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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
Destruction Near Cairo.

CAIRO, H., March IS. One of the most
destructive cyclones ever known in this sec
ton of the country occurred here at S
| o'clock last evening. Ruin and death mark
its track in several communities in this i'm.
mediate vicinity Little damage was done
here, however, but at Metropolis 200 houses
swept away. At Grand Tower passenger
coach was blown from the track of the
Grand Tower and Murphysboro railroad,
and three or four people in the coach were
badly hurt. The railroad station at Parker
City, twenty five miles up the c., V. and C.
road, was wrecked Serious damage is also
| reported from Murphysboro, but the wires
are down and no particulars can be had.
AT Cairo the cyclone was preceded by a
| hailstorm IN which chunks of solid ice fell,
some of which measured over two inches in
diameter
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28

A brief and clear resume of the Mon-
tsna fraud has been compiled by the New
York Star. The state, at its initial cleo
ton, chose democratic governor and
legislature as returned by the officials Of
the various localities immediately after
the voting
When it was discovered that the senate
was equally divided. a plot was contrived
to convert the democratic majority in the
house into a republican majority, in order
to secure two republican United States
senators. The son of the president and
other republicans influential with the fed
eral administration we're among the early
abettors of this scheme, the method of
which was to change the representation
of a county By throwing out the vote of
strongly democratic precinct
The attempt to impeach the correctness
OF the returns in the Tunnel precinct of
Silver Bow county failed so utterly as. in
truth. to establish the opposite of the re-
publican pretense and to prove that the
vote was correctly counted as honestly
cast. This was judicially established in
a case tried in the new state court, in
which. Notwithstanding the republicans
expectation that the decision would be in
their favor through partizan bias, local
official was sustained in place, on the
ground that the democratic vote of Sill
yer Bow-the same by which the legis-
tors were chosen-wss in all respects
legitimate and accurate. In point of
fact no ones seriously pretends that the
republicans carried the county or that
the voters of Montana did not choose q
democratic majority for the popular
branch of the legislature.
The republicans who were admitted
to the United States senate from Mon,
tsna Notwithstanding the certi>
tication of the governor that they
have no just or legal claim. rested
their case absolutely upon the asser,
ton of the patent falsehood that the
legislature was republican on joint bal
lot. These pretensions have no other
foundation whatever than this notorious
and judicially branded Justification.
In the face of this record, and without
consideration of the suggestion that the
matter be tested by another vote at the
election this year. the republican SEN
ate has seated the two fraudulent as
pirants and clothed them with the sena-
torial toga.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
COrpses Found In Heaps.
A Telegraph Operators Tale

New ALBANY, Ind, March 2S--A tele-
graph operator named Arnold crossed the
river from Louisville last evening" bringing
word that cyclone which struck the west
ern portion of that city late in the afternoon
demolished thousands of houses and killed
at least 1000 people. The operator tells an
awful story of the desolation which he wit
Messed in hurried walk in the portions of
the ruined district where pedestrianism was
possible. The dead lay by scores in the
ruined buildings, the wounded in even
under broken timbers, heaps of brick and
other wreckage
A Dozen People Burning Alive.
At one portion of the devastated district
several frame houses had been crushed into
heap, the wreck taking fire. Rogers de-
,lares that not less than dozen people
men, women, and children-were to be seen
fast among the broken timbers burning to
death. The Mortified spectators fed from
the awful scene, being utterly powerless to
render any aid. In the next street eight
frame cottages had been blown fat to the
ground. and every one of the people who
inhabited them is believed to have persisted
Whole Rows of Houses Wrecked.
Whole rows of brick and frame houses
were to be seen in ruins on every hand, and
many thousands of people from portions of
the city which had not been devastated were
on hand doing what little they could to sue
cor the injured and rescue the dead Am
balances and express wagons by the score
were being utilized to convey the dead and
injured from the ruined district, and every
living physician in the city was hard at
work giving aid to the wounded Arnold
was so terribly overcome by the awful
scenes he witnessed that he was unable to
give clear account of the area devastated
by the cyclone, beside saying that "blocks
upon blocks of the place were utterly de-
urcIichod
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28

THE removals made by Harrison in the
first year of his administration exceeded
by IS, 800 the removals of the first year
of the Cleveland administration This is
accounted for the repeated pledges Mr..
Harrison made not to make removals for
partisan purposes. If his pledges are in
one direction. he can always be found in
another
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
UNREASONABLE RAvAeED.
Over 100 People Killed and Hundre DIS
Injured by the Tornado.

