Show LOUISVILLE CTCL05E DfMUSS10 OF AX ETEWIT Z3 OF THE GREAT DISASTER Annexed is the uUUtute of a private letter received la Denver from LoulsvlIJf Inyour note of the 22 tb ultimo you asked me to detail to you some of the exptrieocrs we had I will undertake herein to give you ade acrlll1on nchprt of the tornado as 1 wltnceld The Jlceniny fling of the 27th had a column of matter slating that the Bigualirvicu had predicted a tcrifflc cyclone for LouliTlllo for that or the next evening The slg nal service bas mad so many predictions pre-dictions of late which have never been fulfilled that I raid to mYHIr after tvadlng thu prediction Well thats come more of Grrely hoe wash Thajve cried 4Voll wall ta often that I dont believe Ill be i frightened That evening liner supper I started out to tee soma frlenJ As I Opened the front door a blast of lut air ta from fiery furnace fur-nace grveuj rueaud 1 remarked that It wt excetx tingly warm and BUfTo catln and wo would probably have storm It bad clouded by that time ml save fur the almost contlnuuu flashes lightning whIch reached from one horizon to the other It waste blackest night I ever beheld be-held You could scarcely sec your hand before your face Hut when the lightning flatbed Itwaaasifa thousand electric lights had been turned ou at once rendering the surroundings dear aa day nod continuing for half a minute eta stretch Then it would become luky black again for a minute or two when the flaliia would repeat themselves When I reached my dettlnatlon about thirty mlnuUB afar my departure from home large drjj s of rain began to descend The rain Increased steadily until it fell I In torrents accompanied all the while I y the lightning thunder which sounded like distant rumb i I ling of muffled drums About 530 there came an extremely I extreme-ly brilliant flash cf llghtnl ng accom i pealed by a clap of thunder which I soum eJ ialr a bomb brd explode in the room Then immediately i lowing this there was a dead calm and Urn a noise ai If a thousand do I mons were flylngscre chlng through the air each One of them running abuzz I a-buzz saw at the rate of 10033 rcvolu tloiiBamlnuto This lasted for about two minutes and then the nobe I ceased and the wind subsided i Shortly after this we beard the i boat on the riverrepeat the UMreta whistle and ring their belle frantically frantic-ally and I knew that something drea itul had happened but as we were Ji at on the outskirts or the cyctont4 path I could not realize that It haubeeii anything so terrific Onorrllultthero L hen tit wildest wild-est kind ol stories or they stemed fO to me about the damage that had I oiu done I c mid scarcely oelluv them but started out to look and sir for myself 1 first treat to the Falls City hall or what bad been that hall which Is about three squares from my office and ou the wettirnmoet edge of the toronadad path hero it in tereected Market ttntt Gathered In front of the ruins were hundred of people apparently tu4Gtd by what had happened while ail Im Ofr provbed relief corps of tho sturJIes hKartji VAt work In the debris taking out tho Injured l the dying and the dead Two bonfires mad from the ruins of the building were burning In the tmt and cast a weird light on tile scene of suffering and death 1 stoup in front of the ruins for fifteen minutes and sac them carry from the debris six or eight mangled corAM Men women and children had been caughtalikein thy dentil trap and ground l In the nuts of mortar and bricks until the Lore Jlttl resemb tines to human being Their hair wB8ouUednnd UebrickJusIUud dirt ass ground into their very llecb lugged stills their own Jiff blood I turned to Ute shier elJcol the treat where nn undertakers lea Mim tt c > cape < I from the wrwk bad been converted into a tem liorary lio = Ital and morgue There the Injured wee rvceivlng mch at lent ui as could be strutted them the shrieks of the women mingled with the 6ti pi rebvd groaui of then ien who tried as beet they ooulll to stifle Hum were distressing It naf luilced heartrending 1 never before saw such a iIght and 1 hope I may never be called upon to behold be-hold another I turned from this erotic and proceeded up Market tnt IJUIellcsl by nothing morn ota o-ta than a morbid cunoslty On all hands there was wreck and devastation Hoofs telegraph poles and wires and demolished building rendered the streets almost Impaxs thle lokwl at such of the devastation devas-tation as I could and returned to the office ttui > < > fled as were all the rest whom I encountered > o one wemed to realize tlie magnitude of tho disaster and I dont believe any one ever can completely do so Alter the storm it turned suddenly cold and the calm of the atmtM phere was almost painful while tbo moon peeped out from bInd the clouds red in its ghastline with what might have fetnJed the bloat of the storms victims AT Chinese Wisdom Forbearance Is attended with profit The stralhtest trees arc the firs felled Life is a Journey and death a return re-turn home Causclwa anger resembles waves rltbcut wind It is Utter to suOVran Injury than to commit one The loftiest building arises from small accretions A dlstuntentcd man Is like a snake who would swallow an elephant ele-phant To persecute the unfortunate Is like throwing stoned on one fallen into a well If men will have no care for the future they will soou have sorrow for the past KluJ feeling may bo paid with kind feeling but debts mutt be pats with hard cash Hear doth rides and all will b clear hear but out itudyou will fcllll be in the dark While silent consider your own nultf and uhlio leaking those of other utheThe house whereIn learning abouufc will rise that in which lrasur < prevails will fall Tlio > e above should not oppre those below nor those UIuw encroach en-croach on tlio e above The people are the root of the state 1tharootsaredouriahing the stile will endure The owlt must in c thousand times be one ruNtaken the mOl foolish in a thousand time must be once right To be fully fed and warmly clothed aniitodwt11 atcusemtbout earning 1 little Utter thu a Umal tate WbenpatlisancoKBUntly trodiltn they are kept coon but when almn stoned the aettie clioke them uiij MJ weeds choke themlnd In tllenll of employment Gitcosro Aeirt |