The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-04-27
WHOLE TOWNS WIPED OUT.
A Terrific storm.

On Friday night q week, the most Sc
we're storm, we think that ever visited
this country, passed over Missouri strlk-
ing at various points on its way. The
town of Marshfleld, Mo-, having about
500 population was entirely destroyed
A man who came to the depot at the
edge of town while the train was there,
reported that at $3.50 O'Clock furious
hurricane struck the place, and levelled
all that part Of the town lying west of
the Centre Square flat to the ground
The debris Immediately took fire in sew
eral places, and the flames could be dis
tinctly seen at some half dozen points
by the passengers on the train. Forty
dead bodies had been taken out and
many more were supposed to be buried
in the ruins, or burned up. There were
also many living still imprisoned in the
debris of the fallen buildings. All the
physicians of the town were killed ex-
cepting two, and there was great need of
doctors to attend TO the wounded, of
whom 1t was said there were some 2O0.-
Later dispatches give further particu-
lars and show the disaster In still worse
colors. Seventy-one victims of Satur-
days storm have been buried, and some
twenty-five or more are In dying con-
dition. The number seriously wounded
is about one hundred and fifty A baby
eighteen months old, whose mother was
killed and all its friends wounded, was
found on Monday in ravine north of
the town where 1t had lain all night. 1t
is now doing well. Another child two
years old, which was found on Saturday
afternoon In tree, where 1t had been
nearly twenty-fours, was claimed yester-
by Its parents who lived two miles and
half away. The child's aerial flight
must have been over three miles. 1t
was bruised but not seriously hurt. Va
rious kinds of property, such as wagons
are being claimed that were blown three
or four miles. 1t is reported that from
thirty to forty persons were killed by
the spurs of the tornado in the surround
ing country, and that the town of Cor
sicana is as badly wrecked as Marsh
field.
The other places where reports have
come from of the damages of this storm
are as the following: Gray's Creek,
near Jefferson City, Mo-, where several
people were hurt, houses blown down,
and one house fell ON the Pacific Rail-
road track, demolishing locomotive
and injuring several train men; Decatur
Ill. La Place, ILL.,, where some loaded
grain.cars were wrecked Ottawa, ILL.,,
where the city gas-works and six school
houses were unroofed; Warren, ILL.,,
houses, fences and bridges blown down
Winona, I'LL, several houses blown down
and others damaged. At the town of
Stiles, Iowa, the cyclones path was
twenty miles long and three hundred
yards wide, proving very destructive
another cyclone with similar damage.
passed near Bloomfield. At all the
points mentioned barns and other out
houses were destroyed, trees uprooted,
fences demolished, stock killed, and the
thermometer fell rapidly.
The following interesting fact is
vouched for by George Gilbert, of st
Louis. He and his wife and four chill
dren were on visit eight miles in the
country, and the centre of the tornado
passed within five or six yards from
where they were. A wave of water ap-
fifteen feet high rolled in the
rear of the point Of contact of the cloud
spot with the earth 1t rolled over
them in second and was icy cold,
drenching them thoroughly.