The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-06-04
AWFUL, DESTRUCTIVE STORMS.
TOrnsdOs Spread Terror, Death and De-
struction In the Western States.

TOrnadOs Spread Terror, Death and De-
struction in the Western states.
Awful, appalling, destructive and
death-dealing storms and cyclones
have ravaged sections of the Western
States during the past week. Hun
dreds of people killed and ten million
dollars worth of property destroyed is
part of the terrible story. Iowa,
Illinois, Michigan and Missouri are
the States in which the storms ragged
fercest and spread forth terror, death
and destruction. Nearly hundred
people were killed in Iowa. Some
whole families were wiped out of ex-
istence, and some towns were swept
off the face of the earth. In Michigan
another hundred people were killed,
and many homes were completely de-
stroyed.
The city of st. Louis was visited by
amost terrific tornado. Words seem
inadequate to express the havoc
wrought. The centre of the city was
completely wrecked. No part of it
escaped damage.
Hundreds of homes are in ruins !;
dozens of manufacturing plants and
dozens of business houses are wrecks.
Many steamboats, are gone to the bot
tom of the river and others are dis
mantled, railroads of all kinds have
suffered great loss and wire and pole
using companies have weeks of toll
and large expenditures of money to
face before they will be in satisfactory
shape again.
Houses are now seen in all states of
demolition. In some of them the front
walls had fal en out, and the tenants
performed their household duties
cared for their injured, or mourned
their dead in view of the crowds in the
streets.
From the doors of many of the par
TALLY wrecked houses fiOated the BLACK
badge of mourning, and scarcely ,
house in all the district that did no
a have some injured relative, friend, o
neighbor within its nd-littere,
walls. The path of the storm is abou
half mile wide, and over four mile
long, sweeping through the thickl
populated southwest portion Of East
land, and across the river into East 81
Louis.
No language can describe the disas
ter. Nearly four hundred people hav
been taken from the ruins dead, Will
it is known that hundreds of peOpl
who were on the many steamboats, i
the river were carried down with tn
boats to the bottom. Help was impOs
sible for the river was dashed into
raging, tempestuous sea. The fu
story cannot yet be told.
DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CUREl
by local applications, as they cannC
reach the diseased portion of the ca
There is only one way to cure Dea
ness, and that is by constitution;
remedies. Deafness is caused w a
infamed condition of the mucor
lining of the Eustachian Tube. Whe
this tube gets infamed you have
rumbling sound or imperfect hea
ing, and when it is entirely close
Deafness is the result, and unle
the inflammation can be taken o,
and this tube restored to it's Dorm
condition, hearing will be destrOyt
forever nine cases out of ten Al
caused by catarrh, which is nothin
but an infamed condition of Il
mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dolla
for any case of Deafness Caused |
catarrh) that cannot be cured
Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for ci
culars, free.
FL. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo,
Sold by Druggists, Toe.