The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-06-29
CYCLONES.
Terrible Wind-storms in Kansas, Missouri,
Iowa and IIlinois-3Iany Lives Lost
Great Destruction of fProperty-Grinneu,
Iowa, in Ruins.

Iowa, in Ruins.
LEAvENwoRTH. Kansas. June Il.
A terrible wind storm prevailed be-
tween twelve and one o'clock this morn
ing, and Mount st. Mary's Academy,
four miles south of the city, suffered
terribly. The main tower was blown over on
the dormitory, crushing In the roof, and Ida
Golden, Annie Mcdonald and Mabel AIcLana-
than, of this city, and Mary Austin, of Carroll
ton, Mo-, aged from eleven to fifteen, were in
stantly killed. The loss in the city and county
is about SJ00O00. Wheat is not seriously in
jured. Fruit is half stripped from the trees.
but viii still be good crop. An unknown
man was blown into the river and drowned.
Barns and houses were blown down and un-
rooted Al over the city, trees uprooted, and
general devastation wrought
Reports show that the storm covered a wide
area of country. Throughout it was most vfo-
lent in narrow track. The storm came down
the Republican Valley and passed along the
Kansas Pacific and Kansas Central Railways
and intervening country. 1t increased in vio-
lence as it approached the Missouri River.
The pressure of the storm here was twenty
six pounds to the square foot and the roar of
its coming was heard three miles away.
KANSAS CRY, Mo-, June II.
A terrific tornado visited this city last night,
which unroofed an overturned houses, blew
down trees and fences, and shook up things
the Western Paint-shops were blown down,
and Thomas Maddern, who was IN the latter,
was killed. The Howell Hotel, at Rosedale,
suburb, was blown down. and William Reese
killed, and Fred Howell had leg broken. At
Wyandotte, across the Kansas River. Dur
rings Opera-House was unroofed. The loss in
Kansas City is estimated at 500, 900.
ST. LOUIS, No, June IT.
The severest storm that has visited this re-
gion for very long time passed over the city
between twelve and one o'clock this morning.
The wind attained a velocity of sixty-six miles
per hour and did very great damage. but so
far as now known no single injury of magni-
tude occurred. Trees and fences were pros
trated in all sections of the city; shutters Signs
chimneys, ETC., blown down, and general havoc
among small things prevailed. Very heavy
rain accompanied the wind, and the streets
and sewers and cellars in many parts of the
city are flooded. Several steamers at the wharf
lost their chimneys or had some part of their
upper works carried away, a barges were
banged about good deal. Every telegraph
line in the city was prostrated. A good deal of
plate-glass was broken in the business part of
the city, and great many windows OF resi-
dences were blown down.
The storm seems to have been more severe
in East St Louis than on this side of the river.
Nearly all the southern part of that town was
flooded with water, and some fifty houses oc-
jured and several blown down entirely or
twisted out of shape. Women and children
left their homes and waded round in muddy
water for hours, seeking safe shelter from the
storm, filing the freight-cars and occupying
other places of refuge. The total loss cannot
fail short of S50,OjO, and may be more.
MARsHALLrowN, Ia. June 1s.
The blackest gloom is over Grinnell. 1t is
lovely city of $500 inhabitants twenty-five
miles south of here. The northern and the
northwest portions contain the most and best
residences. There was also located in that
part of town the Iowa Congregational College,
all in a beautiful grove of maple and elm
trees The fearful tornado of last night first
struck Kelly, station forty miles west, on the
Chicago & Northwestern Road, and did much
damage already known before reaching Grin
nell, where it did its deadIiest and most de-
stFuctive work. 1t struck the town about $50
p. m. The people saw it fully five minutes be-
fore it came, and were almost panic stricken
An eyewitness thus describes it:
Nearly an hour or more before sunset the
northern sky was hung with conicaI down.
