Terrible Kentucky Disaster devastates Louisville area
A massive tornado struck southeast Louisville near eighteenth street sweeping a five block path to Seventh street level ing every building and leaving an estimated 500 dead and thousands injured. Falls City Hall and multiple tobacco warehouses were destroyed. Rescue crews recovered about 200 bodies as fires burned and crowds gathered amid massive ruin. The cyclone crossed the river to Jeffersonville Indiana causing further destruction but no deaths.
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Louisville
Eighteenth Street
Seventh Street
Main Street
Eighth
Fourteenth
Market
Falls City Hall
Masonic
Knights of Honor
Jefferson
Walnut Streets
Portland
May Hodges
Louis Simmons
Miss App
George Poster
Ben Randolph
James Rock
Peter Cromley
Harrison
Buffet
Chris Miller
Langton
Adam Mills
Charles Hassam
N. Barnell
St. James Episcopal Church
Cylone
Jeffersonville
Indiana
Front
Fall City Hall
Sarah Kelly
Eleventh
Market Street
Seventhteenth
Broadway
John Werrick
Parkland
Virgil Wright
Maggie Ryan
Maggie Campbell
Mary Crowe
Mary McGinty
Peter Fuller
Carpenter
Thomas H. Puff
Leopold Falkenstein
Steiden
Alonzo Steiden
William Labrice
Rudolph Senger
Genivieve Simms
Henry Lingo
James M. Stevens
John Reihl
Charles Siebert
J. F. Lescher
Mary Senatter
A. Stroebing
Elmer E. Barnes
Clarence Loeser
Robert Hamilton
John Horan
A Scrap of Paper Saves Her Life
A dying woman with consumption weighed less than seventy pounds. A scrap of paper led her to Dr King’s New Discovery. After trying samples and full bottles she recovered, reaching 140 pounds. Send a stamp for fuller particulars to W H Cole, Druggist, Fort Smith, with trial bottles free at N M White’s Drug Store.
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Dr. King
Fuller
W. H. Cole
Fort Smith
N. M. White
Glen Adds Side Tracks as Mayor Returns from Nebraskan Trip
Mayor John McIntosh returns after a 16 day business trip to Nebraska. J A Allen remains busy at his office taking orders. Arbor day set for April 14 prompts citizens to plan. Farmers prepare for spring planting as farm implements arrive. Mrs J G Douglass and Miss Susie L Douglass visit Mrs John McIntosh. Summer and Ashford ship a car of ore from McCarthy mountain valued at 183 dollars. Mayor McIntosh plans a Great Falls trip to inspect town lots.
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John McIntosh
Nebraska
J. A. Allen
J. G. Douglass
Susie L. Douglass
Dillon
Summer & Ashford
McCarthy Mountain
Great Falls
District Court Actions in Fitch Judicial District
The district court convened March 27 to hear estate reports. Cases include Estate of John Beach and John P. Haskell with appraisers' reports. Estate of William Ellis and Joseph Loughridge with payment of sums to debts. final settlements for Herman Kounts and James Flynn estates. W R Billings appointing James H. Mackay as administrator. John Auten with John Peate as administrator. Thomas Martin estate with disputed claims resolved, excluding Robert Boatman’s gambling debt. Court adjourned sine die.
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District Court
Fitch Judicial District
Court House
John Beach
John P. Haskell
William J. Ellis
Joseph J. Loughridge
Charles Behue
James Flynn
W. R. Billings
James H. Mackay
John Auten
John Peate
Thomas Martin
Robert M. Boatman
Mississippi Floods Reach Arkansan Inhabitants Destitute
J J Hogan reports from the flooded Mississippi district in Laconia Circle Desh county Ark where 2000 to 5000 residents are destitute. Homes ruined floodwaters force people to live on rooftops while remaining livestock struggle. Helena delta region from Vickburg to Shreveport and New Orleans may flood. Urgent relief efforts urged as the situation grows critical.
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St. Louis
J. J. Hogan
Mississippi River
Laconia Circle
Desh County
Ark
Helena
Delta
Vickeburg
Shreveport
New Orleans
Montana Briefs Include Two Suicides and Local Developments
State news in brief reports two Montana suicides by allegedly failed love affairs, a Helena lawyer George Voss and tracker Ed Brown, then notes visiting Minnesotan L E Howes and potential Three Forks mine syndicate activity. It mentions Duncan Hunter’sCalifornia trip, and that a metals refinery experiment may lead to a plant at the Gallatin Jefferson Madison forks.
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George Voss
Helena
Ed. Brown
Oliver Wallop
Otter Creek
Custer County
L. E. Howes
Marshall County
Minnesota
Fort Benton
Montana
Three Forks
Bozeman Chronicle
Duncan Hunter
California
Gallatin
Jefferson and
Madison
Helena Herald
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Birch Creek
Eprrok Tribune
Wm. Barbour
Willow Creek
C. R. Stanfield
J. E. Morse
Andrew Barber
James Haining
Crosley
Pete Nihil
Glen
R.R. Company
Virginia City
Dr. Toms
R. R. Company
Jno. LaMunyon
S. G. Whiting
John Carlson
Bannack
Trining
Phil Shenon
Butte
McAlister
M. M. Freed
H. Stevenson
Navajo
Elkhorn District
Perkins and McIntosh
Bald Mountain
Golden Leaf Company
General News
Chicago
Hilll
New York
Chauncey B. Sabin
United States
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Lister
Bradford
England
Stephan Rowan
U.S. N
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Charles F. Klunder
New York City
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Auburn
Brazil
William
Germany
House Committee On
Mattie Bacon
Niles
Mich
Lake Michigan
St. Petersburg
Dilworth
Detroit
Grant Adsit
Elmore Thomas
Milford
Adsit
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Atlantic
Central Railway
Pacific
Republic
Sheriff Flack
Joseph Meeks
William L. Flack
John LaMunyon
Lima
Jno. McIntosh
Herman Kounts
John Batterel
Mary Ann Flynn
Mississippi
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