Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-05-17
swept BY CYCLONES.
Towns Devastated and a Number Of
Lives Lost.
Houses Carried From Their Foundation
Sad Havoc i'm Missouri Towns
Singular Escape.

Houses Carried From Their Foundation
Sad Havoc i'm Missouri Towns
Singular Escape.
Darkness shut in so quickly after the lorna
do that tore through the southern part of the
city of Akron, Ohio, that not haitian idea could
be gotten of the iereeness or extent of the ter.
rible storm.
Professor Egbert, of Buchel College, who
was out in the storm, calculated that il was
travelling at the rate of four miles minnie. so
that its track ofabout mile and a-halfthrough
tins city was traversed in little more than 20
seconds. 1t moved in almost straight line
through a well-settled part Of the city and
scarcely foot Of the mile and a-half but is
strewn with splintered house timbers, broken
iurnlture, uprooted trees and leveled barns
and outhouses.
During a trip over the storm path 10 dwell.
ings were counted that are either ripped into
kjndiing wood or so badly wrecked that they
ernnot be occupied. Families numbering
about rs persons in all are out of house and
home and being sheltered by friends. OF the
Is persons who were injured all will probably
recover.
Seyenty-tive buildings, intending residences
and barnsan outhouses. were damaged by the
wind, and not one escaped that was in direct
line OF the tornado. Uprooted trees are counted
by the scores. Many that were blown down
or cut OF are from | TO 2 feet in diameter
Buildings that resisted the winds are I'M dan.
geIpus condition, and many will have to be
torn down. OuthOuses in some cases were
transplanted from so to 100 feet aud set down
in neighboring yards.
Thousands of people visited the scene ofde-
struction and a force of special police stood
guard over remnants of residences and house.
furnishings. In several churches relief papers
were started and several thousand dollars will
be raised for the immediate wants of the home
less people.
William Poole and his daughter, who Ind
Just driven into their barn, were caught nm
with the building and rolled with il to the bot
tom OF the hill on which it stood The barn
of Albert Funk; on Exchange street was torn
to pieces aud his horse blown into vacantlo
near by and killed. People whose houses we're
destroyed had their all invested in them, and
the majority Of the houses were mortgaged.
That no lives were lost is most wonderful
In most ins.ances the families took refuge in
the cellars and thus escaped serious injury,
tornado at Sharon, this county lust one month
ago having put everybody on the alert.
ST. LOUIS Mo.-Several violeat storms in
the form of tornadoes have passed over differ.
ent parts ofNorth Missouri within the past two
days, and large amount ofproperty has been
destroyed and several persons killed. In Har-
rison county a number of houses and barns
were uttDOllsHtu anu large amount OF farm
property destroyed.
William Wilson and his two small children
were blown away with his house and killed
and several persons injured.
In Centre county more than 20 buildings
We're destroyed and Mrs. Nathan Green was
killed. Cattle and hogs were killed and good
deal of general farm property as well as crops
greatly injured Five or six dwellings and
several outbuildings were blown away and
orchards swept down, but nobody killed.
Near Blythesdale, Mrs. Jane Moore and Mrs
Henry Young were fatally injured, and anum-
Der of other persons more or less seriously hurt
More than dozen houses were wrecked and
other property destroyed.
FRANKLIN PA terrible cyclone passed
over the southern part of this county about
O'Clock. Two people, Noah jackson and wife,
were killed outright, and large number Of
persons dangerously injured.
The storm was general throughout the
country, but the deadly cyclone only about
800 feet wide, extended about % miles Every
thing in its path was demolished, trees up
rooted and houses and barns completely de-
molished
In one instance house containing an in
valid was struck and the bed containing the
sick man lifted up bodily and carried out into
the yard, where it fetched up against tree
The sick man was badly injured A large
number Of cattle were killed.