ward-pOinting clouds. After sunset, and even
after darkness was gathering the western ho-
rizon and the western sky halfway to the ze-
NTH was lurid, and brilliant and unearthly,
an ominOus sight, which fascinated while it
filed one with iIl-defined dread. Almost ere
the brilliant apparition in the west had dis
appeared the storm broke 1t was accom-
panied with a roaring like thunder, or per-
haps more like the bling of a dozen heavy
freight trains. Chimneys, trees and barns
began to fly like leaves People took to
the cellars. The rain came in floods as if
q waterspout had burst which in fact WAS
probably the case. The wind and rain and
binding lightning continued so furious for
near half hour that it was scarce safe for
those whose roofs stafd over them to open
their doors, but the damage was done In a very
few minutes. The storm seemed to have an
explosive force, not infrequently carrying
out one side or end of a house. Within the
space of twenty feet one house would be
thrown to the west and another to the east.
Most of the buildings were crushed like egg
shells and reduced to splinters. Ali who had
cellars were in them. and of those
who did only one was killed. The greatest
loss of life was where the people remained in
their houses. It took a sweep about one
thousand feet wide and moved everything to
the ground, leaving but n portion of half
dozen houses on a territory of ten blocks
which were before covered with the finest res
licences in the city, also the homes of many of
the well-to-do mechanics. over one hundred
were laid in waste, and of many of them al
most nothing remains. They were valued at
fully $25O,O1O. The Iowa College and Dormi-
tory, stone and brick structures, with the Ii
brary, etc, were valued at 100000.
GRIENELI. June Is.
The situation is worse than even the first re-
ports made it appear. Twenty-Five people are
dead, and about one hundred or more wounded.
The list OF fatal casualties is as follows:
Deacon Ford and wife; Mr.. Lewis and wife;
Deacon Clements ana two children; Mrs. Eva
Murton, Of Chicago; Henry Pitman's two chill
dren, Hattie and Harry, and Mr.. Pitman prob
ably fatally injured; Miss Abbie Agard, photo
graphic artist Cornell Chase, of Storm Lake,
student; Susie Bayer, daughter of
dry-goodN merchant, and her mother,
Mrs. Bayer; also his son is fa-
tally wounded; Mrs. Griswold, Mrs. Totten,
Mrs Cullson and her mother; Mrs. Alexan-
der's two children; Mrs HUFF and child; Geo.
Terry's baby'-Terry is not expected to live;
Bingham BurExett, stGdent Montezuma: Madf-
son Howard's boy; Il lady from Cedar Rapids.
visiting at Bayer's; three persons dead two
miles west of the town; Barrett E Chase
student, Storm Lake; Henry Moore, a brake
man on the Iowa Central Road, of MARSHALL
town. John Deignan. conductor of a Rock
Island freight; tramp from Des Moines; a
travelling man; W. s. Barbour, of Chicago: q
hired girl of Deacon Ford.
ght deaths are reported from Malcolm,
which is entirely 1eveled and DESTROYED.
Brooklyn has also suffered some. Some eight
of the students are badly Injured, having been
6ug out OF the ruins.
Charles Fry, brakeman on the Rock Island
Road, was dangerously hurt at the train
wreck north of GrinneIl; also the child of
James Phipps, and Mrs. Donahue; two persons
IN Alonzo Iillespie's family, and three in the
Beatty family.
DEs MONIES, June Is.
A special to the Register says:
From numerous and contradictory stories
Of the startled citizens We gather the oidstory
of the deep, roaring sound preceding the fun
nel-shapcd cloud. It was seen first coming
from the southwest, sweeping up to the north
west corner Of the town, Ieveling huge trees
in its pathway and taking A. a. Fosters house
and barn, leveling both to the ground and
arrying Mr. and Mrs. Foster and their
TWO children thirty yards, precpitat-
ing them amidst the debris. all
somewhat injured. JUST east of Fosters was
H. c. Pfmans house, which vas also com