The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-06-24
West.
Thu v;liaoes of King Citv. Rosandals

The villages of King City, Rosendals
and Berlin, situated In Northwestern Missouri,
were visited on Sunday night, the 18th inst,
by catastrophe Of appalling Dimensions.
Early in the morning cyclone swept down on
the devoted villagers and their rural neigh
bors with resistless fury, sad marked
its pathway with desolation and death.
Scarcely had the people begun to
comprehend the calamity that had bofallen
them, when . second cyclone appeared to
complete Whatever destruction the first had
left undone The resultant loss Of property
ia placed at from 100000 to 100000,
while the death list Is large but not
definite. A most destructive hurricane
also swept through Central Iowa on the
afternoon OF the 18th, killing and manning
. lumber Of persons, causing immense damage
to tho crops, killing cattle and poultry, and
demolishing many residences and outbuildings.
The number Of human lives lost has not yet
been definitely sscertained. but il will not be
much II any less than twenty. The storm at
some points was OF tremendous force, and
there was no withstanding il. The hailstones
which fell were Of immense size, in some cases
a. large as goose-cggs, and caused great havoc
among birds, rabbits and game Of all kinds
throughout the storm area.
The vicinity of Wells, in Minnesota,
suffered from q cyclonc visitation on tho 18th
inst. Houses, barns and fences were prostrat-
cd, and two or three people killed.
As the Chicago express train on the
Wabash railroad, gong north, passed through
Raymond, Montgomery county, ILL.,, on the
night Of the 18th inst, it ran into wagon con
tanning seven persons, killing four of them out
right, and more or less injuring tho others
Tho wife Of respected farmer named Alder
Crsswell, her child and two ncpnews wera TIN
victims.
Bob Iugersoll has struck it rich in hi
Investment In New Mexican niines.
A Breckenridge (Col.) dispatch asyt
that near that town four feet Of carbonate'
have been struck ut depth Of 100 feet Tn,
orc assays ls5 ounces Of silver and tive ounces
Of gold to the ton.
Leo Chin, a Chinaman in Cheyenne,
Wy. T., having been arrested for mscegens'
ton, he being married to white woman, was
acquitted on the ground that the marriage war
considered legal in Colorado. where he was maj
ried. His compatrio,s, however, declare that
Lee Chin has dissrscei himself by marrying
MEXICAN" woman. and have least him out"
Juan Monterea, Of Taos, New Mexico,
killed Lem Gallsger with hoe for interfering
| In fight with his mother. lynching party
swung Monterea from the Court HousS railing
! on tho same evening.
The particulars Of the recent grea. tor.
nsdoes in Northeastern Kansas, Northwestern
Missouri. and Central Iowa show that wher
ever the cyclone struck the earth the destruc'
ton Of buildings, orchards, forests and grow
ing crops WAS complete. Many persons wer,
injured, but only few killed, as far as can b.
sscertsined. Scores Of people lost their homes
and all their property. The terrific force AM
similar TO those which deso!ated the West
ern and Southern localities Of former years
Eight coal-heavers were drowned N
Cincinnati by the overturning Of q skin in til,
middle Of tho Ohio river.
| South.
A colored roustabout appeared befor.
Commissioner Lane, at Monroe, La, and mad,
affidavit that Charles hsncon, mate Of tn
steamboat ID. Stein, killed three deck-hand
with brass knuckles and buried their bodies un
der tree.
They have been having some excess
lively hot weather in the South. Many eases o
sunstroke occurred at New Orleans. At Vicks
burg the thermometer reached l0l in thu
shade.
Highwaymen robbed the stage DO
tween Fayetteville and Alma. in Northern
Arkansas.
BY the explosion Of an oil lamp the
Swepsou mills in Alamance county, n. e., wa
set FIRE to and destroyed. The mill gave en-
ployment to POI operatives, and was valued q
s2OO, 0O0 The insurance was $4,000.