Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-05-03
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An explosion occurred in the powder
magazine OF Lowry Bros, near Larned, Kan,
instantly killing Chas. l.. Goodrich. The
young man was out with a companion duck
hunting, and 1t is supposed fired a shot nto
the magazine, causing the accident.
Gov. Butler, ordered the Massachu-
sets state board of health to assume charge Of
| the Tewksbury aims house, an order which that
| august body OF learned mel fatty refused to
| Bay State will have to decide whether the
board OF health ''may" or 'must" take
| charge.
At four o'clock on the evening of
| April %, a fearful cyclone passed over Beaure
| gard and Wesson, Miss. The wind had been
| blowing g gale for three days. rumbling
| sound AMI violent shaking OF houses heralded
| the approach OF the cyclone and caused the
people to believe IL was an earthquake. Then
thunder, lightning, wind and rain came with
terrific force, sweeping everything in their
path. In the western part of Wesson fences
were torn down, trees that had stood for ages
were uDrooted and hurled a hundred yards !;
houses where operatives In the Mississippi
mills lived were demolished; a pine forest
| adjacent TO the town was blown out of exis-
| tence. Thirteen are known TO be killed. The
| wounded are estimated at u.s. several are miss
| ing, and Is or 20 dwellings were blow n down.
Tie eastern portion was not much damaged.
Mrs. Causey, two children of j. T. Gibson
| one Of whom was found crushed under a chin
ney, two persons so mangled as not to be
recognizable. Other names arc not ascertain
| ed. One little boy found In the woods had
| been blown several hundred yards unhurt.
Beauregard, a town a mile north Of Wesson,
which had about 600 inhabitants. was
| entirely swept away. The destruction to
| life and property is indescribable and appalling
Not house of any size is left standing. Large
brick buildings were blown down. frame houses
torn to atoms, trees swept away like straws,
| loaded freight cars lifted from the track and
carried 200 yards, trees and timber from houses
| scattered for miles around. The town could
not be recognized. One gloomy, ghastly mass
| of desolation and destruction marks the spot
| where was once a beautiful, fourishing little
village. Fifteen are known to have lost their
| lives at this latter place. and there are many
| missing, which will undoubtedly swell the list
| of killed to double that number. Other towns
In Mississippi were visited by this cyclone, ten
lives being lost at Starkville, and at Aberdeen
eight lives were lost A dispatch from Atlanta
Ga, reports the passage Of cyclone through
the lower part Of Georgia with destructive
results, also very general wind and heavy rains
all over the state. The lightning was continu-
Gus and kept the night lighted up so one could
| read. Fences and dams were washed away
with great loss. Many houses were blown
down. A special from Albany reports eight
killed and about rs wounded. An Eastman
special reports two killed
Gen. Diaz and party have nearly COM
pleted their tour of this country, and have set
out on their return home.
That ancient seat of learning, Har-
ward college, comes In for share Of the dis
grace growing out Of the investigation of the
Tewksbury almshouse. This phase of the
acknowledgement" will be thoroughly investi-
gated.
A large party of Norwegian wood
choppers arrived in Philadelphia on the steam
ship Illinois few days since. They are under
a contract with an extensive firm of Mime
apolis to work among the forests of Minneso-
ia
On the 30th of May about $1,000 acres
of land, the remainder Of the land belonging TO
the Otoe and Missouri reservations In Kansas
and Nebraska will be offered at public SALE
Henry ID. Mcdaniel, Democrat, has
been elected governor Of Georgia. He will be
inaugratcd May IL.
Statistics collected at Portland, Ore
gon show that since January the number of
people brought to that section by two lines of
ocean steamships lie 1880. During the past
30 days 10 steamers averaging 500 tons freight
each have entered the Columbia river, IL of
which were passenger ships averaging $50
passengers per vessel or the total immigra-
ton by ocean about 80 per cent. seek homes on
Puget Sound, while the remainder scatter to
the grain districts east OF the Cascade noun
tains. The grain surplus In that district, It IL
estimated, will double that Of ar sc.....er car.
Further details of the terrible cycl >ne
In Mississippi continue to pour In. The num-
bcr of Killed in that state win reach nearly 100,