Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-29
INCIDENTS OF THE CALAMITY.
Horrible Death of Rev. BsrnweII and
snn-EAundry Girls kIlIed.

Horrible Death of Rev. Barnwell and
sOn-EAundry Girls Killed.
One of the narrowing incidents of the dis
aster was the killing Of the Rev Stephen E.
BarnweIl, rector OF ST. John Episcopal
church, and his young son Dudley. Mrs.
Barnwell so badly hurt that she may
die. st. Johns Episcopal chur h, adjoining
the double house. was shattered throughout
and nothing but mass OF brici-s and splin-
tered beams left TO tell the tale. The rec
tory was next to this, and here the beloved
rector met his awful death, side by side with
his child Dudley. He was with his family
reading when the death crash ended his use
full life and from his position when found
must have been killed instantly. His head
was horribly crushed, his chest caved in,
and his whole body bruised AMI man
gled almost beyond recognition His beau
tiful boy, who was evidently sitting at his
fathers knee, was killed by terrible frae-
ture of the skull eal was also torn and
uangled.
Five Girls at One Fell Crash,
Five laundry girls employed a. the Louis
Vile hotel were killed in their rooms They
roomed on Main street, next TO the hotel.
As the storm came without warning, those
confined had no time to escape The walls
fell with crash, and the screams of the
laundry girls couli be plainly heard
above the roar of the storm and
the falling debris Mary Grove and
Mary farral! escaped, and the rest were
i~ried beneath the ruins Ecsr John
Iuly, Of the Central patrol wag IN, and Joe
Baldwin heard the piteous appeals Of
woman voice beneath the ruins Both set
10 WORK aud with their hands threw away
the bricks aud timbers that kept the bodies
pinned down. The body Of man was dis
covered, and he afterwari proved to be
Hon I. Henry Mason, of Hswesville The
foot and hand OF another were also uucov-
cred, and by this time Maj. Hug es arrived
from the Brown fire and put the hook and
ladder men and the fremen of Engine com.
pany No at work digging for the men
Preferred Suicide to Agony.
A mans voice was heard in corner and a
light showed the SCARED face of Virgil
Wright lie was penned in with mass Of
bricks and mortar In his hanc he held
pistol with which he was trying to end his
sufferings His arm was so badly bruised
however, that ne was unable % pull the
trigger, and he was rescued quite badly
wounded but able 10 walk
Water Famine to Follow.
The water works are ruined T he big
standpipe through which all tie water Is
forced into the reservoir, was deraolishe d by
the cyclone The city's water SUP ply is thus
cut off, and it is not known how long it will
take to repair the damage Consequently q
water famine is sure to follow. AL the
windows Of the pumping station were blown
out. The standpipe was 100 feet high, and
was built of brick. iron, and wood, and was
four feet in diameter on the inside
The Demon That Worked the Havoc.
Sergt. Burk, signal service observer, says
the storm possessed the character istic feat
ures of genuine cyclone. There we're three
distinct motions; an outward notion, at a
rate of speed varying from twenty-five to
sixty five miles per hour; second, spiral
| movement around vertical axis, with an
estimated velocity OF from 200 TO LOCO miles
an hour, and third. bounding motion,
with contacts with the earth at irregular in
tervals