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Cates, James

One Dead, Six Injured.
Violence Marks a Strike of Street Railway Employes at Evansville, Ind.

Evansville, Ind. - After a day of rioting, violence and accident the second day of the street car strike ended with one man dead, six persons injured and street car traffic suspended. Mayor Boehne last night called a special meeting of the board of safety and ordered 200 special policemen sworn in. The dead:

James Cates, Central City, Ky., strike sympathizer.

Injured:

Bessie Kohn, 18 months old, crushed under falling building.

James Williams, Louisville, Ky., strike sympathizer, crushed by falling bricks.

Grant Kinney, strike breaker, Nashville.

Felix Oden, strike breaker, Nashville.

Mrs. Orville Rhodes, leg broken.

Harry Miller, cut in back and head.

A street car manned by a non-union crew going at full speed jumped a curve at Eighth and Walnut streets and crashed into a two-story building Friday afternoon, partly destroying the building, killing Cates and injuring four persons, including Baby Kohn. The street car company says that a strike sympathizer boarded the car and after knocking down the motorman and conductor, threw on the power to the limit, causing the derailment of the car.

Central City Cemetery, 1885

Central City, the largest town in Muhlenberg county, has no cemetery.

Central City Reds

Baseball league game Sunday
Central City Reds and Diamond, Ky., to play opening game at park Sunday.

The Central City Reds will play Diamond, Ky., at the Municipal Ball Park Sunday in the opening game of the Western Kentucky Amateur league. The game will start promptly at 2:30.

The Reds will present a strong lineup and Diamond, who replaces Earlington in the League this year, is said to have one of the fastest teams in the league.

The Blues will go to Dawson Sunday to oper their season.

Central City Tornado, 1910

Central City entertained a miniature cyclone Tuesday morning, and after its departure there was some considerable wreckage over the small area covered, houses and outbuildings being unroofed and otherwise damaged fences and trees destroyed, chimneys wrecked. Fortunately no one was hurt in the mixup.

Tornado Strikes Central City.
Terrific wind storm unroofs many houses and smashes plate windows.

Central City, Ky., April 5 - At 11 o'clock this morning a tornado struck Central City causing much damage to trees and shrubbery, a property loss of perhaps $2,000, and injured one lady seriously. The weather had been threatening, but just before the wind struck the town the atmosphere was clearer than it had been all morning.

In an instant signs were torn from business houses, and whirled round and round until they struck a solid object. The roof of the new brick building of S.J. Cates on Broad street was partly torn off.

A large metal stack torn from some building was carried with immense force straight up Broad street until it struck the large plate glass window of the Barnes Mercantile building. The window was completely demolished. The roof on the large warehouse of T.Q. Fortney, located on Center street, was torn off, and the heavy plate glass windows blown out.

The roof of the barn in which the handsome bay horses of the Moore Undertaking establishment were housed, was blown away and one of the horses injured. The worst damagae was just at the foot of First street as that street goes into the South Carrollton and Greenville road.

Two houses of Mrs. Lillie Mann were blown off their foundation ten feet, and left flat on the ground, crumbling the chimneys as though they were made of sand.

The house of Joe Monaghan was unroofed, the porch twisted from the front and the doors broken in. At the residence of David Noffsinger the wind lifted the front porch from the front of the house, carried it over the house and deposited directly in the back. The work was as neatly done as though by carpenters.

The heavy windows in the front of the residence of David Salsberg were destroyed, every particle of the glass was sucked out into the wind, not a particle of glass was left on the inside. The small storehouse on the grounds of the Kentucky Midland was completely demolished, the walls falling out, and the roof dropping in. Their dwelling was also badly injured.

The most ludicrous feature of the whole storm was the action of the large gray horse of Dr. Creel. John Cates, a fourteen-year-old boy, had started from the post office, two blocks distant, and caught the tornado on Broad street. The horse, though weighing 1,200 pounds, was caught up and together with buggy and boy was swung over into a vacant lot, striking a telephone pole in its passage and tearing off one wheel. The boy was dropped on a pile of fishing poles, and when the horse could not reach the ground, it buck-jumped as fast as it could until finally reaching the ground, it started to run, and ran for thirty minutes.

Central City Water Filtering Plant

Water filtering plant for city in operation
Contract for installation of water meters expected to be let this month

Filtered water for Central City is now a reality. At 10 o'clock Monday morning, Mayor E.C. Mason pushed the button, letting water into the filtering plant and at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon, Edgar Nicholas, a member of the Municipal Water Works Commission, pressed the button that released the water from the filtration plant to the storage tank on Reservoir Hill, starting the flow of filtered water to the 600 odd customers in Central City.

Lucian Miller and E.J. Anderson, two other members of the commission, were present, as well as a number of other local residents.

Water from Green River now passes through three units before it is started on its way to the consumers. The storage tank holds 250,000 gallons, and the filtration plant's capacity is 600 gallons a minute. Three motors are used in connection with the operation of the plant, being controlled automatically.

The Central City plant is said to be one of the best in this section of the state.

The next step to be taken by the commission is the letting of a contract for the installation of meters. The contract is expected to be awarded this month.

Central City Zoning Commission

Zoning commission ask to reappraise rejected decision

Central City, Ky. - The Central City Zoning Commission last night asked that it be permitted to reappraise an earlier decision which had been rejected by the city council.

The request was made at a joint meeting of the commission and the city council and was agreed to by the council.

At issue is a decision by the zoning commission to rezone a portion of land in the southwest section of the city from single-family residential to multi-family residential to permit construction of an apartment building.

The special meeting was attended by a delegation of about 20 persons from the affected area.

Chatham, L.C.

Mr. L.C. Chatham, who became unconscious Monday from severe rheumatic pains, is reported better.

Cisney, Clayburn

In Detroit for prisoner. Peck O'Neill, Sheriff, and Jim Ben Lacefield, jailer, left this morning for Detroit, where they will return Clayburn Cisney to Muhlenberg county. Cisney was arrested in Detroit the first of the week for the county officials.

Coal Supply, 1910

A mineral expert says that coal supply in the United States will last for 4,913 years, but he may not have taken into account the remarkable coal consuming capacity of the furnace in your house, and the extra lengths of winter we are having.

Cook, James

South Carrollton residence burned. James Cook's residence on Main Street, South Carrollton, was destroyed by fire about 4 o'clock Wednesday morning. The origin of the fire is unknown, and resulted in entire loss, including household goods. Mr. Cook and family were in Louisville at the time of the fire.

Cundiff, W.H.

Mr. W.H. Cundiff, an ex-Confederate solider, and an occasional contributor to our columns paid the Republican office a pleasant visit on Monday 18th inst.

Mr. Cundiff has many reminiscences of the Civil War, some of which he promises to write for the Republican.

At present he has sciatic rheumatism in his left hip.

He says that in 1867 he slept in Muhlenberg County with old Mr. Penrod, a veteran of the last British war, who fought in the battle of New Orleans, January 8th, 1815, at which time Mr. Cundiff's father was only one year old.

Mr. Cundiff who is now 72 years of age, was in the last Confederate raid, when Gen. H.B. Lyon's cavalry visited Hartford in the winter of 1865, 50 years ago.

Updated April 6, 2024.

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