The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-04-25

They 60 to ask the legislature to aid them
in rebuilding their public school building,
which came so near being the abattoir OF
tie 18th, and whose principal, Prof. w. II.
Williams, is to be credited with the saving
OF very many precious young lives.
The ladies Of the Brownsville Presby-
terrain church met yesterday and organized
a relief committee Tor the assistance of the
destitute and distressed. Something near
q thousand dollars have been raised at Mar
shall, subscription list is being circulated
at Lexington and the little Queen City has
not been behind hand, but has poured four
or FIVE hundred dollars into the lap of her
crippled sister of Saline.
The fresh gale which started up yester.
day afternoon gave the citizens of Browns
vile quite scare. They want no more
tornado business.
G. NJ. Kelly, the gameSt man in Browns
vile, is going along smoothly towards a
quick recovery. George I. Rice, an old
man, loses every dollar he possessed in the
world. His house was DESTROYED, and him.
self and aged wife and :hree OF their
children were very seriously injured.
This morning new interest was indicated
on the part of tired diggerS in the search
for the body OF an unknown young man,
supposed tn be buried undyr the ruins of
Wilson's store. He is sail to have been a
respectable looking stranger in search OF
work. and To- have been missed Immediately
after the disaster. Up ." The time Of mail
ing this report. the body had not been
found. Persons in tie immediate vicinity
OF the supposed LEGALITY OF this body claim
to have de tected its presence by the stencil.
A clock i'm John Tisdell's house was blown
out of one room around an AZ" into another
room, and never for an instant stopped
Seth Thomas of other days, when they
didn't have sense enough to make them
any other way than mighty good. A span
OF horses belonging to the same man were
hitched to the front fence when the storm
came up, and when it was over they were
hitched to the back fence This apparent
whOpper is explained in the following
manner: The board to which they were
hitched to at the front broke of, and thev
ran around the house and the board was
caught in the back fence and the animals
were thus held fast.
W. A. Treebury had a valuable watch
in his pocket, and the time piece was
struck by short piece of scantling and
mashed to pieces. 1t stopped at exactly
twenty-five minutes after four Mr. Tree
bury was badly bruised in the side, and
the watch stopping the blow
doubtless saved him from internal
injury, which might have resulted in
death.
When Rice's house was blown Down and
to match timber, the whole family
father mother and seven children, all girls,
were seen to rise out OF the ruins invOl-
UNFAIRLY holding up their hands as if in
thankfulness for their narrow escape from
instant death. A part Of the roof only
protected them from humiliation One
end of this fragment of roof was on the
floor, and the other end rested upon fallen
door, and was about three feet from the
ground.
Captain Miller's family were precipitated
to the ground as il they had been standing
on q trap door. The house was then blown
away from them in toto, and they were
left standing in a group looking at one
another. Captain Miller lost fifty dollars
in gold, thirty of which have since been
found distributed among the ruins through
out the town Carpets which had been
tackled to the floors of Rice's house were
found in the tops Of trees in Captain Mil
ler's yard, having been blown block and
q half.
Ne two pieces of the same furniture or
store fixtures still together have been
found in all Brownsville. Everything is
fragment and totally detached from every
thing else. Pieces of looking glass brown
from MIR. Freeburg's house have been
found two miles and a half out in the
country.
B. w. Robinson has commenced to re-
build his dry goods building, and the
Brownsville Savings bank building is un-
dergoing reconstruction likewise. Tenn
porary repairs are being made in the City
hotel building. And this is all that is
being done towards rebuilding Brownsville
at present. The confident citizens say that
the town will be again thoroughly and
rapidly rebuilt, As we'll as it ever was.
One tin roof was rolled up like q snow
ball and was blown northeast for about a
block and hall, and then struck the rail-
road and scudded due west for several hun
dred feet. 1t is now lying in the vicinity
Of the depot, and is rounded and put to-
gether in an artistic manner.
The inside of Olympic hall, the town
theater, was blown out and went through
the roof OF a mill about tvO blocks away,
across the railroad.
There were about fifteen horses in Per-
singers livery stable. The structure was
all blown away but one corner on the
ground. Not horse was hurt They all
ran wild out over the township, but most
of them have been retaken and are now
champing their feed as if nothing had hap
pened. A number of clocks which were
in houses that were uniniured stopped
from electric friction at from q quarter to
half after four. A clock which was buried
in the ruins Of Ke.ly's drug store wa,
heard to strike family at midnight on the
fatal 18th of April. When the body of
City Marshal +. c. White was recovered,
twenty hours after the accident, his watch
was found still running in his pocket.
WHY WILL YOU cough when Shi-