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TEUtlBLK TORNADO. MoT the I. WHtLYKi. t«w<NP KM**. ILLINOIS. (fhorg f laindcaln "** * ' A f EEIIT REWS REVIEW. THE EAST# Br an explosion of fire-damp in the ^ iDtanaond mine at Wilkesbarrs, Pa., eight men <were terribly bnrned. The affair was caused ft uuoot golu^ ill with an opon luup^ in spit® of warning. MICHAEL DAVITT addressed an audi- -i *!noe<>f 5,000 people in tee Academy of Mane, '%r*-v4.v*JSew York city. Ttos vast crowd rose as one lK ' (when Davitt stepped upon the stage, cheered \ . » *»> ful they were hoarse, and applauded till they v * 'id"#" » *er® ex^aUMted* \*rf \*,~ JOHNSON'S Harvester Works, at Brook- * ' * * "port, N. Y., were swept away by fire. Lose, ; :^ij-|'ip500,000 ; insured for $200,000. One man was " ' turned to death. Four hundred and fifty men i„* •. \t. hirers thrown out of employment Four news- - t«per offices in Buffalo were crippled by a : 1 Strike of printers, those on the morning papers ': ;ilemandi*g 85 cents per 1,000 ems. BOSTON has formed a league of eighty- - ; >-^6ve prominent citizens to enforce the provisions *»?*$(§<.U*» MqporQogasi Uwr. BHkMHfLXmt . . . ?p*: h the President • THE VENY . FARMERS in Pike county, Ohio, are ing their oats to protect wheat from the y worm. Near Cireleville a large field of jarley hac been entirely destroyed Five of he principal gamblers of St. Louis--among em Robert C. Pate, Peter Manning and Henry Pate--pleaded guilty, and ware sentenced to Six months in jaiL THE vast herds of cattle on the trail in ^e Indian Terntory and feeding their way ^ iiorthward should before long have an effect on l"5S|he present extortionate condition of the beef market. Nearly 100,000 grass-fed cattle will be sent forward before the driving season ia over. THE big bridge at Si Louis, which is owned and managed by a monopoly, is likely to have a competitor. The Chicago and Alton, the Vandalia, the Indianapolis and St. Louis, and the Ohio and Mississippi railroads are pre- paring to build a new structure at or near that city, in order to escape the exorbitant charges Imposed by the present. company. The Iowa cyclone made one dip into Nebraska. At a point on the Platte river, in Butler county, a half mile of prairie was dug tip as by a gi eat plow and a number of cattle killed, their • bodies being tossed into the air like feathers. Fortunately, it vae an unsettled part of the country. HON. JOHN B. GBINNKLIJ appeared on ^ the Chicago Board of Trade in behalf of the ; people of Iowa made desolate and homeless by ' "the reeent cyclone. He was introduced fcy Mayor Harrison, all business was stopped, and promises of aid camo from all sides. After listening to his touching recital of the devasta­ tion wrought by the tornado a committee waa appointed to raise funds and supplies. John V. Far well, the merchant prince, started the hall by subscribing $1,000. A BOILER explosion at Williamsfield, Ohio, wrecked a saw-mill and instantly killed Thomas Thompson and Charles Dunham, and so wounded Almond D. Brooks and Frank Chamberlain that iliey died soon afterward. jh' THE Des Moines Register estimates !-« fp*,'the losses of property by the recent cyclone in ,% < '4|Iowa as follows: Boone county, $20,000; Story IgSfe V v|oounty, %30,000; Jasper county, $50,000 ; Pow- ."eshuk county. $30,000; Keokuk count.v, $100,- • " •« ; Henrvconntv, S >00,000: Mount Pleasant, /'570ft,OiW ; Grinnell, $600,000 ; Malcom, $ 180,- •'fyfiOO; Fonda. Pocahouias county, $10,0 »0; the • a ^^Obicago and Bock Inland railroad, train mer- •f: ^chandise, $16,000 ; Chicago and Bock Island ' H? V'.^L^lUitooad Company, $15,000 ; Central Iowa ' ® '^Bailroad Companv, $10,000; unenumerated, ,L t $305,000. Total, $2,271,000. Some estimate _' y , -"the actual low will exceed $3,000,000. * THEEK young girls employed in a boarding-house at Danville, I1L, named Ella M&ttie Ogleav^lfary Jones, resolved to talretheir HvesJBy arsenic, Two #ed within at •' tuw IHWUB nTgfuat pWn. 'Miss Joues, at this I-/ •• ft- writing, lingers in a condition which gives bat little hopes of her recovery. Bliss Mills - -f'fileft a letter for her father, upbraiding him . - lor living with an abandoned woman.... On a farm on the Big Hiaini river, in Ohio, has been found a human skeleton of enormous , ^ 'j-jsize, surrounded by a tomahawk, chisel, spear - and clam shells.... .One of the shops of the gt, coad at Milwaukee, containing five sapood-dsas caw, was damaged $52,000 by fira. THE SOUTH, MORGAN HAMILTON, a negro, who was accused of murdering Miss Salina Benton, of Boonev.lle. Miss., was shot dead in a field by a party of eight men.... .At Winchester, Tenn., a party of citizens lynched a negro named Hud­ dles ton for an outrage on a white widow Yaugban. THE Federal Grand Jury at Austin, Texas, has indicted exMarshal Bussell for era- '• bezzlement of $9,558. ~ WILLIAM ROBOSS, Lewis Salsmna and Barto Sintmeyer were killed, and Jacob Baker and Frank Patterson seriously injured, by the falling of a bank of earth and stone at the Mount Vernoa cotton mills, in Baltimore eouuty, Md. THE Kentucky Bureau of Agriculture estimates the wheat yield in that State at 12,- , £00,000 to 13,000,000 bushels, which is a larger .crop by nearly 2,000,000 bushels than Kentucky ever raised bet ore. Corn, oats, potatoes and 'tobacco all promise an nnusually large yield. Washington; FOR the new Alabama Claims Gom- ' mission provided for in the Geneva Award bill, • President Arthur has selected ex-Senator James Harlan, of Iowa, and Judge Well*, a member of the former commission At Wiistinvten, on June 19, JuHt ce Bradley, of the United States Supreme Court, to whom Guiteau's counsel applied for a writ of habeas corpus, filed a denial of the application with the Clerk of the Court, Justice Bradley holds that the Comt of the District of Columbia had full ju­ risdiction of tlio case, and that no reasons ex- . ist for granting the writ ENVOI TKESCJOTT was again examined as a witness before the House Foreign Affairs • Committee on the Bhipherd Peru business. Hi* testimony was unimportant This closed the investigation, and the committee will now pre­ pare its report POLITICAL, THE Arkansas Democratic Convention nominated for Congressman-at-Large C. R. Breckinridge, a son of the late Gen. JohnC. B., and unanimously passed a resolution eulogizing Senator Garland and urging his re-election. THE Canadian general elections took place June 20, and resulted in the choice as members of the Dominion Parliament of an increased majority of supporters of the na­ tional policy oC ths Premier, Sir John A. Mao- donald. THE convention of the regular Cam­ eron Republicans of Pennsylvania re-assembled si Harrisburg and nominated Marriott Brosius, of Lancaster, for Congress, in place of Thomas Marshall, declined. The differences in the party were referred to the Siate Central Com­ mittee, with power to act A few delegates urged a new State Convention, but there was manifested small disposition to placate the in­ dependents. The Republicans of Vermont o&vfe nominated John L, Rjirntow for Govcrrinr and W. H. Dubois for Treasurer. .r.