View a full description of this newspaper. The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:. It came tip the river. From what point it originated is not now kno'. The suddenness of its coming was one of its most awful features. The heavens were as black as night and the wind blew at a most frightful volocity. Whole rowa of trees wore blown down.
Following this hundreds of houses were tjn. Lrtrye districts in several sections ot the city are In absolute ruin and women and children are in the streets crying and wringing their hands in absolute dismay. The loss will reach hundreds of thousands of dollars. Passenger trains and locomo- tives at the depot were blown over and every wire in the city, electric light, tele- phone and telegraph, is down.
The devastation is to be compared with nothing in the memory of the oldest resis dent. Everybody is lejoicing that no fires have as yet followed, for the streets aro im- passable with trees and fallen buildings, and engines could not be drawn through them. The total death loss so far as is ascer- tained is twelve.
Four men aro known to have been killed in Hazard. The wire rope works house on Scott street, occupied by miners who had just returned from work, fell and three of the inmates were killed. The s'ock house ot the Kytle planing mill fell on a man and two horses, and all were killed.
A little colored girl whs killeif bv a falling building on South Main street. Brown's brick business block on Kast Market street. There are undoubtedly ilfteen or sixteen others killed. Reporte are coming in con- stantly to that effect. It is impossible at this time to give the names or particulars. Many poor people have suffered heavy losses and it will be months before nil dam- age can be repaired. One hundred tin roof- ers have been telegraphed for and building mechanics of all kiudu can find employ- ment for weeks to come, as it is already known that fully two hundred buildings have been blown down or otherwise dam aged.
