The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-20
THE NEWS.
THIS TIME IN MIssouRI
Brownsville visited by Terrific eye
Ions.-Trees Turn Up by the Roots.
Twenty-eight Business Houses Destroy
ed and One Hundred and Fifty
More or Loss Injured.

CHICAGO, April 19.-Later advices con-
corning the cyclone which visited
Brownsville, Missouri, yesterday, aud
which was mentioned in the associated
press dispatches, says: The storm struck
the town at d. M, and two minutes af-
terward a most fearful scene of death
and destruction was visible on every
side. Large, two-story brick business
houses were lifted from their founda-
tions and the ruins scattered in chaotic
confusion in all directions. Frame
dwellings were overturned and crushed
into splinters, while large trees were up
rooted and carried long distances by the
force of the storm. Hogs and other ami
mails were picked up into the air and
carried various distances, and dropped
iifeless along the track of the storm
The first intima.ion the people had of
the terrible disaster impending was the
appearance of a low-haDging, blush
funnel shaped cloud, rising in the south
west, which seemed to be whirling and
rolling in all directions, assuming every
conceivable form, and travelling at q
most fearful rate of speed, directly to-
ward the town The people became in
tenselY excited and many sought safety
in cellars, but the storm came with such
velocity thai no time was given them
to seek places of safety. just before the
funnel struck the town, a loud, roaring
ing noise was heard, which was follow
ed by several electrical explosions,
FURTHER PARTICULARS
SEDALIA, No, April 19.-Further par
iiculars from Brownsville are meagre.
Up to half-past four, the body of NJ. E.
White, who was missing had not been
found. The last seen of him alive he was
standing in Kelley's drug store and is
supposed to be buried in the ruins
Twenty-eight brick business buildings
were completely wrecked. The section
house which was about one hundred
yards from the depot was blown across
the track and riddled TO atoms
| Mrs. John Nealpin and six chill
| dren were occupants of the structure
at the time and they were carried with
il and suffered injury, more or less. Mrs.
Nealpln's right arm was broken, her
scalp lacerated in several places, and
her shoulder dislocated A number of
farm houses in the vicinity of Browns
vile, were reported to have been blown
| down. The total number of persons
wounded and injured fOots up over $50.
| The City Hotel block is a complete
wreck, nothing being left of it but pile
of bricks, morter and debris. The body
of farmer named Mat Williams was
taken from the ruins at half past one,
his head being mashed to pulp.
AT the southwestern limits of the
| town the funnel seemed to strike the
| ground and rebound few feet into the
air and kept in close proximity to the
earth during the entire passage through
the town. 1t seemed to move in a rapid,
rotary manner, and everything it came
| in contact with was drawn up into its
mouth, only to be dropped again
a few seconds later, twisted and
crushed out of all shape. Fifteen
brick and two frame houses, between
fifteen and twenty dwellings, the Mis-
souri, Pacific depot and telegraph office
were entirely destroyed and numerous
buildings badly damaged. The seven
killed were, P. Scruggs, a prominent
farmer; G. Meyer, a leading dry goods
merchant; Arthur and Williams, two
travelling men, residence unknown; J. P
Payne, Baptist minister; Jas. Miller
a well known young man; City Marshal
White. Perry and John Wilson, father
and son, fatally injured. The names OF
the others who were wounded are not
obtainable. All except City Marshal
White were killed by falling buildings
He was upon the street, and was the
most mutilated and disfigured of any
1t Is supposed he was drawn into the
funnel among the flying timbers, which
occasioned the mutilation. The ground
over which the storm passed was mowr
smooth, and everything the cyclone
came in contact with was charred ana
Dlackeaed and covered with a blush
sticky mud. Large deposits of sand
and gravel were also noticed scattered
all along the path of the storm. Tnt
track was in the neighborhood of two
hundred yards wide, and was zigzaI
upon both sides.
VALUE OF PROPERTY DESTROYED.
ST. LOUIS, April 19.-Post Dispatcl
specials from Jefferson City, say PEG
pie from Saline county just in, say tn,
destruction at Brownville will sum VI
over $150000. The destruction of coun
try property is not great, but is exten
siye