and three lives are reported lost. Neai
Murphysboro, Mr. Lindley’s dwelling was
literally blown to pieces, his child killed
and his wife dangerously injured. At
Carbondale the banking house of W. M.
Wykes was unroofed and several houses
damaged.
A dispatch of Thursday, from Lincoln,
Neb.,says that the storm throughout that
state was of extraordinary severity for
this season of the year. The wind blows
at a high rate of velocity, and snow is
falling rapidly. The snow is frem four
to eight inches deep, and trains are de¬
layed. Since noon, a blizzard has pre¬
vailed at Omaha. Most of the street cars
is the city are blockaded, and traffic is
greatly impeded*
A Milwaukee, Wis., report says: Thi
weather is comparatively warm, but snow
fell heavily and the wind blows fiercely,
in places drifts are piled up so high that
the street car lines have had to suspend
traffic. Telephone wires scatter the
streets and trip up pedestrians. Sioux City, la.,
A dispatch from says
that the storm extends over the State, and
partakes of the nature of a blizzard. It
began snowing there at noon Thursday,
and at G o’clock in the evening, the snow
had fallen to the depth of fifteen inches in
the western portion of the State. Trains
from the west are delayed, and some have
been abandoned entirely.
A Kansas City dispatch says: A storm
prevailed throughout Kansas and south¬
western Missouri, Thursday. Snow is re¬
ported from some portions of western
Kansas. The barometer varied in differ¬
ent localities from 25 at Wichita to 29.28
at this point, the lowest wind reported for
years. The velocity of the continued was ex¬
traordinary for such a long wind did
storm. At Wichita, Ivan., the
considerable damage. Heavy plate glass
windows were smashed in, signs dis¬
placed and chimney tops blown down.
At Abilene, Kan., considerable damage
was done to cBnnneys, signs and cornices.
Snow fell during the afternoon.
WATCHING THE STORMS.
The signal office at Washington fur¬
nishes the following special o’clock bulletin Thursday tc
the press: At 8
morning a severe storm was central in
eastern Kansas with a velocity on the
eastern side of thirty-six miles southeast;
at St. Louis, on the southern side, oi
forty-eight miles; western in northern
Texas, on western side of sixty miles;
north in Colorado and on the northern
side, of thirty-six miles; north iu Ne¬
braska and South Dakota with a severe
blizzard and snow in Nebraska, Warnings
were sent out during the morning for
several local storms in the states of Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky,
Georgia and Alabama, and for a severe
norther extending from Kansas to North¬
ern Texas. At noon the storm had moved
eastward, so as to cover all Illinois, with
high winds, Chicago reporting forty
miles east and increasing. The storm
will be felt on the Atlantic coast Thurs¬
day night or Friday morning, interior producing and
severe local storms in the
easterly gales on the coast from Hatteras
to Maine, and high southwest winds on
the south Atlantic coast.
FURTHER NEWS OF THE LOUISVILLE
HORROR.
A dispatch of Saturday says: The
work of rescuing the mangled dead
bodies goes bravely on. A hundred anx¬
ious men worked as they never worked
before for the bodies of their wives,
fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters that
ie buried in the shapeless mass of brick
and mortar that covers the site where,
yesterday, stood the Falls City hall. The
cries of men, women and children rend
the air on every side. A surging crowd
of ten thousand people blocks the the streets
for squares about the scene of catas¬
trophe. Bodies, mangled being and shapeless dragged
beyond recognition, ruins are few minutes.
from beneath the every
Coroner Miller has ordered that no body
be interred until it lias been viewed by
him. Th s has caused some discontent
among those who wish to take immediate
charge of the remains of their friends.
THE KILLED AND INJURED.
Follow ing are the names of the killed
throughout the city, so far as identified:
Mrs. Mary Hnssoin, Miss Annie Niles,
Airs. McLaughlin, Mrs. Belle Lelloff,
Mrs. Petcison, Tom Puff, Mrs. Nutall,
Sister Mary Pius, two unknown colored
men, Nicholas J. Sullivan, William Dia-
mon, Ben Chelt, John Emerich, J. F.
