Blackford, Kentucky Tornado
March 27, 1890
LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 31. - Most
discouraging reports of Thursday's cyclone comes
from Webster and Union counties in Kentucky.
Within a range of three miles of Blackford, in
the same county, naught can be seen but
destruction. The town itself was all but wiped
from the face of the earth. The houses in the
village were carried away, and the forest trees
around were felled to the ground as though cut
down by a scythe. The most appalling loss
followed in the wake of the storm at this place.
Twenty-one lives are known to have been lost in
the locality, and four times as many injured.
Among those dead are the following:
Mrs. James Franklin. Mrs. James Mitchell
and two children.
Mrs. William Taylor. William Hooper
and two children.
Charles Hancock and one child.
Henry Sandefur, wife and three
children, blown into Green river with their
house and drowned.
Newark Daily Advocate, Newark, OH 31
Mar 1890
Blackford was all but wiped out. Twenty-one
lives are known to have been lost in this
locality, and four times as many injurnd [sic].
Among those dead are the following:
Mrs. James Franklin,
Mrs. James Mitchell and two children,
Mrs. William Taylor, William Hooper
and two children,
Charles Hancock and one child,
Henry Sandefur, wife and three
children, blown into the Green river with their
house and drowned.
Newark Daily Advocate, Newark, OH 1 Apr
1890
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