Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-04-22
A Western Tornado.
sEyENTY.FIvE PEOPLE KILLED AND 200
WOUNDED.

ST.. LOUIS, April 18.--The passengers
who passed through Marshfcld on tho st.
Louis and San Francisco railroad at $50
lost night gavo few faots oounccrning the
terrible disaster which occurred thore yes-
tcrday' A man who camo to tho depot
ut the end of tho town while tho train was
thero reported that at $50 O'Clock furious
hurricane struck that place and levellod oil
tbut part of tho town lying west of the
oonter square flat to the ground. The de-
bris immediately took fro in several places
aud tho flames could bo seon at some half
dozen points by the passengers on the
train. Forty dead bodies had been taken
out, and many more woro supposed to bo
buried in tho ruins or burned up. There
! wore also many living still imprisoned in
tho debris Of fallen buildings. All tho
physicians of the town wore killed. except
two or throe. There waa groat need Of
doctors to attend to tho wounded, Of whom
it was said thoro wore somo 200 A relief
train, with twonty physicians md nurses
and full supplies, left Springfield Mo-, this
morning for MarBhficld, and probably othor
trains will arrive during the day. The
storm was general in Southwest Missouri,
and other places probably suffered damage,
coo no WIZ tViCSiupl mllCS dlC pEOSttatCu
no advices have been received. Violent
hail and rain accompanied tho wind.
CHICAGO, April 10.-A very severe
storm swept over this sootion of tho State
last night, doing considerable dumago to
to property, both in this city and in neigh
boring towns. This morning cighty-one
wires Of tho Western Union telegraph com-
pany wcro down, and tho communication
was cut of in almost every direction. The
weather is now turning cold and snow is
threatened.
A special to the News says: "Thc town
of Marohlicld, Mo-, has been totally de-
stroycd by tho storm, and frc. Seventy
five persons wcro killed and two hundred
wounded. The telegraph wires arc all
down"
ST. Louis, April 20.-Tclegraphic commun-
cation has been partially restored with Marsh
field. Seven Of the persons wounded on James
River died yesterday afternoon and five
at Marshicld. At Marshicld many families,
homeless, have taken refuge in the depot and
empty cars. Tho death list at O'Clock last
night numbered IS and many missing, several
of whom arc doubtless buried under the debris
Eighty-tivc wounded are in The school house. a
great many colorcd persons woro killed or in
jurcd Only fourteen buildings arc left
standing. Clothing is needed badly. Contri-
buttons arc coming from oil towns along the
line of road.
ST. Louis, April l0.-A telegram from
Springfield via Vinita and Kansas City to G.
w. Rogers, General Managers of the st.
Louis and San Francisco Railroad, says that
tho hurricane passed fow miles South of
Springfield about last night, doing an inns
menso amount of damage md killing great
nuE,bcr of people. Fifty deaths arc reported
at James River five mics South Of Spring,
field, and great many persons orc missing.
Tho train dispatcher at Conway, fourteen
miles thio sdo of Marshfold. reports that ho
arrived there from Springfield at IL O'Clock,
and says he found tho country in q terrible
condition from North Wow, seven miles
West of Marshiield, to tho lattor point.
Trees thrco feet in diameter wero pulled
entirely out of the ground, telegraph polls
twisted off and everything wreckod. The
town Of hlarshfcld WAS demolished brick rs
we'll ns frame buildings being torn to pieces.
We did not sec moro than half dozen people
as we came through that town. Tho place
seemed deserted. Doctors and nurses who
camc on our train from Springfield, about
twenty in number, wont from tho depot alono
to hunt up the people, there being no one at
tho depot to receive them. a relief train
was sent from Lebanon to Marshfield ut dayI
light this morning with about fifty doctors,
nurses and helpers, and full supply of pro-
yisiona, clothing and medical storcs also
material for repairing tho telegraph.
A grca. many bodies arc lying in in tho
Court House. Of tho total number killed,
which is not far shart of l00--not moro than
dozen have beon buriod Nothing like
complete list of the killed and waundod Gun
bo obtained tonight. Marshfiold is the
county scat of Wobstor county and 2l5 mles
from St. Louis, situated on plateau Of tho
Ozark Mountains, but not Of great altitude or
particularly exposed.
LATER.-Eghty ono persons aro now
known to be dead, and four moro deaths are
expected night. Nearly all tho inhabi-
tants of tho town are wounded and fifty or
moro of them arc seriously hurt, and no
doabt many Of them will die. There orc n
good many dead children and negroes whose
names cannot bo learned
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