Moody, unknown colored woman, Thad
Mason, C. Hathaway, Charles
Hessenburch, Mary Ryan, Katie
MeKune, Mary AIcGinty, Bridget
Crow, Maggie Campbell, Francis
Parker, J. O. Scield, a small
child, Park Connell, Unknown woman,
Pat Ready, Charles Jenks, unknown man,
Rev. S. E. Barnwell, police officer White
Baldwin, Dan McLaughlin, Captain August
Fleischer, Mrs. Allen Peterson,
L. Angormier, J. B. McCollum, William
Demar, Mrs. E Hostetter, Mrs. Castle-
man, Theo. Angelman, Genevieve Simms,
Henry Lingo, Esquire James M. Stevens,
John Riehl, Charles Sifbert, Sullivan,
J. Flescher, Miss Mary Scbatter, A. S.
Truerling, Elmer E. Barnes, Annie
Miles, Clarence Loeser, Robert Hamilton,
Mrs. John Horan.
A Sunday dispatch says: It is now
pretty near a certainty that the entire
loss of life from the tornado will not go
much above one hundred, if that number
is reached. The total number
of killed at all places, whose bodies have
been recovered, and of the missing who
it is reasonably certain are dead,is eighty.
In addition to these there are about
a dozen who are so badly injured that
death may ensue. Anywhere from 150
to 200 persons are injured to an extent
worth noticing.
A CARD TO THE PUBLIC.
In discussing the reports of the com¬
mittees making house to house investiga¬
tions, considerable diversity of opinion as
to loss of property was developed. Low¬
est estimate put it $1.000,000 and highest at
$3,000,000. and the best founded facto
presented placed it at $2,500,000. There
Is almost no insurance. It was
finally voted that the chairman of th«
committee should prepare a statement to
be authorative for the use of toe Associ¬
ated Press. This was approved by the
majority of the committee :
To the People: The calamity that has
overtaken the city by the cyclone of last
night spread over the territory of the city,
covering a space of 400 yards throughout
the business and residence beliued portion of the be
city. The 1039 of life is to
seventy-five people, and the loas to the
city in damage to houses and grounds not
to exceed $2,000,000. While the calam¬
ity is a great one our people feel able to
cope with it and are not cast down, but
will proceed to repair and resume in chan-
nels now interrupted, in all other por¬
tions of the city business is sesuming its
channel. Signed by the relief commit¬
tee board of trade.
W. T. Roi.f, Chairman.
SOUTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
POINTS IN TIIE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA¬
SON’S and dixon’s line.
The Havana cigarmakers at Jackson¬
ville, Fla,, protest against the passage ol
the McKinley bill raising the tariff on
clear Havana tobacco.
The first camp Confederate Sons of Vet¬
erans was organized at Richmond, Va., on
Friday night. Louis A. Rawlings was
elected commander and Kelly Bass secre¬
tary.
The newspaper men of Philadelphia Charles on
Monday night gave editor-in-chief a banquet to of the
Emory Smith, minister
Russia. i I Press,” recently appointed to
Sales of leaf tobacco in Danville, Va.,
market for March were 2,860,348 pounds.
Sales from October 1st to March 31st,
were 16,093,499 pounds. Sales in March
last were 8,016,459 pounds. Increase of
the first half of the present tobacco year
as compared with the same period of last
year was 4,287,839 pounds.
The grand trades display and carnival
at Eufaula, Ala., on Friday, proved a
success. There were about thirty-five
floats in line iu the day procession. The
carnival at night was participated in The by
a hundred maskers in uniform,
crowd was estimated at eight thousand.
At Memphis, Tenn., on Tuesday the
grand jury brought in twenty-four indict¬
ments against Ben Pullen, jr., for embez¬
zlement of city funds to the amount of
nearly $0,000. Pullen was city registrar and
from February, 1887, to July, 1889,
collected city rents in that capacity which
he failed to account for.
