The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1880-04-22
A TERRIFIC WIND STORM.
MANY REorxE KnxRD AND Town
BugWN UowN Ayf6 BUR1kD UP.

west last Sunday. Many towns u cas-
tern Kansas and Missouri suffered not
a little. AZ Empofia houses were un-
rooted. At Burlington, the depot was
blown dovs, 4 hotel unroefed, and scv-
cral pcrsons injured. Reports from all
parts Of the west cay nothing like 1t
was ever experienced. The associate
dispatches of Monday night tell Of the
disasters in Missouri Is follows:
st. Louis, April 19.-It is reported
that nearly the whole town of Marsh
field. Missouri, was blown down by the
terrible wind storm last evening, and
then burned, resulting in frightful
loss oflife. The telegraph wires are all
down, and nothing direct from the
scene of the calamity can be obtained
at present, but the facts viii be got at
the earliest moment possible.
From passengers who passed through
Marshfeld on the St. Louis & San Fran
cisco Railroad at $50 last night, few
facts concerning the terrible disaster
are CLEANED. A man who came to the
depot at the edge of the town, while the
train was there, reported that 1T $50
O'Clock, furious hurricane struck the
place and levclcd all that part of the
town lying west of the center square
fiat TO the ground. The debris iInme-
diately took fire in several places, and
the flames could be seen at some half
dozen points by the passengers on the
train. Forty dead bodies had been ia
ken out and many more were supposed
10 be buried in the ruins or burned up.
There were also many living still i'm
prisoned in the debris of the fallen build
ings. All the physicians Of the town
we're killed, excepting two. There was
great need of doctors to attend to the
wounded, of whom it was said there
were some two hundred. A relief train
with twenty physicians and nurses and
a full line Of supplies, left Springfield,
no, this morning tor Marshfield, and
probably other trains will arrive during
the day. The storm was general in
Southwestern Missouri, and probably
other places suffered damage, but as the
telegraph wires were al. Frustrated, no
advices have been received. Violent
rain and HAL accompanied the wind.
A telegram from Springfield via vi
nitia and Kansas City, to G. ". Rogers,
General Manager of the St. Louis j.
San Francisco Railroad, says that hur-
ricane passed q, few miles south Of
Springfield about seven O'Clock last
night, doing IN immense amount of
damage, and killing q great number Of
people. Fifty deaths are reported on
James River, six miles south of Spring
field, and great number of persons
are missing.
The Train Dispatcher at Conway,
fourteen miles this side of Marshfie!d,
reports arriving there from Springfield
at Z O'Clock, and says that he found 3
terrible looking country from North
View, seven miles west of Marshfield,
TO the latter point. Trees three feet
through are torn entirely out of the
ground; telegraph poles are twisted
OF. and everything is wreck and the
town Of Marshfield is demolished-brick
as well as frame buildings, being torn
down. We did not see half dozen peo-
pie as we came through that town. The
place seemed deserted. The doctors
"uV hui fC> W lO On Ouh utu OaiA
Springfield, about twenty-threc in num-
Der. went from the depot alone, to hunt
up the people, there being no one at the
depot to receive them. A train was
sent from Lebanon TO Marshfield at
daylight this morning, with about fifty
doctors, nurses and helpers and fnlI
supplies of provisions, clothing and
medical stores also material for repair
ing the Telegraph line. The line is torn
down at different points between
Springfield and Conway-perhaps ten
miles altogether. A new Catholic
Church at Cuba, ninety miles from here
was blown down. No damage was
done to the railroad except the de-
structiOn of one small section house.
The names of the killed and wounded
at Marshfeld are not received yet, tel
egraph commun. cation not being resto-
red at this writing.
There are also reports here that the
city OF CRANKY, about hundred miles
southwest of Springfield, was greatly
dcmoralized. and Warrcnsburg, on the
Missouri Pacific railroad, sixty miles
this side of Kansas City, was badly in
lnred. but the reports are not verified.
St. Louis, April ia special TO the
post-Dispatch from Lebanon, says that
the tornado which caused such fright
fully havoc at Marshfield last night,
passed through Green and Webster
counties, following the course of the
James River, in a northcastcrly direc-
tion. 1t struck the ST. Louis & San
francisco railroad in two places, and
left linear Franks Station, one hundred
and ten miles this side Of Marshfield.
The latter pace presents terrible ap-
pcarance, there not being more than n
dozen houses unframed in the entire
town. The court house and many 9TH
er buildings took fire and the scene and
effects were Ofthe most dreadful char
actcr. At one house two children were
found dead, and very badly mangled.
The parents could not be found. In an
other case, woman was lost entirely,
and seems to have been carried away
bodily. No details OF the calamity have
yet been received. The force of the
wind tore the bark from the trees, lift
ed others entirely out Of the ground,
and telegraph poles and wires were car
ricd hundreds of rods into the woods
and tied and knotted among the limbs
of the trees az though they were cot
ton strings. Everything possible is be-
ing done to assist and succor the wOun-
,cd. not only at Marshfieid, but at 9TH
or places. The physicians throughout
the country are fiocking to the points
where most are injured, and doing all
they can to alleviate suffering. Doc
tors went from Springfield to the James
River Country, six miles south, as well
as TO Marshfield. Scores of Kind heart
cd people have volunteered ~. nurses.
Captain Rogers, General Manager of
the ST. Louis & San Francisco Railroad
is sending special trains with relief
wherever any good can be done. and all
are doing everything possible to aid the
injured and dying.
Chicago, April l9,-The storm last
night did considerable damage in the
city. This morning the Western Uni
on Telegraph Company had 81 wires
severed in nearly every direction. Re-
port from such points as were not cut
OF indicate the storm has been wide
spread and has done serious injury in
many towns northeast. south and west
No disasters on the lake yet reported,
any craft which was out last
night must have suffered. The wires
are gradually being repaired and COM
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