Over 100 People Killed and Hundreds
Injured by the Tornado.
INDIANAPOLIS, March IS report
reached here last night from Clark county,
h which Jacksonville is situated, that the
rity was wrecked by cyclone yesterday
afternoon and that several hundred people
| were killed or injured The b lief dispatch
conveying this information was sent from
Charlestown, but no one there could give
any details OF the calamity. A later dis
l'patch places the number killed there at be-
tween one and two hundred, and says that it
Is rumored were killed, but that the
report is undoubtedly exaggerated-that
900 or 600 people were injured, many Of
them fatally.
The Sweep of the Terror.
Hundreds of houses fell in all instant and
carried down the occupants to instant death.
Leaving Louisville the storm crossed the
| river and began its terrible work at the
river bank, sweeping eastward through
populous portion of the city, nothing in its
path escaping. Hundreds of small buildings
and sheds near the river were torn to pieces.
Strong buildings beyond were lifted from
their foundations and dashed into shapeless
and factories We're destroyed like so many
cob houses and the fragments borne forward
by the whirlwind.
Barely Warned in Time.
Chimneys We're broken off and hurled to
tie streets below among the people flying for
their lives. and doubtless adding many to
the list of the killed and injured A big
wooden factory in the line of The cyclones
| march was crushed the moment the wind
struck it, and fell on a workingmen's board
ing house adjoining, hattening it to the
ground and burying its inmates in the de-
bris. The workmen in the factory were
| fortunately warned in time, and escaped
from that structure before it fell, otherwise
fully fifty men would have persisted in this
building alone
The Crash of Falling Bu ildings.
The crash of falling build ngs could be
heard across the river fully minute before
the storm reached Jeffersonville and sounded
like the discharge of a large number of can
non, and dark cloud extending from the
ground apparently 500 feet upward told
too plainly the destroying agency which was
at work.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
THE 8uILolNe BLOWN TO BITS.
Terrific Explosion of starch Dust-Fou
Killed, a Score Wounded

Terrific Explosion of starch Dust-Four
Killed, a Score Wounded.
CHICAGO, March 2S-Nearly a score of
men were fearfully burned and bruised, and
probably four killed outright, last evening
by the explosion of starch dust in the annex
of the sugar refinery at the foot of Taylor
street. The building was literally blown to
pieces A large section of it landed in the
| river and the rest is lying in confused heaps
for a distance of two blocks Owing to the
reticence Of the officers of the sugar refinery
and the ignorance of most of their EN-
ployes, il is nearly impossible to get any
were at work in the starch building or cor
rect estimate of the number probably killed
Recovery of the Corpses.
Long after the flames in the runs had been
extinguished, boiy was dug from beneath
a huge pile of brick and mortar and sent
over TO Yeager's morgue on Twelfth street.
1t was so horribly burned and bruised as TO
be unrecogniZlble The scattered remains
Of another body, supposed TO be those OF a
boy, were found by fire company and
turned over to the police. and still later a
third body was found The driving storm
the explosion made it impossible for the fire.
men to continue their search for bodies last
night
Partial List of the Victims,
The dead are four in number and all I'M
known. The names of the wounded so far
as they could be ascertained, are as follows:
DR.. Arnold Behr, general superintendent of
the refinery, fearfuliy burned; Henry HUI
beldt, foreman, arms, face neck, head and
feet burned-may die; John Smith, laborer,
burned and bruised-supposed that he in
hailed hot air and that his lungs are affected
may die; Oscar Schaets laborer face,
neck and arms burned almost raw; Pete
Gerhardt, iaborer, fearfully cut by flying
bricks and timber, and burned About
twenty other employees were burned and
bruised more or less seriously A fireman,
name unknown, was blown TO the edge of
the river, where he was picked up by a tug
man. He was badly bruised about the head
Later-Twelve Men Missing.
Reports obtained last night show that at
leaststwelve men are missing. Those whose
names have been learned are as follows and
they are all believed TO be dead: Albert Hess.
Frank Wallsh, Frank Tiem&n, August Tie
man, Peter Schrader, Mike Hauer, and
Frank Graft, all employees of the refinery
CHICAGO. March % Two more bod
les were found in the ruins of the sugar
refinery. making five fatalities from the
explosion. The body Of the unknown
victim at the morgue has been identified
as Frank Wallace.
CHICAGO. March % Much anxiety is
felt here for particulars of the Louisville
calamity. but no dispatches have been
received since morning. the wires being
down.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
Tn. s,,,. Fart, MIGHTY ,rn.,a,,.

