Daily Republican., 1880-04-20
FOURTH EDITION
TIE onrAr. nrORM.

Fifty Deaths ON the James HiVer-
A Town utterly destroy ed-7s
persons killed and SIS wounded.
ST.. LOUIS, April ia telegram from
Springfield, via Winitia and Kansas
City, toe. W. Rogers, general manager
Of the st. Louis and San Francisco
Railroad, says hurricane passed few
miles south Of Springfield about 7
O'Clock last night. doing an immense
amount Of damage and killing great
number of people. Fifty deaths are
reported on the James River, six miles
south Of Springfield, and a great many
persons are missing. .....
There are reports here that the City
of CRANKY, about 1000 miles southwe est
of Springfield was greatly damaged,
also that Warrensburg, on the Missouri
Pacific Railroad, sixty.6ve miles this
side of Kansas City, was badly injured,
but the reports have not been verified.
From passengers who passed through
Marshfield on the st. Louis and San
Franoiso Railroad, at $50 O'Clock last
night, few facts concerning terrible
disaster are cleaned. Aman who came
to the depot at the edge Of the town
while the train was there reported that
at $50 o'clock a furious hurricane
struck the place, and levelled all that
part Of the town lying west Of the centre
square fat to the ground. The debris
immediately took fre in several places,
and flames could BE- seen at some half
dozen points by passengers on the train.
Forty dead bodies had been taken
ont, and many more were supposed to
be buried in the ruins or burned up.
There were also many living still buried
in the debris of the fallen buildings.
All the physicians in the. town were
killed except two, and there was great
need of doctors to attend the wounded,
of whom it was said there was some
200.
A relief train with twenty physicians
and nurses and full supplies left
Springfield, Mo-, this morning for
Marshfeld, and probably other trains
will arrive during the day.
The storm was general in the south
easterly portion of Missouri, and other
places probably suffered damage, but
as the telegraph wires are all pr0stra-
ted no particula' have been received.
Violent hail and rain accompanied the
wird.
Marsb field presents a terrible scene
of destruction, less than dozen houses
in the town having escaped unharmed.
The Court House and many other build
ings took Gre. At one house two chill
dren were found dead and another bad
ly mangled, bat still alive. TSe par
ents could not be found. In another
case a woman was lost entirely. She
seems to have been bodily carried
away. The force of the wind stripped
the bark from trees and lifted others
entirely out of the grould. Telegraph
poles and wire we're carried hundreds
Of rods into the woods and tied and
knotted among the limbs of trees as
though they were cotton strings.
Everything possible is being dose to
assist and succor the woundsd, not
only at Marshfeld, but at other places.
Physicians throughout the country are
fooking to points mos! injured, and do.
ing all they can to alleviate the suffer-
ing. Doctors went from Sprin gfeld to
the James River couEtry, six miles
south, as well as to Marshfeld, and
SCORES Of kind-heartsd people have vol
unteered as nurses.
Captain Rogers, general manager of
the St. Louis and San Francisco Rail-
road, is sending special trains with re-
lief wherever any coed can be done,
aud all are doing everything possible
to aid the injured and dying.
LATER-Telegraphic communication
with Marshfeld has been restored.--I
There were rs killed ard s. wounded.
Only fourteen houses were left stand
ing.
The train dispatcher at Conway,
fourteen miles this side of Marshfeld,
reports that he arrived there from
Springfield at II o'clock, and says he
found the country in terrible cordi-
tion from Northview, seven miles west
OF Marshfeld, to the latter point. Trees
three feet in diameter were torn entire
ly out of the ground, telegraph poles
were twisted of, and everything was
wrecked. The town of MarshGeld was
demolished, brick as well as frame
buildings being torn down.
"We did not sse," he said, "more
than half q dozen people as we came
through that town. The place seemed
deserted. The doctors snd nurses who
came on our train from Springfield,
about twenty in number, went from the
station alone to hunt the people, there
being no one to receive them"
A relief train was sent from Lebanon
to Marshfeld at daylight this morning
with about fifty doctors, nurses and
helpers, and full supply of provis-
ions, clothing and medical stores, also
material for repairing the telegraph
line. The wires are blown down at
different points between Spring
field and Conway, perhaps ten
miles altogether. A new Catholic
Church at Cuba, ninety miles from
here, was blown down. No damage was
done the railroad except the destruction
of one small station house. The names
of the killed and wounded at Marshfeld