Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-30

De AlOUlhs AUEll nIs
No complete list of the killed and wounded at
Aiarshfeld 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 cQurse q large proportion re-
bruises.
Superintendent Nichols telegraphs General
Manager Rogers Of the st. Louis q San Francisco
ltailroad this evening TO the following effect.
The situation at MRrshheld 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
6to9 to Obtain En- a. accurate List Of the dead and
and the people in the present state of excitement
cannot give information. Most of them do not
know what they are doing or saying. do not
ever be made. From the best information can
obtain, there have been eighty-One collins used,
and there have probably been four or more
The wounded embraces nearly all the town,
and fifty or more of them are aeriously hurt, and
no doubt many Of them will die. There are a
good many dead children and negroes whose
names cannot be learned. great many of the
wounded are so scattered that they cannot be
PROVISIONS have been received to-day from sew
erul places west of here including points in Tex
as and l they will make the people oomf9Etable
nish some tents and such other means of shelter
wall be provided as the circumstances admit Of
Mayor Fellows, of Springfield, and a number Of
have arrived, who will effect organization for
more systematio and efticientYork.
" ia 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
ierent 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 oiroumstan-
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what is necessary, particularly to those
who are seriously injured. Last night ladies'
from Lebanon and Springfield were on duty in
the hospital. This morning a large party came
from ROlla and relieved the physicians and nurs-
es on duty yesterday and last night.
A hepu0hcdE Marshteld special says seventy
one victims of Sundays storm have been bur-
led, and some twenty-five or more are in a dying
condition. The number seriously wounded Is
about one hundred and fifty.
babe about eighteen months old, whose
mother was KILLED and friends all wounded, was
found Yesterday in q ravine north Of town, where
II lay all night. 1t is now doing WE'LL Another
child, two years old, was yesterday afternoon
found in a tree top, where il had been nearly
twenty5four hours. II was considerably bruised,
but Will recover. 1t was to day claimed by its
parents, who live two and One-half or three
miles south of town, Its aerial fight hence
must have, extended over three miles. A
miles, and the section of the smoke stack OF a
mill over three and a half miles.
IL is reported that from thirty to forty persons
the country, and that-the town of COrsioana, in
Barry County, is "a badly wrecked as this.
The storm seems to have extended over a very
large part of the state. Great destruction OF
property and loss Of life occurred within a radi-
us Of fifty milea of Jefferson City.
A report from Texas County saws the town of
Licking was very badly torn up, nearly one-half
OF the place being damaged, but no details are
A special to the Times from Springfield. Mo-.
says the tornado, Sunday night, ragged with great
fury in the valley of James River. several miles
south of there. Many houses were destroyed
and the country laid waste. Seven persons were
killed and twenty-tuur wounded.
A special from Fulton, Galloway County, to
the Republican says that the storm passed
through that county, doing an immense am cunt
OF damage 70 farm property besides destroying
Q number Of houses. At New BlOOmheld Mrs.
Martz YVES alied by falling house, and negro
Another special 70 the same paper, from Cali
tOrnia, aaysi " The storm visited the southern
part OF this (MQnlteau) county doing great injury
to property and killing and woundinR a number
Of persons. The storm first struck the little town
of Barrettsville, destroying almost every house
in the place, then passed down the valley toward
the, North MORGAN, demolishing nearly every
building in its track. The following 10 par
tial list Of those killed; A. G. Campbell, the
two children of Henry Miokkinny Rueben
Routon, hlrs. Bchaiter, the two children of
Cordian Green, son of George Harters and Jack
Wilson. Several Others We're killed, but their
names were not aseertained Between twenty
and thirty were wounded, but names not re-
ported.
LITTLE Rock, April 20.
The storm Of Sunday night destroyed the
town Of Of ,5iF's E5gSsp RooF n White County due
Al lives were reported Lost. Later advieea
show that the storm of Sunday night was wide
ly prevalent IN the northern part Of the State, in
the neighbOrnoOd of Fayetteville and Dardanelle.
Much damage was done and loss OF life reported.
At ElpasO. DIR. HainstOn and wife and Mr.. Paul