WHLKEsBARRE. Pa, March 2S. A tremor
of the earth and sinking of the houses in
the northern part of the city yesterday
morning demonstrated the fact that a cave
in had occurred somewhere in the Conygham
mine. A party of mine explorers made a
descent into the workings, but did not deem
it advisable to approach near the cave.
They find that the cave is in direct lin e
with the recent settling under the Lehigh
Valley railroad shops and round house
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28

per. The house was lifted from Its rounda-
lions and completely crushed, burying the
family in the ruins. They all escaped seri-
Gus injuries, except the wife, who is now in
a critical condition The cyclone carried
COW and a calf belonging to Thomas Rad
cliffe nearly quarter of mile into field
without injury. The dwelling of John
Bourrell was completely blown away, for
nothing can be seen of it. The family es-
capped by going into the cellar
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
New jersey Brewerv s.,z.a

NEWARK, Nj March 2s --InscrnalRevenue
Collector Largo has seized the property
books, ETC., of the Geyer Enterprise Brew
ing company for alleged irregularities in the
matter Of cancelled stamps. The proprie-
tors were arrested and held in bail for the
United States grand jury. 1t is understood
that the accused are endeavoring to effect a
compromise, but no official offer has been
fled
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
they walked ON the rrack.

CUMBERLAND, Nd, March 2s-At HofY-
mans mines, near Frostburg. yesterday aft
emo James Carter and Hans Porter were
instantly killed and William Murray fatally
injured by train OF mine cars. The men
were walking on the track leading from the
mine and were overtaken at place where
escape was impossible.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
VIII Worry some Lanaho,der,.

WASHINGTON CITY, March - Secretary
Noble has rendered an important decision
in what are known as the tide land cases.
affecting the title to the Puget sound front
age in the state OF Washington The secre.
tary holds that Valentine scrip cannot I've
located on these lands, as they are owned by
the state of Washington. The water front
of the city OF Seattle, which is now very
valuable, is involved in this decision.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
Shot Himself la Central Park.

New YORK. March 2S--Charles c. Kelle.
aged 49, a sailor, shot himself dead in Central
park last evening. In a letter to his sweet
heart, which was found on his person. he re-
ferred bitterly to some ships officers who
had broken contract and thrown him out
OF work. Kelle's sister is domestic in .he
household of William Waldorf Aston.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
why She Wears French Gowns

WASHINGTON CITY, March ss.-Miss Kate
Field made an argument before several
members of the ways and means committee
yesterday in favor of reduction of duty
on foreign works of art. She said art was
not luxury. The French people recog-
nized this, and were consequently far ahead
of Americans in this directioa She wore
French gowns, French hats AMI French shoes
because they We're works OF art,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
A Blizzard to Wind I'm March

CHICAGO, March 2S.-Specials report that
violent storm of wind, hail, rain and snow
prevails all over the northwest, in some
places approaching the fury of a cyclone
Heavy snow has fallen in Minnesota and Da-
kota, the fall at Yankton amounting to
| twelve inches. In Kansas, Nebraska, and
Iowa the thermometer at a late hour last
night showed drop of 80 degrees since 10
O'Clock yesterday morning.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
ESTIMATING TIE CATASTROPHE.
Twenty-Five Hundred Houses Destroyed
and 500 Lives Lost.

