Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-24

at noon to-day the following incomplete
list OF dead WAS furnished by the Mi
y Vernon Register:
FRANK CLIGHTMAN, blacksmith, Albion
, Ill.
DAVID YEARwooD. snd wife.
Constable j. G. MURRAY,
MRS RUSSELL Dewey and daughter,
MARY "EsTBRooK,
HENRY WATERS,
MRS. j. I. WATERS and baby,
CHARLES CUMMINGS, engineer;
MRS. COLONEL HOOPER,
MRS WILLIAM JONES,
JAMES PIERsoy, telegraph operator;
GEORGE Parsons and son,
Colored ianitor of school-house, body
still In TuiLe;
JOHN SHKw,
MRS L E LEGG
The clhz ms as soon as the injured hsC
been released from their perilous situa-
ton did all in their power for their Re
lief.
AN APPEAL FOR AID.
MT VERNON, ILL.,, FEB. 20-The CITY
Council acted promptly and appropriated
$500 for the immediate relief. The clti.
ms held q meeting and organized
permanently. Committees on finance,
anu on information have been appointed,
also relief Committee for the east WARD
in the city and tue work Of aid and repair
has begun. The secretary of tbs finance
committee has been In com nunication all
day with the large cities of the country
and formal systematic appeal is made
to all persons TO assist the demotalized
city In its affection which is
indeed beyond parallel In this
country in the devastation OF cyclones,
those of Western Missouri, Jsmesto Rn
and Washington Courthouse, Ohio, n OF
equaling 10 total destruction the loss of
this place. The merniDg trains brought
host Of excursi pnists who came to see,
render aid aud tn comfort stricken
friends. n srly 1000 strangers tresd the
streets amazed at wnst they see and hear.
rhe town is full of reporters, and the
story is repeated time apd again. Artists
| are on the scene
sKETCHING THE RUINS,
and pencils from q hundred towns are
jottiDg down facts and stories from 3
thousand tongues. The telegraph opera
| tors nave been industTiouslY at the tickers
all nigh and day. The force at this
place mas been greatly reduced by the
death OF two Of their number In the de
sIroyed city.
Mount Vernon is beautiful city
Of 1000 inhsbitants, the coun-
~ seat Of Jefferson county.
1t is considered one of
the most thriving and beautiful towns in
Southern Illinois Its streets sre lined
with shade trees snd residences while the
rurrounding country is rolling, and is
partly prairie and partly woodland. Cy-
clones or heavy storms have never before
visited this region, and Ii Was considered
safe from any such destructive element.
Toe following is partial list of losses:
Supreme court building, unroofed.
County court house, destroyed.
Methodist church, torn to fragments.
Commercial hotel, unroofed.
Bsptist church, demolished.
B W. YosS's store blown in.
Porter Blends drug store, destroyed
Maj 3r James Hotcncock's residence
and photograph establishment, DESTROYED.
Jerry TaYlor's residence, ruined.
Nleman's restaurant and bakery wiped
out.
Msxey, Wescott & swift, general mer-
ehandise ana machinery, blown aWsy,
$4,000 damages.
W. E jackson, harness store, roof of
and mashed.
Jorasn Morgan, /! jsweler, completely
destroyed, some STOCK saved
jacob L. SWsld's building, occupied BY
Polishon's Farniture Company, entire
loss, both building ard STOCK.
Crows block, owned by E. c. Murray,
occupied by Robert Ryan, dry goods. en-
tire stock loss.
A. D Cox, grocery and dry goods, loss
entire.
6 W Evans, bank destroyed.
s ration & johnson, three-etory build
ing wrecked, occupied BY Johnson, drug
Il Ie, also by Ronchlers, Waters & Co,
grocerg and dry goods, total loss; also
q. B. Gordrige, machinery shops, upper
rooms occupied by thester and Masonic
hall
Central hotel snd saloon connecting,
botn ends blown out.
Cooks frame drug store, total loss.
TWo-story brick occupied By Gothen & |
Ellis, saloon.
silas Downins's two-story brick reel
dence, ruined.
Wsrren's two-story frame store, bakery
and confectionery, sossl loss.
Thomas Walsh's residence, two-story
brick
g, FIN. Wards residence, damaged
badly.
Mt Vernon Milling Company, three
story brick mill destroyed, loss $50, 200.
Wooden factory badly injured
Lewis D7ai's boase, the first house /
struck, building literally torn to pieces.
Srstton hardware store demolished,
oss $4,000
Howard Bros. & Co, grocery, whole
sale and retail. IN the Watson building;
.tock loss $4,000, building ruined.
Rudspeth, dry goods, three-story build
ug, total loss $50 0G9
David WISE, clothier, loss SIS 600.
Yost & Co. Dig goods and groceries,
'tock loss Sl5, geo
Crowder's bat6er shop, demolished.
John Gray's saloon, stock and building
Injured.
William R)berts, dealer In tobacco and
fs 'rs, partisl loss.
Mrs. Herrin, milliner, stock sud build
ng destroyed.
Mrs. Waters, millinery, stock snd build
ng destroyed.
]. q. Ferguson; hsrness. stock and
uilding partial loss. /,
Hill, Williams & Co general dry goods,
oss $4,000. I
ALI OF the Main street property from
corner east TO Morris residence [
n each side OF the street. In
Mr.. Steiner's and Colonel C.sey's resi- t
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