Devastating cyclone levels city blocks and claim lives
The cyclone wrecked houses and factories across the area, killing and injuring many. Firemen battled blazes as roofs and walls collapsed at J. T. Browns liquor store, Langdon Kreiger Saddlery, and Empire Flouring Mills amid widespread ruin and trapped victims. The Jewel Lodge building collapsed trapping many, with survivors recounting a chaotic rescue amid sirens and dust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Killmir
Daniel Hemlock
Seventeenth Street
McCullom
Eighth Street
J. T. Brown & Sons
Eighth
Main Streets
Main Street
S. F E. Gunther
H. R. ‘Leewater
James W. Prather
H.A. ‘Thierman Company
Langdon-Kreiger Saddiery Company
C. Whitman
Cooley & Copeland
Solomon Tollhouser
Jeff Stepard
Mr. Shepard
Ohi
John Kerth, Jr
Mary Keebler
Empire
Emily Marshall
LB. Laer
Danial Proctor
John Allen
Green Choat
Catherine James
Glass & Minton
Glass
Thomas Robbins
Henry Riggins
William Bruner
George Mathews
Kingston Chapel
Gus Reik
Harris Leech
Fred Munger
George Nuttendorf
Fred Baker
Frank Jones
Jack Gurley
Tom Proffit
Mrs. King
Barrett Litton
Loss of Life at Falls City Hall in Tornado Tragedy
Lovursville reports a catastrophic collapse at Falls City Hall, 1126 West Market Street, where 200 or more people were buried as a tornado struck during multiple meetings. Rescue teams pulled out victims including women and children, with several families torn apart, and a large fire forcing a prolonged, perilous search amid gas hazards and collapsing debris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Falls City
Jewel Lodge
Lizzie Walters
Falls City Hall
Lovursville
West Market Street
Twelfth Street
Sarah Kelly
James Hasson
Falls
Louis Simms, Jr
Stewart Avenue
Jewel Lodge No. 2, Knights and Ladies of Honor
Mass death toll at Falls City Hall ruins in Louisville disaster
Rescue workers in Louisville labor to recover bodies from the Falls City Hall collapse. A 10,000 crowd watches as coroner Miller directs morgue arrangements and a list of identified victims includes Rudolph Senger, Genevieve Siumms, Henry Lingo, James Stevens, and several others amid a chaotic scene of mangled remains and grieving relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Falls City Hall
Miller
McGrathiana
Rudolph Senger
Zane Street
Genevieve Siumms
West Market Street
Henry Lingo
Fifteenth
Tyler Avenue
Esquire
James M. Stevens
Eighth
Jefferson Streets
John Kiehl
Fifteenth Street
Charles Siebert
Chapel Street
Main and
Market
Sullivan
Peter Fulier
Fischer Leaf Company
Thomas H. Puff
B. F. Avery & Sons
Leopold Falkenstein
George Jones
Steiden
Alonzo Steiden
William Sabris
Louisville’s Wrecked Buildings on Market Street in March Blaze
Louisville KY March 25 Market street appears a ruined village with nearly complete devastation. A long list details wrecked buildings from 904 to 1116 West Market including saloons, shops, mills, and factories. multiple fatalities and injuries noted from collapses and jumps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Market Street
J. M. Gregory
Vevor Hess
A. W. Ebben
Wire Bros
J.g.gohlke
Kremelberg & Co
E. Hirsh
A. Simons
A. Shellbergz
G. W. Becker
West Market
A. Moss & Son
Ogi Goldsmith
Mulloy Bros
Isaac Staughton
M. Cohen
Antonio Cortez
Montgomery & Bailey
D. Deuser
Baisch & Co
Misses Kubaugh
H. A. Prettings
Valknapp
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
F. Bb. Stiggerhurt
Fred Bauer
S. Hubach & Bros
Wall Paper
West Market Street
H. Sheeman
Frank Corse
Heckman
A. Hoffman
Louis Whitman
Wide Destruction in Broad Street Storm Wrecks City
A sweeping storm battered Broad Street from Fifteenth to Ninth, destroying numerous buildings and leaving many families homeless. Shops and residences suffered rear and wall collapses, with the Catholic Sisters’ Home and Sacred Heart Church blown down. A relief mission led by Colonel Eli Lilly departed for Louisville with surgeons and $1000 to aid the destitute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. Winter
C. J. Schanz
C. Lazarus
Twelfth Street
T. H. Watkins & Co
Jerry Turner
Flavoring Extract Company
Jacob Korb
Maxwood
Eighth
A. Clippel
West Market
George B. Corbin
H. S. Robertson
L. ‘l’. Carr
Ninth and Market
Herbert Williams
Schmidt
Rhodes Furniture Company
Market Street
Ainslee, Cochran & Co
al Rice
O. O. Channon
Jacob T. Gillians
Ninth
Market
East Side
Broadway
Fifteenth
Eleventh
