Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-04-03

molished.
..At Pendleton, thirty-six miles from
Louisville, a $4,000 insurance pollcy
was found hanging on bush, near the
railroad track. The policy belonged TO
a man in Louisville, and had blown al
the way from that city. All sorts OF
clothing, pieces of timbers and debris
of all sorts were scattered along the
line"
d. L. Lockwood, baggage master on
the same train. was in the tornado also.
Said he:
81 was riding in a street car on JEFF
ferson street, between Seventh and
Eighth. when the tornado struck the
car. A heavy telegraph pole was blown
across the car MASKING it, and nearly
killing lady passenger, whom l car
ried in my arms to place where medl-
cal aid could be had. l was uninjured,
but the poor-car driver was blown away
and never heard of or seen since. IL
was an awful sight. Scores of people
were killed and every thing was one
mass of ruins"
81 was in the Kansas City tornado
several years ago." said passenger,
but the horrible catastrophe OF last
night was the most awful thing ever
saw. / saw dozens of dead people being
taken from Falls City Hall, where per-
haps a hundred or more were killed.
The Union Depot was completely
wrecked"
Said another: ga steamboat was
bodily lifted from the river and blown
out on the land quarter of mile.
The Western part of the city seems to
have got the worst of the storm"
Il never saw such a time for selling
papers, said newsboy, who came Si
on train No. yesterday morning. Peo-
pie are crazy for them, and almost tear
one to pieces to get Them
The Storm in Tennessee.
GALLATIN. Tenn. March 29.-The
worst storm that ever visited this Sec
ton passed over this city Thursday
night. Two miles from Gallatin houses
were blown down. The brick residence
of John Hibbett was completely blown
away. The walls fell in and killed an
eighteen-months-old baby of John Hib-
bett, also boy twelve years old, son of
Palo Langford. Hibbett is dying and
his wife is horribly mangled. Across
the pike from IIibbett's, VIM. Patter-
sons residence was blown down, injur-
ing five persons Residences were COM
pietely wrecked and large trees up
rooted and carried some distance.
The worst features of the cyclone
have not been reported. After sweep
ing up Rogana, the storm king began
it's dreadful march. 1t took q north
east course and for twenty-five miles
carried every thing in front of it. Ali
houses beyond Bledsoe up to EuIia,
Macon County, have been blown into
atoms. Fully one hundred people are
crippled in that section and are under
the care of doctors. Men, women and
children are in terrible condition in
that section. All kinds of rumors are
afloat. Communication by telephone is,
cut off.
Tho town of Fayetteville, Lincoln
County, Jared badly. A negro woman
was killed outright by falling walls and
a number of persons were injured.
Chicago Severely visited.
CHICAGO, March 2S.-The storm that
set in last night is still raging at eleven
o'clock with almost undated fury,
high wind and binding snow making
pedestrianism an almost impossible
feat Lake Michigan is in fury, and
the famous North Shore drive, upon
which the palatial mansions of Potter
Palmer, Archbishop Feehan and other
prominent residents are located is being
rapidly swept away. 1t is reported that
the water-works tunnel in process of
construction from point on the
Lake Front opposite the Auditorium and
extending nearly a mile under the lake
has filled with water. Over half mill
ion dollars have so far been expended
on the enterprise. Telegraph and tele-
phone poles in the city and suburbs
have been blown from their bases, snap
ping wires or SO tangling them it will
take several days to get them in proper
order. Trains are all delayed, street.
cars move slowly and the streets are so
filled with snow and slush that walking
is no easy matter.
Disastrous Work at Jeffersonvile, Ind.
JEFFERsoNvILLE, Ind, March 26-A
tornado of disastrous proportions visit
ed this city at $50 last night. Its
course was from the east and went due
west running one-half the buildings in
it's way. Residences on Market street,
from Walnut to West Spring, are total
wrecks, also from Walnut street to the
extreme western portion of the
city. On Front street. q dis
lance of eighteen blocks, all
of the buildings are down and the
presents terrible sight.
Fortunately no one was killed, but many
are badly injured. The rain at the
time was coming down in torrents ac-
by hailstones the size of wal
nuts. The wind blew furiously, and the
sound which it caused was deafening to,
hear. Women and children in their
night clothes ran through the streets
almost frightened out of their wits.
Hurricane at Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, March ga violent
wind storm passed over the city yester-
day morning and caused considerable
damage among the hilltop suburbs.
The hurricane struck about 0 a. M, blow
ing away great trees and swaying houses
fences splintered and destroyed.
at jacksonville, barns and outhouses
we're blown down. At the Sixteenth
district colored school on Auburn ave-
lue the storm struck with terrible
orce. The tin roofing seemed to rise
rs with wings from its Judgment, car
wing with it the copingS and consider
lble woodwork. The pupils were as
for study, and it is little less
han miraculous that there was no one
n harms way The children we're