~V' THE Greenback State Convention of 1 Arkansas nominated Rufus K. Garland, a broth- «r of United States Senator Garland, for Gov- .j&rtf Congressional district of a , G r e e n b a c k C o n v e n t i o n n o m i n a t e d ' Mr, LI&aa hiB own BUCGOBBOIT. I ff ^ fcteN. WILLIAM B. BATE, a soldier cf *V/ '; *** Me]dcal1 war and a Major General in the Confederate army, was nominated for Governor jStf fiJ by the Tennessee Democratic Convention, at 1, >*• Nashville. The convention adoptea a' resolu- ,, ^ V-- tion declaring that the settlemeut of the State deM at 60, with interest at 3, 4, 5 and 6 per \ ©ent,, was unwise, and favoring a readjust- ; mailt. The "State Credit" Democrats there- ;,3- , • apon withdrew, held a conference and decided ^ ' to* eaU another State Conveoticm. ' • l' Tnoue was an immense labor demon­ stration is Pittsburgh. IMacafaens were pret­ est from pH tbe surrounding j»nufacturing districts, «ad thetSs were 80.000 workingmen in in iNssiWH. while the parade was viewed and ohaend by 5(̂ 000 speotatora. TIM fi»hing schooner Iia %reaa, with a crew of seventeen men, was tynif on St Peter's bank, coast of New Found- land, by a huge ioeberg Michael Davitt ar­ rived at New York, June 18, and was immedi­ ately driven to the Everett House. The Ger» manio, upon which he took passage, was de­ tained by fogs and icebergs, and the committee of reception failed to moot him at the proper place. / ADVICES from Chihuahua city state that the Mexican troops had another light with the Indians at Eucinillos," in which fifteen In­ dians were killed and twenty taken prisoners. Five Mexicans were lulled. A CABLE dispatch from the New York Herald correspondent, accompanying the Rogers expedition, tells the sad story of the discovery of the bodies of Lieut De Long. Surgeon Amb­ ler, and the rest of the officers and crew of the Jeannette, whose fate has for several months remained a mystery. All perished within a short distanoe of each other, martyrs to the folly of attempting to explore the awful region of eternal cold. In their terrible trail southward from the wreck of the Jeannetts DeLong and his party endured unimaginable horrors of hunger and exposure. The r scanty stock of food ex-" hausted, they roasUd and ate the leather of their boot*,- and wrapped their feet in rags, until a merciful snow-storm came upon them and buried their pitiable sufferings out of sight in a common grave... .Twenty-w»ven Apaches, captured recently by Mexican troops, were taken out in a field at Chihuahua and shot. Each met his death with calmness. HAMILTON, Ontario, was the aoene of a horrible triple tragedy, the other day. A man named Forbes, recently from Erie, Pa., killed his wife and a man named Ralston, be­ cause the former refused to live with him, and wound up by killing himself. NEARLI 10,000 men participated in the parade of the Grand Army of the Republic at Baltimore, which was led by Gen. R. K Ayrea, and reviewed by President Arthur. A new feature was the escort furnished by Mary­ land and Virginia militia, many of whom served in the Confederate army The ship Escam­ bia, wheat laden, left San Francisco for Portu- 5:al, and was caught in a heavy sea and sunk ust outide the harbor. The Captain, engineer, steward and cook escaped, while fourteen of the crew perished. roHsrair. IN the reconstruction of the Egyptian Ministry Arabs Bey retains the War portfolio. He has no intention of " taking a back seat," bat evidently means to remain the virtual ruler of Egypt. He has already ordered $100,000 worth of torpedoes to plant in the harbor of Alexandria--a quantity sufficient to make very unsafe anchorage for a foreign fleet of what­ ever dimensions, should he decide on ordering European war-vessels to vacate Egyptian waters. THE Sultan is urging the Khedive of Egypt to return to Cairo, and Gen. Stone and other Americans give similar advice. The Min- •sters have ordered all Europeans employed by the Government to return to their work at Cai­ ro. ...A St Petersburg dispatch says that an important discovery of a Nihilisrs lodging place has been made on Vaaila island. Forty-nine persons were arrested, in­ cluding military men and others of position, and a large quantity of dynamite seized ; also a masB of correspondence and plans of the Kremlin at Moscow Meilling, the Prussian student, through who*-e help the Russian Gov­ ernment obtained maps of the coast defenses of Germany, has committed suicide. A CORRESPONDENT at Alexandria tele­ graphs that if France and England interfere actively in Egypt, Arabi Pasha intends to blow up the Suez canal, cut the railway to Cairo, and oppose the landing of ' European troops. France has sent five more irou-clads to Alexandria, and will forward 1,300 marines. ... .The French Senate rejected the bill for the Importation of American pork on the ground that it lacks sufficient guarantees against trioh- D01S6S OF CONGRESS. Wal no session of the Senate on the 17th inst The House considered the River ana Harbor bill in committee of the whole. A mctiOD by Mr. Springer to atnke out the item of §300,000 for a reservoir at the head waters of the Mississippi was defeated. An amend­ ment by Mr. Page was adopted, that the Sec­ retary of War carry on by contract the works contemplated in the bill. The committee rose, and the bill was passed by 119 to 47. Mr. Bobesom reported tbe naval appropriation, which was recommitted. The House bill to protect immigrants on shipboard and a joint resolution reappropri- ating $375,000 to pay Southern mail contract­ ors were passed by the Senate on June 19. Mr. Hoar reported, as a substitute, a bill to pro­ vide for the performance of the duties of President in case of a vacancy in the Presidency and Vice Presidency, putting the succession upon the members of the Cabinet The River and Haibor bill was received from the House, and Mr. Kel-1 logg gave notice of several amendments. The House bill to extend the charters of national banks was taken up, and caused a prolonged discussion. A new section, reported by the Finance Committee, was adopted, authorizing the refunding of 3^-per-cent bonds into 3-per-cent bonds. The President trans­ mitted a draft of a bill to enlarge the Pawnee reservation in Indian Territory. Iu the House Mr. Eelley introduced a bill to abolish the internal-revenue tax on tobacco and cigars. Mr. Washburn presented an act au­ thorizing the removal of obstructions from navigable waters. Bills were also introduced to establish an international peace commis­ sion of nine members, who are to serve for ten years, and to prevent discrim­ ination in transportation over I'acitio railroads. Under suspension of the rules, bills were passed to facilitate the trial of contested- election casoe and to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to give out standard silver dollars for trade dollars. A long debate took El ace on the bill providing that Collectors of Qternal Revenue shall be appointed for a term of four years, the measure teing defeated by 81 to 100. The rules were suspended, and the pension appropriation of $100,000,001) weut through without division. Fruitless efforts were made to secure an appropriation of $400,- 000 for the extension of the Mint at Philadel­ phia, and for pensions for officers of the rev­ enue marine service. A bill was passed levying an emigrant t&x of 50 c&uta per Lead on ves­ sels bringing foreigners to our shores, the amount to be paid to