Sixteenth
Nineteenth
Peter Speth
Welsh
Shultes
Seventeenth Street
Father Disney
Sacred Heart Church
Pius
Curious Phenomenon Wrecks Merroreuis Town
A fierce storm struck Merroreuis on March 28, tearing through the town with a rolling ball of water rising high from the Ohio River. It felled multiple brick mills, a hotel, machine shops, stave and woollen works, a cigar factory, residences, and a bank, causing extensive property destruction and injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merroreuis
Lil
Ohio River
D. Davis and
B. Baer & Co
Quante & Bro
John N. Allen
Shelton Bros
Stave Works
Glass & Minton
Metropolis
Kraper
A. Quante
First National Bank
William Ebberlish
John Joiner
John Norden
Slack
Conductor Recalls Louisville Tornado Journey to Indianapolis
W M Robertson of the Jefferson Madison and Indianapolis road, returning to Indianapolis at 8 15 this morning after avoiding a downed track by using Ohio and Mississippi lines, recounts the disaster’s main points. He describes diners fleeing the Metropolitan Hotel as bricks and debris rained down in darkness. Rescue efforts followed amid fires, wrecked stations, and crushed trains across several Indiana towns. The storm caused extensive damage and loss of life in Jeffersonville Evansville Princeton Crattancoca Nashville Fayetteville Trezevant Gallatin and nearby areas with multiple injuries and missing persons reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ind
W. M. Robertson
Jefferson, Madison & Indianapolis
Louisville
Ohio & Mississippi
Indianapolis
Robertson
Metropolitan
Mr. Robertson
Jeffersonville
A. W. Dorney
Evansville
Louisville & Nashville
Sebree
Peter Burns
Nashville
Lenn
Powell
Inpranapolis
Princeton
Crattancoca
Fenn
Graysville
Joan Woods
Fayetteville
Lincoln County
Trezevant
Weakley
E. E. Martin
Galliatin
Tenn
Gallatin
John Hibbett
Palo Langford
Ibbett
Hibbett
William Patterson
James Pattterson
Patterson
Measures of Relief Urge Aid After Louisville Disaster
A large Board of Trade meeting selects a 50 member relief committee to canvass wrecked districts and distribute funds. Immediate aid of 15,000 pledged, total relief 20,000 plus 20,600 city appropriation. Police and engineers mobilize hundreds of workers to clear debris and recover bodies as officials assess needs for the homeless and injured. Separate reports note weather-driven storms and damage across Taunton Virginia, Bridgeton Millville Long Island and Saranac Lake with casualties and property loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Locisville
Board of Trade
General Relief Committee
Taylor
Falls City Hall
Snowden
Washington
Clara Barton
The
Red Cross Society
White House
Louisville
Wind Storm Destroys Homes In Cincinnati Suburbs
A violent morning wind storm hit Cincinnati hills, bowing trees and unroofing dwellings. Madisonville barns and outhouses were blown down. A sixteenth district Auburn avenue school roof ripped up sending tin and woodwork flying as 200 pupils gathered inside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Madisonville
Auburn Avenue
Muracue
Maryland Treasurer Archer Deficit Disclosed in 127000
Annapolis March 28 A joint legislative committee investigating Stevenson Archer state treasurer defalcations reports a deficit of about 127 000 dollars. The Senate accepted House amendments to the Australian ballot bill and sent it to the governor for signature to become law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annapolis
Stevenson Archer
Senate
House
Fire alarms and lightning strike trigger small urban damages
The Box 631 alarm at 11:21 yesterday reported a dwelling fire at 100 Sumner Street in East Boston, Emery Leighton occupant. Damage listed at $25 with a detective flue cause. McEvrosh, March 28. A separate fire in Cross’s drug store caused slight damage from crossed electric wires. NORWALK, Conn March 28. A. S. Merwin’s West Norwalk house was struck by lightning in a morning storm and set ablaze, quickly contained with minimal damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sumner Street
Boston
Emery Leighton
McEvrosh
Cross
Norwalk
Conn
A. S. Merwin
Auction Sale Catalog of Metropolitan Tel & Telegraph Co and Others
