The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-08-11
CHICAGO GRAIN AND PRODUCE.
DEATH IN THE WIND.
VIOLENT STORNS IN THE EASTERN
AND MIDDLE STATES.

DEVASTATION AND DEATH AT wALIINGFORD
CoSS.-TwENTY PERSONS KILLED AND A
LARGE NUMBER wouNbED-"VEA one
HUNDRED DWELLINGS AND BARNS DE-
M0LrshED,
WALLiSGfoRD, c., Alg. "a terrible
fernando passed over Wallingford about 6
o'clock this evening, andbew down houses,
uprooted trees and calsed the greatest
devastation. 1t is estimated that the killed
Will number at present allcast twenty while
the wounded will reach twice that number.
Telegraph wires and poleswere blown down,
making it impossible to communicate
directly with New Haven on the south, or
Meriden or Hartford to tle north. Word
was finally sect up by the I o'clock train to
the two latter places and on the 80 ex-
press came physicians and help from Mer-
iden.' The greatest excitement prevails and
the widest rumors are atloat as to the loss
Of life. The tornado was confined to belt
of territory about half mile wide, and the
whole loss of life took place on the sand
plains about quarter ola mile north Of
ldlIIpt'' N'NbHJII, lllt llHt VI lllt
New York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad. AT six o'clock, while men were
leaving the factories, n gentle rain began to
fall and soon increased to perfect deluge,
while almost continuous and vivid lightning
lluminatedthc darkness. The sky was bright
as day. and the thunder rolled with an in
creasine and deafenlng roar. Without
warning tornado with hail and rain swept
across the northern part Of town, from west
to east and everything movable in its track
vas carried away. 1t seemed to last but
moment, but its results were triglltful. AZ
terward light rain fell, and this soon
ceased and at s o'clock the moon shone
brightly down upon scene of desolation.
BY actual count forty dwellings were de-
molished and at least fifty barns. The fol-
lowing are
AMONG THE KILLED.
Nearly all by houses falling: In the plains
school house on the chidren's desks, lay
the bodies of Mrs. Margaret Mooney, John
Mooney and wife and Matthew Mooney,
Cornelius Cheld Tracy and wife and Mrs.
joseph Hubby and infant Child; Frederick
Littlcwood, Mrs. Jno. Boyle, Mrs. Jno.
Lynch, making IL in ALL Besides John
Casin. aged Is; "a young daughter of Rob't
Saunders, and Thomas Daiy's child. Mrs.
Z. Downcs, Katie Coughlin, aged IS; Pat
rick O Niel's child, and John Hayden,
aged, 1G, are all certainly among the
killed and it is possible one or
two more are among the ruins.
In addition Patrick O'Neil had his
head and shoulder badly cut, Mary lIealcy
aged IS, is dying. Jno. Clynn, aged 40, had
his arm broken; John Cashin, aged 10, skull
fractured JIG rOyn anl wiz, bt-'s wound
ed; Henry Saunders, leg broken Mary Ann
Rourk, aged 10, dying; Mrs, Coughlin, bad
ly injured; Mary Track, wounded John, son
of Frederick Littlcwood, dying; four of
Thos. Matthews family, wounded two wo-
men in John Munson's family, injured;
Charles Parme,ee, leg hurt; Michael Kelly,
wounded internally: Henry Jones, hurt
about the head: Patrick O,Neil and child
and Patrick Coughlin, injuries unknown /;
Lawrence Dowds, injured badly, and daugh-
ter dying There are many others whose
banies could not be ascertaincd.
THE SCENE
was memorable one. The wooden houses
were carried clear off thcr foundations
from few feet to an eighth of Il mile.
In the path OF the tornado nothing was left
standing, and on each side of its track lesser
damage was done, chimneys especially sut-
fering. The Catholic church, wooden, and
the new biick high school were totally de-
molshed. The top of brick factory of
the Wallingford community was carried
away. Fires were communicated to the
ruins in many cases by lamps and stoves,
and but for the rain the horror of the affair
would have been greatly increased. The
youth, Matthews Mooney, was standing on
the railroad track when struck by the tor
nado. He was picked up fifty feet away
almost bchcadcd. Mrs. Hubby had her
child in her arms when picked up.
Both were dead and almost
scalpcd. Fred Littlewood was picked up
dead on the side of the road, where he was
killed 10y flying timbers. He was coming
FROM work. Four female relatives of John
MuDson, uptown, were buried in the cellar
of their house when blown down and it
took long while to get them out Two
were injured slightly, the other two unhurt
Michael Kelly while driving in bwggy in
the eastern part Of town was blown over II