The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-05-01
TELEGRAPHIC.
EASTERN.
FriShtfnl Hurricane.

Fr1Entfut hurricane.
ST. LOUIS, April IA telegram from
Springfield via Ninetta and Kansas City,
to c. w. Rogers, general manager of the
st. Louis and San Francisco Railroad says:
A hurricane passed few miles south of
Springfield about o'clock last night,
doing immense damage and killing great
number of people. Deaths are reported
on James river six miles south of Spring
field, and q great many persons are miss
ing. The train dispatcher of Conway, IA
| miles this side of Marshfield, reports
arriving there from Springt Id at IL
O'Clock, and says he found terrible look
ing country from North View, seven miles
west of Marshfield, to the latter point.
Trees three feet through were torn en-
tirely out of the ground and telegraph
poles twisted off.
From passenger who passed through
Marshfield, on the st. Louis and San
Francisco Rrilroad, at $50 last night,
some facts concerning the terrible disas-
ter were cleaned. A man who come to
the depot at the edge of town while the
train was here reported that at $50 O'Clock
furious hurricane struck the place and
leveiea all that part of town lying west
of Centre Square fiat to the ground. The
debris Immediately took fire in several
places and flames could be seen at some
half dozen points by passengers on the
train. Forty dead bodies had been taken
taken out and many more were supposed
to be buried in the ruins or burned up.
There are also many living Still impris
| oned in the debris of falling buildings.
All the physicians of the town are killed
excepting two, and there was great need
of doctors to attend the wounded, of
| whom it was said there were some two
| hundred. A relief train with twenty ply
sicians and nurses and full supplies, left
| Springfield, Missouri, this morning for
Marshtield, and probably other trains will
| arrive during the day. The storm was
! general in southwestern Missouri and
| other places probably suffered damage.
| but as telegraph wires are all prostrated,
| no advices have been received. A vio-
| lent hail and rain storm accompanied
| the wind.
| Later from the Ruined Town.
| At Marshfield brick rs we'll as frame
| buildings were torn down. A train man
! Just in says: ave did not see more than
| half dozen people as we came through
| that town. The place seemed deserted.
! The doctors and nurses who came on our
train from Springfield, about 80 in num-
ber, went from the depot alone to hunt
| up the people, there being no one at the
! depot 10 receive them" 4 relief train
| went from Lebanon to Marshfield at day
| light this morning, with about so doctors,
| nurses and helpers, and full supplies of
| provisions, clothing and medicine stores,
also materials for repairing.
Lther Towns Damaged
CHICAGO, April 19.-The lin Z is down at
different points between Springfield and
Conway, perhaps 10 miles altogether.
new Catholic church at Cuba, 80 miles
from here, was blown down. No damage
| done to the railroad except the destruc-
ton of one small section house. The
names of the killed and wounded at
| Marshtield are not received yet, tele-
graphic communication not being re.
stored at this writing There are also
reports here that the city of CRANKY, 100
miles southwest of CRANKY, is greatly
damaged, and that Warrensburg ON the
Missouri and Pacific Railroad 65 miles
this side of Kansas City, was greatly
damaged.
The tornado which caused such fright
ful havoc at Marshfield last night, passed
entirely through Green and Webster
counties, following the course of James
river in n northeasterly direction. 1t
struck the St. Louis and San Francisco
Railroad in four places, and left it near
Franks station, ITO miles this side of
Marshfield. That place presents terri
a dozen houses unharmed in the whole
town. The courthouse and many other
! buildings took fire, and soon the effects
were of dreadful character. At one
house two children were found dead and
another badly mangled but still alive
The parents could not De found In
another case woman was lost entirely
and seems to have been carried away
bodily. No details of the calamity have
| of Hhn fArn IF = fl,at ind
stripped the bark from trees and lifted
others entirely ont of the ground, and
poles and wires were carried hundreds OF
rods into the woods and tied and knotted
among the limbs of trees like cotton
strings. Everything possible is being
done to assist and succor the wounded,
not only at Marshfield but other places.
| Physicians throughout the country are
tiocking to points most injured and doing
all they can to alleviate suffering. Doc
tors went from Springfield to james river
country, six miles south, as we'll as Marsh
field, and scores of kind hearted people
have volunteered as nurses. Captain Rog-
ers, general manager of the st. Louis and
San Francisco Railroad, is sending special
trains with relief wherever good can be
done, and are doing everything possible
to aid the injured and dying
The Texas Pacific.
WASHINGTON. April 20-The senate
railroad committee considered Garland s
bill to extend ten years the time for COM
pletion of the Texas Pacific Railroad. Its
terms were made identical with those OF
the amended Northern Pacific bill, and
the committee by majority of one vote
decided to report bill for action without
recommendation. Some members say
that this shall be changed to positive
recommendation before the bill is re-
ported to the senate.
The West Point Investigation.
WEST POINT, April 23-Each cadet is
being piled with formula ofauestions as
. to his knowledge of the Whitaker affair
his whereabouts on the night in question
and the whereabouts of his roommate
and on other points. Some testimony was
addueed to contradict saloon keeper
named Ryan, who testified that no stu
dents in citizens clothes visited his
place.
, The Massachusetfs Sixth.
BALTIMORE, April pa number of sur
vivors of the Old Massachusetts Sixth
Regiment were guests to-day of severa
posts, q. A. r., of this city. the occasion
being the nineteenth anniversary of the
attack upon that regiment while march.
ing through Baltimore for Washington
under the first call of President Lincoln
for troops in '6l.
Reception on the Columbia.
New YoRK, April 24'-Cards are ou
inviting a select company to a reception
and inspection of the new steamer Co
lumbia, of the Oregon Railway and Nav
igation Company. on Tuesday next She
will sail soon with full cargo Of rolling
9 stock for the Oregon Railway Company
Novel Method OF Robbery.
At 10 O'Clock tonight the patrons of thu
Monte Carlo gambling room were thrown
into CONSERVATION by aterrible explosion
e 1t seems that large cartridge was pu
IS under clock on the mantlepiece near th'
Trente Quarante table. The force of thu
explosion was SO great that it shattered
the windows. The lights were extin
guished, and scene of most terrific dis
2 order ensued. Hundreds ofpeople rushe'
wildly abont in every direction. Man.
persons tainted, and large number weI'
seriously wounded by the falling glass 0
n chandeliers. The explosion was th
work of number of robbers, who sue
ceedsd with getting away with upward
of $50, 900 francs. In the panic whicl
followed several persons were trampie
..~1a- r,a4 anI tho pl1plher af thnsa m