Connecticut western news., 1883-05-30
DEATH DEALING STORMS.
Details of the Cyclone which Devastated
 Racine, Wis.,, and other Sections.

AANciues Wis., nnO OIueF SectlOus.
 The appallings effect of the cyclone which passed over Illinois and Wisconsin could only be learned in all their wide spread work of death and destruction when the light of the morning came and furnished an opportunity for a careful survey of the field. A dispatch from Racine, Wis, says the wind cloud came with terrific velocity and with noise like that of escaping steam. Travelling along what is known as the Rapids road, demolishing everything in it's track until 1t reached the feed factory, half mile west of the Northwestern Railroad depot. Here it caught the large brick chimney. eighty feet in height raised it from it's foundation and dashed 1t down, a mass of ruins. It then caught the two story frame house of Joseph Thorne, lifted the roof off and carried the shingles and rafters round in the terrible circle, throwing them out in every direction.
 Thus far the cyclone had been travelling over the open prairies, but at this point quite settlement was reached, and in an instant the atmosphere was filled with flying timbers, fences, trees and furni- ture. From this onward the wreck was complete. House after house was de- molished as soon as struck.
 Some of the foundations are swept clear of everything, the floor being all that remains, while not stick of timber remains in the vicinity to mark the wreck.
 One man caught his child in his arms, ran into the street and lay down ill the gutter and in an instant section of the sidewalk was torn up to cover them. A stranger was found dead in the road. By his side COW was dying. A child was blown forty rods into an adjoining yard and when found was a shapeless mass, dead. Barney Williams and wife took refuge in cellar. His son and daughter were unable to reach the cellar, and the latter was blown forty rods and killed, and the boy is missing.
 The roof of Frederick Allbright's h ouse was blown off, and large tree, foot and half ill diameter, was uprooted, while little further on two rows of large shade trees on High street are all up- rooted and laid across the street. The loss of killed is nearlyi if not fully seventy, while the li:t of injured will make 25O, many of them seriously.
 Joseph Kastanck's two boys went into a cellar and were instantly killed. His wife is badly injured and the husbands head is badly cut John Dopaney's res idence was entirely swept away. When the storml struck the house, MT. Dopaney was holding a baby in his arms. The front of the house was blown across the street.
 A story and half brick cottage, oc- cupied by MT. Gastonix and family, was twisted around on its foundation, wrecked, and two boys. aged fifteen and sixteen, were killed outright. Frank Hollapas's house, another story and half brick, was similarly treated, and two girls, aged ten and six, have been missing since.
 In Illinois the damage is fully as SC. rious although the loss of life is not SC large as in Wisconsin.
 In Missouri much damage was done by the same storm.
 SAD SCENE.
 The scene along the course of tht cyclone in Wisconsin, Is pitiful anC heartrending in the extreme New of the disaster was not generally know1 until the next morning, threatening weather, which forboded another sstorm keeping most of the people dwelling ol the south side in the vicinity of thei homes. Few of those who witnessed the phenomenon comprehended its ter rible significance, supposing 1t merely wind storm, like those that are of com mon occurrence in summer. Conse quently it was not generally known unti morning that Racine had suffered ca lamity without parallel in its history Nearly the entire population of the nortl and west side of the river visited tn ruins during the evening and night where the scene among the dead wounded and dying was pitiful beyont description. In many cases survivin. relatives had lost all semblance of reason Physicians are not numerous enough t give prompt assistance. Numerou bleeding victims were rolled in blanket while anxious relatives ran in every ali rection to secure medical aid.
 FORGE OF THE WIND.
 A few miles north of Virginia, H., hedge fence was raised root and branch and carried away. A big pile of railroad : ties lying near the track was scattered far and wide. On Springfield Roun' Prairie horse was found with piece o rail through his body. At the residenc of Major Hess, one and half miles eas of Sprin> field, the chimneys were tum bled and the windows broken. In oG ) of the windows sat large wooden bowl This was split midway, one half beinl left in its original position, and the othe half carried off by the cyclone. At on place flock of geese were found naked their feathers having been stripped fror their backs and hung upon a hedge. BAD GYPs1Es. really do stes children outside of fiction. A Bosto small boy was taken off by 8 strollin band and kept ten days before hi parents found him.