Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-10
PROPHETSTOWN NO MORE.
Erased From the Face Of the Earth-RumOr
Has it Fifty People We're Killed
by the Tornado.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April 8.-Meager dis
patches received here say the village OF
Prophetstown, Ill, has been blown
from the face of the earth by tornado.
The only news yet sttainable was re-
oeived at Burlington, Iowa, from train
hands on a stock train which pulled out
OF Prophetstown Just after the disaster.
TIE town contained about 500 iuhabi-
tants and was located about forty miles
from Burlington on the branch
OF the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroad. :. The train hands
report the railrogddepot was blown down
and the station agent buried beneath the
ruins. A small Presbyterian church on
Main street was blown down and the
steeple carried fully 100 yards. The only
names of the dead now ObtainEble are:
William Vance, station agent; Charles
Murray, an old man who worked for the
railroad, killed by freight car being
blown over on him; Frank Wilson Cor
NelsOnl killed in the ruins of his own
house. There were eight persons in Will
son Cor Nelson - house, and the train
men think all were killed. RumOr says
forty or fifty people were killed, but this
is not verified.
LATER PARTICULARS.
CHICAGO, Ill, April S.-Both the
Western Union and the railway wires to
the village of Pr9phetstown are down.
Many people are reported to have been
killed by the cyclone, aud others are
Frustrated. At the Chicago, Burlington
=.
received before the wires went down,
which said that the town had been Wis
tied by a severe wind storm, which car
ried the station at that point from its
foundation and wrecked the grain ele-
vator and several houses. The dispatch
said nothing about there being any loss
of life.
MORE MODERATE.
The reported loss of life at Prophets
town is unfounded. a dispatch received
by the general superintendent of the
Burlington and Quincy railroad, from
the railroad agent at Prophetstown, is as
follows: ga cyclone struck Prophets
town about Z CLOCK last evening slough
ing the depot from its foundation, blow
ing off half the roof and breaking win
dows. The elevator was blown down
and rests on the track. A string OF four
cars blew out from the siding onto the
main track, about thirty miles
from here, with breaks set. Quite
number of buildings were blown down in
the villages and a number of persons
hurt. -
MORE AUTHENTIC.
DENROCK, III April 8.-Greatly ex-
sggerated reports have been sent out
about the wind storm at Phrophets-
town, thirty-seven miles east OF
here, last night. The wind
did the work st 1880 last evening,
coming from the north. Clark Reynolds
house was blown in on one side, and
Olmstead s Matthews elevator was con-
siderably damaged. Several other houses
were damaged. Nobody was killed, and
only four or five were injured, and these
not seriously. During the storm about
an inch of hailstOnes the size OF marbles
fell.
AN ELECTRICAL STORM.
PITTsBURG, PA, April S.-A special
from East Liverpool, Ohio, says: ga
great electrical storm passed over this
city about II 'clock to-day. The Meth
odist Episcopal church steeple was
knocked down and the church damaged
several Thousand dollars. The telephone
central exchange was burned and service
destroyed. The operators were COM