The herald., 1896-05-27
THE CYCLONES AWFUL WORK
Dreadful Reports From Michi.
gan's Afflicted Villages
WHOLE TOWNS SWEPT AWAY
And the Maug1ed Inhabitants Strewu
About the Country
Already the List Of Dead Passes the Nun.
drsd Mark and 10 Stlli Par From
Complete
Press snecial Wira.

Associated Press Special Wire
OXFORD, Mich, May 26.-Frorn re-
ports that continue to come In from ad-
jacent points the full force of the fierce
wind that swept this part of Oakland
county Is beginning to be appreciated
Everywhere is devastation. Villages
that were yesterday the homes of con-
tented citizens are today desolate.
Manned and bruised fathers and moth
ers, brothers and sisters, mourn for those
who met death in the twisting. grinding,
resistless wind. The death roll in this
vicinity may run to the hundred mark
At Oakwood, hamlet fifty miles west
Of Oxford, having population of about
200, not house Is left standing. The patti
Of the storm was between a half and
three-fourths of a mile wide. 1t extend
ed in nearly a straight course eastward
over thirty miles. A remarkable cir
cumstance Is that buildings in close
proximity to each other were blown In
opposite directions. some being swept
northward and some southwark.
Following is the revised list Of the
killed and the most seriously injured
up to tonight:
Dead-At Ortonville:
Mrs. William Mitchell and two small
children.
Abram Quick. wife and three small
children.
Mrs. Henry Quick. aged So.
p. F. Wilkins.
Mrs. Josiah s. johnson.
John c. Porritt.
Mrs Louise Porritt.
John Mickey.
Abraham Kitchen.
Mrs. w. A. Kitchen.
Mrs. T. c. Easton.
Edward Fifield.
At Oakwood:
Mrs. Susan Stuart, aged 81.
Mrs. e. A .Wolverton, aged 6S
Mrs. Emily Eaton, aged IS.
Mrs. William Davidson.
Miss Ida Davidson, aged II.
Jessie May Fifield, aged 8.
Charles Fifield's 7-year-old daughter.
Edie Howe.
Nellie Howe, aged 3.
At North oxford:
Andrew Pettibone. farm hand.
Mrs. Osar Slate.
Mrs. Crane.
Crane.
Thomas Bishop.
Infant son of Frank Laidlaw.
At Thomas:
Charles Hickss aged &c. -----+
Eioroy Hicks, aged 13.
At Thornville:
Mack Smiley.
Joseph Smiley.
Mrs. Thomas Bennett.
At Metamora:
Thomas Bishop.
Brama, a man who was visiting
there.
At Fair Grove:
Joseph Malburg.
At Munger's Station:
Ion Edwards.
The list of seriously injured Is as fol-
lows:
At Ortonville-Joseph Porritt, ribs
fractured and bone driven into lungs:
will probably die.
Oscar Granger, cash on head, dislo-
Gated shoulder and chest badly injured; !;
not expected to live.
Mrs. Abraham Quick, injured inter-
nally: recovery doubtful.
William Mitchell, skull fractured; re-
covery doubtful.
Arthur Woodruff, leg broken.
r. Kent's 10-year-old son, leg broken.
Archie Woodruff, leg broken.
Many others were injured, but not
dangerously.
At Oakwood:
George Fifield, leg broken and scalp
badly torn; condition critical
Harvey Francis, rib broken and in
jured internally.
At North Oxford:
Oscar Slate, leg broken.
Mrs. Pettibone. seriously injured about
the head.
At Thomas:
Mrs. Sidney Copeland, internally in
jured; recovery doubtful.
M. ]. Kidder, arm broken.
:. George Hibbler, leg crushed; had to
be amputated.
Will Althouse, ribs broken.
Myron A. Johnson, leg broken.
L. P. Knapp. leg broken and cut on
head.
AT Thornville:
Mrs. Joseph Smiley, ST.. injured inter-
naly injlTed; may die.
Thomas Bennett, cut and bruised and
ribs broken.
At Mt. Clemens:
Mrs. Annie Pohl, injured internally
and not expected to live.
Mrs. Annabelle Tebo, skull fractured.
arm broken
Henry. Adolph and William Pohl,
bruised and crushed: doubtful if Henry
Will recover and William has leg broken.
DISASTER IN ILLINOIS
CAIRO, ILL.,, May 26-The storm struck
this locality at $3.50 a. m. There was ter
rifle wind and rain. The opera house and
union depot were. unroofed, but no
houses were destroyed or lives lost in
the CITY. Inc Terry boat Katherine cap
sized at the mouth Of the Ohio. drown
ing all on board but the captain, engi-
neer and clerk. The dead number thir-
teen, among them Capt. Rittenhouse,
superintendent of the ferry company;
DR.. Orr's two daughters, Richard Thur
man of Wickliffe and Charles Gilhoffer,
a merchant of this city.
The following were killed: Charles
Gilnoffer. Daniel Hayes, Ward Ritten>
house, all of Cairo; Mr.. Stanley and Miss
Stanley of Wickliffe, KY; Richard
Thurman, printer, Cairo; Mrs. William
Shannon and baby. Birdspring; Mrs.
Mary Jones, jackson, Tenn Lewis
Hall, colored, Cairo, Asbury Alexander,
colored, Wickliffe, KY; George Smith,
colored, Cairo; Miss Orr, Birdspoint; an
unknown colored woman.
BLANTHER'S ESCAPE
Tho Detectives Admit the 0urderer'a Trail Ia