Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-26
TERRIFIC CYCLONE.
Only Wreck and Ruin Remain of Two
Illinois Towns.
Many Lives Lost and Untold Numbers In
iured A Clean Sweep Where Its Fury
neutrality-suspicious. Water Rise.
THE CYCLONES PATH .


great damage, The storm started west
of Subletts, and Travelled about ten miles
in southeasterly direction in path
| half mile wide. Hundreds are wounded,
but no dead are reported. Ten house,
were blown to kindling wood in the viii
| lage of Sublette. A schoolhouse near
Philip Lasinger's, north of this citys
| containing twenty-five children, was
blown to atoms, and the teacher and
children found lying about the debris,
bruised and bleeding, All the doctors
| from the city were on the scene. Many
farm houses were blown to pieces near
| West Brooklyn.
LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY.
| DIXON, ILL.,, June 2l.-Pawpaw, q
small town in the eastern portion of this
county, was wrecked by a cyclone yes
| terday afternoon. Fifteen people were
| killed and the town destroyed. Wires
are all down and news is brought in by
carriers over the country. A dispatch
| from the prosecuting attorney and the
| coroner saying the number killed
is greater than first supposed. Great
damage was dons at Mount Carroll.
Yesterday ram fell In torrents and spring
branches became rivers, washing away
fences and everything in their path.
| Carroll creek rose twenty-five feet in an
hour, and carried away many horses
and cattle. The loss to farmers caused
| by washouts will reach many thousand
dollars. Reports from all over the
country tell of damage to crops, fencing
and bridges.
| MANGLED BEYOND RECOGNITION.
| EARLvILLE, ILL.,, June PA terrible
| cyclone and cloud burst occurred about
| five miles north of this city shortly after
| 4 'clock yesterday afternoon, which re-
suited III terrible loss of life and prop
erty, no less than fifteen people being
killed and number of houses and barns
entirely demolished. The storm came
from the southwest and had apparently
spent Its fury when it reached the
vicinity of the Field q schoolhouse a new
| building standing at the southwest
| of the four. corners. At this time
| black cloud driven from the northwest
swept up and gave the cyclone renewed
energy. The fury of the storm was
awful. In second the whirling tempest
had struck the little school house, and
in an instant the building was torn to
pieces. At the time there were eight
| persons in the school room, and as the
storm was heard coming up they at
tempted to rush outside to seek safety
| in open air.
IT WAS TOO LATE,
however, for the death dealing tempest
was upon them and not one of them
escaped to tell the fearful experience of
that moment. The teacher, Miss Nc
Bride, and her seven pupils were killed
and their bodies carried some distance.
All were fsarfully bruised aud
some crushed aud pounded almost be-
yond recognition. Several bodies we're
hurled into q little creek that flowed
near, which was now swollen to a tor
rent. The names of those who persisted
| in the school house so far as known are:
| Miss Maggie Mcbride, teacher;
| Edna Hunt,
Jennie Radley,
Minnie Berry,
Ada Rudolph,
Lena Prentice,
Carrie White.
! Leaving the schOolhouse the storm
swept to the north destroying every thing
in It's path. Occasionally 1t lifted, but
| the whole country from near Earl
Vile to Pawpnw is marked with ruin. At
| least fifty farm houses and outbuildlngs
are destroyed. Eight or more persons
| are killed All bridges fences orchards
and crops are ruined, and the damage is
very great. The cyclone continued its
| violence until it reached the village of
| Pawpaw, where the greatest destruction
to life and property was caused.
THE VILLAGE WAS LEFT IN RUINS.
1t is reported seventeen persons were
killed and many severely injured, and
twenty houses torn to pieces. The bodies
of some of the victims were carried hun
dreds of yards, and some of them man
gled almost beyond recognition. Not
thing is left standing 10 the path of the
cyclone at the scene of the calamity,
near Earlville. Search Is still going OF
for the bodies OF those who persisted IN
the schoolhouse.
Some of the bodies were washed down
| the creek some distance. They were
Invested of all clothing, and were w9SS'
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