The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-04-23
A Destructive Tornado In the West,

ST.. LOUIS, April ia Springfield
dispatch says a hurricane passed a few
miles south of that place last night, do
ing immense damage, killing a great
number of people. Fifty deaths are re-
ported oil the James river, six miles
south of Springfield, and a great many
persons are missing. a train dispatch
says they found a terrible looking coun-
try; from Northview, seven miles west
of Marshfield, to the latter point, trees
three feet through had been torn ent' o.
ly ont OF the ground, telegraph poles
twisted off and everything wrecked.
Marshficld is demolished, brick us well
as frame buildings being to II down.
We did not see more than half q dozen
people as we came through that to Vn !;
the place seemed deserted. Twenty
doctors and nurses, who came on our
train from Springfield, went from the
depot alone to hunt up people, there
being no II at tho depot to receive
them. A relief tain was sent from
Lebanon to Marshlicld this morning
with fly doctors, ] urses aud helpers
and q full supply of provisions, cloth
ing, medicine and stores, also material
for repairing the telegraph line. The
line is blown down at different points
between Springf cid and Conway, per-
haps ten miles altogether. The new
Catholic church at Cuba, ninety miles
from here, was blown down; no dan :.
age was done to the railroad except the
destruction of u small station hove.
1t is report d that the city of CRANKY,
one hundred miles southwest of Spring
field, is greatly damaged and that War
rensburg, sixty-iive miles this side of
Kansas city, is badly injured.
FURTHER DAMAGE BY THE TORNADO.
ST. LOUIS, April ia Lebanon
special says 'le tornado which cfu d
such frightful havoc at Marshield last
night passed entirely thro Ugh Greene
and Webster CO. les, following the
course of the James river in a north
easterly dill .ction. 1t struck the ST.
Louis and San Francisco railroads in
four places, and lie it near Franks
Station, ITO lies this side of Marsh
field. The latter place presents q terri
BILE appearance; not more than a { en-
houses are unframed in "a entire
town.. The corrt house 3 d my
other buildings t. TX fl ), and the sc ne
and its effects were m, t dreadful. At
one hou. ;, two childi n were found
dead and another badly mangleH but
still alive. The parents could not be
found. In another CO q woman was
lost entirely, and seems to have been
carried away bodily. The wind strip
ped the bark from trees, lifted others
entirely ort of the ground, and tele-
graph poles and wires were 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 done to
assist the wounded at Marshfield and
other places. The physicians through
out the country are tlocking TO Inc
points where most are injured.
THE STORM WIDESPREAD.
CHICAGO, April 19.-Specials from
various points show that the storm of
last night was very general and disas-
uous throughout Illinois. AT Decatur
trees wee uprooted, barns blown down
and cellars filled with water. A barn
was blown over, a valuable horse killed
and another badly injured; two cars.
loaded with shelled corn, were ditchsd
at La Place. The storm at Ottawa was
M of the severest ever experienced.
One business building was unroofed
and a portion of the gas works, also the
sixth ward school house; barns were
wrecked in all directions. At Warren,
the cyclone did thousands of dollars
damage; several houses were blown
down, miles of fences and all the
bridges are gone. At Winona the
storm was the sevcrest in years. Trees
and fences were thrown down and
much property destroyed. No one
was seriously injured, although many
sought safety in cellars. Mercury fell
"a degrees in 10 honrs. Two cyclones
passed over Davis county, Ia, last
night. One passed through tho town
of Stiles, II miles south of Bloomfield,
unroofing houses and barns, destroying
outbuildlngs and prostrating fences and
orchards.