News was received at Raleigh, explosion N. 0.,
on Monday, of a terrible boiler
near Elk Park, Mitchell county. Five
men, all white, were injured. Wood, Tw'o, fa¬
Charles Mark wood and Joseph
tally. Their hands were blown off, their
heads torn,and they were internally hurt,
and were also scalded in such a horrible
manner that they could barely be recog¬
nized.
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says:
Frank J. llellen, a young sporting man,
left the city Monday with $2,500 in money
belonging to Nat Stanley, a saloon keeper.
Stanley had purchase placed the saloon money in him, Hellen’s and
hands to a for
the young gambler, instead of buying the
saloon for his friend, left the city. A re¬
ward has been offered for his capture, and
detectives are on his track.
It is reported that another large Greenville, cotton
mill is soon to be built near
S. C. A party of northern capitalists are
negotiating miles for the from shoal there, on and Poluda where river, it
about five
is crossed by the Atlanta and Charlotte
railroad. A committee of the capitalists is
will soon visit the the proposed in site, the which
said to be one of best county,
aud will doubtless cause them to begin
operations very soon.
Rockingham county jail, at Wentw r orth,
N. C., was totally destroyed by fire Mon¬
day morning. The fifteen considerable prisoners diffi¬ were
all safely rescued, after
culty, and just in the nick of time. But
for the herculean efforts of several citi¬
zens, there would have been a horrible
holocaust. The prisoners were taken to
the county jail in Greensboro for safe
keeping until a new jail house can be
erected.
A deal w r as closed Tuesday by which
3,600 acres of land at Lenoir’s Station,
30 miles from Knoxville, Tenn., went
into the hands of a Philadelphia syndi¬
cate. A big steel plant, w T oolcn mills and
a branch road to Harriman to connect
with the Cincinnati Southern are involv¬
ed. The land is the old Lenoir planta¬
tion famous throughout the south. Five
million dollars are to be invested.
FATAL EXPLOSION.
THIRTEEN PEOPLE KILLED AND INJURED
BY GIANT POWDER.
A special from Birmingham, Ala.,says:
A magazine of giant powder exploded in
a coal mine at Coalburg. ten miles from
this city, Monday afternoon, with terrible
results. Sixteen colored convicts were in
a room close to the one where the powder
was stored, Thirteen of them were iu-
jured, six fatally. Four are reported dead
already, and others cannot live. Giant
powder was used by the miners, and a
quantity of it was always kept stored in a
room down in the mine. A boy went into
the magazine to get some powder, and it
is supposed fire from his lamp caused the
explosion.
ORDERED OUT.
THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE VS. THE
W ESTERN UNION.
Officials of the board of trade at Chi¬
cago Tuesday notified the Western Union
Telegraph company, that commencing
Wednesday none of the company’s opera¬
tors would be given access to the floor of
the exchange. This action is supposed to
be a new step in carrying out the board’s
policy of preventing the distribution of
market reports to bucket shops.
Four members of the present Congress
were born in Scotland, four in Ireland,
one in Sweden, one in Germany, and one
in Canada, making in all thirteen foreign-
born, tw o in the Senate and eleven in the
House.
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CRAWFORD SHERIFF’S SALES.
G EORGIA— t be sold before Crawford the court County. house —Will door
m he town of Knoxville, Ga., within the
legal hours of sale on the first Tuesday
iu April next, the following described
property, to-wit: Lot of land No. 77, in
the Seventh District cf said county, con¬
taining 212 1-2 acres, more or less, levied
on uuder a fi. fa. issued from the .Justice
Court of the 529th district, G. Ah, said
county, in favor of John A. Ilouser, vs.
B. F. Lee. S. M. Lee an 1 E. S. Lee, as
the property of said defendant found in
tneir possession. Levy made by the con¬
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me for sale. Terms, cash. Witness my
hand officially, this February 26tb, 1890.