the Collector of Customs. '.The joint resolution authorizing the erection of a memorial column at Washington's head­ quarters at Newburgh and making an appro­ priation to defray the expenses of the Centen­ nial Celebration was passed by the Senate June 20. Bills were passed to appropriate f 15,003 for approaches to the Mouud City Military Ometery, and to set aside $12,000 for a road from New Albany to the National Ceme­ tery near that city, as also an appropriation of $300,000 for an extension of the Executive Mansion. In presenting the credentials of Mr. Anthony, of Rhode Inland, Chairman Davis re­ marked that the re-election of the gentleman for a fifth consecutive term was the second in­ stance in the history of the Government The bill to extend the charters cf national banks was taken up, the pending question being the issue of gold certificates. After an argument on a double standard, the Senate went into executive session and confirmed the nomination to the Tariff Commission by 32 to 22. The House passed the Senate bill authorizing a re­ port on the amounts due the States and Terri­ tories for suppressing Indian hostilities. Mr. Young introduced a bill providing that the tax on distilled spirits be reduced to 59 cents per gallon, and the tax on beer and ale be fixed at 80 cents per barrel, with a deduction of per cent on stamps sold to brewers. A bill was passed appropriating $100,000 for a public building at Erie, Pa. Mr. Updegraff reported a substitute for the Senate bill to fix a day for the meeting of Elect­ ors of President and Vice President and to regulate the counting of votes, on which a spirited interchange of sentioieut took place. The subslitute was rejected md the Senate bill was recommitted. Sixty Republican mombers of the House held a caucus on the Internal Revenue bill. It was resolved that the provis­ ions in regard to the tax on bank capital and to special taxes on liquor-dealeis be eliminated, and that the bill be called up for consideration. A bill authorizing public buildings at Lyuoh- hurg, Abingdon and Harrisonburg, Vs., was passed by the Senate on Jons 20. Mr. Mor­ gan's resolution to investigate the oause o< the labor strikes was retered to the Committee on Education and Labor, to report within a week. The bill to extend the charters of national banks was taken up. The pending amend­ ment for the iasoe ef silver eeruflostes was adopted. A proposition was earned that the issue of gold eerbfioates be suspended whenever tbe avail­ able treasury stock of that metal falls below $100,000,000. It was agreed that no mational bank shall belong to a clearing­ house in which silver certificates are not re­ ceived in settlement of balanoes. Mr. Beck offered a provision requiring national banks to receive and pay out silver dollars and certif­ icates on the same terms as gold, but it was voted down. A clause was adopted punii- Ling the unlawful certification of cheoks Dy a fine of f&,000 or imprisonment for - five years. Mr. Allison gave notice that he would offer the Hennipen Canal bill as an amendment to the River and Harbor bill. In the House, the bill for the erection of a Congressional Library building was taken up. Mr. Towns- hend charged that the measure embodied a job of Eastern parties, against which remark Messrs, Reed and Humphrey entered a h>t pro­ test and the bill was postponed to Dec. 12. An act was parsed to authorize the Rock Island and Southwestern railway to bridge the Mississippi at New Boston, ILL The bill to reduce int« rnal- revenue taxation was considered in committee of the whole. Mr. Kelley estimated tho reven­ ues of the Government for this year at $400,- 000,000, and said the bill proposed a reduction of oniy $23,000,000. Mr. Thompson spoke for an hour in opposition to the measure, wben a large number of amendments were snbmitted. The committee rose without having taken action. Mr. Van Wyok offered a resolution in the Senate, June 22, which was adopted, calling for correspondence with the Spanish Government in relation to the Claim of Pedro de Buzz, a naturalized citizen. A bill was passed granting the light of way through Indian Territory to the Mississippi, Albuquerque and Inter-ocean railway. Chairman Davis presented a copy of the proposed constitution for the State of Utah. A joint resolution was passed appropriating $33,000 to continue Arctic explorations. The petition and bill of Mrs. Jessie Benton Fre­ mont in relation to property in San Francisco, was placed on the calendar. A resolution granting permission for the erection of a statue to Garib.aMi in the National Cemetery at Vicks- burg was referred to the Military Committee. The bill to extend the charter of national banks was then taken up. Mr. Vest offered a substitute forbidding the creation of new national banks and authorizing an i-wue of treasury notes in place of bank notes. Mr. Morgan proposed to force banks and their depositors to receive sil­ ver certificates. Mr. Allison said be had never heard of an instance outside of New York where banks refused siiver certificates. Mr. Voorhees remarked that bank oPieers were hostile to what they termed 85-cent money. Mr. Sherman dep­ recated any attempt by Congress to regulate tbe value of the two coins ; the Gov­ ernment itself had depreciated silver, which should stand as eighteen to one in pro­ portion to gold. Mr. Allison thought the ratio should be 15% to 1, as in France and Ger­ many. The propositions by Messrs. Vest and .Morgan were rejected. The bill was then pweed by 34 to 13. The House wont into oom- mittee on the bill to reduce internal revenue taxation. Mr. WLite gave notice of an amendment to repeal the internal revenue system so far as it affected tobacco. Mr. Morrison charged that the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means was striving to empty tbe treasury with­ out relieving the burdens of the people. Messrs. Page, Aiken, and Reagan announced that they would vote against the Dill, and the committee rose. A communication from navy officers waa read, asking that the age for retirement be not changed. The Democrats of the House held a caucus after adjournment at which there were fifty two members present The substance of their action was that, so far as they were con­ cerned, they would support the tobacco provi­ sions of the Iuternal-Reveuue bill, and, if those failed, move to recommit , The Horae bill to ratify the agreement with the Shoshones and Bannocks for a right of way for the Utah and Northern road was passed by the Senate June 23, as also the Senate bill ^ creating the Oregon Short-Line Railroad Com- * pany. Mr. Frye called up the rule allowing the President pro tem.. when temporarily ahaont. to designate in writing a Senator to perform tue du­ ties of the chair, which was debated and referred. Condemned cannon were granted to organiz­ ations at Vincennes, In.!. ; Marahalltown, Iowa; Ironton, Ohio; Danville, III., and Council Bluffs. A bill was passed to pay for the use of the orphan-asylum property at Natchez during the war. The House resolution commem­ orative of the late Thomas Allen, of Missouri, called out several tributes of ren peck The4House went into committee of the whole on the bill to reduce internal taxation. Mr. Kasson expressed the hope that the Govern­ ment would not become permanently depend­ ent upon whisky shops for its revenue. Mr. Wilson gave notice of an amendment to forbid national banks from receiving interest exceed- ng 6 per cent per annum for loans. Mr. Dunnell thought it too early to begin to repeal internal-revenne laws. Mr. Hewitt alluded to the strik es in progress, and remarked that Congress should speedily abolish levies on the products of industry, wliereas the Republican party offered the work- ingman the abolition of the tax on matches. Mr. Sparks attacked the entire internal-rev­ enue system, as did also Mr. Springer. The committee then rose, when eulogies were de­ livered upon the hfe of the late Thomas Allen. ADDITIONAL NEWS. LIVE-STOCK men at Baltimore and vi­ cinity are greatly excited over the discovery of pleuro-pneumonia at the stock-yards there..... Gov. Blackburn, of Kentucky, has been "con­ verted " through the powerful exhortation of Rev. Geo. O. Barnes, formerly of Chicago, but of late crusading against sin iu Kentucky, where he is known as the "mountain evangel­ ist"....Four uegroen, one a woman, were banged at Kingstree, 8. C., two for murder and the olhers for arson. F n ZGERALD, the sharper who bunkoed Hon. Charles Francis Adams at Boston, has re­ ceived five years in the penitentiary....A fire in the rtorehouse of the Pacific mills, at Law­ rence, Mass., destroyed the building, including 300,000 pounds of wool, chemicals, dyes, etc. Tho loss is estimated at $1,000,000. A BABE phenomenon occurred at Cleve­ land, Ohio, From the pltfcid surface of tho lake suddenly arose a wave variously estimated at from ten to twenty-five feet, in height and two to tour miies m length, which swept to the shore with resistless force, destroying every­ thing in its progress. It is described by scien­ tists as a cyclone wave similar to the tidal wave in mid ocean ; but nobody seems to know pre­ cisely what caused it or when some­ thing of the kind may occur again.... An outbreak occurred among the Mescalero Indians in the neighborhood of Fort Union. The Agent was wounded twice, and the Indian police killed some prisoners who tried to escape. ....Thomas J. Foster, representing Ft. Wayne in the Indiana Senate, and publisher of "the Journal, killed himself with a revolver George N. Woods was pubhclv executed at Du- rango, Col., for the murder of M. G. Buchanan. Mrs. Henrietta Randall, of Springfield, Mo., who had for some time suffered from nervous­ ness and tho loss of speech, hanged herself to a tree, leaving her children asleep in bed. IRISH noblemen and large landholders have formed a company to work farms from which tenants have been evicted, to defeat the influence of the Land League An official dispatch received at Madrid announces cholera has appeared in Japan and the Loo Choo islands... .Locusts have totally consumed the crops in the island of New Grenada, W. L, and corn is valued at $6 to $7 a bag Arabi Bey, in reply to tbe Sultan's invitation to visit Constantinople, has responded that he is willing to obey, but tho aimy will prevent him, The Russian Minister of the Interior has emphatically announced that officials will be dismissed who do not prevent further outrages on the Jews A syndicate has been formed in Mot-cow for the promotion of cotton culti­ vation in Central Asia. American experts will be introduced to superintend the work. SIXTY THOUSAND Chinese laborers who have finished a contract in Cuba applied for permission to go throtagh the United States on their way home. Secretary Folger placed the matter before the Cabinet, which decided that the request could not be granted, and the coo­ lies will be compelled to return by way of En­ gland. J AT A. HtJBBEi.li, Chairman of the Re­ publican Congressional Committee, in an open letter to George William Curtis, asks the latter to join him in requesting the President to submit to the Attorney General tbe question of liability under tbe law for making campaign contributions On the fourteenth ballot of the California Democratic State Convention Rtoneman «a« nominated for Governor.... The Iowa Republican State Convention, in which 765 delegates are entitled to seats, wid meet at Des Moines Aug. 2...,The Michigan Bemocratic Convention has been called to meet at Jackson on Aug. 28. CMmaeftl, lewa, Vlsltvrt fey m Cyclese •f PhenesicBal Vtelssce-A KMC* Nstaahmr «f People KUM-Bavafw si UM (MMm lllsewheMi A frightful storm, or series of storms, swept over a large seotion of the Northwest on the 17th and 18th of June. Grinnell, Iowa, seems to have been the greatest sufferer, a consider­ able portion of the town going down before the fieroe wind. The loss of life is the saddest feature of the disastrous visitation. It is be­ lieved that upward of 150 people were either killed outright or fatally wounded. At Grin­ nell alone the death-roll will reach nearly, it not quite, 100. Nearly twice that number were more or less seriously injured, while the property loss amounts to at least $700,000. A corre­ spondent furnishes the following graphic ao- count of the ravages of the hurricane at Grin­ nell and vicinity : During the day the weather had been unusually hot and toward evening ominoua-lookiiig clouds hung in the northwest. About 9 o'clock a deep and sullen roar like the approach of several rapidly-moving freight trains waa heard, but before the cause of the peculiar phenomena was surmised the storm had burst in all its fury. Striking the town upon tue northwest quarter, it cut a sinu­ ous path through the most beautiful resi­ dence part of the town, carrying death aad destruction in its path. Every animate aud inanimate object was picked up iu its relentless grasp and hurled to death and destruction. Houses were annihilated, fences obliterated, trees broken off iike straws, or in some cases the trunks were left standing, stripped of every vestige of foliage and peeled clean of the bark, leaving but a white monument of the fury of the etorm. Sidewalks were picked up and tossed about, each particular plank being converted into an engine of death in the circling grasp of tho storm. In the light of the terrible damage done it seems almost miraculous that there was no greater loss of life. There can be but one way to account for it. Many of the village people were down town doing the usual Saturday evening marketing. The business portion of the town escaped, aud in this way greater loss of life was prevented. \The scene in the track of the storm beggars description. It was about half-past 3 o'clock this morning when the special train from Moines, in charge of Supt Royoe, of the Rock Island road, and bearing a corps of physicians and relief force, arrived. At tha'i time twenty-eight of the dead had been recovered from the debris in Grinnell alone. The hotels, school-houses and town hall were converted into hospitals. In the town hall alone were twenty dead bodies, ranging from the youth of 10 or 12 years to the man whose hair had been frosted by age. All around were grief-stricken friends and relatives, and |the spectacle was one calculated to appall the stout­ est heart The wreck in the early gray of the morning was one of the most /lamentable Bigots presented to human eyes. ^ The path of destruction was through the town of Grinnell about 700 feet iu