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Show Freaks of the Tornado, Hundreds of interesting incidents are related of the freaks of the storm. A block of iron casting, weighing over one hundred and fifty pounds, was blown into the second story of the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railway building, build-ing, near Union depot. Nobody knows where it came from, aud the nearest building frosa which it could have come is nearly one hundred yards away. Great sheets of tin roofing were dropped ipon Dr. Barry's farm, near Turner's station, forty miles from the city, on the Short line. In the ruins of a house on West Main street a large office clock was found clinging to the wall, but no one knows where it came from. It was badly broken, but the bands still pointed to B:20 p. m. A large slabf marble found in a residence resi-dence on West Madison street was never there before. It will weigh over 100 pounds. At Baird's drug store, on Market Mar-ket above Ninth street, two bird cages with the birds were blown in through the skylight. The cages were not injured, in-jured, and the birds are as full of song as ever. ' When the building occupied by Brand & Bethel, the tobacco men, on Greer street, went to pieces, a portion of the framework dropped through the roof of a little cottage just east of the factory. It consisted of a heavy timber, to which were mortised four upright pieces of timber. When this came through the cottage the family were sitting around the table in the dining room, and the four uprights sircply penned them in, but did not hurt them in the least-Louisville least-Louisville Dispatch. |