Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 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. 1 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 into 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-roH 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 more 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 will sufl'er 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 county, and an incalculable amount of damage was done to all kinds of property. Prescott was literally wiped out of existence, hot a single building being left standing to mark the site of a once prosperous and 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 bv the wind. It is reported that several persons were killed in Blue Mound and Mapleton. ..

In Kentucky. [Cincinnati special.] A tornado Bwept through a portion of Kentucky, south 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 few 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) special. 1 A cyclone passed over this town Friday morning, doing much damage. No lives were lost. The storm moved north, passing through the town in about tour minutes. Nearly every business house in the village was moved from its foundation. Several dwellings were unroofed. Great damage was done to fences and orchards in the country. - Storm Damages at Other Foints. ... Windows were smashed jst Central ia. 111., by huge hailstones, the storm being followed a few hours later by a heavy fall of rain. A heavy snowstorm occurred Friday in Northwestern Wisconsin. Seven inches fell at Ean Claire, and at Ashland trains were blocked. A fierce gale piled the, snow into drifts. Snow and sleet storms are also reported from portions of Minnesota and Dakota, followed by cold will retard seed planting, already ten days or two weeks late. An ioe gorge alf Montreal caused a sudden rise of four feet in the St. Lawrence, doing considerable damage