The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-04-13
LOSS OF LIFE IN MISSOURI.
Robinsonville, Miss, Raced and
and the Debris Licked
Up by Flames.
RAINS In SOUTH DAKOTA
jackson, Tenn, Leyelled and
Houses in Brownsville
Demolished.

YPsILANTI. Mich. April ID. 1S93.-A re
port has just reached here that the town
of Saline, in Washtenaw county, nine
miles south of here. was wiped ont by a
cyclone last night. Saline is cn the Lake
Shore aud Michigan Southern Railroad
and has population of / 200 or ], 400.
DETROIT. Mich, April 15, 1S93.-At
12:45 A. NJ. the following dispatcn was
was received from YpsiIaati:-
The city is in ruins. A cyclone struck
here tonight, coming from che southwest,
aud sweeping everything in its path.
Thousands of dollars of damage was
caused by it, The storm took strip
through the business portion of the
town. moving houses from their founda-
tioEs aud raising others. Cleary'S bus1-
ness college and Curtis carriage factory
are in ruins, the Hawkins house and
Occidental Hotel ara badly damaged and
the roofs of half the stores were blown
s off. Twenty store fronts were also
smashed in. On Huron street the
rubbish is piled ten feet high.
The postotfice building was de-
molished, and the mail scattered in the
street. All telegraph. telephone and
electric light wires are down. leaving the
city iD complete darkness. Everybody is
up watching property that has been
exposed to the storm. No one is hurt
severely.
CLEARING THE RUINS.
Later-2 o,cIocK:-Nothing particularly
new about tornado. Work of clearing uD
going Oh as rapidly as possible at this
lime of night No dead bodies yet found
1t is thought some were killed. A few
probably fatally injured. names unob-
tainabse tonight.
Much excitement still prevails among
property owners of damaged property.
Result Of tornado csonot he conceived.
Reports from residence portion of the city
are coming in. Many more dwellings are
down than ct first supposed. The loss Of
property it Is estimated now will reach
s20A, 900 or Elora. The streets are torn up
and are blocked by fallen trees
HAVOC OF WIND AND FIRE.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April IS, 1S93.-Tbe
town OF Robinsyille, Miss, was wiped
of the face of the earth yesterday after
noon by A double visitation of winds and
fire Owing 10 the fact that the depot
and telegraph Office was wrecked and the
wires blown Gown for annie, the details
of he disaster are meagre.
The cyclone struck the town shortly
after four O'Clock. The cloud that
marked The approach of the aerial de-
siroyer was funnel shaped and seemed to
grow out of the West-
Driven in doors to seek shelter from the
downpour of rain. the luckiess popula-
tion of sthe doomed village. numbering
0UU Souls, >COulu ScHTSety FeHllEe bueir lIl-
pending danger before the rapidly re-
v0lviug cloud struck their houses. It was
gone again in moment, but IN that brief
Instant every house or structure OF any
kind whatever, with the exception Of the
residence of Colonel c. L. Robinson and
Mr. West, were RACED TO the ground, and
the material of which they were con-
structed scattered over wide
area To add to the horror
of the situation. the ruin OF the business
portion of the village caught fire from a
Chinese laundy, and the flames licked up
the debris of the dwellings that they had
laid in waste.
THE RIVERS OVERLOOKING.
JEFFERSoNVILlE, Ind, April 13, 1893
Belated reports of the storm damage
along the MoDon are coming in this morn
ing. The town of Borden was flooded,
and thousands of dollars in property car
ried away. The mails are all delayed.
and letters from the north, on the Monon
line reports bridges and culverts swept
away at Silersburg and Belknap.
TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE
ST. LOUIS, April I3, 1898. 3.-fhough two
nights and day have passed since the
cyclone tore its way through Missouri
from southwest to northwest, the reports
of damage and loss of life are still coming
in, The towns which suffered most are
comparatively small and nearly all To-
Gated in the northwestern part of the State,
Kansas City. A summary of the casual
ties shows hundreds OF dead aud
manned.
AS if this horrible roll were not
enough, the storm left little to the sur
vivors TO begin life over again
With. Houses, barns. stock, everything
was swept before the storms fury. AT
Hawkins Bank, the scene was most hor-
rible About fifty citizens from Salem,
including all the doctors, went down as
soon as word reached there Of the dIsas-
ter, aud many of them are there Still, as
they are needed there to nurse the
wounded and care for the dead.
EVEN WITHOUT FOOD.
When relief reached there not a soul in
the place had n1orsel to eat for twenty
four hours, as provisions, cook stoves.
etc, were all blown away. Farmers from
the surrounding country came nobly to
their assistance, and many are now being
cared for ia the immediate vicinity of the
bank.
At one farmhouse there were thirteen
persons wounded. In one OF the cottages
left standing sad scene was enacted.
Mrs Wilson was dying in sight of her
dying baby and calling on the doctors to
save its life, not thinking OF herself or
that when the little ones life went out,
hers would so shortly join it.
A speclsl train from ST. Louis. Dring-
in w. II. Lee, President of the Midland
Blast Furnace COMPANY, and corps OF
doctors from Steelviiie, arrived there last
evening, aud are doing all they can for
the sufferers,
TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERERS
A call sigued by the Mayor OF Salem has
been issued asking the people 70 meet to
take steps toward hiding the sufferers.
and there is no doubt that the people here
will promptly respond. News has reached
here from Texas county, saying mucn
damage has been done aud several lives
lost there The wounded at Lexington
are doing well, though there may be ad-
ditions to the death roll in one or TWO In
stances.
HigginsvIlle reports six killed. bul
without names. Inthat place the storm
swept a path 250 yards wide, clean Of
everything. buildings, trees and stock
being lifted ike SO much chaf.
In the path of the storm, between Bay
view and Lexington, eight persons were
killed outright, and three more
will probably die from their wounds
To the southwest of the territory al.
ready covered, Is a large section without
rapid communication. and il Is feared