width. On the outer edges o£. the path the damage was the lightest. For the space of 20<l feet iu the center scarcely a tree or shrub escaped complete destruction. Housos were picked up and thrown to the outer circle, some to one side and some to tue other, as the freaks of the wind prevailed. In some cases the houses were removed, dashed to pieces, scat­ tered in fragments and foundation walls leveled to the ground. Nothing was saved of the con­ tents. Stoves, furniture, pianos and all the va­ rious articles of household paraphernalia were tossed about as though they were but children's toys. Articles of bedding and upholstered fur­ niture were found miies from their propel abiding-places. The handsome buildings oi the Iowa College were completely destroyed, one of brick aud another of stone, entailing a toss upon that institution of fully $100,000. The damage to the town cannot fall short of $700,000 or $800,000. Passing out of town, the storm struck a freight train on the Central Iowa railroad, liftod it clean from the tracks, aud turned the cars promiscuously around. About a mile and a half below Grinuell it struck a west-bound freight on the Rock Island road and removed every one of the heavily- loaded cars, twenty-three in number from the track, leaving the engiuo standing. Tuu con­ ductor of this train was fatally injured aud has aince riind. A brakeman on the Cen­ tral train had his head completely perforated with a piece of pine board. Beyond the Rock Island train no serious dam­ age was done until Malcom was reached, a small town twelve miles east of Griuuell. Here the work of destruction was re-enacted in all its hideousnesa. Tue path of the storm was evidently much broader here, reaching out to the soutlciJmL nearly the distance of a mile. Tbe FhjibjftMU and Methodist churches were demolished. 'Several business houses were blown down and residences destroyed. There were eight lives lost at Malcom anl the imme­ diate vicinity, though the greatest devastation was done in the country. This little town was nestled nicely on a geutle knoll To the south and southeast is a beautiful valley, beyond which is a stretch of undulating j rairie. Along on this prairie were located many neat farm- cottagea. There is nothing left of them. Standing in the streets of Malcom, the write* was shown the spots where the day before were located twelve comfortable farm-houses. About half a mile west of the village Charley Wheeler was killed. Mrs. Akers and her boy Johnny also lost their lives here. There is a sad inci­ dent connected with the death of Mrs. Akers. She had just olosed her house in town for the purpose of making a visit with friends in Illinois. Lost evening she and her boy went over to Mr. Wheeler's to pass the night with his people, her husband being absent in the mountains. She left a little girl with a young friend in town. Mr. Wheeler's house was destroyed, and Mrs. Akers' body was found in a ditch about ten rods away with a h^avy beam of timber rasting upon her, and a horrible gash across the side of the head. When the reporter left Malcom the gui was yet ignorant of the fate of her mother, aud was playing about tbe streets full of childisa glee. About three miles southeast of the town lived the McChire family of ten persons- But one of them had been found at noon, aild it is feared that death has overtaken them. Fifteen miles south of Brooklyn a number of deaths are reported. Considering the extent to which the path of the storm had spread when it reached Malcom, its fury is phenomenal. Tho debris of the farm-houses was scattered over the prairie for a mile or more in a southwesterly direction from the points at which they were located. The lumber was splintered and fragments driven into the ground with terrific forcc. Barbed wire but recently put on was blown from the fence posts and coiled and twisted into diver* shapes. Telegraph poles were snapped asundel and spitefully stuck in the ground. The dam age to property in and around Malcom is esti mated at $100,000. The place where the storm nrst struck is not definitely known. Northwest of Grinnell great devastation is wrought and several lives are known to have been lost, four beiug reported killed in one family. At Kellogg, a station east of Grinnell, one house was blown down. At Sheldahi several houses are reported destroyed, and it was probably in that vicinity that the first force of the blast was felt If there was ever a case that called for human sympathy it Is the ease of these people whom misfortune has so suddenly overtaken. The cyclone entered town from the west and skirted the ed&e of the place, taking a north­ easterly course until within about a hundred yards of the college, where it veered to the right, making almost a complete right angle. The width of the cyclone varied from fifty to 200 yardt;. A more-destructive sight cannot well be imagined. The course is marked very plainly by debris along its path. Among the rums are what was left of three pianos, also the carcasses of many dead horses, cows, dogs and pigs. Household goods of every descriptor are scattered all ovor the ground. Many of the articles are perfectly good, but of others hardly anything is left. The debris is fright­ ful to behold. It covers a grep* deal of ground and is ,;iied promiscuously in all directions. It consist* almost entirely of splinters aud frag­ ments. The proportion of things uninjured is very unalL Many a phenomenon can be ob­ served. A heavy oak plank was driven through a two-inch board across the grain, m&kihg as clean a hole as if cut with a chisel, and driven several feet into the ground. The upper story of a house was completely demolished except one wall, in which was to bo seen a closet witb books on the shelves, which had not been disturbed in the least; a so a stove standing near, which had not been mov >d The stove-pipe is still up. Strips of rooting tin were carried several hun­ dred yards and wrupped around trees in an exceedingly complex manner. It is a sin­ gular fact that in the block which was damaged the. most there wire the least people killed. It seems incredible that the college buildings should have suffered so much. Both were large and very solid buildings. Tiie brick structure where the students were killed is literally but a mass of powdered brick and splinters. The stone bnilding has the main walls standing, with a mass of smoldering ruins inclosed. Three stu­ dents only were killed, not ten, as at first re­ ported. One had a quite wonderful escape. He jumped from a third-story window aod slighted on the college bell, and, strange to say, fcMaped with only some severe bruises. Y' Freeman IfcyktV Henry Mo> re. Walter Que. . Khsa flUgenUL " 4- • Mr. PUpps tiUld. % Hiss Eva Marten. _ • . , iJ4r. Mrs. One's son, tOvMn off B. H. Borgett, student, DeepBtvefcfe":: E. B. Ohsset student, Storm Lain. ^ Miss AbW» Agard, student. *** W. EL Fry, brakeman, **M»*I^nderburg. Mrs. OuUison. Olive Hough. Mrs. Ellen Hough. £ Mrs. Vanderbttt, FairftO, I Ed aud Lizzie Clement , j Mr. and Mrs. Lewis. Deacon ML N. and Mrs, JfordK/ . • * Miss Tipton, at Deacon Ford|L ,r Mrs. D. a Totten. _ Mr. Alexander's little son. Infant son of Mrs. Hough. Mrs. Griswold, a widow* Miss Susie Bayer. Hattie