The Brookhaven leader., 1889-06-27
THE FATAL FUNNEL.
Dsstruction BY storm in Northwest Mis-
souri-Several Persons Killed and Much
Damage to Property-Family Drowned
In Arkansas.

ALBANY, Mo-, June 22.-The little viii
| age of Lone Star, this Gentry county,
was wiped out of existence by a cyclone
Thursday afternoon and the surrounding
country devastated. Three persons were
killed outright and a half dozen more
probably fatally injured. 1t is impossible
to estimate the damage done but it will
amount 10 thousands of dollars.
At 2:30 p. M. two funnel-shaped clouds
appeared in the northwest, travelling
rapidly and very low down.
The frame residence of H. p. Williams,
three miles east of Albany. was struck
and completely demolished. Nothing Of
the building was left standing except
corner post Williams nine-year-old
son and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Crispin,
were killed outright and Mrs. Williams
and three small children were fatally in
| jurad.
Immediately east of the residence of
Mr.. Williams was that of Mr.. Million. 1t
was right in the cyclones track and was
swept from the face of the earth in
twinkling. The timbers composing it were
scattered all over the surrounding country.
| Mr.. Million and his family had seen the
approach Of the storm and taken refuge in
| a cyclone cave and all escaped injury.
d
down on the village of Lone Star, de-
stroying the storehouSe of A c. C.Townsend,
| the Baptist Church and almost every resi-
dence in the place.
Mr.. Townsend, who is also the post
master, was fatally injured, as was Mrs.
George Stineman.
More than sixty people were rendered
| homeless in an instant by the storm and
| many were slightly injured.
| The destruction was most complete and
| there exists immediate necessity for re-
lief The citizens of Albany met yester-
| day morning and raised several hundred
dollars and furnished large amount of
clothing and provisions for the relief ct
the storm stricken people OF Lone Star
| The cyclone passed off to the southeast
doing great damage to growing crops, or
chards and forests in its path, At Sloan
! Spring and Freewater great damage was
also done, but so far no reports of fatali-
! ties have been received from there.
| IN NoDAwAY COUNTY.
| MARYsvILLE, Mo, June GA disas-
trous cyclone passed over Union town.
ship, Nodaway County, Thursday after
noon. Two large funnel shaped clouds.
| one coming from the southeast and the
| other from the northwest, met near the
southeast corner of Union township.
whirling and twisting at fearful rate,
taking northeasterly course. School
houses, dwellings and barns were torn
down, orchards uprooted and great trees
| torn out by the roots.
The first place struck by the sorm was
the residence of S. c. Leech. The roof
was torn eff and his eight-acre orchard
YVES entirely demolished.
IN, I,F To ha nF
Walt and John Allen were aama2el
The residence of Mr.. D. Simmons near
that of Mr. Allen was WI ecked.
The "Snowbal." school house, one
quarter of mile northeast of simmons
was completely demolished. lhe
school was filed with pupils, but all
escaped injury except little drughter OF
Mrs. J. NJ Berli ey, who had her arm
broken.
| Within few hundred yards OF the
school house, the residence of j, S. Mem
| nard his barns aud outhouses were blown
away.
A mile further on the Logan school
house was lifted from the side of hill on
which it stood and Landed on the top OF
the emnence. Ole after another the house.
and barns of j. A. Sparks, Perry jackson,
Edward Crenshaw, Daniel Melton. James
King and Samuel King were demolished
by the cyclone.
At the Logan school two pupils were
slightly injured, and at the residence OF
Samuel Kennard, Mrs. Kennard was
knocked insensihle.
Continuing in its track the cyclone swept
down on Parnel City doing great damage
| and wrecking the school house and many
residences.
EIGHT OF A FAMILY DROWNED
LITTLE Rock, AK, June % Deputy
United States Marshal Newton Faulken-
| burg reported to-day that on his trip tC
Conway and Van Buren, counties, just
concluded he learned that during a heavy
rain storm in that section of the State last
Saturday night an old man named Emer-
son had the misfortune to lose his wife
and seven children in food.
| As near as the marshal could learn-and
| the facts are meager-there had been a
tremendous rain near Clinton, the c.unty
seat of Van Buren,, on the upper Red
river and it was near this place the acci-
dent took place. Emmerson, who is an
old settler in Van Buren, County, was
with his family in his house at night when
the storm was raging. After an hours
rain the water gradually flooded his house
drowned, he gathered two of his
children in his arms and
made for the door to escape. AS the door
opened, a huge log afoat dashed in the
entrance and knocked the little ones from
his arms. They fell at his feet into the
swift current and were lost. He then took
up two more, one in each arm, and sue
ceeded in getting out with them safely,
| telling his wife to follow with the others,
but in attempting to escape in the same
manner the mother, with two children in
her arms and three clnging to her dress,
was carried down with the food and
| drowned.
The father and two children. the only
| ones left in family of eleven, escaped
with their lives The night was dark and
the father, with the only two survivors of
his large family, stood in water above the
waist clin2ing to tree for al hours,
and when the waters subsidized in The morn
| ing a search was made and the dead bodies
of the mother and seven children were dis
covered scattered here and there for a con-
| siderable distance around the place the
cloth lng having caught in underbrush and
| the bodies held fast in that way. Two of
| he bodies were found in the garden lot, a
short distance from the house, where they
had been carried by the force of the water
and others as far as fifty yald, from the
| house.
| Twenty-Seyen Bodies Found.
JoHSsTowN Pa. June 22-The bodies
| of twenty seven persons were taken from
various places of the wreck yesterday.
In cellar near the Presby terian Church