Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-05-21
Another Of the sufferers, youns man
named Liter, died this morning, making six
died thePe

SHIFAAs, ILL.,, May ~.
A cyclone passed through this town yes-
terday, doing great damage. A number OF
persons are reported seriously injured and
one dead. The storm came from the south
west. passing half mile west of this place
and one mile east of Piainview, and covered
a space about quarter of a mile in width.
Later reports from Plainview show more de-
struction of property and loss of life than was
at first indicated man named Mill-r,w
his wife and four children and several other
persons are said to have been seriously in
jured The damage to property is extensive.
ALroS, Ill, Nav -.
The storm here last night was heavy, but
did no greaf damage. At Grafton, few
miles north, great damage was done. All
the derricks of the Grafton Stone Quarry Co.
were destroyed, together with five engines
and several houses. The loss is very heavy.
Three houses in Shinn Hollow, near Grafton,
belonging TO Denney Shay, John McVeagh.
and Michael Gamer were totally destroyed.
Mrs Gamer was killed and her husband is
supposed to have been thown into ravine
and killed and his body washed into the river
A daughter of Denney Shay had a leg broken
The storm was also severe at Edwardsville
Mrs. Wm. MaXey of Alton, while going from
her fathers house near Edw wardsville to
a neighbors. was killed by being blown
against tree. The roof of the court house
was blown off.
SPRINGFIELD, Ills, Nav.
The cyclone destroyed Mr.. lies three farm
dwellings, three barns and his brick residence,
MIR. Wilford's house was destroyed and also
that OF Mrs. English, who was fatally hurt.
The house barns and outbuildings of William
Contrell was destroyed but he and his fam
lily safely escaped in their cellar. Houses
al HastrnyaH nf Np, Nosfran6 NJ
McVeigh, Hugh Hughlett, and six others.
At Dorson several houses were wrecked and
Mrs. Ferris killed. At Buffalo Mrs. Chand-
Ter killed and three houses wrecked.
Eight persons are reported killed at Leiten-
burg.
CLINTON, Ills, May 10
A terrific and destructive cyclone, 10
yards wide, from the southeast passed over
"a portion of Dewitt County last night doing
immense damage wherever il struck. 1t was
funnel shape aud revolved with great rapid
itv. Hail fell as large as hickory nuts In
all II farm houses were totally wrecked and
the occupants homeless. The following are
the dead and wounded Dead-Geo. b. Cliff
ton, Nj. S. Clifton, his wife and Ollie Clifton
aged 7 years. Wounded-Mss Bemison,
badly injured IN the back and face, Lucy
Bemison, aged Z, bodily njured and bruised
about the face and back, Elizabeth BemisOn,
leg badly cut and face bruised, little baby
of Mrs. BemisoD, blown 175 feet and picked
up bodily injured, another little girl named
Clifton received a broken leg and was other
wise injured.
CLINTON, Ills, May 20.
Most of those who were wounded during
the cyclone Friday night are improving
slowly. The Bemison family are badly in
jured but all will recover Others who were
injured are much better. There are no new
developements today with the exception of
two more houses and a barn being added to
the property destroyed. The damage to
property is very great
ST. LOUIS. Mo. Nav 10.
The storm that passed over Grafton, Ship
man and other places in Illinois last night
seems to have come direct from the west.
The first heard of il was at Jonesboro. Mo-.
where it crossed the Wabash railroad, level
ling several houses with the ground, and
killing one lady. Telegraph wires were
broken, and no details have yet been re-
ceived.
CHICAGO, May 10.
From advices received by the Associated
Press from points in Illinois visited by the
cyclone on Friday night, 81 deaths have al
ready been reported in the State, and the
number of injured is estimated at very nearly
north of Milwaukee, no accurate computation
of the loss of life in Wisconsin has been
made.
MIDNIGHT-Associate Press advces COM
plete the loss of life in Illinois by the torna-
do of Friday night at from 81 to 63. Given
by the counties and towns they are as fol-
lows:
Dewitt county. 4 Mason county, g. Lex
ington county. =; New Grafton, Jersey coun-
ty, B; Madison county, l: Wennebago coun-
ty, ); Liter, Morgan county, Z; Rood House,
Green county, 8; Douglas county, | Logan
county, l; Macudin county, 6; Hillsboro, 2;
Staunton and Mount Olive, to 6; Cayvaga,
|; McHenry county ); Sangamon county, 3 :;
Maroa, Macon county, 3; Buffalo Station. l.
A brief Rood House despatch states that a
number of houses and barns were blown
down, and the loss of life is given from to
10.
ST. LOUIS, May 20.
The Globe Democrats special says: The
little town of Marguand. on the Iron Noun
tain Railroad, was blown to pieces bv a
tornado about ) o'clock this evening. Every
house in e'town is said to have been de-
molished, but no lives were lost.
Additional details gather from various
sources show that the tornado of last Friday
night plowed its way through three counties
Charles and besides destroying a large
amount of property, killing and wound
ed over 90 persons. The largest amount of
destruction has been in st. Charles county.
South of the Wabash railroad the principal
losses in addition to those reported last night
are ten farm house. A house of John Jen-
kins was ruined and part of it carried away
jenkins was killed. his two sons and two
daughters badly injured and John Lowrey
was good deal bruised. In the neighbor-
hood of Floristal, St. Charles county, and
thence in Warren country for about ID miles
the line of the storm is traced by the
wrecks of some 81 houses and -outbuldings
aud several persons more or less injured.
Besides this more than score of buildings
were unrOofed or otherwise damaged and no
end of fences and other property destroyed in
New Rchland station, on the keokak rail-
road. At Loutre island in the Missouri river
near Hermon, a number of miles southeast
OF the above named place, the storm destroyed
several dwellings and outhouses. No esti-
mate has vet been made of the damage, but
it is very great and will no doubt run up into
hundreds of thousands.
Over in Illinois the storm ragged in about
the same manner it did in Missouri. Luck
lily there as on this side of the Mississippi it
struck no town of much size, but spent its