Pittmaia. Mrs. Leibee. Mrs. Howard's little eon. Mr. O. D. James, wife and two John Diegnans, conductor Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific. i Mr. Guthrie's infant child and two small ahil- dren. Gov. Sherman has issued tbe following pro­ clamation: •' To the people of Iowa: The tornado which passed through the central portion of the fltnt* on the night of the 17th inst. has proven one of the most frightful calamines in the history of the commonwealth. Along the path of the storm, and especially at Grinnell and Malcom, there was not only a great destruction of prop­ erty, but an appalling IOSB of human life, and many who escaped death in their ruined homes are left in a condition of Buffering and need which appeals earnestly to tbe gener­ osity of the people. Ready hands and gener­ ous hearts have already done much to care for the wounded and shelter the houseless, but tbe results of so frightful a disaster must be long- lasting, and others further removed from the scene only await an opportunity to aid their stricken fellow-citizens. " I do, therefore, most heartily recommend that all contributions for their relief be sent to the Hon. J. B. Griunell, who is fully authorized to receive them, and to whom such a trust of generosity may be most confidently committed. "BURKN R. SHKBMAN." The Ilxtcnt of the Calamity--An Ap­ peal for Aid. DES MOINES, Iowa, June 30. Tbe following appeal for aid has been issued: To the Public: After two days and nights spent in traversing the (rack of the tornado that swept over this State with such fearlul havoc last Saturday night, and having reports from scores of the reporters of the Des Moines Itegister aud Associated Press sent to all parts of it, I find the condition of the stricken people so piteous and so needful of instant and gener­ ous help that I send this appeal to the people of the United States iu their behalf. The tornado made a swath of destruction through the thickly-eetded portion of Iowa some ISO miles in length, and an average of half a mile in width, extending from a point south of Ames, in the center of tho State, and swept in the shape of a crescent to South English, in Keokuk county, in the Southeastern part of the State. We have the names now of sixty-nine dead and 500 wound­ ed, half of the iattergrevioualy hurt and prob­ ably a fifth of them fatally. Over 80t) families have had their homes totally destroyed, and there are now at least 1.500 homeless and in want. The loss in property will exceed $2,000, • 000 and may reach $8,000,000. I# the town of Grinnell alone over §400,000 in property was destroyed, on none of which there was a cent of insurance, as in the case of fires. It will take at least $300,000 to put the people there beyond need and distress. It will take $ 100,- 000 at once to put the wounded people in con­ dition to bo cared for. It will take $1,000,000 at the lowest to keep the sufferers from want and to help them to put the humblest of roofs over their heads. The people of Des Moines and of Iowa are re­ sponding geuerousiy. xuo citizens oi this city have subscribed *8,000 this morning, aud will make it f20,000 before night, in money, and are also sending provisions and clothing beside. But it will take the help of every humane city and town in the West and every liberal city and town in the East to put comfort and safety between these stricken peo­ ple and further suffering and fatality. Griuuell is a town of New England people, a thrifty, intelligent people, and with the lowest rate of crime and illiter­ acy in the State and the highest rate of intelligence and morality. The rich towns of the East may well help these sons and daughters of New England in the distress and need of the utter calamity visited upon them so cruelly by this Moloch of the air, which has killed fifty of their people, destroyed 150 of its homes, maimed and mutilated 200 more of it-! people, many of whom will soon die, and all of whom must be cared for for months, and wiped out totally nearly f500,000 in uninsured property. Iowa College has had all its buildings de­ stroyed, its 400 students made homeless, and has suffered a loss of $75,000 in uninsured property. The condition of other towns and farming communities is fully as pitiable and helpless. All that the people of Iowa can do will be done to alleviate the condition and repair in part the losses of the sufferers. But it will take $1,000,- 000 to do it, even to half-way comfort and recompense them ; and the people of the State* who have always borne their share and done their part in all national calamities, may fitly ask the people of other communities to help them in this hour of great calamit y to many of the worthiest of its people, and to this I end ask my fellows of the press through the United 8tates to place these facts before their readers, and to give their timely help to its sufficient purpose of raising and providing aid at the earliest moment possible. The fury and powar of this utter calamity were as indescribable in their mightiness of strength as t heir havoc and power were cruel and complete. Many people have left of their houses not a splinter as large as a finger, oot a shred of furniture as large as a ekein of silk, and hundreds have no clothing left except the night-clothes they had on. Cases of excep­ tional horror add exceptional pathosri to the piteous whole. Women in pregnancy were billed outright, others forced to premature de­ livery, and little children had both/parents killed and left maimed and wounded them­ selves. Every condition exists that most tenderly appeals to the pity of the human heart. The wounds inflicted by the debris that filled the air like chaos, by the elec­ tric balls of fire that seemed to traverse every inch of space and that exploded with fearfully- fatal effect, will, many of them, defy all skill and nursing even with the tenderest care. The fury of the storm, which was clearly of electric origin, and which, indeed, may be described as having fccoa electricity itself, pre­ cipitated ia ohaos, may be understood from the statement that, in various places, it took up in its greater spirals or funnels houses a thousand feet high, and took up and carried large herds of cattle through the air for thou­ sands of feet and dashed them down dead in heaps. Many thousands of cattle, horses, hogs and other animals now he in theu track of the tornado, already rotting, and adciac, in the hot weather, the horror of putrefaction to the foul and pervading odors that are being given off by the millions of HH of decaying matter left lii the wake of the toruado. The horrors of the storm, the unspeakable cruelties that It luflicted, the pitiless woe of its Doming in the night, when the dead were not taown and the wounded could not be found, and the piteous state in whi^h it has left hundreds of families, before prosperous, may not be described in words, but onco known to generous hearts must command the instant sympathy of the liberal, aud immediate help. Remittances may be mi.de to Hon Z B. Grinnell, at Grinnell, or the Mayor ot ti«i»- nelL I write from the knowledge of Nx> wl'^W days and nights spent on the scene ot desoV,. tion aud among the dead and woundod, • *». tell the facts of the multitude of horrors simu as tliev «ye, feeling