Daily globe., 1882-04-20
MISSOURI CYCLONE NOTES.
The Devastation In Brownsville Worse
Than at First RAp0rted-Harrowing Ac-
counts of tho Fatal Storm-Curious
Freaks OF the Wind.
DETAILS OF PERSONAL INJURIES.

counts of tho Fatal Storm-Curious
Freaks OF the Wind.
DETAILS OF PERSONAL INJURIES.
SEDALIA, Mo-, April 19.-Further particu-
lars from Brownsville are meagre up to half
past 4. The body of M. E. White, who was
missing, had not been found. The last seen
of him alive he was standing in Kelly's drug
store, and is supposed to be buried in the
ruins. Twenty eight brick business buildings
are completely wrecked. The section house,
which was about 1000 yards from tine depot,
was blown across the track and riddled to
atoms. Mrs. John Halpin and six chill
dren were occupants of the structure at
the time, and they were carried with
it and suffered injury more or less. Mrs.
Halpin's right arm was broken, her scalp
lacerated in several places and her shoulder
dislocated. A number of farm houses in the
vicinity of Brownsville are reported to have
been blown down. The total number of per-
sons wounded and injured foots up over $50.
The City hotel block is complete wreck
nothing being left but pile of bricks, mortar
and debris. The body of Il farmer named Matt
Williams was taken from the ruins at 1870.
His head was mashed to pulp.
MoNTRosE, Henry Co., Mo, April 49,
Last nights storm entirely demolished the
Baptist and Christian churches and did more
or less damage to twenty other buildings.
The Farmers Institute school building was
struck by the cyclone with th,rty-five
children IN the building and the wind carried
the structure entirely away, strewing debris
over the prairie for mile, and the children
in some instances were crrried a long dis
tance and number of them were seri-
ously hurt. The damage will be nearly
$2O, 200.
At Calhoun, Henry county, pottery build
ing was blown in and large amount of stock
damaged.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, April 19.-People
from Saline county just in say the destruc-
tion at Brownsville will sum up over $3.50, QUO.
The destruction of county property is not so
great, but is extensive.
MORE DETAILS.
ST. LOUIS, April ia correspondent,
writing from Brownsville, the Inflated
town which was nearly destroyed yesterday
afternoon by cyclone, gives further particu-
lars of the terrible storm. He says the
widest confusion has reigned all day: The
town was crowded with people from the
surrounding country, who focked to see
the devastation wrought by the cruel wind.
The work of clearing away the debris was
commenced after the storm passed and has
been keptup necessarily ever since, but it will
require several days to thoroughly overhaul
the ruins. Two more dead bodies have been
exhumed and 1t Is thought there are still
woman and child beneath the ruins.
&. F. Biggers was on the street when the
storm clouds united and made their terrible
rush for the town. He stood directly in the
line OF the funnel shaped cloud, and, trying to
get out of it, he started to run, but proceeded
q Varic Uh no nod
drawn up several feet above the ground and
hurled against brick building, but escaped
without bruise. He says while he was up
in the air, and within the whirling vortex OF
the cloud, he heard terrible cracking sound
and could see myriads of sparks flying round
evidently electrical.
The storm did not last more than minute
and when it passed all that part of the towr
touched was perfect waste. The first place
the storm struck was story brick build
ing, and it soon leveled others as well, all oil
which were lifted from their foundation and
hurled in the street. Several persons in each
store were buried by the debris and three eer.
sons killed outright.
From this point it continued north, demol
ishing number of dwellings in its way to
the brick block ou Lexington avenue. Here
the work or destruction was most terrible
both to life and property. Seven twostory
buildings were totally destroyed and three
others were badly damaged. The Brownsville
hotel, four largeiEframe buildings completely
carried away and timbers scattered for 10(
yards around.
Five persons are known to have been killed
in this block and two Others are missing, sup
posed to be buried and at least twenty-five
Others are more or less injured.
The -four mill half block northeast was
destroyed. Loss $1,000. Two livery stables
were leveled to the earth, but the stock was
uninjured.
The bricks public school building was cu
down to the top of the first windows The
school had been dismissed about fifteen min
utes prior to the storm. The Christian church
was also entirely demolished.
About twenty frame and several brick
dwellings were destroyed. The aggregate loss
is at least $l50,000. The force of the winG
was so great that heavy brick buildings were
lifted clear off their foundations, and frame
buildings picked bodily up and crushed anc
tw isted into splinters,
Sections of sidewalk were carried through
the air over 100 yards, and carpets and furn
ture IN dwellings were carried entirely out o
town and lodged in tree tops, and lumber from
the lumber yards was scattered all over the
country, several pieces having been picked NJ
over one miles distant.
A horse was picked up, carried about fifty
feet and hurled to death against brick bEild
ing, and two miles in the country q feIce raj
was driven entirely through the body of 6
COW.