Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1887 — SWEPT BY STORMS. [ARTICLE]

SWEPT BY STORMS.

Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Kentucky Devastated by Terrific Winds. Scores of Men, Women, and Children Instantly Killed by Flying Debris. In Missouri. !Nevada (Mo.) special.] A terrific cyclone swept over this (Vernon) county Thursday night, dealing death and destruction wherever it struck. Fences, houses, bams, aDd everything in the line of the storm, which was about half a mile wide, were picked up, rent inte splinters, and cast down hundreds of yards away. These were tom up by the roots. Over thirty houses were destroyed, and about fifteen persons killed. Reliable news has only been received from Osage Township, and it is thought that the death-roll will be swelled to over seventy-five. In Arkansas. [Clarksville (Ark.) special.] A terrible cyclone passed over this country from west to east, from two to three miles wide, Friday morning, doing fearful damage. Houses and fences were demolished as if they had been constructed of straw. Six persons were killed and a number of others mqro or less injured. The loss to farmers in buildings, fenoes, stocks, and growing crops is very heavy. All the farms are lying open, and many families suffer if not aided at once. In Kansas. • [Prescott (Kansas) special.] A terrible cyclone swept this place Thursday evening. There were fifteen killed at different points throughout the oounty, and an incalculable amount of damage was done to all kinds of property. Prescott was literally wiped out of existence, not a single building being left standing to mark the site of a once, prosperous end thriving place. Reports are coming in from all over the country of damage by the terrible storm. Hail fell all over the county, some stones measuring thirteen inches in circumference. The force of the storm was appalling„and wonderful freaks were performed by the wind. It is reported that several persons were killed in Blue Mound and Mapleton. In Kentucky. [Cincinnati special.] A tornado swept through a portion of Kentucky, sonth of Cincinnati, Friday morning. At Paris, while a violent rainstorm, with thunder and lightning, was in progress, a continuous rumbling sound was heard, which proved to be a tornado, which passed in a lew minutes, leaving a track 400 yards wide in which trees were leveled and houses unroofed. No loss of life is reported. The damage to property is heavy. In Texas. [Blossom Prairie (Texas) speoial.] A cyclone passed over this town Friday morning, doing mueh damage. No lives were lost. The storm moved north, passing through the town in about four minutes. Nearly every business house in the village was moved from its foundation. Several dwellings were unroofed. Great damage was dene to fenoes and orchards in 4he country.