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Show A TKItlUIII.K 1MSASTK.IS. Th o tcrriblo cntnEtroj.he at Louisville Ky., is beyond tho power of lnngunge to describe. Death lias cut a swath through thnt city three miles in length by linlf a milo in width. Sights udJ sounds from this stricken district must bo fur more horrible than over attended the battle field, for women and children are over- whelmed in the dire disaster. Human weakness and Impotence stand confessed and helpless in tho presonce of such an overthrow. Tho horrors of the scene cannot be imagined, much loss described. As the details roach us they will, like those of the Johnstown disaster, only intensify the harrowing agony of the calamity. All that human skill and sympathy can do will be done; first, in recovering ard assisting the living, liv-ing, but crushed and mutilated victims, and in burying the dead. Then, in furnishing fur-nishing material reliof to the starring, bereft and poverty-stricken survivors. Not this nation alone, but all the civilized civil-ized nations of the world, will thrill with sorrow and join in helpful reliof of the unfortunate people. Kentucky is indeed today a "dark and bloody ground!" |