The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-04-19
WIND
WIND
Once More Does Damage.
A Tornado in Missouri Scat
ters Destruction.
Killed and Wounded The
Work of Two Minutes.
ANOTHER SrORM.


rife cyclone swept over the tewn of Browns
vile, Saline county, Mo-, at 4:30 o'clock
this afternoon. The entire business por-
ton of the.to~vn is demolished, and seven
persons are killed, and between twenty
and thirty others are badly injured. The
storm came from the southwest, and was
very similar to the one which destroyed
the town of Richmond four years ago. The
storm came up so sudden that the first in
timation the people had was a sudden
roaring sound, which was Immediately fol-
lowed by the approach of a large, black,
funnel shaped cloud, coming from the
southwest, at the rate of at least 100 miles
per hour. When the cloud was first
noticed it was apparently about two miles
distant, and hung perhaps fifty yards above
the earth. When it reached the western
part of town it dropped down almost to
the ground, and seemed to draw every
thing within a radius of several hundred
wards up into the mouth of the funnel. 1t
swept through the tewn, laying everything
waste in its path Two story brick, bust
ness houses were picked up like stones, and
whirled and twisted into shapeless ruins.
Frame buildings were carried some dis
tance and dropped, smashing Houses into
fire kindling wood. Heavy timbers were
carried several hundred yards through the
air and falling end downwards stuck sew
eral feet into the ground. Occasionally
49, al m Ia fla nth Nd
would rebound some distance into the air,
only to fall again and continue its work of
destruction. The storm lasted less than
two minutes, but during that short space
of time about twenty business houses and
dwellings were leveled to the ground. The
storm came up so suddenly that the people
had no time for preparation, and in fact
scarcely any one knew what was coming
until it was upon them. People. in the
streets were picked up and carried various
distances and hurled to the ground dead
or bruised almost beyond recognition;
while those in the buildings were buried
by the falling walls and debris. For some
time after the storm passed the people who
ere not injured were SO terribly excited
that nothing could be done. When they
at last recovered from their CONSERVATION,
search for the dead and wounded was COM
menced. 1t was at first supposed that at
least fifty persons had been killed, but
thorough search revealed the fact that only
seven were killed outright and that four
teen were mortally wounded and sixtee
seriously injured. F. J. Griggs, farmer;
Claude Meyers, dry goods merchan., F,
H. Arthur, clerk; w. M. Williams,
clerk; and Con White, City Marshal
J. S. Payne, minister, James Miller clerk.
The names of the wounded and the extent
of their injuries cannot be learned tonight.
The storms path was about 150yards wide
and every house, tree or shrub in that path
was leveled to the ground. After leaving
Brownsville the funnel pursued north
easterly direction and was next heard from
near Marshall, where several farm houses
were destroyed. All telegraph lines lead
ing out of Brownsville were broken and
only one has been repaired. 1t is impossi-
Bile for further definite details to be learn
ed tonight.
ONE MORE.
SEDAL1A, Mo-, April 19.-Reports reach
ed here tonight to the effect that tornado
struck Montrose at $50 p. m, yesterday,
destroying eighteen dwellings and four
churches. No lives were lost. A school
house, four miles east of Montrose, was
blown down, and all the inmates were
more or less injured, two little ones of
John Farrit, it is supposed, fatally. One
child was blown across twenty-acre field,
and lodged in an apple tree, uninJured.
Two men in an adjacent field were blown
over hedge fence ten feet high, and both
were seriously injured. The storm is said
to have reached as far as Apple City, and
to have blown down houses at Clinton A
heavy hail storm prevailed. All the win
dows facing the west were damaged. Hail
fell as large as goose eggs. At Halden a
number Of houses were blown down, and
others badly damaged. No lives are re-
pOrted lost