B. A. HARTLEY,
Feb. 23th, ’90. Sheriff.
O EORGIA— Irawford County. —W.
I] J. McGee, Administrator de applied bonis
non of David McGee, dec* ased,has
to me for letters dismissory, aud suen
letters will be granted applicant on the
first Monday in April next, unless gooi
objections are filed. Witness my hand
officially, this January 1st 1890. Ordinary.
O. P. WRIGHT,
Jan. 1st 3m.
pEORGIA— Crawford County. —Ed-
u ward Mi chell has applied to me for
exemption of personalty and valuation
homestead. I will pass on same on the
first Monday in March next. Witness
my hand officially, this Jan. 31st, 1890.
O. P. WRIGHT, Ordinary.
G EORGIA— -Chawford Count y.—
James A. Moore and John I. Cham¬
pion, executors of James Roberts, de¬
ceased, have applied to me for letters of
dismission from their executorship. tiled, will Un¬
less good objections are I
graut them letters dismissory on the first
Monday iu June, 1890. Witness my
hand officially this the 4th day of
Maicb, 1890. O. P. WRIGHT,
Ordinary.
pEORGIA— Crawford C o u n ty.—
yW. K. Eubanks Executor of Eligah
Eubanks, deceased, has in due form ap¬
plied to me for letters of dismission from
his executorship. Unless good objec¬ said
tions thereto are filed, I will grant to
W. K. Eubanks such letters dismissory on
the 1st Monday in June, 1890. Witness
my hand officially. WRIGHT,
O. P.
Ordinary.
|jM. P EORGIA— Crawford County.— W. of j
Taylor, administrator of estate I
Rufus Carter, deceased, has applied for
letters dismissory from the administration
of said estate, and such letters will be
granted on the first Monday in May next,
unless good objections are filed. Witness
my hand officially, * this January 27th,
1890. O. P. WRIGHT,
jan 31-13 Ordinary.
p EORGIA— Crawford County. — A.
UC. Sanders and James M. Sanders,
executors of the will ofTlios. J. Sanders,
deceased, have applied to me for letters
dismissory from their executorship;
therefore all persons concerned are here¬
by required to show cause, if any they
have, on the first Monday iu May next,
why such letters should not be granted.
Witness my hand officially, January
27 th, 1890. O. P. WRIGHT,
Jan. 31—131 Ordinary.
G EORGIA —Crawford County. —H.
M Burnett, administrator on estate
of Mrs. Martha Stembridge, deceased,
has applied to me for letters of dismis¬
sion from the administration of said es¬
tate, and same will be granted unless on the
first Monday in July next, good
objections are filed. Witness my hand
officially this April 1st. 1890.
O. P. WRIGHT,
Ordinary.
GEORGIA —Crawford County.— W.
U J. Slocumb, as administrator of the
estate of S. P. Williamson, deceased, has
applied for letters of dismission from
said trust. This is therefore to cite all
persons concerned to show cause, if any
they have, within the time prescribed
by law why said application should not
be granted.
Witness my hand officially this, the
31st day of March, 1890.
O. P. WllIGHT,
Ordinary.
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colonies The strong against feelings of the Australian
the careless management
of the penal settlement of New Calado-
nia is not without cause if the figures ol
escapes from Noumen be correct. These
French criminals, it must be remembered,
represent a class that is usually hanged o?
punished with life imprisonment in othei
countries. Of these wretches, it Ls esti¬
mated that nearly 1,000 have escaped tc
the colonies during the last few years,
and that the number who have sought
shelter in New’ South Wales has increased
from 200 to 800 in two years. These
escapes are habitual criminals, whose re¬
form is hopeless, and they thus swell the
burden of crime and pauperism which
the colon y has to bear.
The new city directory of Baltimore con¬
tains 5083 more names than last year, indi¬
cating an increase in population of 16,537
and a present population of 518,833.