The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1888-02-23
lie county records were saved.

,hc county records were saved.
The Crews block on tho soutl
side of the square, was leveled will
the earth, and under it Was found
the body of John Crews. the owner
of the block. formerly CT Chicago
The roof and second story of r. L
Stratl0n & Co.'S hardware store was
blown away. The large two story
brick school house did not with
stand the terrible shock any better
than the smallest house it the track
of the cyclone. The large Two story
frame house of George Ward was
picked up and carried about twenty
feet and left unhurt, while two
brick buildings within one hundred
feet were LETT in ruins. The loss
cannot be estimated, but not less
than half million dollars of prop
crty was destroyed by The cyclone
or fire in that neighborhood.
The sky soon cleared and no
clouds gave any intimarion of the
disastrous storm of few hours be.
fore. 1T grew calder. and many
homeless will suffer ii the weather
becomes severe. Reports are COM
ing in from the country and the
storm seems to have swep. every
thing for miles.
The wounded are being cared for
by the physicians IN the best rnssi-
be manner. The raIlr,aI depnts
were badly damaged and a greai
number of houses destroyed. The
people are ou. OF doors who live1
III the track of the storm. fhe
dead and dying are scattered
throughout the city. All the uoors
If the remaining houses have been
thrown open 20 The less fortunate.
Three fourths of the business por-
tion Of he city is ruined financially.
The public square is in the center
OF the town. and the court house is
III Tie center OF the square, the
school building is in the northeast
corner of the city and all the dwell
ings in thai portion of the city are
and the ruins OF some are
still burning In all five hundred
buildings are destroyed and manvv
others injured The dead are now
neing carried to the Supreme Court
House, which has been converted
into hospital for the dead and I
This building IS also :
A pathetic incident of the disas- +;
ter is the fact that the operator at !
The Mount Vernon end Of the l.. q t
y. wire. whose name is Ycarwoni, /
has an uncle. aunt and cousin dead |
IN the ruins, and the poor fellow.
with heart bursting with grief. is
sitting manfully at his post of duly
Four men in the Evans Block were
in lhe ruins OF the build
ing and burned to death Their
cries of pain and distress were ag-
,nlzing in the extreme. but nothing
could reach them. Their names
could MT be obtained. Physicians
o the number of twenty one JLined
he relief train from the Evansville
N route. They arrived shortly be
ore midnight
THIRTY SIX FOUND DEAD.
CHICAGO. Feb. 2O-A special to
he Daily News from Centraiia. III.
avs: The firemen sent TO Mount
Ternon rcturned this morning and =.
epurt thirty sly found dead up to
We o'c'ock this morning AMI Il great
naay more wounded. The eye one
truck at 4:35 yesterday afternoon.
lie Supreme Cnurl buildings roof :
gnne. the Circuit Court is !evcleG F.,
nd the main business portion and ,
hurche< are destroyed. The fires +;
re all exiin guishcd. :;
TORIES OF THE terrible Ca |
LAMITY. t
Sr. LOUIS. Feb. 20,-Mr. II. S. e
carbon. con .uclor of the Louis. t
lie & Nashville train, which was :,
Iught in The cyclone ii Mount |,
ernon. ILL.,. last evening. and who p
ID his shoulder dislocaIcd by hav "
o biz trunk hurled against him W
the wind. arrived here last night al
d gives the following brief account W
the scene: 1T was all over in Il Il,
mute" said be. "The thing that tt
.sf .,,n-cssol mo was tha dis ~