Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-04-29
THE TORNADO.
One Hundred Deaths Along
Iames River.
spacial 70 the Times.

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3PRHNoFrELD, Mo-, April 02.-Fresh tid-
e OF disaster ara hourly received from the
antry south of here. The James River
.lley was swept from near Galepa, in Stone
unity, TO q few miles northeast OF here,
~.istance OF City niles or more. The valley
Fudley creek, a tributary of the james,
fered terribly. Groat dsmAgs WAS done
ong Fiat creek, In Barry county, a few
lies from Cassville. The storm ragged with
riAs violence ia the neighborhood Of che
wn Of White Oak, in Webster county. II
lance can bs placed in the reports now cir
lated, he loss OF lie and property in
reone, Christian, Stone, Barry and the
uthern part Of Webster county
WILL RxcERp That AT MARsHRIELD
ID vicinity. In the little valley OF Panther
eek, in Webster county, the number killed
as reported at thirty, and the wounded are
r more numerous. Beyond q doubt the
amber Of killed end wounded In the James
liver region win reach 100. 1t Is difficult
after TO ascertain the names OF those injur-
4 by the. cyelone, as they are scattered oil
yer the country. The width Of the
orm varied from twenty or thirty yards TO
NO miles.
From all accounts II saemS that there, were
SEVERAL CYCLONES.
Two cyclones are said 10 have passed south
I M~arionyllle, travelling in directions al
lost parallel and about seven miles apart.
lfter travelling separately for a while the
wo branches OF the storm IN soma instances
,n!ted and proceeded on their way with in
reased violence. though generally following
he courses Of streams. The cyclone would
ome,imes lesYe one valley and strike across
high ridge Of country into another, IS It
Id from the valley Of the James Il that OF
he Nianque river. When 1t made such sad
aVoca at Marsbfeld, which lay in the course,
{ was going from one of these valleys to the
aher. This. branch Of the storm did more
damages than all the Others combined, bslug
he same one that wrought so much ruin In
be James river valley. The
OF rae
vas from southwest to northeast. The storm
kipped many places which apparently lay
lIrectly In is path, seeming to bound up
from the earth. passing. q considerable dis
lance without doing any damage and then TO
descend again, tearing TO pieces everything
thas ley before. Stories which ut first SEEM
ID Incredible have been corroborated by so
many witnesses whose word Is never doubted,
that we are led to give tall credence to what
before seemed absurd. II 10 now admitted
to BIO absolutely true that cattle were carried
hundreds Of Feet into the air. persons were
carried for miles by the force Of the wind,
houses we're blown over one another, and
IN some Instances lifted high into the air.
MarshAeld WAS Utterly destroyed, u dead
the ground and about l40 crippled and
wounded: tho cyclone seemed to course down
the Niangua valley and bounded over several
Of country I'll 1t reached Barnetsville
Whero 1t struck the earth and sWepped every
hing clean In IT'S course as most Of our
readers know before this 1t passed down the
valley Of south MoFeAu crossing the main
.rsek at the iron bridge at Alex Gordon's
place destroying everything in It's path
through Cole county, crossing tho Missouri
liver four miles west Of Jefferson City; strik-
ng Galloway county near New Bloomfield
ioing much damage.
We hear Of the same through the northern
,Art OF Illinois.