Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-04-30
A DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO.
several Towns Laid In Ruins Great Loss
Of Life and PrOperty-TerribIe Force Of
the Wind

several Towns Laid In Ruins Great Loss
Of Life and PrOperty-Terrible Force Of
the Wind.
MARsHFH1p, Mo-, April 49,,
This town and county we're visited By
one of the most destructive cyclones on
record last evening After passing, through
Green and Webster Counties, destroying
everything in its pathway, levelng houses,
barns. mills and timber, 1t struck this town
Eye witnesses of the approaching storm say it
was frightful looking black cloud lined with
teecy white, funnel-shaped and moving in
moved with wonderful velocity, literally
destroying and blowing away everything in
Its path. which was about half amlle wide at
this point. Large sized trees vert twisted off,
telegraph wires snapped and the bark was liter
ally peeled from the small trees, houses were
blown from their foundations, and cattle, hogs,
sheep, horses and poultry whisked into the air
and were carried great distance. The noise of
the storm, the crash of falling houses and cries
and screams of terrified people made scene of
horror that beggars description. What was
beautiful, peaceful quiet town of 500 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
few of those remaining are uninjured. OF the
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 a freight train from Spring
field brought about three hundred people with
provisions and medicines for the wounded. As
rapidly as the bodies of the dead and wounded
could be extricated from the ruins they
prepared for interment.
The wounded were conveyed to the only avail
able structure left standing. the public school
building which was not badly damaged, and it
was turned into hospital There are now fifty
wounded in the building under the care of the
noble women from Lebanon and Springfield,
who are doing all in their power to alleviate the
sutferlngs of those under their care.
The loss by this terrible calamity is estimated
at from @5oUQUO 10 S4OOuOU' EVERY business
house in the place is in ruins and stocks all de
strOyed except two. Of the 800 inhabitants of
Marshfeld whO yesterday had happy, comfort
able homes seven-eighths are without houses,
clothing, food o. means to procure them.
The destitution and suffering is terrible. A
great many bodies are lying in the Court House.
Of the total number killed. which is not far
short of one hundred, not more than dozen
have been buried. Nothing like complete list
of the killed or wounded can be obtained to-
night. Marshfeld 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 or par
ticularly exposed.
ST. LOUIS, April 20.
No complete list of the killed and wounded at
Marshheld Sunday night has been received.
| The precise number of deaths does not seem
to be known yet and it will be several days be-
fore an accurate list can be furnished. The
number of wounded is said to be nearly two
! hundred, but of course large proportion re-
celved only slight injury in the way of cuts and
bruises.
Superintendent Nichols teIegraphs General
! Manager Rogers of the st. Louis d San Francisco
]
| The situation at Marshfeld is more easy to-day
| and will improve as the people become more
| calm. The excitement among them is the worst
| feature now. The dead are being buried as fast
! as possible, and carcasses of dead animals are
| being hauled away. 1t is utterly impossible
to- obtain an accurate list of the dead 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
bsye are rer r tbeS fbaSng GO R2f
| ever be made. From the best information can
obtain, there have been eighty-one Cofiins used,
| deaths tonight.
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 a
! good many dead children and negroes whoae
| names cannot be learned. A great many of the
wounded are SO scattered that they cannot be
found.
Provisions have been received to-day from sew
eral places west of here, including points in Tex
as to food for a short time. The State viii fur.
| nlsh some tents and such other means of shelter
! will be provided as the circumstances admit of
| Mayor Fellows, of Springfield, and number OF
active, energetic gentlemen from other places
have arrived, who will effect an organization fol-
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.
ferent and better treatment and attention.
| There are now sixty-two wounded in the
public. school building, under charge OF
physicians and nurses, and are receiving the
| best care possible under the circumstan
ces, but 1T is not and cannot be
what is necessary, particularly to those
who are seriously injured. Last night ladies
from Lebanon and Springfield were on duty il
the hospital. This morning a large party came
from ROlla and relieved the physicians and nurs
es on duty yesterday and last night.
A Repa6IicdE Marshfield special says seventy
one victims OF sundays storm have been bur
led, and some twenty-fiv or more are in dyins
condition. The number seriously wounded Ii
about one hundred and fifty.
IaI oh at,Y Ia
mother was killed and friends all wounded, wal
found yesterday in a ravine north of town, Wher,
it lay all night. 1t is now doing well. Another
child, two years Old was yesterday Afternoon
found in a tree top, where it had been nearly
twenty-four hours. 1t was considerably bruised
but will recover. 1t was to; day claimed by itl
parents, who live two and one-half or three
miles south of town. Its aerial flight henc
must have extended over three miles.
wagon has been found that was carried fou
miles, and the section of the smoke stack of
mill over three and half miles
1t Is reported that from thirty to forty personl
have been killed by the spurs of the tornado IL
the country, and that the town of Corsicana, il
J Barry County, is as badly wrecked as this.
The storm seems to have extended over a yer.
property and loss of life occurred within a radi
us of fifty miles of Jefferson City.
A report from Texas County says the town o
Licking was very badly torn up, nearly one-hal
received.
A special to the Times from Springfield. Mo,
says the tornado, Sunday night, ragei with grea
fury in the valley of James River, several milel
south of there. Many houses were destroyed
and the country laid waste. seven persons wer
killed and twenty-four wounded.
special from Fulton, Galloway County, Il
the Republican says that the storm passes
through that county, doing an immense amour
of damage to farm property besides destroyin
: number of houses. At New Bloomfield Mr.
Martz was killed by falling house, and negr
girl was killed by lightning,
Another special to the same paper, from Cal
fornia says; " The storm visited the souther
part of this (Monlteau) county doing great injuT
to property and killing and wOuuding a numbe
of persons. The storm first struck the lit e tow
! of Barrettsville, destroying almost every hous
in the place, then passed down the valley toWar
the North Morean. demolishing nearly ever
: building in its track. The following is a pa
tial list Of those killed; A; G., Campbell, til
two children of Henry Mickkinny, Ruebe
: Routon, Mrs. Schaffer, the two children
Y Cordian Green, son of George Harters and JAG
Wilson. Several others were killed, but the
names were not asoertaiued. Between twent
and thirty were wounded, but names not r.
, ported.
2 LITTLE Rock, April 20.
] The storm of Sunday night destroyed IL
north Of Little Rock thirty miles. seve
I al lives were reported lost. Later advice
| show that the storm of Sunday night was wild
ly prevalent In the northern part of the State,
, the neighborhood of Fayetteville and Dardanell
Much damage was done and loss of life reporte,
At Elpaso DR.. Hainston and wife and MIR. Pau
wife and four children were killed.
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! Indian rOut-Flies.
q At meeting of the Academy {
5 Sciences Monday night B. b. Reddin
I exhibited specimen of an artificial fl
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