Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-04-24
A DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO.
several Towns Laid in Isuins-Great Loss
of Life ana PrOperty-Terrible Force of

A DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO.
Several Towns Laid In suins-Great Loss
of Life and PrOperty-Terrible Force of
~ ,MAasnrIELD, Mo-, April 10;
This is tfwn t." and and eGounty We're VISITED VISITED by
s Aer passns toe
Green ana Webster coanties. i.a,, desttToyins t
barns mills and timber, it struck this town
about 30 o'clock:
was frightful looking black cloud lined with
feecy white, funnel-shaped and moving in
moved with wonderful velocity. literally
destroying and blowing away. everything in
its path. which was about half amile wide at At
telegraph wires snapped and the bark was liter
ally peeled from the small trees, houses were
sheep horses and poultry whisi:.d into the it air
and were carried a great distance. The noise. of
and screams of terrified people, made a scene of
horror that beggars description. What was
beautiful, peaceful, quiet town of 800 people,
twenty four hours ago, is now waste of desola-
tion. Out of two hundred dwelling houses not
more than twenty are left standing and but
business houses around the public square, all
but three are utterly demolished and their con-
tents blown away, burned or badly damaged.
About three o'clock freight train from Spring
field brought about three hundred people with
rapidly as the bodies Of the dead and wounded
could be extricated from the ruins they were
prepared for interment.
able structure left standing, the public school
building which was not badly damaged. and it
wounded in the building under the care of the
noble women from Lebanon and Springfield.
sufferinss Of those under their care.
The loss aso BY this nn terrible n dS @ @caamy is
house in the place is in % rnins and stocks all de-
stroyed except tive. Of the 500 inhabitants of
Marshfield who yesterday had happy, comfort
clothing. food OF means to procure them.
The destitution and suffering is terrible. A
81 the total number Killed. which is not far
short of one hundred, not more than dozen
of the killed or wounded can be obtained to-
night. Marshheld Is the county seat of Webster
County, two hundred and fifteen miles from st.
Louis, and situated on a plateau of the Ozark
Mountains. but is not of great altitude par
tcularly exposed.
ST. LOUIS, April 20.
Marshfeld Sunday night has been received.
The precise number of deaths does not seem
fore an accurate list can be furnished. The
number of wounded is said to be nearly two
hundred. but of course a large proportion re-
bruises.
Superintendent Nichols te1eeraphs General
Manager Rogers of the st. Louis L. San Francisco
Railroad this evening to the following effect:
The situation at Marshfeld is more easy to-day
and will improve the people become more
feature now. The dead are being buried as fast
as possible, and carcasses of dead animals are
to Obtain sn scoate list Of tRe desd and
wounded. No regular record has been kept
and the people in the present state of excitement
cannot give information. Most of them do not
know what they are doing or saying. l do not
believe correct report of the casualties will
obtain, there have been eighty-one coffins used,
and there have probably been four or more
The wounded embraces nearly all the town,
and fifty or more of them are seriously hurt, and
no doubt many of them will die. There are
names cannot be learned. A great many of the
wounded are 80 scattered that they cannot be
found.
Provisions have been received to-day from sew
eral places west of here, including points in Tex
as. and they will make the people comfortable
nish some tents and such other means of shelter
will be provided as the circumstances admit of.
have arrived W no will effect an organization for
more systematic and efficient work.
1t is the opinion of many that the wounded
will have to be taken away from here to
some place or places where they can receive diff
There are now sixty-two wounded in the
public. school building. under charge Of
best care possible under the circumstan- an
ces. but it is not and cannot be
what ,xt is necessary. particularly t. those
from Lebanon and Springfield were on duty in
the hospital This morning a large party came
es on duty yesterday and last night.
A Repu6tican Marshfeld special says seventy
led, and some twenty five or more are in a dying
condition. The number seriously wounded Is
about one hundred and fifty.
mother was killed and friends all wounded was
found Yesterday in ravine north of town, where
child. two old Yesterday afternoon
found in a tree top, where it had been nearly
twenty1four hours. It was considerably bruised,
but will recover. 1t was to day claimed by it's
miles south Of town: It's aerial fiebt 6enee eenee
wagon has been found that was, carried four
miles. and the section of the smoke stack of a
mill over three and a half miles.
1t is reported that from thirty to forty persons
the country, and that the town of Corsicana, in
The storm seems to have extended over very
large part of the State. Great destruction Of
us of fifty miles of Jefferson City.
: A report from Texas County says the town Of
Licking was very badly torn up. nearly one-haH
OF the Piace being damaged, but details are
special to the Times from Springfield, Mo-.
fur, in the valley Of James River several miles
south of there. Many houses were destroyed
killed and twenty four wounded. - '.
A special from Fulton, Galloway County. to
Ine heVU0Gec0H says That the storm passed
through that county. doing an immense amount
OF damage to farm property besides destroying
Martz was killed by falling house, and negro
girl was killed by lightning.
Another special . to the same paper, from Cali
fornla. says: The storm visited the southern
part of this Moniteau) county doing great injury
to property and killing and wounding a number
of persons. The storm first struck the little town
Of Barrettsville, destroying almost every house
in the place, then passed down the valley toward
the North Morean,, demolishing nearly every
tial List Of those killed: A; G, Campbell. the
Routon. Mrs. Schaffer, the two children of
Cordian Green, . son of George Harters and Jack
Wilson. Several others were killed, but their
names were not ascertained. Between twenty
and thirty were wounded, but names not re-
ported.
LITTLE Rock. April 20.
The storm of Sunday night DESTROYED the
town Of Elpasof in White County, due
al lives were reported lost. Later advices
show that the storm of Sunday night was wide
ly prevalent IN the northern part of the State in
the neighborhood of Fayetteville and Dardanelle.
Much damage was done and loss of life reported.
At Elpaso: Dr.. Hainston and wife and Mr.. Paul,
wife and four children were killed.