The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-04-20
ANOTHER CYCLONE,
Great Destruction of Property
aud Loss of life.

! County, last night, storm entirely
demolished the Baptist and Chris
tian churches, and did more or less
damage to twenty other buildings.
The Farmers school building was
struck by cyclone. with thirty-fVe
children in the building. The wind
carried the structure entirely away,
streWing debris over the prairie for
miles, and children, in some in
stances, were carried long distances
and a number of them seriously
hurt. The damage will be $4,000.
at Calhoun, Henry County, a pot
terry building was blown in and a
large amount of stock damaged.
A Pos dispatch special from JEFF
ferson City says: People from Saline
| County, just in, say the destruction
at Brownsville will sum up over
| $4,000. The destruction of coun-
try property is not great, but is ex-
tensive.
New York, 19-TimeS' special
from Independence. Mo-: a terrific
cyclone swept over tho town of
Brownsville, Saline County, Mo-,
this afternoon. The entire business
part OF the town was demolished;
seven persons killed and between
twenty and thirty others badly in
jured.
Sedalia, Mo-, 19.-Reports reached
here last night that q tornado had
struck Montrose at $50 pm. yesJer-
day, destroying eighteen dwellings
and four churches. No lives were
lost. The school, four miles east of
MontrOse, was blown down and all
the inmates more or less injured.
Two little sons of John Fair are
supposed to be fatally hurt. One
child was blown across a twenty
acre field and lodged in an apple
tree uninjured. Two men in an ad-
jacent field were blown over a hedge
fence ten feet high and both seri-
ously injured. The storm is said to
have reached as far as Appleton
City, and blown down houses at
Clinton. A heavy hail storm pre-
vailed; all the windows facing the
west were broken. At that place
hail fell as large as goose eggs. AT
Holden a number of houses were
blown down, and others badly dam
aged. No lives are reported lost.
At 4 D. N. terrible tornado
struck Brownsville, demolishing
over fifty houses in the heart of the
town, including the city hotel and
main business houses. The follow
ing persons are known to be killed :
Claus Meyer, merchant; Jas. Miller,
John Scraggs, Mr.. Arthur, of Pitts
burg, Pennsylvania; Richard Fer
gusOn, city marshal. Con White is
believed to have been killed.
Thirty others reported more OF less
injured, many Of them fatally.
Chicago, 19.-The following has
been received Independence, Mo,
About 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Brownsville, Saline County, was al
most entirely devastated, laid waste
by ore of the most terrible tornadOS
siuce the one which destroyed Rich
mond, Ray County, June 1st, 1878. A
drilling rain had been falling since
noon, and few moments before the
storm struck the town the atmos-
phere grew suddenly close and
heavy, and darkness almost like
night ensued. A few moments after
terrible roaring noise was heard
and the next instant terrible, black
and angry funnel shaped cloud was
seen coming from the southwest al
almost lightning speed. A large part
of the funnel was downward and 1t
seemed to be whirling in a rotary
: motion ana bounded along close tC
the earth like rubber ball When
the funnel reached the southwest
ern limits of the town it seemed to
roll along within few feet Of the
ground, and houses were raised cleal
off their foundations, sma>hed tC
atoms and the pieces hurled in every
direction. Trees were uprOoted anC
twisted off close to the ground, and
! animals and persons picked up anC
carried for yards through the air
and then dropped bruised and bleed
ing to the ground. The track Of the
cyclone was about $50 yards wide
and extended from the southwest
ern TO northwestern limits OF the
town, totally destroying over twenty
! of the principal business houses anC
dwellings. Two large business
Z blocks, and two story brick build
! ings, in the northern part Of the
: town, were torn completely tC
atoms, and the debris scattered III
eveiy direction. A frame dwelling
was drawn into the seething vertex
and crushed like an egg shell, and
, the heavy timbers carried for hun,
dreds of yards, The number OF
, persons killed outright, as far as can
be learned at this time, IS seven and
at least thirty-five were badly In
iured, several fatally. With one
exception, the persons killed were
ali inside Of buildings and
buried and bruised By the falling
walls. Those upon the streets were
terribly bruised and shaken up, but
they seem to have Jared much bet
ter than those within buildings.
Following is the list Of killed: Claus
Movers, merchant; Arthur, COM
mercial traveller; Williams, clerk
i P. s. Saruggs, farmer; J. Payne,
preacher; James, miller; Con.
| White, city marshal The last
named was on the street and was
drawn up into the air, carried long
distance aud dropped lifeless and
almost shape,ess mass. At this
tir,,o n is AntiraIv impossible to OBJ