Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-21
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. MOUNT VERNON IN RUINS. A Terrible Scene Of
 Disaster. LIQUOR MEMS BASTARD WORK. Starving Indians Feed ing On Dead Bodies.
A TARIFF TEST IN THE SENATE.
Important Decision Affect
 ing National Banks.
THE PATH OF THE CYCLONE

THE PATH OF THE CYCLONE
 Strewn with Wrecks of Houses and l Places of fBusiness-Hundreds of PeO- pie Rendered Homeless-The List of Killed Now Placed at Thirty.hYe-A l Wild Scene of Disaster andIRuIn.
 MOUNT VERNON, H., Feb. 20.-The cyclone that visited this city yesterday afternoon at five o'clock destroyed nearly three hundred
 residences, places of business and unhoused 1 from one thousand two hundred to one thou 1 sand five hundred people. In the fall of the walls many persons were buried under the
 debris and thirty five were killed, while twice | as many more were injured, eight or ten seriously. Preceding the destructive wind
 was heavy fall of rain for half an hour, | which drove all the inhabitants to shelter. | This was followed by slight hail storm, ! accompanied with lightning and then the | furious blow which formed into the funnel l shaped cyclone struck the southwestern DOT ton of the city, unroo6ng everything in it's path, taking diagonal course through the l city, unroofng the Supreme court building near the Louisville & Nashville depot and skipping along to the Methodist and Baptist 1 churches caving them into worthless masses. | At one point the destructive element jumped upward and missed several stores and resi-. | dences, but soon bounced down again and began 8 career of unparalleled ferocity and l destruction, tearing down heavy brick build l ings wrenching and twisting frame struc- lures out of semblance and making a useless
 mass of solid banks. The massive court house that occupies the public square in the center of the l city was literally torn to pieces, the walls 1 being twisted and crushed. The tower was | lifted and dropped to the westward and th1ee handsome pillars at the entrance demolished. This was the extreme point to the north that ! the storm reached, although the business block in which is the Mount Vernon National 1 bank and other.business houses was some what dismantled by flying brick and timbers. Fifty yards south of the court house the storm seemed to be at its height. At the corner of Washington and the public square was Crews block, three-story brick eighty feet front occupied by Evans Banks as grocery and saloon. This building was thor eughly demolished and then taking fire all infiammable material was consumed. The own CT of the building, R. 0. Murray, was caught in the falling walls and cremated. Ed Han nal, wife and small boy were in the basement, having taken refuge from the storm were buried by the walls, but the man burrowed his way out of the ruins, making passage for his wife and child and then made an effort to put out the flames. Across the way on Washington street was row of two story frame buildings with an occasional one of brick. The brick buildings were caved in and the frame ones were crushed out of shape against each other. Near the corner to the south were a lot of groggeries and frame structures which served as warehouses and dwelling houses. The storm played havoc here and then turned the place over to the blaze which consumed the last plank.
 These fires and the crushed brick
 buildings leave 8 path which give
 good view of the destruction. Stores, dwell
 ings, mills and storehouses went down in the
 general mass and left the streets obstructed. The storm was over in three minutes and the
 people who were uninjured rushed out of
 their homes to give assistance to the needy.
 The Mayor filled his place admirably and in
 short order had called for assistance from
 neighboring towns. Fire engines and physi-
 clans hvere wanted and Centralia, Ashley,
 Nashville and Evansville responded gener
 ously. The citizens threw open their houses
 to the homeless and the bedrooms became
 hospitals, while worthy matrons turned ex- pert nurses. What was left of the Supreme
 court building was turned into a morgue.
 The following list of losses has been con-
 piled so far; Supreme court building un-
 roofed; county court house, destroyed; Meth odist church, torn to fragments; Conner
 cial Hotel, unroofed; Baptist church, de-
 molished; B. w. Yost, store, demolished;
 Porter & Bond, drug store, destroyed Major
 James Hitchcocks residence and photograph
 establishment destroyed; Jerry Taylors resi-
 dence ruined; Nieman's restaurant and baker
 cry wiped out; Maxey, Wescott & Swift, gen
 500 damage; W. E. Jackson, harness
 store, roof off; Jordan, Morgan & Co.,. jew-
 elry, building completely destroyed, some
 stock saved; Jacob Oswald, building occu-
 pied by Polishers' Furniture company, en-
 tire loss both building and stock; the Crews
 Robert T. Ryan, dry goods, entire stock
 lost; A. D. Cox, groceries and dry goods, entire stock lost; G. w.
 Evans, bank, destroyed; Stratton 6 Johnson, three-story building wrecked, occupied by Johnsen's drug store, also by Renchter, Wa ters & Co.,, groceries and dry goods, total
 loss; also G. B. Gordridge, groceries, upper rooms occupied by theater and Masonic hall; Central Hotel and saloon, both ends blown out; Cooks frame drug store, total loss; two- story brick occupied by Gothen 6 Ellis and saloon; Silas Downing, two story brick resi- dence ruined; Warren's two-story frame storerooms, wrecked; H. E. Ishamm, bakery and confectionery. total loss; Thomas Walsh, residence wrecked; G. F. M. Ward, residence damaged badly; Mount Vernon Milling com- pany, three story brick mill destroyed, loss 1 $3, 900; woolen factory badly injured; Lewis | hardware store demolished, loss $15, 900; Howard Bros. & Co.,, groceries, wholesale
 stock saa loss sD s5,o0o, building I ruined; H. Udspeth, dry goods, three story l building, total loss $20,000; David Wise, cIothier, loss $15. 900; Post & Co.,, dry goods and groceries, stock loss S15, 900; Crowder's
 barber shop demolished; John Gray's saloon, stock and building injured; William Robero, \ dealer in tobacco and cigars, partial loss;
 Mrs. Kerrin, milliner, stock and building de-
 stroyed; J. H. Ferguson. harness, stock and
 building partial loss; Hill, Williams & Co, general dry goods, loss $6,000. All the Main street buildings from Towards corner east to | Morris Emmerson's residence each side of the
 street are destroyed except MT. Steiner's and | Colonel Caseys residence. The following were totally demolished: Three brick build ings belonging to Colonel Casey and the resi- denees of T. E. Weseott; Charles Hoyt and Professor Barnhardt, Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Al
 bricht, O. T. Brooks, Y. A. Cover, Russell Dewey, Dawlor, Legg, David Yearwood,
 Philian Maxey, Fletcher Johnston, George ! Howard and Lew Emmerson
 STAIN AND CROMWELL ON TRIAL | Far Kf1liup the Treasurer of the Rex