News Articles
of Davidson County, TN

NASHVILLE, TENN., FEB. 13

A tornado struck this city at 11 o’clock last night, accompanied by heavy rain.  Great damage was done in different parts of the city, and several casualties are reported.  The roof of Reah’s elevator, Burns’ block and Edgefield Manufacturing Company’s building were blown away.  A brick wall of the new custom house came down with a crash from the third story to the cellar.  The Merchant’s Exchange was badly damaged.  Fifteen dwellings and twenty business houses were partly destroyed.  At 11:10 o’clock the wind was blowing forty miles an hour.  Men were blown down in the street.  A man on a trestle bridge was blown from it and broke a leg.  All the trains were forced to lay up on account of trees and rails being blown across the tracks.  No estimate of loss is made.  Reah & Sons are the heaviest loosers, the unroofing of their elevator exposing 20,000 bushels of wheat to the flood of rain.  A number of freight cars which were standing on the Louisville and Nashville track, were precipitated down an embankment.  The damage in the city alone is estimated at $100,000 but in the country it cannot be approximated.  Several lives are reported lost.