The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-04-20
WILD WINDS,
A TerI life Hurricane in His
souri,
4 Town Blown D0wA and then
Burned.
Terrible Loss OF Lille - Over
100 Fatalities Reported.
and AElnOt ia Yet.

Memphis. 10. - 4 severe storm
swept over Memphis early this morn
ing; two houses in the southern por-
tiGu Of the city were struck by
lightning. AT OOyiDgton, lortY miles
north of Memphis. the count house
was struck by lightning.
st. Louis, 19.-Ther3 ia a re.
port that nearly the whole town OF
MaEshfeld, Mo-, vac blown down by
terrific wind storm last night, and
then burned, resulting in trightful
loss of life. The telegraph wires are
all down and nothing direct from the
scene Of the calamity can he obtained
at present.
From passengers who passed
through Marshfieid on the St. Louis
and San Francisco Railway, at $50
last night. some facts concerning the
terrible disaster are cleaned. A man
who came to the depot at the edge of
the town while the train Was there,
reported that at 6 80 o'clock a
furious hurricane struck the place
and leveled all that part OF
the town lying west OF Centre
square, fiat to the ground. The
debris Immediately took fire in several
places, and the flames could be eeen
at some half dozen points by passen
gers on the train. Forty dead bodies
had been taken out and many more
were supposed TO be buried IN the
ruins CT b1rned up. There are also
many living still imprisoned in the
debris OF the fallen buildings. All
the physicians of the town are killed,
excepting two, and there was great
need of do3tors to attend the wounded,
of whom 1t was said there were some
200. A relief train with twenty
physicians aud nurses and full supplies
leil Springfield, Mo, this morning for
Marshfeld, and probably other trains
will arrive during the day. The
storm was general. Southwestern
Missouri and other places nave prob
ably suffered damage, but as the
telegraph wires are Frustrated. DO ad-
vices have heeu received. q violent
hail and rain accompanied the wind.
A telegram from Springfield, Uia
Vinitia and Kansas City, to c. w
R0gers, general manager OF the St
Louis and San Francisco RailrC al,
says: A hurricane passed lew miles
south of Springfield, about 7 O'Clock
last night, doing an immense amount
lot damage and killing great mum
Der OF people. Fifty deaths are re
ported on James River, six miles
south OF Spring Geld, and great many
persons are missing. The train dis
patcher of Conway, fourteen miles
this side of Marshfield, reports arriv-
ing there from Springfield at II
O'Clock, and says he found terrible
looking country. From the North
View, seven miles west of Msrshfeld,
to the latter point, trees
three feet through we're torn
entirely cut OF the grC~ id ;
telegraph poles twisted off the .ele-
graph line; the line is down at difisr-
ent points between Springfield and
Conway, perhaps 100 miles altogether.
A new Catholic church at Cuba,
ninety miles from here, was blown
down. No damage Was done to the
railroad except the destruction OF one
small section house. The names o:
the killed and wounded at Marshie!d
have not been received yet, tele-
graphic communication not being re
stored at this writing. There are ALEC
reports here that the city of CRANKY,
about 100 miles southwest of Spring
field, is greatly damaged, and tba'
Warrensburg. on the Missouri Pacific
Railroad, sixty five miles this side OF
Kansas City, was badly injured,
and everything wrecked. The town
of Marshfield is demolished, brick as
we'll as frame buildings being torn
down. We did not see more than
half a dozen people as We came
through that town. The place seemed
deserted. The doctors and nurses
who came on our train from Spring.
field, about twenty in number, went
from the depot alone to hunt up the
people, there being no one at the
depot to receive them. We sent
relief train from Lebanon to Marsh
field at daylight this morning, with
about fifty doctors, nurses and help
ers. and full supplies OF provisions,
clothing and medicines.