The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-04-21
THE WILD WINDS.
They Sweep Over Parts Of Iowa,
Missouri aud Pennsylvania.
Further Account of the Devastation
in City and Country.


Chlcago, April 2O.-A special says
that the town of Carrollton, Iowa, was
struck by a whirlwind Tuesday even.
Ing. A skif on the river containing
three men was capsized and none of the
occupants have been since. The wharf
was lifted and carried a square distant.
The noise accompanying the wind was
like deep thunder. Several houses were
u~nroofed and property greatly damaged.
The German Catholic school was COM
pletely destroyed. A number of per-
sons were seriously hurt but none killed
outright. The damage is estimated at
$4,000. Other neighboring towns re-
port more or less damage.
a Bloomfield, Iowa, special reports a
devastating cyclone in that county
which, however, by good chance, did
not strike any town. The damage was
combined to farms, fences and isolated
buildings. AS yet no deaths are re-
ported, but three persons were injured.
st. Louis, April 20.-A Republican
correspondent writing from Browns
vile gives the particulars of the terri
BILE cyclone. He says the widest con-
fusion reigned all day. The town was
crowded with people from the surround
ing country who focked in to see the
devastation. The work of clearing the
debris was commenced after the storm
passed and has been kept up incessaut-
ly, but it will require several days to
thoroughly overhaul the ruins.
Two more dead bodies have been e1-
humed and it is thought there are still
a woman and child beneath the ruins.
E. G. Biggerstaff was on the street
when the two storm clouds united and
made their terrible rush for the town.
He stood directly in line of the funnel
shaped cloud and thinking to get out
OF its way started to run, but had pro-
ceeded not more than a dozen yards
when he was enveloped, drawn up sew
eral feet from the ground and hurled
against a brick building, but escaped
without a bruise. He says that while
he was up in the air and within the
whirling vortex Of the cloud he heard a
terrible cracking sound and could see
myriads Of sparks flying around, evil
IDENTIFY electrical.
The storm didn't last more than a
minute and when it had passed all parts
OF the town touched were a perfect
waste. The first place the storm struck
was the two-story brick building on the
corner Of Main and Spring streets,
occupied by Myers & Durnsing, dry
goods, Thomas Andrews, clothing, A.
Helsea, groceries and A. s. Reinhart,
all of which were lifted from
their foundations and hurled into the
burying the inmates and killing
three outright. The storm then con-
tinued northeast, demolishing a num-
Der Of dwellings. On the way to the
brick block on Lexington avenue seven
three-story brick buildings were de-
stroyed and others badly damaged.
The Brownsville hotel, a large two
story frame, vas completely carried
away and the timbers scattered 100
yards around. The brick public school
building was cut down to the first win
dows. The school had been dismissed
about fifteen minutes before the storm
broke forth. The Christian church was
also destroyed and about twenty frame
and several brick dwellings were demol-
ished. The aggregate loss is at least
$3.50, 900.
The force of the wind was so great
that it lifted the brick buildings clear
off their foundations and frame build
ings were picked up bodily and twisted
into splinters, carpets and furniture in
dwellings were carried entirely out of
town and lodged in tree tops, and lum.
Der yards were scattered all owe the
country. Several pieces were found a
mile distant. A house was carried so
feet and hurled against a brick wall,
and two miles in the country a fence
rail was driven entirely through the
body a cow.
Another dispatch says that the home
physicians have been relieved by others
from Sedalia and adjacent town, and
the wounded have now been nearly al
attended to. A large number are rem.
dered homeless. The cyclone Is fully
equal to that Of Richmond in '7S, OF
Marshf1eld in 10. A portion of the
dead were buried to-day.
A special train was run from SedalIi
to-day, and the proceeds of the trip.
about S400, was donated to the suffe
rers. Another train will be run to
morrow for the same purpose.
The mayor has issued a proclamation
stating that donations will be received
by the committee of distribution. NJ
new facts have been developed at Mon
trose Eighteen dwelling and fou
churches were destroyed there. A
number of farm houses in that vicinit