Connecticut western news., 1880-04-28
THE WESTERN TORNADO.
Further Details of the Horror at Marsh. Held, Mo.-TOuching Incidents.

F. me terrible disaster at Mafehheld on Snhday night continues to ekciae intense feeling ih the Vest Itappear$ that the damage done by the Istdr1nF was much more general than was at first supposed, alarge agricultural region being involved in the ruin wrought, many crops de- stroyed and farmers impoverished. The tornado swept over the entire length oi Webster and Green counties, cutting a swath about quarter of mile in width. It was au immense cloud, of conical shape, looking much like the smoke from burning oil. It was densely black in the centre, but lighter on the edge. It rolled along with roaring noise, and by its centrifugal force scattered the debris of the wreck it was creating on either side. The air was filled with billions of pieces of blanks. It was in shape like a funnel. The rolling motion of the cloud is shown by the trees, the tops of which are not broken but actually twisted off This visitation was tornado and not @ Wh1rlwlnd. It was unaccompanied by rain or electric phenomena. The tops of timber in the county for three miles west of Marshfield are twisted off. Dead horses, COWS, hogs and dogs were found all along the path of the storm, and even the fowls were killed. Some of the bodies of the lighter animals were blown great distance. Young trees are parked com- pletely, either by the force of the wind or by contact with the debris that filled the air..
 Dr. B. T. Robinson, who has just re- turned from the scene of desolation at Marshfield, says: "We arrived in Marsh field at midnight. Dr. Williams, of Niangua; Dr. Hampton, Dr. Sellers and Mir. Wallace, of Marshtield, were already at work. Dr. Bradford was dead. They found him and his son lying dead to- gether. The doctors skull was fairly crushed in. His wife and daughter were terribly injured, and will probably die. When l arrived there the school house had already been converted into an hos pital. pitched in and worked until noon the next day. I think that there were about a hundred people who stood in need of a physicians attention. There were more than hundred others who had received cuts and bruises not of @ sufficiently serious nature to prevent them from engaging in the search for the dead. During the night we performed | several amputations. Others will have to be performed and others still should | have been, right then and there, and they would have been were it not for the re- sistance of the patients.
 "I think you may safely say the death list will be swelled materially by the de- cease of some of those injured. I ex- amined personally over one hundred of the wounded. find that some of them are quite liable to die, as they are injured about the head, chest and joints. I think that the death list has been somewhat exaggerated, but shudder when I think of the final total. There is no question that there are fully 8 dozen bodies yet undiscovered beneath the ruins of brick dwellings. There were twenty-fv miss ing persons.
 "I should not be surprised if the | bodies of men and women were actually blown away and will be found a mile from the town. The force of the wind was equal to the task. There is one case that is authenticated, and is of baby one year old, which was taken up by the wind and carried mile and landed in a tree top. When found the little one was not dead.
 "A peculiar thing was that the wounds were mostly in the back of the head, the victim being overtaken by missiles while flying before the wind. It is remarka- ble fact that no families escaped injuries except those who had the presence of mind to shelter themselves in the cellars Dr. Wallace had a very pleasant place in the west end of the town; the grounds were beautiful with trees. A stable, smokehouse and residence were the buildings on the place. There was quite a company at the doctors house when the storm came up. When the wierd | ings began the party fled to the cellar of the doctors house. The tornado swept away the house, smokehouse, stable and trees. The residence was fairly lifted from its foundation, but the party in the cellar, twelve in number, escaped with out 8 scratch. Dr. Bollinger, his wife and several others were at friends house and took refuge in the cellar. The doc tor thought the cellar an unsafe place and started to escape. The house was blown over and the doctor was the only person injured, receiving very painful wound on the back of his head
 "Judge Fyan was absent on his judi cial circuit on Sunday. He returned Monday morning, and his grief was heart rending when they took him to the mangled body of his wife. Captain Moore, one of the oldest citizens of Marsh field, and his wife took refuge in cellar. She became alarmed and tried to get away. She had just reached the top of the stairs when the house caved in and she was instantly killed Captain Moore was extricated from the ruins and found to be uninjured. There were half dozen instances of husbands and wives being killed together. The new Methodist min ister, Mr. Congo and his wife, were of this number. She died Monday night. |"
 House Cleaning and House Moving.
 The dread house-cleaning time is upon us, the saddest of the year, when dust, | and soan. and slush ahounds. and things