The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-04-28
THE MISSOURI CYCLONE.
Terrible Loss of Life and Property.

New YORK, April 19.-The Times specia
from Independence, Mo-, says terrible cy
| clone swept over the town of Brownsville
Saline county, Mo. this afternoon. The en-
tire business part of the town was demolish
ed. Seven persons were killed and between
twenty and thirty others badly injured.
| SEDALIA, Mo-, April I9.-Reports reached
| here last night that tornado struck Mon
trose al 3:40 p. m. yesterday, destroying II
dwellings and churches. No lives were
lost. A school house, four miles east OF Mon
trose, was blown down and all the inmate!
were more or less injured. Two little son:
of John Fair are supposed TO be fatally in
jured. One child was blown across twenty
acre field, and lodged in an apple tree, unin
jured. Two men in an adjacent field were
blown over hedge fence ten feet high, anG
both were seriously injured. The storm i.
said to have reached as far as Appleton City
and to have blown down houses at Clinton
heavy hail storm prevailed. All the win.
dows, facing the west, were broken at that
place. Hail fell as large as goose eggs. Al
Holden number of houses were badly
damaged. No lives are reported lost. At 4
p. m. terrible tornado struck Brownsville,
demoi.shlng over fifty houses in the town,
including the City Hotel and the main bust
ness houses.
ST.. LOUIS, April ia Post Despatch
special says: At Montrcse, Henry County,
last night, storm entirely demolished the
Baptist and Christian Churches, and did
more or less damage to twenty other build
ings. The formers school building was
struck by cyclone, while So children were
In the building. The wind carried the fur
nlture entirely away, strewing the debris over
the prairie for mile, and the children i'm
some instances were carried long distance
number of them being seriously hurt. The
damage will be nearly $4,000. At Calhoun,
Henry County, pottery building was blown
In and large amount of stock damaged.
A special TO the same paper from Jefferson
City says: People from Saline County, Just
in, say the destruction at Brownsville will
sum up over $150,000.
Since noon and a few moments before the
storm struck the town the atmosphere grew
suddenly close and heavy; darkness almost
like night ensued. A few moments after a
terrible roaring noise was heard aud the next
instant terribly black and funnel-shaped
cloud was seen coming from the southwest
at almost lightning speed. The large part of
the funnel was downward, and IL seemed to
be whirling in rotary motion and bounded
along close to the earth like rubber ball.
limits OF the town it seemed to roll along
within few feet of tho ground, and houses
were raised clear off their foundations,
smashed to atoms and pieces hurled in every
direction. Trees were uprooted and twisted
of close to the ground, while animals and
persons were picked up and carried for yards
through the air, and then dropped bruised and
bleeding to the ground. The track of the
cyclone was $50 yards wide and extended
from the southwestern to the northwestern
limits Of the town, totally destroying over 20
OF the principal business houses and dwell
ings of two large business blocks. Two
story brick buildings In the northern part Of
the town were completely tom to atoms and
debris scattered in every direction. Frame
dwellings were drawn into the seething vor-
tex aud crushed like egg shells, and heavy
timbers carried for hundreds of yards. The
rumber Of persons killed outright, as far as
can be learned at this time, is seven, and at
least 30 are badly injured, several fatally
With one exception the persons killed were
all inside of buildings and buried and bruis-
ed by falling walls. Those upon the streets
were terribly bruised and shaken up, but
they seemed to have Jared much better than
those within the buildings.
The following is list of the killed: Claus
Meyers, merchant; Arthur, commercial
drummer; Williams, clerk; p. S. Scruggs,
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, and dropped a
lifeless and almost shapeless mass.
No new facts are developed at Montrose.
Eighteen dwellings and four charches were
destroyed there. A number of farm houses
In the vicinity are demolished