that they will themselves best appeal to the country and most effectually aid the sufferers. J. S. CLATIKSON, Editor Des Moiues Register. Terrible Power and Extraordinary Freaks ef the Cyclone. No person would believe v.ere they told of the marvelous caprices of a cyclone, writes a cor­ respondent of the Des Moines Register. It can only be realized by observation ; even theu the senses are staggered. Prof. Myer, the old Sig­ nal Service observer, has given a theory of their movements which is confirmed by facts. It moves in funnel shape, with gyrating motion, making a large or small circle, and then per­ forming a loop or quarter circle each 300 feet, and in this quarter, or small circle, lies the ter­ rible power defying everything on the face of tbe earth to withstand. Tbe cyclone which struck Grinnell started apparently seven miles northwest and with a rocking motion eame bou nding in a large swirl aalfl tt struck the northwest part of the city, when a top was formed, whiota suoked everything into its vor­ tex for a apaoe of fifty rods wide aad oae- fourth mile long. Whatever lay in this track was demolished. Houses, large and small, with everything in them were torn up and crushed to splinters aad fragments, ana strewn over the earth along the track. There was no wind to carry them away. Buildings standing Just at the edge of the loop were lifted from the foundation, twisted out or shape or turned over. The contents wflfce smoked out and the rooms left bare, even the carpets being torn from the floor*. People were forced out of their bouses with temflo force. One man..whs carried across two streets, over houses, through a window, and lauded on a bed. Another was sucked out of his house, carried several rods, and lodged in a tree. A man named Rice, outside of Grinnell, and his httle boy were blown out of the house and into a deep well. He climbed out pushing his little boy before him. One house was whirled around, and a heavy timber forced completely through it, the furni­ ture and contents torn out, except a glass lamp end globe, which hung unharmed in the parlor; not a vestige of anything else being left in the room. At another house, wrecked and devas­ tated, the clock alono stood on the mantel, the hands pointing at 8:48, the probable moment the blast struck it, and this time is con­ firmed by the watch of the student who leaped from a college window, and which stopped at 8:45. At another place where there was nothing left to denote a rcsideuce but the cellar, a mirror unharmed was standing against the cellar wall, the only unbroken article that could be found. At L. C. Piielps' house, himself and family of five persons attempted to go down cellar, but the suction closed the doors «o they could not open them, and although the house was dtmolished except thi* room they escaped. Mi s. F. Taylor was oarried from her owu house and landed iu the debris of the house of Mr. Gra­ ham. Her house was little damaged, but she was fatally hurt. Mrs. Griswold and her son were blown from their house, but in oppo­ site directions. Mr. Foster, a farmer north­ west of Grinnell, had twenty five cattle lifted from a herd, carriod sixty rods and dropped dead. One family iu Grinnell were sitting to- ?ether in a low room when the house was taken rom over their heads, carried off and crushed in one direction, aud in a moment after they were whirled away in another direction. Prof. Magoun, nephew of the President of the University, was in front of Prof. Chamber­ lain's house with a span o' horses and carriage. He grasped a tree and held on. Ttie carriage was whirled away and torn in splinters, the harness stripped from the horses, the horses lifted into the air, and one dropped dead sev­ eral rods away. The other has not been found. Large trees were broken near the ground, and the upper twisted one way around the trunk while a few feet distant the process was ex­ actly reversed. Prof. Buck was in the southeast chamber. He started with his son to go down cellar when the whole of that side of the house was carried off, leaving the remainder but little damaged. He and his son leaped to the ground. In the tops of some trees was forced a new phaeton so tightly that it can only be cut out It waa doubled into a roll, and must have dropped there when the trees were bent downward. HorseB and cows had r timbers aud splinters driven into their bodies. Fel­ loes and tires of wagon wheels were to be seen with the hub and spokes gone. At one place where only could be seen the mud- colored debris of a dwelling which had evi­ dently been one of refinement and culture, the only thing left to evidence the fact was a beau­ tiful untarnished rose in full bloom, a marvel in such surroundings. One man who was hur­ rying to protect his home, but too late, threw his arms around a tree, and while there a horso and carnage were thrown over hun and dashed to t he earth beyond. Twenty-seven loaded cars on the Central road which had just come into the station from the north were struck in a loop of the whirl and turned over into the ditch toward the west, or face of the stoi m. The locomotive was lifted from the track and set on the ties right side up, while one mile east, a west-bouud freight-train in motion was keeled over to the east, and tha conductor and brakeman were killed. In some houses every inmate was killed or hurt, yet the house left while the next house and its con­ tents wore utterly destroyed and broken into iragments, yet tiie inmates not seriously hurt. Between Mr. Roberts' house and barn, which were totally demolished, was a large pile of stovewood, not a stick of which was moved. Mr. Roberts bad about t75 in his house, in­ cluding a (50 bill. After the storm he saw a piece of paper flattering on the ground, and found it was the $50 bill, held by a little sliver of wood. The rest was not found. One of his buggies wae taken, and another by the side of it left Thousands of instances of tho marvelous caprioes of this gyrating storm oould be re­ lated. The victims know nothing of anything except their ewn experience. It was all over in three minutes, or before one could stop to think or act. It is discovered that over a space of four blocks, where every vestige of habita­ tion is ground to pieces, the people saved their lives by fleeing to the cellar before the oloud- burst came. The most of the dead were found where there were no oeliars or they did not go to the cellar. It is therefore safe to assume that the cellar will be the quick resort hereafter on the approach of one of these besoms of destruction, beyond the power of the most fertile brain to describe. There is no safety in any building erected by man. Nothing on the face of the earth can withstand the force of one of these monsters. A gentleman who witnessed the movement of the cloud, which oould be done a few rods away, says it was a black mass, funnel shape, whirling along with a terrible rumble, but no wind. At the upper and in the center was a continuous lurid flame of lightning, and con­ stant explosions, like hand grenades. Behind this was'a mass of water and mud. Every per­ son killed was so covered with mud that they could not be identified until they were washed. The houses were plastered with mud, and mud coven every foot