3-078-038 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Cyclone at Louisville, Kentucky, US: tobacco warehouse between 11th Street and 12th Street, 1890. 'The tornado, cyclone, or revolving hurricane that swept over parts of Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, and Tennessee on the 'night of March 27...was one of the most destructive on record. Many towns were struck by its fury; and we have as yet no computation of the number of houses and other dwellings entirely overthrown, or the loss of life and property. The large city of Louisville...suffered more than any other place...A section nearly one mile square, between Eighteenth-street, Broadway, Eleventh-street, and Main-street, which last is the principal street of trade and business, was traversed diagonally by the tornado, totally destroying about two hundred and fifty buildings, and killing nearly a hundred and fifty persons...The calamity would have been much worse in the business hours of the day, when Main-street, with its shops and warehouses, and the large tobacco-factories, were crowded with people. Eleven of the great leaf-tobacco warehouses are in ruins...Our Illustrations are from photographs by Messrs. Klauber, and by W. Stuber and Brother, of Louisville'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.