The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-03-16
TERRIFIC TORNADO.
Great Destruction of Life and Property

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CHICAGO, March 1l-Despatchcs re.
ceived here report that most terrific wind
and rain and thunder storm visited the
Northwest late yesterday afternoon and last
evening. 1t appears to have extended from
Quincy, ILL.,, to the northern portion of
Iowa, and to have been especially severe
near the Mississippi river
At some places it amounted to tornado,
and considerable damage was inflicted The
town Of Halle Green, in the southeast cor
ner Of Green county, Wis, ner the Illinois
State line, which place has about thous-
and inhabitants, mostly lead miners, was
struck by tornado at four o'clock.
Messengers were despatched to Galena
and Dubuque for doctors to care for the in
jurcd. These messengers told story of
the most extraordinary destruction of pro-
perty and life. One of them affirmed that
torty-one people had been killed outright
or injured, and that the town was almost
totally destroyed. There is no telegraphic
communication with Halle Green.
THE KILLED AND WOUNDED
CHICAGO, March 1O-A special from
Galcna says it is impossible to get the ac-
curate news from Halle Green tonight
The latest accounts give the list Of killed
and wounded as follows -
Joshua Richards, Mrs. John Looney,
Mrs. Thomas Richards, the wife, mother
and daughter of Thomas Edwards, son of
Joseph Jackson, Edward Thompson and
his father, nine persons in all. There was
rumor that eighteen persons were killed
but it cannot be authenticated
A great many were badly injured, some
probably fatally Broken legs, arms and
other casualties are reported in numberless
cases. The village was built of wood, and
the tornado swept clean track from south
west to northeast through the town, de-
stroying twenty-six buildings in all
DESTRUCTION OF A MISSOURI VILLAGE.
Quincy, ILL.,, March 12.-The Wing
has the following report of the effects of
the storm in Missouri Friday nj ght:-"The
hurricane came from the southwest, and
struck Elizabcthtown, on the Missouri
Kansas and Texas railroad, about four O.
clock Some seventeen houses were pros
trated, five persons killed and several in
| jured, some of them fatally. At Hasson,
on the same road, three dwellings and the
railroad depot was blown down and three
persons were killed. Wither's mills, near
Hannibal, Mo, were blown down, but nc
one was injured The damage to timber
and fences is very great, and it is thought
that further reports will show much great
er loss of life in the .nci.hborhoods not
heard from
| 4 WISCONSIN TOWN RAzED.
CHICAGO, March ia terrific and
destructive tornado broke over Hazelgrecn
small village in Southwestern Wisconsin,
on Friday afternoon. The weather had
been remarkably warm, the thermometer
indicating So in the shade during the day
and up to few minutes before four O clock
when gathering clouds gave evidence OF
some decided meteorological disturbance
Shortly afterward the storm broke, and
with . suddeness equal only to its coming,
swept across the Inflated town, laying a
great portion of it in ruins. The wind
which rose to the height of tornado, struck
the town on the west side and tore its way
with almost unparalleled fury northward a
short distance, when it took an easterly
course, sweeping through the entire length
of the village, leveling to the ground be-
tween twenty-five and thirty buildings, con-
sisting of residences and business houses
| Frame houses were wrestcd from their
| foundations and dashed against brick struc-
lures, which crumbled and toppled before
the furious gale, and fell one mass of ruins
| Fences were torn from their posts, the air
for a time being fairly filed with boards
and sticks, as numerous as flying sparks
from great confagation. The awe-strick-
en- people were so completely taken by sur
prise by the sudden bursting of the storm
and its lightning-like rapidity as it plowed
its way through the doomed town, that they
had little or no time to prepare for safety
in fight, and, as a consequence, large num-
bers were overwhelmed by fallen buildings
and either killed outright OF crushed and
MANNED, so that their lives are dcspaired
| Of There were eight Of the citizens killed
their bodies for the most part being terri
| bly, mangled. Some were caught under
falling timbers, others were impaled by
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to death by being caught up in the storm
and thrown against buildings, or thrown
with great force to the ground. The earn
age is reported to have been terrible to an
alarming degree, and when the wind had
passed by its path was marked by ruined
buildings, and dead, dying and wounded
inhabitants. Immediately after this tor
nado had died way heavy rain storm set
in, the water falling in perfect torrents, and
extinguishing at once the slight flames
which had sprung up, probably from black
smiths shop, which shared the fate of many
other buildings. In addition to rain there
was also heavy hail storm, the wheather
having suddenly turned cold. The dead,
so far as could be ascertained, are Joshua
Richards, Mrs. John Looney, Mrs Thomas
Richards, Mrs. Thomas Edward, Miss
Thompson, daughter of Edward Thompson,