Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-21
Shs Daily frfss aud patstahs
Wednesday Evening, April FL, 1880.
TIE STORM IN MISSOURI.

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TIE STORM IN MISSOURI.
Further Parlieuiars from MArshHeld and
Other Points.
1t. Louis, April ia special 10 the
Post Dispatch from Lebanon Gays the tor
nado which caused such frjghful havoc at
Marshtield last night passed entirely through
Green and Webster counties. Following
the course of the James, in a northeasterly
direction, II struck the st. Louis and San
Francisco in four places and left it near
Franks station, ITO miles this side of
Marshfield. The latter place presents q
terrible appearance, there not being more
than a dozen houses unframed in the town.
The court house and many other buildines
took fire and the scene and effect were of :
dreadful character. At one house two chill.
dren were found dead and another badly
mangled, but sill alive. The parents could
not be found. In another case a woman wa
lost entirely and seems to have been carried
away bodily. No details of the calamity
yet received. The force of the wind strip
ped bark from the trees and others lifted en-.
tirely out of the ground, and telegraph poles
and wires were carried hundreds of rods
into the woods and tied and kpotted among
the limbs of the trees like cotton strings.
Everything possible is being done 10 assist
and succor the wounded, not only at Marsh.
field but at other places. Physician,
throughout the country are Aocking to the
points most injured and doing all thew can
to alleviate the suffering. Doctors vent
from Springfield to the James river country.
six miles south, as we'll as to Marshield and
scores of kind hearted people have volun-
tered as nurses. Capt, Rogers. general
manager of the St. Louis & San Frsncisco
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.
Farmers families have been DESTROYED
and not yet reported. Seven of the vonnd-
ed on the James river died this afternoon
and five at Marshfeld. At the latter place
all is confusion aud the people are in an ex-
cited state, and it is almost impc,s' bic to get
an ineligible report.
Many families are homeless aud have
taken refuge in the depot and empty cars
standing at the stations, The front rooms
Of the ceurt house IRE still standing and
have been converted into a morgue. The
school building is being used for an hos
pital.
Up to Z r. N. they have q death list of
seventy-eight, with a prospect of ~increas-
ing II before morning. Many are yet miss.
ing and q number of people have been
buried, OF whom no record Is kept.
1t 10 impossible to get q list of the dead,
but the following are the names of some
OF the prominent persons and their famil.
les, who were discovered early In the day
Mrs. Judge Frye. Dan. Wright and wife,
Rev. E. Cowly. Matilda Widmeyer. Fred
Widmeyer, Henry Balenger, j. NJ. Lindsy,
wife and two children, Sheriff Jopson's
wife. the child OF j. Rush, Mrs. Todd, DR.
Bradford, Sidney Bradford, Mary Rady and
child, Mrs. Charles HALEY and child, Mrs
Malinda Potter, Mrs. Florence Moore,
Hugh Kelso.
E%ighty-fve of the wounded are in the
school house. Among them are the follow.
ing seriously injured;
Addie Widemeyer. Mrs. E. Conda. Jas
NJ. Hicks. Mrs. Dodge, four children oil
Mrs. F. Moore. F. N. Moore. Fanny Rush,
Betty Rush, Mrs. Rush, Nathan SWEET
Isra Smith. Sam'l Crossman, wife and sis
children, and G. G. Smith.
This list includes most of the serious
cases and manv of them will die.
A great many colored people are killed
or wounded, but nc list of them will BIZ
prepared.
Only fourteen buildings are left standing
and there is not q house in town but il
more or less injured.
A large number Of citizens from Leba
non and Springfield are doing all they car
to relieve the suffering. A carload of pro.
visions was sent from Springfield to-day
and contributions are coming in from al
the towns along the line of the road.
Telegraph communication with Mans
deld was restored Tonight, but only one
wire is working. and the prospects Of get
ting full details Of the ravages of the storm
are very poor. Capt. g. w. Rogers, gen.
eral manager Of the St. Louis and Sa,
Francisco railroad, has just received til,
following from D. H. Nichols, a~ssistan
superintendent:
Advices are comingin from different part
OF the country showing many killed or in
jured in remote districts.
A child was found at Mansfield lodge.
in the crotch Of a tree, thirty feet above th
ground, but slightly hurt.
-Four hundred dollars was raised to. day
Rolla for the sufferers at Marshield, an
twelve doctors and nurses left here for tina
place to night.
At Grav's creek, four miles from Jeffer
son City, seven houses were demolishe
and several inmates injured. A log hout
was blown into a deep cut on the Miasoul
Pacific railroad at this point. and a passen
ger train from the west ran into it, ditchiu
the engine and wounding the enginee
James McCourt, and James Murphy, II
fireman.
A special from Fulton, Galloway count,
says q terrible storm passed through tn
county last night, doing an Immense amou
Of damage to farm property, besides destro
ing a number of houses.
At New Bloomfield Mrs. Mortz was kill
by a falling house and a negro girl kill
by lightning.
A special from California, NO., says
terrific storm visited the southern part
+. Manitee county last night doing great inju
" to property and killing and wounding
number Of persons. The storm first stru
the little town Of Barrettsville, destroyi
,e almost every house in the place, then pass
down the valley toward the north More,
demolishing nearly every building in
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