Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-04-28
STORM IN MISSOURI.
.Ndny People Killed - Many People
Itounied-Greaf Destruction of
Property.

.Nany People Killed = Many People
ttoun,ied-Greaf Destruction of
Property.
A dispatch on the 10th, from St.
Louis, No., says: The fret dispatch di.
rect from Marshfield was received late
last night. 1t gives the following ac-
count Of the storm This town aud
county were visited by one of the most
destructive cyclones on record last
evening. After passing through sew
eral miles of country in Christian,
Green and Webster counties, destroy
ing everything in its pathway, leveling
houses, barns, mills and timber, it struck
this town about six o'clock. Eye wit.
nesses of the approaching storm say it
was q frightful looking black cloud,
lined with Aeccy white, funnel-shaped
and moving in the mauner of a screw
propeller. 1t moved with wonderful
velocity, literally destroying and blow
ing away everything in its path, which
was about half mile vide at this
point. Trees we're twisted of, ,ele-
graph wires snapped. and the bark
was literally peeled from small trees
houses were blown from their fOunda-
tions, cattle, hogs, sheep, horses and
poultry were wbirled into the air and
carried a great distance. The noise of
the storm, the crash of falling houses
and the screams Of terrified people
made scene of horror that beggars
description. What was q beautiful,
pleasant town of 500 inhabitants twen-
ty-tour hours ago is now a waste of des-
olation. Out OF 200 dwelling not more
than twenty are left standing, and but
few Of those remaining are uninjured
Of the business houses around the pub
Inc square all but three are utterly de-
molished, aud their contents blown
away, burned OF badly damaged. About
3 O'Clock freight train from SPRING
field brought about 300 persons with
provisions and medicines for the wound
ed. As rapidly as the bodies of the
deld and wounded could be extracted
frem the ruins they were prepared for
interment. The wounded were con-
veyed to the only available structure
left standing, the public school build
ing, which was not badly damaged. 1t
was turned into a hospital, and there
are NOW fifty wounded in the building
under the care Of noble women from
Lebanon aud Springfield, who are doing
all in their power to alleviate the suf-
ferings of those under their charge.
The loss by this terrible calamity is
estimated at from S350,000 to $780,
600. Of the eight hundred inhabitants
Of Marsh6eld who yesterday had happy
and comfortable homes seven -eighths
are without houses, clothing, food or
means to procure them. The destitu.
ton and suffering are terrible. Agreat
many bodies are lying in the Court
House Of the total number killed,
which is not far shcrt of one hundred =,
rot more than dozen have been buried.
THE STORM ELSEWHERE.
Marsh6eld is the county seat of Web
ster county and 2l5 miles from st.
Louis, situated on a plateau of the
Ozark Mountains, but not of great al
titude or particularly exposed One Of
the incidents of the storm was the find
ing of child lodged in the crotch of a
tree thirty feet above the ground. 1t
vas but slightly hurt. At Gray's
Creek, four miles from Jefferson City,
seven houses we're demolished and their
inmates injured. A log house was
blown into deep cut on the Missouri
aud Pacific Railroad at this point, and
a passenger train from the west ran
into 1t. The engine was detached and
the engineer, James McCourt, and the
fireman, James Murphy, were severely
wounded. A dispatch from Fulton,
Galloway county, says the storm which
passed through this county on the night
of the 18th did an immense amount of
damage to farm property, besides de-
stroying a number Of houses. At New
Bloomfield Mrs. Martz was killed by a
falling house and negro gIrl was killed
by lightning Another special from
California, Manitau county, says that
the storm OF the 18th instant, which
visited the southern portion Of that
county, did great injury to the proper
ty and killed and wounded q number of
persons. The storm first struck the
little town Of BarrettsvIlle, destroying
almost every house there then passed
down the valley toward North Moreau,
demolishing nearly all the buildings in
its track. The following Is a partial
list of those who we're killed A. Y.
Campbell, two children Of Coridlon
Green, Reuben Ranton, Mrs. Schaffer,
Jack Watson, two children and Henry
Mckinney and son of George Harter.
Several others were killed and between
twenty and thirty wounded, but their
names were not ascertained.
A dispatch from Janesville, Wis,
says that for ten miles along the track
Of the storm evidences of destruction If
property we're seen which it would take
over 100000 to replace. Churches,
dwelling-houses, barns, fences, orchards
etc., we're much damaged, and some
persons received dangerous injuries.
The State University at Champaign,
Illinois, suffered severely bv the storm.
A large portion of the new main build.
ing was unrpesed, and the old Univer-
sity building, used as dormitory, was
wrecked, the western portion of it being
leveled to the ground. The students
just escaped in time. Many of the
buildings in the city were badly dam
aged and minor casualties were report
ed. FL Paso, Illinois, reports that the
damage there by the storm will agere.
gate many thousands of dollars.
The storm seems to have extended
over a very large mart of the State