| Twenty-Five Hundred Houses Destroyed
and 500 Lives Lost.
| LOUISVILLE, March IS The cyclone struck
| Louisville in the southwestern portion, and
took a northeasterly direction. One citizen
saw the course of it from Fourteenth and
Walnut TO Eleventh and Market streets.
From this latter point it followed its course
to Seventh and the river, where it left the
| city, and, striking across the river, reached
Jeffersonville at the foot of Spring street
The devastation is terrific, and the loss of
| life will certainly reach hundreds. The path
of the cyclone was but a square and half
in length.
5a. NIT is estimated that over =. 800
houses were destroyed. A rpuga cstimate
puts the killed at 500 with /. Oh l,slnds in
jured The city is filed with rl-ll,d mass
| of people wildly seeking friends A large
| force of men is at work on the ruins, and
about 100 bodies have been recovered 1t is
impossible to get many names The
buildings on Main street, from Eighth to
Fourteenth street, are in ruins. Not one of
the handsome wholesale houses is left, and
all the tobacco ware houses are swept away
Every other house on Market, jefferson,
and Walnut streets from Tenth to Sixteenth
streets is in ruins Falkland, a suburb. is
swept away.
Narrow Escape at Railway Station.
AT the Union station at the foot of Sew
enth street, the Chesapeake and Ohio train
from Washington City was just starting
out filed with passengers. The building
was Frustrated, crashing III on the train
All the passengers, however, were rescued.
Such desolation no city in this country
save Johnstown has known in this CEN
fury. Every building, tree and every
telegraph pole is leveled within the district
struck. The cyclone came with scarcely
q warning sound, and in all the buildings
struck the occupants were engaged in their
usual occupations, and had no time to es-
cape when their homes collapsed. The dis
trict laid waste comprises an area of the city
three miles long and nearly half mile wide
Few Identified Dead.
Among those whose remains have been
identified are: Mrs. May Hodges, Louis
Simmons and four children, Gen Foster and
his clerk, Ben Randolph, Mrs James Rock.
Peter Grumley, Mrs Harrison, Mrs. Buffet,
Chris Miller, Mrs Langton, Mrs. Adam
Mills, Mrs. Charles Hassom. Rev. n. Bar
nell, poster of ST. James Episcopal church,
and one child
COrpses Found In Heaps.
Fifteen of the identified bodies are living i'm
a heap at the Falls City hall Other heaps
are all over the city. Many bodies were
carried away by friends, and it is impossible
to reach them.
Hundreds Of " ounded have been taken to
their homes and the hospitals, All OF the
physicians in the city are engaged in atten-
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
Tie DUTY on BindinyTwine

WASHINGTON CITY, March IS "A hearing
was given yesterday by the ways and means
COMMITTEES to a committee representing the
Cordage Association of the United States
They protested against any increase in the
duty on binders Irvine and asked that it be
kept at the present duty of IL cents per
pound
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
FRiGHTFuL DEVASTATION.

Awful News from the storms Path-Hun-
dreds Killed and Injured.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March 2S-A tornado
visited this vicinity last evening creating
fearful havoc and destruction of life An
estimate of the deaths will reach 1000
Jacksonville, Inl., is reported TO have
been swept by the storm, causing loss of
800 lives
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
WEST OF TIE MISSISSIPPI.
a Tornado Passes Close to Kansas City
In south Dakota.

In South Dakota.
KANSAS CITY. Mo-, March ga storm
of great fury was general all over the west
ern part of Missouri yesterday, Dispatches
show that it is hourly growing worse. and
the indications are that tornado has passed
near this city. A special from Clinton, Mo
says that wind accompanied by L i'll visited
that city, unrootng houses and blowing
down outhuillings, fences and trees At
Montrose, Mo, two business houses were
unroofed and much other damage was done.
At Marshall, Mo-, several houses were I'M
rooted and outbuildings blown down, but
no one Was hurt
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28

WASHINGTON CITY, March Ex-senator
Cockrell yesterday banded to Secretary
Window 800 which he had received from
an unknown man living in Missouri to BE-
placed TO the credit of the conscience fund
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
Very An.ctIonat. Affair.

