The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-05-25
A FEARFUL CYCLONE.


divided as it struck the city, and COM
pletely made the circuit OF the town.
Over $500, 900 worth OF property was de-
stroyed in fifteen minutes. Four lives
are known to be lost, and many persons
are badly injured. The storm was
terrible one while il lasted. Hailstones
rs large as hens eggs fell in great guam
titles. The air w8s filed with the fly
ing debris of the buildings which stood
in the cyclones path. Men and women,
horses and buggies were hurled through
the air. The escapes in many instances
were miraculous. The storm left havoc
and destruction in its path. The streets
are strewn with mattresses. pieces of
lumber. and household articles. In
many places planks and pieces OF lum-
Der have been driven three or four feet
into the ground. The storm struck the
city from the northwest, coming
through WNandotte and jumping across
the Kansas river 10 the city. Here it
divided and made the circuit Of the city.
Wyandotte suffered severely. and the
little manufacturing suburb OF Argen-
tine is complete wreck. II is fairly
wiped out. 1t is impossible TO estimate
the total damage or loss of life. All
who suffered from the effects of the ter
rible electric current are in ddZed con-
ditiOn and do not know what their dam
ages are. Only one man was found who
was insured against loss by cyclones.
After making the circuit of the city as
far as the vicinity of Sixth street and
the city limits, the cyclone jumped to
the Missouri river, next touching at
Randolph, about four miles below the
city. Here it formed waterspOut four
hundred feet high. and went sailing
down the river. Three churches and
two saloons were scooped up by the
cyclone here. The negro settlement in
the vicinity of Twelfth and Charlotte
streets was razed to the ground. The
mayor and his associates are doing
everything to relieve the homeless suf-
ferers. At least $50 families are home
less.
Tues days dispatches contain full in
formation OF the terrible disaster. The
cyclone extended over a greater area
than was indicated by the earlier dis
patches. Numerous small towns were
visited by the storm, dwellings and
public buildings being damaged or de-
stroyed, and in several instances loss of
life was occasioned. At Macon City
five persons were killed and ten or fiji
teen injured. Several Of those wound
ed at Kansas City can not recover. No
authentic estimate of the losses on
property can be made, the telegraph
lines being Frustrated and railroad
travel INSTRUCTED in all directions
Oronogo. Mo-, was literally demolished.
The cloud first struck the town in the
nOrtheasterly course made clean
sweep. There was apparently but a
second and all was over. Hardly o
house or building of any kind was left
standing within the city limits. Oak
trees of considerable size were COM
pletely twisted off, and torn up by the
roots. After the storm the people who
escaped unhurt undertook, as best they
could in their bewildered condition, to
ascertain the extent of damage done
and to render such aid as was in their
power to those who had been injured
by the storm. Up to the last accounts
six persons have been found killed and
thirty or thirty-fve wounded. AT Mo-
berly, No., the track of the storm was
from $50 to 200 yards wide, and in this
track very few houses escaped injury.
1t is estimated that here POO buildings
were ruined, four persons killed out
right, fifty wounded. and the loss to
property fully $250,000.
On Monday afternoon terrific storm,
having its origin in northern Indiana,
passed over Michigan in north easterly
direction. AT Sturgis the cyclone was
III the form of an inverted funnel. No
loss of life occurred, but the damage
will foot up fully 100000. At White
Pigeon, Mich, q frame school house
was blown down. William Mack was
crushed to death and several injured.
Eight hundred assisted emigrants
sailed for Boston Sunday from Galway.
A heavy fall of snow occurred Sunday
at Deadwood, Dakota.
Horticulturists of Niagara county are
troubled by the appearance of aphides
on the apple trees.
children of Isaac Wilkeson were burned
to death in their fathers barn.
Jefferson Davis has recently been
seriously i'll with bronchitis, but is now
considered out of danger
The Dominion authorities have taken
special precautions to guard the We'll
land canal against damage by dynamite
conspirators.
The police commissioner of Brooklyn,
New York, reports to the mayor that
there is not, so far as is known, q dis
orderly house in that city.
Governor Hamilton has issued proc
lamation to the people of, Illinois, en-
joining general observance of Decora-
zion day, May 80.
Sir John A. Macdonald, the Canadian
premier, is in receipt of threatening
letters, purporting to come from Irish
men in New York.
Gold has been discovered on the poor
farm n; Buffalo, New York, but not in
sufficient quantity tomake mining prof.
table.
Dennis Kearney will soon have an
opportunity of embracing his German
prototype, Herr Johann Most, who is
about to pay visit to the Pacific Coast.
Mrs. Stoddard, wife of the rector of
st. Johns Episcopal church of Jersey
City, was killed Monday by the acct
dental discharge of pistol.
Small-fruit growers in Southern Illi-
nois are much alarmed at the ravages of
an insect which attacks ripening straw
berries, which renders them unfit for
market