29 MARCH 1890, Page 3

A telegram of Friday announces the outburst of a terrific

tornado in the Ohio Valley late on Thursday evening. It is feared that it has actually destroyed the town of Louisville, Kentucky, and known that it has killed there some eight hundred persons. So tremendous was the force of the hurri- cane, that " it lifted the Union Railway Station, at the foot of Seventh Street, bodily from its foundations, and carried it into the raging torrent of the Ohio." It also crushed the City Hall, overwhelming three hundred people in the ruins. In Europe we fear floods, but hardly think of wind, and certainly build with no notion of its pressure in other regions. The Louis- ville hurricane in the Valley of the Thames would have blown down half London.