The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-04-27
THE CYCLONES CIRCUIT.


! Illlnois, Mississippi and Tennessee
{ Towns
Visited by Devastating Wlnas-Twsnty.twl
Houses Leyelsd to the Ground and
5 Seventeen Persons Killed at Macon,
Mlss.-stsep stsrles Of Won.
derful Escapes.
CHICAGO, April 2s.-The following are
additional particulars Of Saturday nights
storm: AtAshland, ILL.,, several thousand
dollars worth Of properly was destroyed.
Heavy hail, alternated with rain, which
continued all night, flooded the streets,
permeated. cellars and Easements oi
stores etc. At Farmer City, ILL.,, the
creeks and sloughs are higher than ever
known before. Fences, culyerts, bridges,
and walks were carried of. Charles
stransbury was drowned while trying to
cross the creek on horseback. AT Kan.
kakee an almost unprecedented amount OF
water fell; river rose FIVE feet, farm lands
are flooded and work will be delayed two
weeks. Much Of the lately sown grain
will be drowned out.
Near Taylorsville the cyclone was ter.
rife. Many houses were demolished, the
inmates being crippled, killed or carried
away, and are still missing. Many are
rendered homeless by the storm, which
lasted from P. NJ. to.midnight.
Alonzo Callers house was blown TO
atoms. One OF his children was killed
outright, another carried off and found
dead in the morning.
I. j. langley was killed; John Gessner,
skull fractured and will die. A man
named Walls and his wife were blown
about quarter Of mile locked in each
others arms, and were found badly cut,
bruised and insensible.
7. w. BrentZ, Mr.. Ellcott, wife and two
children, little daughter OF Ed. Leigh
and Thos. Hill, hundreds OF cattle, sheep
and hogs, crippled and killed, were found
in the line OF the cyclone dead and diyest.
ed Of their plumage.
Reports OF the damage are constantly
being received at Taylorsyille, and relief
measures for the destitute are being taken.
1t seems that the storms Of last week, in
their extent of violence and destructive
ness, have never been equalled in this part
OF the country.
AT MACON, miss.
MERIDIAN, MISS, April GA heavy
storm passed over Macon last night, blow.
ing away twenty.two houses, including the
NJ. & o. Railroad machine chops, round
house, depot, telegraph office and the Mas
ter Mechanics office. Sixteen cars were
blown from the track. Seventeen persons
were killed and twenty-five wounded.
The loss to property is estimated ut not
less than 100000. Meridian was called
on to send physicians, aud six or eight
have gone from here 10 attend the suffer-
ing.
AROUND MEMPHIS.
MEMPHIS, April 26.-AI destructive tor
nado swept over the country in the
vicinity Of Macon, Miss, last night. Tele.
graph communication interrupted. Meagre
reports bring intelligence OF the loss OF
several lives. Fuller details hourly ex.
pected.
A special to the appeal from Macon,
Miss, says that last night, at $3.50 O'Clock,
one OF the most ieariuland furious cyclones
struck the northern part OF this place, re.
sulting in q sad loss Of life and wholesale
destruction OF property. The day had
been unusually sultry, and at the hour
stated two terrible currents OF air, one
from the northeast and the other from the
southwest, bearing clouds charged with
electricity, were hurled together right at
the fated locality.
Itwas war OF storms. Besides the in
cessant lightning, balls OF fire were seen
whirling across the clouds, ranging in size
from chestnut to mans head. Right
in the centre OF that part OF the town
faround the railroad station the storms
met and the work OF destruction began,
and in less time than one can tell 1t the
place was in ruins. The loss OF life is
fearful. Through beating rain, against
pitiless wind our citizens rushed TO the
scene 10 aid the sufferers.
Through the night squad OF men'went
to work 70 remove the debris aud gather
up the wounded, dying and dead that
were scattered everywhere. The scene
beggars all human attempts at description.
To-day the citizens closed their places of
business, and are devoting the day to car
ing for the dead and wounded. Eighteen
were killed outright and forty more less
injured, some perhaps fatally. After the
storm some ruins caught fire, but were
checked before spreading to any extent.
About 10 o'clock perfect water spout
visited the scene to render 1t more hor.
rible. Men and women were found to-
day decapitated, limbs torn from their
bodies and otherwise mutilated,a a quarter
ola mile from their homes. The stock is
all killed in that vicinity. Abolt oil goods
from store was found eight miles from
town in tree top.