Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-04-29

and six children were occupants of the
structure at the time and they were car
ried with 1t and suffered injury, more or
less. Mrs. Nealpin's right arm was bro
ken, her scalp lacerated in several places,
and her shoulder dislocated. A number
OF farm houses i'll 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 complete wreck,
nothing being left of it but pile of
bricks, mortar 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 few seconds later, twisted
and crushed out of all shape. Fifteen
brick and two frame houses, between fif-
teep and twenty dwellings, the Missouri
Pacific depot and telegraph office were
entirely destroyed and numerous build
ings badly damaged. The seven killed
were, 2. Scruggs, prominent farmer; C..
Meyer, leading dry goods merchant;
Arthur and Williams, two travelling men,
residence unknown;J p. Payne, a Bap-
fist minister; Jas Miller, 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 ex-
pect City Marshal White were killed by
falling buildings. He was upon the
street, and was. the most mutilated and
disfgured 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 mOwn smooth, and everything the
cyclone came in contact with was charred
and blackened and covered with blush,
sticky mud. Large deposits of sand and
gravel were also noticed scattered all
along the path of the storm. The track
was in the neighborhooG Of TWO hundred
yards wide, and was zigzg upon both
sides.
DESTRUCTIVE STORMS.
One of the heaviest rains ever known
in the city of st. Louis fell there on Sat
urday afternoon last, 22nd of April. Mill
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by the storm of week ago, again over
flowed, and all that part of the city
bounded by Choutean avenue and Miller
street, north and south, and Third street
and the river, east and west, was sub
merged to the depth OF from two to five
feet. Hundreds of cellars were filled
with water, q number of pei sons were
rescued in skiffs, and several narrowly
escaped drowning. On the same after
noad terrific tornado swept over Cairo,
H., blowing down the Methodist colored
church and four other buildings, unroof-
! inc ten or fifteen others and overturning
five loaded freight cars. Two or three
persons were slightly injured. The tor
nado was accompanied by heavy hail
! storm, which did considerable damage.
I About daylight on Saturday the heaviest
rain, wind and hail storm known for
many years passed over Shreveport,
| Louisiana. st. James colored church was
/ lifted from the uprights and blown some
/ distance. Columbia, 5. c., was also
( visited by n heavy rain ard hail-storm
Saturday evening, the hailstones being us
{ large as pigeon eggs. The damage done
( bv the recent cyclone at Brownsville,
! Mo, is estimated at $250,000, ant many
! of the citizens are homeless and destitute.
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across the Chicago, st. Louis and New Or
lcaus Railroad, between Summit and b.
que Chtto, Mississippi, leveling timber,
/ &c. Late Saturday nighta terrific rain
J storm, accompanied by hail, visited Au-
! gusta, Ga, and tie vicinity lasting several
! hours and doing much injury to crops, cs-
/ peclally young cotton. The rainfall was
| five inches. At Chicago heavy wind
| Saturday night blew several cars from
siding to the main track ut Eighty-sey-
! enth street. a train on the Baltimore
! and Ohio Railroad ran into them, severe
! " injuring the engineer and fireman,
and killing Joseph Haneran, a resident
of South Chicago.
! The storm along the Jackson Railroad
visited Monticello, Miss, 20 miles east Of
Brookhaven. The town was completely
destroyed, only three houses being left,
/ dwellings on the outskirts. Nothing like
| it was ever seen in that section. Ten per-
! sons were killed instantly, five white and
five colorcd. The names of the whites
were as follows: III. W ethersby, chancery
clerk, Allen Sharp, Mrs. Cannon and ba-
| by, and Rev. S. W. Dale. Out of popu-
lation of about $50 very few escaped with
out some injury. Between 10 and 20
were seriously injured, some, it is
thought, fatally. Ex-Sheriff Butler and
wife are painfully injured. Jake Myer
had his collar-bone broken and was
injured about the face. Charley Cohn
had his leg broken. The store Of Mr..
Cohn after being blown down, was struck
by lightning and entirely consumed.
There was not tree left standing in the
place. Sam. Hickman's fine residence,
tour miles southwest of Monticello, was
entirely demolished. No one was hurt.
The track OF the cyclone is estimated at
half mile. The people of Monticello
are left entirely destitute. Relief has been
sent them from New Orleans.
The damage in St. Louis will probably
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