The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-17
Terrible Storm i9 the Northeast.
MANY LIVES LOST AND MUCH PROPERTY
DESTROYED.

DESTROYED.
CHICAGO. March l0.--Speeials report
that a most terrific wind end thunder storm
with rain visited the Northwest late this
afternoon and evening 1t appears to have
extended from Quincy, ILL.,, to the northern
portion of Iowa. and to have been specially
{ severe near the Mississippi river. At some
! places it amounted to a tornado, and con-
siderable damage was inflicted. The town
| uf Hazel Green. in the south east corner OF
/ Grant county. Wisconsin, near the Illinois
! State line, which place has about one
| thousand Inhabitants, mostly lead miners,
| was struck 10y tornado. aud about Tour
! o'clock messengers were dispatched to ia
| lena and Dubuque for doctors to care for
| thein iurod. These messengers told story
of a most extraordinary obstruction of
! property and lie. One of them affirmed
! that forty-one people had been killed ont
right and injured and that the town was
I almost totally destroyed. Particulars viii
/ lie sent if ubtanable AT a later hour. There
| is no telegraphic communication with Hazel
Green.
THE STORM IN SOUTHERN KANSAS.
| ST. Louis. March 10.-A terrible storm
| of rain aud hail passed over Soui hern Kan
sas at noon yesterday. The rain was ac-
| cumpanied 10y violent wind, thunder and
| lightning. Along the line of the Ft. Scott
| fell and fairly covered the ground.
| Quincy, Ills, March 1.-THE Wig has
| the following repcrtsspf the effects of the
| storm in Missouri last night: The hurri-
! cane came from the southwest and ST ruck
| Eiizabeth thtown, on the Missouri, Kansas s.
| Texas Railroad, about four o'clock. Some
| seventeen houses were proStrated five per
| sons killed and several severely injured
! some of them fatally. At Hasson. on the
! same road, three dwellings and the railroad
/ depot were blown down and three persons
! killed. WiSher's Mills, near Hannibal, Mo,
were blown down, bat no one was injured
! The damage to timber and fences is very
! great, aud it is thought that further re-
! ports will show much greater loss of life in
! the ncighboihoods not yet heard from.
! ST. Louis, March 12.-ACcounts Of the
tornado which passed over part Of north
eastern Missouri on Friday say tie liltle
town OF ShliiIhtg, in Monroe county, was
entirely demolished. Two persons were
killed and twenty wounded, some OF them
seriously. At KauSaley station, on the
! Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, two
| children were carried away by the storm.
and have not yet been found. The wife and
| child OF Allen Johnson, residing four miles
from Hannibal. were instantly killed. The
destruction of houses, barns, outbuiidings,
stock, fences, grain, We, has been very
great. The tornado was about two hun
dred yards wide, and bounded along the
! earth's line like rubber bali.
| DUBUQUE, a., March 12.-The damage
to property in he Hazel Green disaster was
from SIC, GOO to $50, 900. The tornado
leve!ed everything in the town from thg
southwest to the noI th-cast for the space
of about eighty rods in width. Houses
we're taken up by the gale and borne IL
some cases. hundred feet from their founda
ton, and most extraordinary feats were
performed by Il e wind. A. ten o clock to
day the funerals of the nine persons who
were killed took place, and the bodies were
inferred in the cemetery at Hazel Green.
QUI*CY, H., March 13.-The UHtq's re
port gives tire following summary Of the re
suits Of tie late storm in Missouri Sever
persons were killed, seventeen were injured
thee or four OF them dangerously: som,
thirty houses were blown down and i'm
mense damage done to orchards and tim mber
1t is estimated that in Monroe and Roll,
counties ono Thousand miles Of fencing wer,
Frustrated. Five miles north Of Monroe a
the me of the hurricane a terrific storm
passe Cover, leaving the ground coycie,
, with eight inches Of hail.