Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-04-20
FEARFUL HURRICANE.
MANY BODIES TAKEN FROM
THE DEBRIS.
The Storm Does Great Damage in other
Localities.

ing. The telegraph company had - wires
down and communications was severed in
nearly all directions. Reports indicate that
the storm was wide spread, with serious injury
in many towns.
ST. Louis. NO., April -. II is reported
nearly the whole town of Marshficld, Mo-,
was blown down by the wind storm last night,
and then burned. II resulted in a frightful
loss of life. Telegraph wires were all blown
down. Nothing direct from the scene has
been obtained. From passengers who passed
through Marshfield. on the ST. Louis 4 San
Francisco Railroad, at ) 80 last evening, a
few facts concerning the terrible disaster
were CLEANED. man who came to the depot
at the dye Of the town, while the train was
there, reported that at so a furious hurri-
cane struck the place, and levelled all that
part of the town west of Center Square fiat
to the ground. The debris immediately took
FIRE in several places, and the flames could be
seen at half a dozen points by passengers
on the train. Forty dead bodies were taken
out and many are supposed to be buried in
the ruins or burned up. There are many liv-
ing still imprisoned in the debris of the fallen
buildings. All the physicians of the town
were killed except two. There was great
need of doctors to attend the wounded, of
whom il is said there were some 20.
A relief train with 20 physicians and nurses
and full of supplies left this morning for
Marshheld, and probably other trains will ar
rive during the day The storm was general
in western Missouri.
A telt gram from the managers of the st.
Louis and San Francisco railroad, says
The hurricane passed few miles east of
Springfield about O'Clock last night doing
an immense damage and killing great num-
Der of people. Fifty deaths are reported on
the James river six miles south of Spring.
field, and a great many are missing. The
train dispatcher at Conway. IA miles this side
of Marshfield, reports that on arriving there
from Springfield at Ii o'clock, he found
terrible looking country. From North
View, seven miles west Of Marshfeld, to
the latter point, trees three feet through are
torn entirely out of the ground Telegraph
poles are twisted off, and everything wrecked.
The town of Marshield is demolished, brick
as well as frame buildings being torn down.
He says; We did not see more than half
dozen people as we came through that town.
The place seemed deserted. Doctors and
nurses, about twenty in number, who came
from Springfield, went from the depot alone
to hunt up people, there being no one to re-
ceive them. We sent a relief train from
Lebanon this morning with about so doctors
and nurses and helpers, and full supply of
provisions, clothing and medicine, stoves,
and material for repairing the telegraph line
that was blown down at different places be-
tween Springfield and Conway. perhaps ten
miles altogether. A new Catholic church at
Cuba, 30 miles from here, was blown down.
1t is also reported that the city Of CRANKY,
about 100 miles southwest of Springfield, is
greatly damaged, and that Warrensburg, 65
miles this side of Kansas City, is badly in
jured, but the reports are not verified.
LEBANON, NO., April 10. The tornado
which caused such havoc at Marshfeld, last
night, passed entirely through Green and
Webster counties, following the course OF
James river in a northcasterly direction. 1t
struck the ST. Louis 4 San Francisco railroad
in four places and left it near Franks Sta
ton, | 10 miles this side of Marshfield The
latter place presents terrible appearance,
there not being more than dozen honses I'M
harmed. The court house and many other
buildings took fire and the scenes were of the
most dreadful character. At one house two
children were found dead and the mother
badly mangled. but still alive.
In another case a woman was lost entirely,
being carried away bodily by force of the
wind, which stripped the bark from trees,
lifted others entirely out of the ground, and
carried telegraph poles and wires hundreds Of
rods into the woods and tied and knotted
them among limbs of trees as though they
were cotton strings.
At Gray's Creek four or five houses were
blown down and a number of persons injured.
A house was blown across tire Missouri Pacific
railroad track and q train ran into it, de-
molishing the locomotive and severely wound
ing the engineer and fireman.