The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-04-19
TELEGRAP1H:3[IC.
To-Dav's Dispatches.
TER RlpIc STORM AT MARsHrrELD.
MISSOURI.
Over SO lives lost and 400 wounded =
the town in ashes

ST. LOUIS. April 19.-Reports are cur
rent that nearly the whole town OF Marsh
field, Mo-, was blown down By the terrific
wind storm of last evening, and then
burned. resulting in frightful loss of life.
Telegraph wires are all down and nothing
direct from the scene of the calamity can
be obtained at present. From a passen
ger who passed through Marshfield on the
st. Louis and SanFrancisco railroad at $50
last night, a 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 at 6:30 o'clock furious hurricane
struck the place sand levelled all that
part of town lying west of the centre
square fiat to the ground. The debris i'm
mediately took fire in several places and
the flames could be seen at some half doz-
en- 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 beings still im prsoned in the debris
of the fallen buildings All the physicians
ofthe town were killed, excepting two, and
there was great need of doctors to attend
the wounded, of whom it were said they
were some 200 A relief train with 20
physicians and nurses. and full supplies
left Springfield Mo-, this morning for
Marshfeld. Probably other trains will
arrive during the day The storm is gen.
eral in southwestern Missouri, and other
places, probably suffered damage. but as
the telegraph wires are all, prostrated, no
advices are received. A violent hail and
rain accom- panied the wind.
A telegram from Springfield, via Vinita
and Kansas City, TO @. w. Rogers. Gens
eral Manager of the St Louis Il San Fran
cisco r. r. says harricane passed a few
miles south of Springfield about seven
O'Clock last night, doing an immense
amount of damage and killing a great
number of people. Fifty deaths are re.
ported on James river. six miles south of
Springfield. and O great many persons are
missing. The train dispatcher of Con-
way, fourteen miles this side of Marsh
field, reports arriving there from Spring
field at eleven O'Clock. and says he found
terrible locking country from Northview,
seven miles west of Marshfeld to the
latter point. Trees three feet through are
torn entirely out of the ground, telegraph |
polls twisted off, and everything wrecked. |
The town of Marsbfeld was demolished, |
brick as well as frame buildings torn down. |
We did not see more than half dozen
people as we came through that town. |
and nurses who came on our
train from Springfield. about twenty
in number, went from the depot |
alone to hunt up the people, there being |
no one at the depot to receive them. Sent
4 relief train from Lebanon to Marshfield |
at daylight this morning. with about fifty |
doctors. purses and helpers, and full sup
plies Of provisions. clothing land medicine
stores, also material tor repairing the |
line. The line is down at differ
ent points between Springfield and Con
way, perhaps ten miles altogether. A new
Catholic church at Cuba, niuety miles |
from here, was blown down. No damage |
done the railroad except the destruction |
of one small section house. Names OF |
killed and wounded at Marshfield not |
received yet, telegraphic communication |
not being restored at this writing There |
are also reports here that the city of |
CRANKY. about hundred miles southwest |
Of Springfield, was greatly damaged. and |
that WarrensburC, on the Missouri Pacific |
sixty FIVE miles this side of Kan
sas City, was badly Injured, but the |
reports are not verified.