3-078-046 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Cyclone at Louisville, Kentucky, US, 1890. 'Tobacco warehouse between 11th Street and 12th Street: the Tobacco District, West Street; Twelfth Street and Jefferson Street; Tobacco Warehouse, Tenth Street and Main Street; Baxter Park; Fifteenth Street: looking north; the Waterworks; ruins of the Falls City Hall. The tornado, cyclone, or revolving hurricane that swept over parts of Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, and Tennessee...was one of the most destructive on record...The large city of Louisville suffered more than any other place...A section nearly one mile square...was traversed diagonally by the tornado...killing nearly a hundred and fifty persons...The calamity would have been much worse in the business hours, 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; also some of the best hotels, churches, and school-houses, and the Union Railway depot, on the riverside...Our Illustrations are from photographs by Messrs. Klauber, and by W. Stuber and Brother'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.