Francis Henshaw & Co auctioneers list a sale for March 29 1890 at 42 Congress Street with metropolitan tel and telegraph company stock and numerous railroad and mill securities. Other items include city and state bonds and shares in various banks utilities and manufacturing firms. The second sale on April 2 1890 presents additional collateral notes and a trust notice under guardian authority at the same address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress Street
Metropolitan Tel. & Telegraph Co
Merchants’ N. Bank
Howard N. Bank
Gt. Falls Man. Co
Bates Mfn. Co
Guardian
C. C. Ford
J. A. Burt
F. A. Kelly
J. C. Brown
J. E. Daniel
Wm. McKiney
Andrew J. Sellon
Volunteer Cooperative Bank
Suffolk
Dorchester
Boston
Mass
W. O. Badger
New York & New England Railroad Corporation
Corbett Street
Paul Sellon
R. J. Russell
Gale
Volunteer Co-Operative Bank
Arthur Lyman
Brackett & Roberts
New York
Beneft
Chicago
C.S. Williams & CO
Congress ST
Congress Sq
Devonshire St
Quincy House
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Seventh Street
Helless
Indianapolis Board of Trade
Eli Lilly
Taunton
Millvirlle
N. J
Cumberland County
Enoch Moore
Bridgeton
Ludlam Hand
Millville
Zachariah Parsons
South Vineland
Parsons
Lone Island Cairy
Ampersand
Saranac Lake
N. Y
Ohio
New Jersey
Archer
Maryland
Francis Henshaw & CO
Corner Exchange Place
Boston Stock Exchange
Cocheco Mfg. Co
Gt. Falls Mfg. Co
Atlantic Cotton Mills
Pinchnourg
East Side Electric Ry. Co
Brockton
Worcester, Nashua & Rochester RR. Co
Saco Water Power & Machine Shop
Nat. Exchange Bank
City of
Kan. City
Do Cochec
Man. Co
Do Amory Mfg. Co
Do American Insurance Co
Quincy RR. Bridge Co
Lea
Columbian N
Telepohne Mfg. Co
Revere Bank
Fort Payne Coal & Iron Co
Keast Tennessee Land Co
Lowell
Chi
Burlington & Quincy RR
Nashua Mfg. Co
Taabkann
Cotton
Laconia Mfz
Lowell Mfe
Lawrence Mfg. Co
Chicopee Mfg. Co
Saco & Portsmouth RR
Mil. & St. Paul RR
Burl. & Quincey RR
Union Pacific, Lin
Colorado RR
Maine Cent
Bay State Gas Co
McKay Metallic Fastening Asso
de Oriental Coffee House
Denver Cable Ry. Im
Framingham Water Co
Flsco Bur. & Mo. River RR
Rutland RR
Metropolitan RR
Fitchburg RR
China Mrt. Ins. Co. Scrip
Union Cotton Mf. Co
Fall River
Continental Mills
Manchester Mills
Kansas City Cable By. Co
Boston Ashetic Asso
Town of
Boston Storage Warehouse Co
de Faneuil Hall
Lombard Inv. Co
Henry C. Moore
St. Paul
Sioux City RR
Holbrook & Fox
Postoffice Square
F. W. Ryder & Son
Boylston Building
Cor. of
Washington and
Boylston Sta
KH. Ks. Day & CO
Hoom
Koon
Marence
Vo S&l
Hares Dak. Loan & Trust Co
Watertown
Dak
Hares Nat
Webster Bank
Hares Windsor Nat. Bank
Windsor
Great Falls
Western RR
Guar
St. Lows
San Francisco RR
Portsmouth
Falls & Conway RR
Loston & Lowell RR
Ft. Payne Coal
Tron Co
American Waltham Waten Co
Dedham & Hyde Park Gas & Electric
Arts Payne Coal & Iron Co
Old Colony RR
Ft. Payne Coal & Iron Co
Middlesex Mills
Reece Button Hole M. Ca
de Manchester
Aii
Oregon Short Line RR
Eastern Illinois RR
Boston & Maine RR
S. Y
N. E. RR
Alter Mige. Co
McKay Metallic
Asso, Lao Appleton Co
E.& T. Fairbanks & Co
McKay & Bigelow H. M. Asso
Hyde Park
Boston, Concord & Montreal RR
Consol
Anvil P PeaRe
New England Mort. Security Co
Suares West Ind St
Ry. Com
de Kan
City
Ft. Scott
Memphis RR
Order of Executrix& Shares
Bristol County Ed Bk
Stark Mills
Kansas Mort. Co
Topeka
Kan
Boston & Lowell RR
W. L
Nashua
N. H
M. L
Sheboygan
Wis
Horatio Harris & Co., Auctioneers and Commission Merchants
State Street
Oh Champagne
Roederer’s Champagne
Grand Vin Sec
Brut
Marechale
de Ruyter
Liebig
S. R. Knights & CO
Washington St
Rosaton
Main St
Cambridgeport
Chester Sq
Shawmut Avenue
Shawniut Avenue
A. S. Wheeler
J. H. Young
Trustees
J. H. Currier
Washington Street
Fort Worth
Tex
Omaha
Neb
Wichita
S.A. Kean & CO
Bankers Chicago
A. Lewis
Bevonshire Street
Timtel
Fitchbore
Brown, Riley & CO
Bankers
Masa
Sarnlas
Western Farm Merisage Trust Co
Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co
Acc
F. B&b. Rocers
Rialto
London
Paris
Berlin
John Munroe & CO
Post Office
Devens, Lyman & Go
the Eastern Banking CO
Milk Street
Francis A. Osborn
WM. F. Hammett
Addresa
Bostom
JC. Davis & CO
School Street
Western Farm
Moritgergen
Joan Jeffries & Sons
Devonshire Street
Fort Worth Land and Street Railway Company
Conia
J. Wex
Ort Worth
Texas
Suen
Bow
James F.C. Hyde
Milk St
Lharrima
Birmingham
Clinton B. Fis
Pres
J. Hopewell, Jr
A.w.wagnalls
Treas
A. A. Horprins
Sec’y
James 4. Hobbs
Ford
Schumacher
W. Silverwood
Walter C. Harriman
J. R. Leeson
England
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