The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-04-30

away ana some eight OF ten people
killed and larger number injured.
In the neighborhood of Fayetteville and
Dardanelle several more deaths are reported.
From the Missouri State line through to
Mansfield the tornado appears to have swept
every thing in its pathway. In almost every
locality traversed by the storm one or more
deaths are reported. Mcdowell, in Barry
County, and Licking, in Texas County, NO.,
are reported among the worst sufferers.
Throughout Western and Central Illinois
the storm ragged with great violence, caus-
ing serious damage to property. In Rock
County, Wis.,, the village Of Shopiere was
fearfully torn up, and the entire course OF
the storm through the southern portion Of
the State to the Lake was swept as though
by fire.
THE number of deaths at Marshfeld,
Mo-, from the tornado is not positively
known, for the reason that in the confusion
consequent upon the terrible calam-
ity many bodies were inferred
without any record being kept. Up to
the 21st it was estimated that eighty
five had been buried, and since that time
several more of the wounded have died. 1t
is believed that in Webster County, Of which
Marshfield is the county seat, fully one hum
dred people were killed, and over two hum
dred wounded. The loss to property in the
county is estimated at 81 100000.
FAYETTEVILLE, the county seat of
Washington County, Ark, suffered Sc
verely from the tornado Of the 18th. 1t
struck the town at its southwestern part and
extended through it in nOrtheasterly di-
rection, sweeping almost every building in
its path for distance of half mile. The
track of the tornado was about thirty feet
wide. Two persons were killed outright
and dozen more or less injured.
FORSYTH, in fancy County, Mo-, also
suffered badly by the tornado, two persons
being killed and others injured. The rava-
ges of the storm were experienced in vari-
Gus localities in nearly every county in the
southwestern portion Of the State.
BARNETTsvILLE, in Morgan County,
Mo-, about one hundred miles due north Of
Marshfeld, was almost totally destroyed by
the tornado of the 18th. Seven persons were
killed and many injured.
A CHINAMAN, charged with murder,
hanged himself in his cell at SancelitO, Cal.
THREE colored men confined in the
Jail at Moberly, No., charged with the MUIR
der of another old colored man named
George Matthews, were forcibly taken from
their cells by mob of about forty men on
the night of the Goth and two Of them, Hen
ry Mitchell and Dick Yancy, were
hanged from a railway ,trestle just
outside the town. The other prisoner, AL
fred CaseOn, who was not an active par
ticipant in the murder, but was charged
by the other two with having persuaded
them to do the deed, was let off after having
been made to confess all he knew. 1t is
said that Mitchell and Yancy had previously
acknowledged their crime.
A TERRIBLE accident occurred in New
York City OH the night of the 21st. While
the Hahnemann Hospital Fair was in pro-
gress in Madison Square Garden, the various
parts of the building being thronged with
people, portion Of the side wall suddenly
fell outward, and the roof of this section,
which was used as dancing hall,
crushed down upon the dancers,
burying them out of sight.
Mrs. VIM. o. Hagemann, the wife Of we'll
known lawyer, and her maid; Miss H. L.
Willett and Mr.. H. Tillotson, editor of For
est and Stream, were dead when extricated.
The injured number fifty or more, some of
whom will probably not recover.
EDWARD NUGENT and Henry j.
Redemeier were hanged at St. Louis on the
23d-the latter for the murder of Franz
Vosz, in June, 1878, the former for the MUIR
der Of his wife, in August, 1876.
Mrs. ANNA ORMsBY, her daughter
Sallie, aged about fifteen, and her son Gus,
a young man, all of Vevay, Ind, and Mrs.
Ormsby's niece, Miss Anna Miller, of Rising
Sun, Ind, OH the 21st started in carriage
from Vevay to attend the wedding of Mrs.
Ormsby's son Graham, who was to be mar.
ried to Miss O'Neall, residing on the
south bank Of the Kentucky River, in
Trimble County, Ky. The carriage had been
driven upon the ferry flat to make the cross
ing, when the horses became frightened and
unmanageable and backed the carriage into
the river. The three ladies were drowned,
together with the team; the young man
saved his life. The intended bride and
groom and their friends were standing in
the door opposite and were witnesses of the
terrible scene.
A BRIEF telegram from San Francis
co, 23d, stated that Charles DeYounc, of
the San Francisco Chronicle, had been shot
and killed by 1. NJ. Kalloch, son of the Rev.
I. s. kalloch, who was some months ago
shot and wounded by DeYoung.