New Y ork, March 28.—A report just
received here says that the
chief operator of the Western
Union company, at Louisville has ar
ribed at Jeffersonville, Ind., across the
river from Louisville. He reports terri
ble destruction there, almost the entire
I western portion of the city of
Louisville being in ruins, and
1,000 to 1.500 are -
to have been killed. Th s information is
said to come via the railroad wire between
Jeffersonville and Indianapolis.
Chicago. March 28.—The fallowing
dispatch was received by the Associated
Press at 2:30 a. m. from is Louisville rep
resentative, by R. R, wires, and believe
to be an authentic statements of the
situation at Louisville. Shortly after 9
o’clock a tornado swept over this city
wrecking two or three hundred houses and
killing two hundred people. The wind
came from the southwest. The union depot
at the foot of Seventh street, was blown
into the raging torrents of the Ohio river.
A train of cars making up for Louisville,
on the Southern road, went over with the
building. The city hall on Market street
was wrecked. In the hall were over a
hundred people and but few of them es
caped alive. Many of the buildings after
falling took fire and the inmates were
burned. All the streets are blockaded
with debris, falling buildings, telegraph
and electric light wires.
Thirty-five bodies, mostly women and
children, have been taken from the rains
o f the c ity hall. It is impossible to get the
names. 11. Mason, member of legislature,
from Hancock county was in Wright's
cigar store when the building fell. He
was instantly killed. Eleven girls were
imprisoned in the cellar of Wright's
building. Three have been taken out dead.
