The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-05

ments were taken by the Indians. Most of the
bodies were scalped. The murders thus far as
certained are one woman, two children and if
teen men, in addition to thirty-three soldiers
of Col. Perry's command killed and missing in
the late tight. The details Of the murders are
horrible in the extreme
A terrible tornado passed over Morgan.
Johnson. Shelby, Rush, Henry and Wayne
counties, Ind, on the night of the 1st inst,
which was attended with immense loss of life
and property. We CLEAN the following particu-
lars of the calamity from the Indianapolis
Journal: "Near Brooklyn, Morgan county,
the woods had every tree either torn up by the
roots or blown down. It's track was half
mile wide and fifteen miles in length. The
wife of J. S. Dressler was fatally injured, and
three others, names unknown killed. Loss,
$4,000. The son of James Armstrong was
killed by falling tree. In johnson county
the house Of Mr.. Boummer, three
miles west of Franklin, was blown down,
and the whole family, five in number, instantly
killed. Ten miles further west the house of
George Tresler was blown down and himself
and wife and three children killed, and re-
manning child fatally injured. A. M. Arm
| strong's residence was destroyed, three chill
dren killed. and several members of the family
severely injured. A new church at Jolly WAS
torn to pieces, twelve killed and fifteen wound
ed. In this county farmers lose heavily An
immense number of cattle were killed, fences
and barns destroyed, and timber uprooted. In
mense damage was done to crops and buildings.
In Shelby county Michael Meherlich was in
stantly killed, and Mrs. Reeker fatally injured.
The storm passed over Rush and Henry
counties to Wayne, where it left the State.
Charles Brown, of Richmond, was instantly
killed by falling tree, and companion, ". J.
Hyatt, fatally injured. The tornado continued
its course through Central Ohio, doing great
damage 90 houses, fences and growing crops,
and in some instances causing serious loss.
The town of OFallon, ILL.,. II miles west of st.
Louis, was alss visited by a fierce hurricane,
blowing down many houses and seriously
damaging the fields of grain. similar
visitation was experienced the same day,
and about the same hour, at
Ercldown, Pa. Twenty families were made
houseless in a few minutes their dwellings be-
ing RACED to the ground. The fine new SEM
mary of Richard Darlington was also destroyed.
A woman named Hopkins was instantly killed
and five persons injured, two fatally The vicin-
ity of Minneapolis, Mimi, was also visited by
tornado Of extraordinary violence Houses
were blown down, trees uprooted, fences swept
away, and cattle carried through the air Like
feathers. Several persons were killed.
south.
L. Cass Carpenter, United States Revenue
Collector at Columbia, S. c., has been arrested
in a charge Of ''raising" Treasury warrants.
A New Orleans grand jury has indicted J.
Madison Wells and Thomas G. Anderson, mem
bers of the late louisiana Returning Board, for
larceny in having made away with the returns
of the election of 1876.
Four men confined in the jail at Mount Yer
non XIV were taken ont NV O. n,oh and hunp to