LONDON, MAI oh 2s.-The Daily News cor.
respondent at Berlin says that at the fare
we'll interview between the emperor ami
Bismarck the kaiser thanked the ex-chan-
ceuor warmly Tor his services AMI repeat
edly embraced kissed him
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
Wind Blowing Eighty Miles an Hour.

Sioux FALLS, S D, March 2S-The most
disagreeable storm of the winter is raging.
Ii set in with rain about s yesterday morn
ing, which turned to snow. A strong wind
from the north fills the air with binding
snow. The wind is about eighty miles an
hour. but the thermometer is not very low
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
Capriyi Is Not Afraid

BERLIN, March 2S.-Chancellor Won Can
rivi has declined to avail himself of the
services of the detectives VINO were accus-
toned to follow Prince Bismarck
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28

CHICAGO. March 2S.-Reports from Jack
sonville, Warren, Woodstock Dixon, Rock
ford, Marengo, and Mt. Carmel, this state,
state that furious storm visited those places,
but none report any destruction of life,
though property suffered severely.
MrOr OF LIE hnIocIccInnI
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
Ill Wind That Blown No Good

MILLBANK, S. D., March IS "A snow
storm began at 9 o'clock yesterday morning
and is growing more severe, with prospects
of heavy fall. This will be invaluable to
the farming interests. There is more mois-
ture in the ground than for three years at
fhiS fiula
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28

If yonr neighbor is selfish. hard. grasp.
ing and suffering from cold, don't
waste words on him. but heap Goals of
fire on his head by sending him bottle
of DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
Little Prairie Partly Wrecked

NASHVILLE Ills. March o. Messengers
from Little Prairie, settlsms emit five miles
south of this place, reached town about 6
o'clock last evening with the intelligence
that the village had been visited by cy-
clone and every house in the place demol-
ished A number of people had been in
jured. and some, it was thought could not
recover. The messengers had left Little
Prairie to obtain aid for the sufferers before
the full extent of the disaster was known,
and particulars have not yet been re-
ceived. In response to the 81 mmons every
physician in Nashville left at once for Little
Prairie.
= Damages at Nashville.
A cloud burst and terrific hsilstorm at 10
last evening did about SIS, 900 damage in
this city. The Tabernacle, the largest pub
lie building in the city, and the two story
brick cooper shop owned by Sawyer s. Nc
Cracker, were demolished No one was hurt
Hailstones, the size of hens eggs, fell by the
bushel, and caused teams OH the streets to
run away. Countless fences were blown
down, and all the window glass on the west
and north sides of the buildin Is was broken.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

HoN. JOHN c. CAMPBELL, chairman OF
the democratic state central committee,
died suddenly at his home in Streator
yesterday afternoon of apoplexy
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
behaved Well in . Heavy Sea.

NEWPORT. II. l., March 27-The torpedo
boat Gushing had her final trial yesterday
In q heavy sea outside, and behaved admire
bly,. The board viii report favorsbly.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28

Indignant young man: Waiter. your
coat sleeve dipped into this lady's soup
Obliging waiter: Don't mention it, sir;
it will wash out. What kind of fish,
pleasep
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
Further Particulars from oiney.

OLNEY, Ills, March 2S. The storm struck
this city with great violence Telegraph
and electric light poles were snapped as if
they were pipe stems. At Springs grain
store, on the second floor, some men were
working cleaning seed when the storm blew
out the windows, carrying out the tanning
mill, together with the boy W no was turning
it, but neither boy nor mill as injured. 1t
seemed that the storm gathered force when
1t struck the house of Dell Horrill The
family saw the danger coming and
sought shelter in the \ cellar. The
house was completely \ demolished.
It then struck the residence Of
Mr.. Mathes while the fami , we're at sup