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Show liift ttft in lis! L,5( S Death-Dealing Tornado Strikes 5 the Fair City of the South. i,5t twenty-Five Hundred Houses Blown Down and From 250 to 800 ire Lives Lost. he Area of the District Destroyed is a Half Mile Wide and Three S and'a Half Miles Long. ,00 ,50 , ,00 S I'll) GREEN, A TOWN OF 5,000 Plffl, ? WIPED OFF THE KART1I PORTLAND DEVASTATED. ills' City Hall the Scene of the Greatest Loss -Agonizing Scenes After the S.orm-. S.orm-. Relief Train From Indianapolis, fires were burning, but all were soon extinguished. ,oiTsvii.LE, Ky., March 28.-A tor-i tor-i entered the southeastern portion l,e city at Eighteenth street and ,it a path of five blocks diagonally, fling in a ragged line to Seventh - , t, levelling every building in its i, probably 2500 houses. ma HUNDRED KILLED. 1 rough estimate puts the killed at k hundred with thousands jejurod. J he city is filled with a crazed mass eople wildly Booking friends. A 0 force of men are at work on the 18. IIUN11KHD HODIES HAVE BEEN RECOVERED. RE-COVERED. uildings on Main street from Eighth uurteonth are in ruins,not one of the J lsome wholesale houses are left, and tobacco warehouses are swept away Market stroet. Falls' city hall, a story building was blown down re several Masonic and Knights of 'it lodges were in session. Ono hun- 1 mon and womon are hurried in the 13. LATER PARTICULARS. dcisville, Ky., March 23. Every e on Market, Jefferson and Walnut ats from Tenth to Sixteenth is in 3. irkland suburb is swept away, ich desolation no city has ever fn in this country. Every building, and telegraph pole in the district -k is leveled. IT WAS PREDICTED. ie cyclone was predicted by signal ice yesterday, but no heed was paid e warning. The cyclone came with a warning sound, and in all build-struck build-struck the inhabitants were en-i en-i in their usual vocations, e district laid waste comprises an of three miles long and nearly a Mile wide. "long the bodies identified aro: ra-May Hodges. '-'nis Simmons and four children. 168 App, dancing school teacher. rge Poster, clerk. Randolph, "nes Rock, "ter Cromley, ra. Harrison, Irs. Ltufft, ''"a Miller, lra Langton, tr- Adam Mills, rs- Charles Hassom, ,v' X' Barnell, pastor St. James Epis-1 Epis-1 Church; 'oe child. UNIDENTIFIED BODIES. ftn unidentified bodies are lying 1 heap at Falls City hall. Other " afe all over the city. Many,bod-3Ve Many,bod-3Ve carried away by friends. THE CYCLONE the river striking Jeffersonville, na bally wrecking Fr jnt street on riv front, but no hve were lost A HUNDRED WOUNDED lit S'a l e'rno:os and to the ' , 1 , " the physicians of the city jJnding them. At 8 o'clDck seven |
