The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-04-28
AWFUL CYCLONES.
AN ENTIRE ToWN DEMOLISHED.

lonelast evening struck the town OF
Brownsville. and totally wrecked the |
place Seven dead bodies have been
taken from the debris, and more viii be
found. Among the killed was the opera
tor at the station
BRowSsyrLIE. Mo. April 10. The
first intlmation of the approach Of the
cyclone was sudden roaring sound.
When first seen the black funnel shipped
clond was two miles distant, travelling at
The rate 81 hundred .ailes an hour.
It did not touch the earth until it ap-
preached the town.
Seven persons were killed outright,
fourteen mortally wounded, and sixteen
seriously hurt.
The following are the killed: Joe. J.
Scruggs, farmer, Claude Meyers, dry
goods merchant; f. X. Arthur, clerk;
Con. White, City Marshal: J. s. Payne,
minister, and james Miller, clerk.
Every house. tree aud shrnb IN the
path, 150 yards wide, was levelled to
the gound.
KANSAS CRY Mo-, April 19.--Neor
Marshall, Saline County, a destructive
cyclone passed through the country yes
terday afternoons A number of farm
honses were completely demolished, and
several persons were badly injured. The
dam age to fences, barns, etc, is very
great.
ST. LOUIS. April ia dispatch from
Renick. Mo-. says a severe storm passed
over there at 6 o'clock last night, blew
of two or three roofs, turned around a
building or two, and tore down fences,
trees. ETC., in great numbers. II seems
to have been part Of the storm which
struck Brownsville, Mo-
MoNrRosE, Mo, April 19-- Monday
afternoon cyclone destroyed eighteen
/ dwellings, and four churches A school
house was blown down .nd many o., the
children injured. At Appleton thirty
fonr houses we're blown down,
New ORLEANS, LA, April 19.-'rues-
day evening at $50 cyclone crossed
the Mississippi River al Carrollton.
! gathered water into column xty feat
higl, strnok down witt terrible loFcl.
and deluged the streets. unroofed and
demolished many buildings. A number
OF persons were bruised more or less by
the flying timbers.
!, Il - Elm xxsi. ri lfffo1 aud
was left some distance on the bank. An
old negro man standing on the bank was
! hurled through the cir aud lodged on a
tree uniniured. Taking direction
i toward Lake Ponchartrain il crossed the
upper end of Canal street. and wrecked
] and unroofed many small buildings. The
loss is many thousand dollars,
CHroaGo, April 19-Later advices
I concerning the cyclone which visited
) Brownsville, Mo-, yesterday says; The
!. storm struck the town at p. M, and
g two minutes afterwards the most fearful
d scene Of death and destruction was visi.
s BILE on every side. Large two story
J. brick business houses we're lifted FROM
,t their foundations, and the RUNS scatter
!. ed in chaotic confusion in all directions
J Frame dwellings, were overturned
E aud crushed into splinters, while large
' trees were uprooted and carried Ions
distances by the force of the storm
!. Hogs and other animals were picked N
# into the air. carried various distances
= and dropped lifeless along the track o
n the storm.
The first intimation the people had 0
u the terrible disaster impending was th
ID appearance of low-hanging blush fun
!, nel-shaped cloud rising in the southwes
a. which seemed TO be whirling and rollini
" in all directions, assuming every con
a. ceivable form and travelling at mos
to fearful rate Of speed directly towar
" town.
IN People became intensely excited, an
9, many sought safety in cellars. but tn
,h storm came with such velocity that n
s. time was givenpeople to seek places I
safety. just before the funnel struc
the town loud, roaring noise WAS heari
50 which was followed by several lou
electrical explosions,
0u At the southwestern limits Of IL
ell town the funnel seemed to strike I'll
ar ground and rebound few feet int. I'll
Of air and kept 10 close proximity to u
ne earth duriug its entire passage throug
OF the town. 1t seemed to move in a rapi
rotary manner. and everything it cam
in contact with was drawn up into j
- mouth, only to he drol ped again a fe
81 seconds later. twisted and crushed o.
.s OF all shape.
Fifteen brick and two frame house