The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-06-14

All that you can call your own
Lies in Mis-to-day.
Power intellect and health
May not always last
The mill cannot grind
With water that is past.
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION.
Mt. Carmel, Ill. Dcy.stcd by a
nurricane-..>lidsle and rsrri-
bic DcsglatiOn.
Dispatch to the st. Louis Globe Democrat,
MT. CARMEL, ILL.,, June 5.-iieayy,
dark clouds banked upon the western
horizon yesterday gave promise OF a
fallen al intervals during the day. The
hour as near as can be asceitainca,
! was 5:ss.J in the afternoon. Men who
were looking to the west said: There
Is "A big rain coming on over there. :"
/ Suddenly a strange conmotion was
noticed in the heavy banks. Tie mir
was filled with heavy noise, like the
rolling of waves high on the sea shore
The terrified saw a mighty
cone. II must have been one thou-ani
! feet in height, and bore the appear
ance of cloud, whirling and spinning
/ toward the town. 1t was first noticed
| at n distance Of IA mile and quarter
west of the center of town. ii was "A
cyclone, and the besom of destruction
passed through the town, leaving n
| trail of death and ruin behind i. like
unto the marks of the hand of Omnip-
was filled with wrecks of houses,
stores and missiles of every sort. The
crash of falling buildings was heard on
every hand.
THE DEATH-nEALING CONE
passed through the town, making its
terrible emark on Fourth street, the pref
tiest of the streets of this little town.
| In two minutes all was over. The
cyclone seemingly having exhausted
the vitals of its wrath on Mt Carmel,
passed through the town, and ut its
eastern verge went upwards and ceas-
ed to work harm. The roaring noise
died away, and the rain fell in blind
Ing torrents. The streets filled with
| people, and shouts Of terror and eA-
citement rent the air on every hand.
Nothing could beseen but devastation.
The streets We're impossible by reason
of the debris. Buildings continued TO
crash and fall Men and women, craZ-
ed with fear, were ranic-stricken.
! School children, miracuously deliver
ed from the jaws OF death, were wildly
on every hand told of strong men in
agony. Horses darted wildly past,
rideriess, filled with the terror of the
scene. Suddenly, above all, rose the
terrible cry of 'Fire!n and the lurid
flames bursting wildly from the ruins
of what five minutes before had been
the finest and most substantial busi-
ness block in the town, verified the
alarm, This was the time for heroes
to come TO the front. and they respond
ed.
MEN. BLEEDING AND WOUNDED.
hurried to the scene. One man, cool
er than the rest, remembering that
Mount Carmel was without fire-eXtin-
gushing apparatus, ran to the depot.
He telegraphed to Vincennes: Our
town is i'm ruins and in flames. Send
| us aid" Within ten minutes from the
receipt of the telegram the Vincennes
steam fire engine was at the Vincen-
mes depot. \ special train over the
Cairo Il Nincennes road was hastily
| contributed. The distance to the luck
less town was twenty-four miles. a
ride Of thirty-seven wild, exciting min
| utes brought the firemen and their
engines to the scene, and there they
worked as only brave men can. Three
large brick buildings had been wreck
ed by the cyclone. Combustible ma
teriai had started the fire. "There
are men under these fiery ruins" said
the Mayor of Mt. Carmel, who was on
the ground. The men redoubled their
exertions, and succeeded In confining
and reducing the flames. In dozen
other localities nen with axes and
bars were cutting and hauling away
the ruins of buildings, recovering bod
| To-, anI rnsa,,in,r hn i,,i,raI u-au
a terrible night, and the rain continu-
ed to fall Torches and bonfires were
lighted, and in their glare the search
| for the dead and
THE BURIED LIVING
was continued through the night.
When exhaustion at u late hour bade
n cessation of labor, the grimed and
sooty men told each other in lowered
tones that the death roll footed up
twelve, and that it would be increased
when the ruins of the wrecked town
were more fully explored. The gray
and gloomy morning broke upon a
scene of desolation and destruction. A
hundred dwellings stood wrecked and
battered, eloquent evidences Of the
force of the visitation; twelve homes
were In morning, and In fifty more
friends awaited upon the injured and
wounded and prayed that they might
be spared. Mt. Carmel is one of those
bright, cheerful towns peculiar to Ill
lnois, has population Of
ABOUT THREE THOUSAND,
orderly, well conducted people; Is 10.
Gated on the west bank of the Wabash
River, on high bluff, is forty-five
miles from the mouth of the Wabash
and is reached by the Cairo 4 Vincen.
mes Railroad, and the st. Louis, New
Albany 4 Louisville Airline Rail
road.
ON THE GROUND.
! When your correspondent arrived