The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-04-25
A Graphic Description OF the
Scene Presented to a
Bazoo Reporter
Montrose and Other Towns Also
Visited by the Winding
Wind.
No Lives Lost, But Several Persons
We're More or Less In
jured.
A Spite Against ChurcheS-Other
Buildings Struck and
Torn.

The 18th day of April will long he re-
membered by the good people of Browns
willie, but not without sufficient cause.
At 4:3O o'clock, yesterday afternoon, and
probably thirty minutes after the rain had
fallen i'm torrents, a terrible cyclone swept
down upon the place, and the fearful de-
strlcti0n that ensued within the next five
minutes is almost beyond the power OF de-
scription.
The storm approached from the south
west. and the first observers saw i'm the
distance dark green, funnel-shaped cloud,
followed an instant later by buzzing
sound, which
INCREASED IN VIOLENCE
As it neared the village From top TO bot
tom could be seen various colored lights.
caused by the friction of the electricity.
and they become more brilliant as the air
rushed i'm to fill the vacuum.
When the cyclone for as
such it was recognized by all who wit
messed its approach had reached point
some two hundred yards southwest of the
City hotel, the noise caused thereby was
equal to the rumbling OF twenty freight
trains, and the widest CONSERVATION was
visible on every hand.
One gentleman informed BAZOo re-
porter that there were two spiral columns,
both of which were seen mile and a half
distant. When probably quarter of a
mile from the depot,
THEY MERGED INTO ONE IMMENSE COLUMN.
the dipping part downward, and in less
time than it takes to write it the fearful
work of death and destruction had been
accomplished.
The telegraph wires from the depot for
a mile toward this city had been laid low,
and the railway track covered with
roofs of houses, flying timbers, etc.
The first intimation had OF the
wreck i'm this city was when the Lexington
branch train arrived at 1880 last night.
and brought as passengers Mr.. William
Walton, proprietor OF the City hotel, a
large two-story brick building which he
leases from Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Cotton, OF
this city, and Capt. Harry Demuth, who
was i'm Brownsville on business at the time
These gentlemen were sought after ca
gerly by those cOngregated at the depot, and
especially by newspaper reporters, but
neither attempted to give anything like a
description of the havoc which they re-
ported visible on every hand. As soon as
il became known at the Pacific dispatch
er's Office,
ASPECIALTRAIN
was ordered sent out, and at II O'Clock
Conductor Andy Scow's cabOose pulled up
at the Garrison house, where DIR. J. W.
Jackson, the compsny's surgeon, BAzoo
reporter and several others got aboard and
were soon speeding toward Brownsville
The engine had to back up and the time
made was remarkably slow, it requiring
1 hour and 80 minutes to reach the section
house, a quarter of mile this side of
Brownsville, which had been reported as
scattered to the winds.
Arriving there, DIR. Jackson left the
caboose, and, accompanied by the BAzoo
man and others, made his way to where
the house had stood, and found, instead,
HARDLY ONE TIMBER LYING UPON AN
Upon the cold, damp ground, snugly
tucked up In bed clothing, were found a
man and boy, who had been awaked by
the approach of the visitors and the bark
ing of trusty dog which was chained to
stake and acted the part of sentinel.
Being Intercepted as to where the re-
mainder of the family were, the man spoke
up, saving: "Across the field yonder,"
pointing to house a hundred yards dis
tant on the north side of the track. While