The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-22

| Hardware company, 500; Messrs Blake d
Co., ~. Dr. Mealhan g. Son. 800. The let
shaws al / increase IN the general fund of 50,
e53, making total Of $1,000 Mr. Hatha
| way, of Cleveland, o., who was in the audience,
arose and rendered 500, which was received
| and vote OF thanks given by the assemblage.
Ii is confidently expected the S35,0Oo wall be
forthcoming The ladies of the city viii meet
at the opera house to adopt measures toward
| rendering assistance at the hospitals and fur
| nishing provisions, medicines, etc. The So
| letting committees will meet at the council
rooms to perfect arrangements for systematic
| work
| The list of dead has not increased. Nine
| bodies have been recovered and identified.
There are thirty patients receiving attention in
the hospitals and sixty slightly injured at prl-
| vate houses.
| A lively gale has been blowing all the after
| noon, and many people fear another tornado Is
| brewing. Later reports from the surrounding III, g
! townships confirm the former reports. The
damage To property in the country IS much
| greater than at first supposed However, the
mayor thinks no assistance from other elties
will be needed
ADDITIONAL STORIES OF HAVOC.
ST. Louis, Mo, May Glover in H.
linois the storm ragged in ab~lt the same man
ner as it did in Missouri, Luckily there, on
| this side of the Mississippi river, it struck nc
town of much size, but spent its force upon
farm-houses, country residences, growing
crops, forests etc In the vicinity of Edwards
vile. the indianapolis & 81. Louis railroad,
the residences of George W. Kinder, Isaac A.
Davis and NJ K Barnett were utterly
wrecked At the latter house Mr..
Barnetts daughter Mrs. f. AIaxey, of Upper
Alton, who was visiting her parents, was in
stantly killed. and all the other members of the
family more less injured. A well this
place containing twenty feet of water
smoked perfectly dry. VOLTS store at Hamel.
a few miles from Edwardsville was blown to
pieces and four persons killed, but their names
have not yet been reported. At Woodsboro a
brick school house. church and three resi-
denees were blown down and James Carr and
wife seriously injured. The loss at and near
Stanton previously reported, is estimated at
$50, coo, and in the vicinity of Edwardsvilie at
&35,000 In DE Witt county nine houses were
DESTROYED near Kenney, and several others in
Texas township, and three persons named Cliff
ton were killed and nearly dozen badly in
jured The house of a man named Mcpherson,
containing six persons, was lifted into the air,
carried 100 feet, set down again, and nobody
injured scratch.
A FARMER DESCRIBES THE TUNNEL"
STANTON, ILL.,, May 21.-George
Burns. of East st Louis. laborer,
who was wo king on the new railroad, and
was injured at the Olive farm with eight others
Friday night, died from his injuries. Mrs
John Berry wife of the foreman of the Con
struction company is seriously hurt, and her
life is despaired Of The body of L. II. Cant
well, the contractor, and little Alva Berry who
were killed outright at the Olive farm, will be
buried by the Masons of Staunton. A relief
fund is now beng circulated for the Olive suf-
ferers, who lost everything they had.
HARVARD, ILL.,, May 21.-The follow
ing reliable account of the descent of the cy-
clone Friday evening upon this section is given
by farmer living near Chemung, two miles
north of this place: "The sun was shining all
DAY Friday" he said, "and there was stiff
gale blowing from the southwest About 8 |
O'Clock 1 noticed funne1-shapcd cloud, with |
the small end uppermost coming toward the
village from the northwest At the same time |
heavy rolling cloud came toward us from the |
southwest Before the two clouds met the gale /
suddenly stopped, and there was a dead calm |
The clouds approached each other almost a |
mile from where / was, and the couuter-cur- |
rents relied them over upon one another back |
ward and forward fine funnel-shaped cloud |
tipped completely over and it's small end swept |
the ground There was suffocating calm for |
a few moments after the clouds collided. The |
collision marked by clap of thunder and |
a glare of lightning. Then came roaring |
wind and | saw tho big cloud that had been
of yeiloWish color, but the top and sides were
jet black 1t slanted downward toward pond,
aud could see 1t sweeping up and carrying
masses of mud and water 1t lifted the fences
straight into the air, and they seemed to Goat
in its bosom rather than whirl around | was
about mile out of the clouds course, but the
strong wind struck mo downward to the earth
In half a minute the cloud passed, and then
the hot sun poured down upon us brighter
than ever"
There is nothing to add to the details already
gwen of the destruction. Those who were in
jurred are all in fair way to recovery The
town was plaearded to-day calling for volun-
teers to remove the debris from the fields of
the cyclone sefferers in the surrounding vii
lagos. Large crowds visited to day the places
" here the greatest damage was wrought, and
liberal subscriptions raised for the fam
Ines rendered destitute. The four victims in
this neighborhood have been buried.
The Nashvilie Competitive Drill.