The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-04-12

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Sioux Cry, Iowa, April 6.-During
violent electric storm yesterday cyclone
passed over the city from south and west
to northeast. A funnel.shaped cloud was
seen by many and vas accompanied by
roaring noise. 1t struck but in one place,
in the extreme northeast portion of the
city, and then rebounded in the air, pass
ing rapidly over the suburbs. At the
place where the cloud struck it picked
up the residence of Mark Modlin and
hurled it to the ground in rear of the
lot. Mrs. Modlin was severely injured.
TIE house of Mr.. Richmond was wreck
ed, and the barn near by was split into
kindling wood. Mr.. Modlin says he SAW
two clouds form and meet, and in a
minute his house was hurled from its
foundation. At Sidley the tornado caus.
ed much damage, although it lasted but
few minutes. Chimneys, fences and
other property were torn from their rest
ing places and hurled through the air. A
large chimney on public school build.
ing crashed through the roof into the
midst of the teachers institute, but aside
from few slight bruises no one was
hurt. The agricultural warehouse of
Grant & Hanna was moved from its
foundation and now stands at an angle OF
forty.fye degrees. Reports from rural dis
tricts bring intelligence ofdamage to stock
The house of J. Brooks was lifted from it's
foundation and torn into fragments.
CHICAGO, April 6.-The great freshet
last night in the Shell Rock river nearly
swept away the town of Rock Falls, Iowa.
An iron bridge, 155 feet long, is gone,
and several houses we're crushed. An
ice gorge had formed below the town,
and The heavy rain of that day broug BIT
food from all the creeks above. NO.
body was drowned. The inmates of
several of the crushed houses took refuge
| on great cakes of ice, and remained there
| in their night clothes until the water
subBided in the morning. One family
who had this experience consisted OF the
| mother and FIVE children. The gorge
broke before morning, and the waters
subsided within the banks of the river
nearly as rapidly as they had risen. The
waters are still at food height, but are
passing down without obstruction.
DELHI, OHIO, April 5.-Five-year-old
Johnny Green was left at home Tuesday
! with child, nurse and six mouths old
twins. The nurse left the room, when
Johnny threw the babies on the floor,
| broke both legs and the arm of one and
the arm of another, then pulled the stove
over on himself. A few days previous
he heated poker red hot and thrust it up
the babies noses. When asked by the
doctor why he did 80 he said he wanted
| to kill the children. When he saw his
! mother returning he said to the nurse,
"You'd better take me out and drown me
now" The children will die.
ATLANTA, April Glider Ferron, a
Mormon missionary from South Carolina,
left the city yesterday having in charge
twenty.three converts on their way to
Utah. He has been working among the
country people for the past ak months
to get up this squad of converts. The
crowd was composed Of men, women and
children. Some of the women were
young and were unmarried, as were also
some of the men.
RALEIGH, N. O., April GA blind
horse, drunken man and a sleeping girl
| were the elements of q tragedy which oc.
CURED on the turnpike between Will
mington and Wrightsville last night.
Rosana Mcdaniel, aged thirteen, and her
sister Mary, aged eighteen, of Wrights.
Vile, had been in Wilmington. About
z o'clock they met man named j. l..
Brock, in cart, and he offered to carry
them home. They got into the cart. and
soon fell asleep. The girls were rudely
awakened by the capsizing of the cart.
The blind horse, left to his own guidance,
| had ran into ditch at the side of the
turnpike, where there were two feet of wa.
ter. Mary fell over the embankment, and
the horse, cart, Rosanna and Brock fell
into the ditch. Mary struck light and
| found her sister with her head in the ditch
| under the mud and water. She was
about to pull her out, but Brock told her
not to touch her, as she Was dead, and
the 'law didn't allow 1t" They there
fore, left the girl and she remained in
this position. Her sister and Brock re-
mained with her all night. The coroner
was notified by the people who were
passing on the pike. The verdict of the
coroner's jury was that the girls death
| was due to Brooks drunkenness.
SPARTA, GA, April 7.-Elijah Buck
hart, q young man about nineteen years
of age, who recently came to this county
with the travelling saw mill of Thomas
& Buchanan, met with a singular death.
he. and some others were playing with
eir>knives, throwing the blades open,
and in an effort to throw his open he cut
his thigh somewhat badly, but thought
not seriously. All went we'll for about a
week, when suddenly his wound began
to pain him, and got worse and worse
Ali the skill of physicians could not save
him, and he died in great agony.
NEWTON, MASS, April S.-Annie
Pearson, aged Is, died from some mystic
rious cause yesterday. On Tuesday
evening her sister-in.law was taken sud-
denly i'll, and Annie, who was asleep,
Was awakened with start. She became
badly frightened, tainted away, and fail.
ed to rally, remaining in comatose state
until Saturday, when she, went into con-
yulsions and died. During her sickness
every effort was made to restore her by
attending physicians, but without avail,
MACON, Ga, April ga negro named
Jack Wilson attended Joe Jeferson's
play of Grip Van Winkle" a few weeks
ago. From that time he has developed
4 q longing to initiate Rip in his long sleep,
and has almost lost his mind on the sub.
ject. He was taken to the hospital,
where hesucceeded in sleeping two nights
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