of the traek of the cloud. rain. It was dark MI tbe boWwls-- pit--«o> dark that the Uaeknew eooUl abac* baMfcl aad through this inky air groped fcundndsoff men and women MM to find the of tteviottusor aui remain* or the victims of nature's < The City Hall WM converted into a monueaaft the other publie buildings into hospitals. Be­ lays of doctorshastfloadtotheaeeoeof butch­ ery from all quarters. Mr. Moffatt, who I had charge of the dead-bouse, tells of the spectacle that was presented there Sunday moving: "We worked half the night and all Sunday forenoon getting tbe bodies into shape for- burial. Tbere were forty of them ranged about- in the room, nearly all women and It being Saturday night, the men were mostly down in the business part of town par- chases for Sunday. The bodies when first | brought in were unrecognizable. Dirt, sand, ' plaster and cinders were ground into tbe flesh, l and in many instances it could not be washed ] or scraped off. It was as though the victim had been mashed into an ash-pit and rolled about under tremendous pressure. I cian thinfc of no other simile that will convey my idea of how t»iev 1 oked. ••Tbe clothing was tern from the bodies in a* few oases, but only a few. The shreds that were left clinging to the forms had to be out away, however. That was tbe only way it oould be done. Every single person brought to the morgue was mutilated in a shocking manner. Forms were sometimes hammered and beaten into shapeless masses. Spines were driven into the skull, protruding through the top of the bead; backs were broken, or telescoped; skulls crushed like egg-shell*; eyes hanging down the cheeks; arms and legs torn from the bodies and hanging, disjointed, by shreds of flesh ; entrails protruding from frightful gaps, and vitals scooped out and de­ tached entirely from the bodies. The picture was sickening. It took me two houra to lay out the mutilated remains of what had once been a beautiful young girl. Her head had been crushed down into her trunk and could only be extricated by cutting away the flesh in a man­ ner that seemed almost barbarous. Tbere was only one way of doing it, however. I pray God I may never be called upon to aee another a sight" Astonishing stories of the freaks of the tempest are told, and I am in a. fit frame of mind to believe almost anything alter having gone over the track of the cyclone for a dozen or more miles, and spen witn my own eyes the havoc wrought. Who has not heard of the wind blowing In rd enough to take the hair from a dog's back ? That is one of thethingsl never believed. Neither could I quite swallow the statement that, out in Nebraska, the inhabitants have to wail up their wolle to keep- the hurricanes from blowing out the holes. The story about chickens having been denuded of feathers is scarcely less difficult to believe the dog story ; yet to-day there is an old hen. and brood of chickens in Grinnell literally stopped by the wind of every feather, and as clean as the day they broke through the shell of the egg that gave them life, and I am told that flocks of prairi© chici£en@ h&v© ifpt-n plucked ia a similar way. In M ilcom a stable belonging to Bradbrook,. a noted sportsman, was lifted from the ground* transported over the tops of a grove of trees, and landed at the foot of a hill an lighth of a- mile away, and none of tbe three horses in the barn were killed, or even seriously injured. One of tbe animals was thrown through an open door, alighting "right side up, with care,"' in the mud. On three of the four corners of the two main streets in Malcom are flimsy frame buildings, and on the rt maining corner stood a strong two-story brick bloeu. The cyclone spared the wooden buildiugs, and knocked the knek struct­ ure into flinders. Up the street, half a block, was located a three-s o<y irou and brick build­ ing owned by J. H. Duffus. It was crushed like a shell, and pieces of the corrugated iron veneering blown to the outskirts of the town. A farmer living seven, miles away brought in a piece of Duffus' iron; weighing several pounds, it having been dropped in afield near his farm­ house. A one-armed student jumped from the third' story of the brick dormitory and was carried a considerable way before he struck the ground, without a scratch. Tbe student immediately ran downtown and rang the alarm belL • Mud and dirt were blown into the sides of buildings still standing with such force that the diKhtiur.ng blotches cannot be removed. Gravel was not splashed up against the build­ ings, but driven in, as though discharged from, a mortar. I saw a delicate mantel ornament taken un­ injured from a mass of mortar and other rub- bibh in Grinuell, aud within twenty f eet of the place was a dark spot, showing where a young * into the earth and A large house, owned by Lucius Sandsirs^in .Jl the Cellar, "in^Hrtch*'™ child had been driven crushed out of shape. Grinnelt, was "tiffed clear Of were concealed ten persons, and hurled upon the ground 150 feet distant, while a barn in the rear of the same lot was pitched the same dis­ tance in an exactly opposi e direction. A young woman living loss than a block from- the Sanders residence was drawn through her' bedroom window on the second floor, and gently wafted sixty yards away and deposited softly on the ground unhurt Other members of the same household were treated with equally delicate consideration, having been bio»n to the same place without the infliction of serious injury. Tne Cyclone Described--Singular In­ cidents anil Hair-Breadth Evcapee. Much has been written with regard to the ap­ pearance of the cyolone, but I can not refra n, in this connection, from reproducing, as nearly as 1 can, a description given me with uncon­ scious eloquence by an eye-witness to the descent of the boreal monster upon the fated town. "The sun went down," he said, "behind a bank of peculiar clouds. They were of fantas­ tic shapes, and the last rays of the setting sun imparted to them a crimson, angry hue. I oouldn't help, for the life of me, thinking of the ferocious red eves of an untamable, bull dog, when Hooked al the lurid spectacle. Night came on, aud with ic the storm. Inees- sant lightning illuminated the northern and western heavens. The clouds grew blacker and the atmospheric p.gitation in­ creased. The balloon-shaped cloud about wh ch you already know could be seen approaching a quarter of an hour before it reached the town, and for at least five minutes before its arrival the roaring sound, which has been aptly likened to the rambling of fifty freight trains across an iron bridge, filled the air with its ominous echoes. It was preceded by a violent wind, which blew down trees and drove people into the house. I was standing in an open space on one of the western streets of the town, and, feeling that I was safer there thi>n I could be in a house, I determined to stay there, though I admit I was frightened half to death. The rumbling roar came near­ er, and the lowering mass seemed to reach out black arms to the earth, when, with a horrible, whistling shriek, the monster swept by within a hundred yards of the spot where I was rooted with amazement and fear. The raging thing swooped down upon the place, licking up every­ thing in its path. Some of the houses were mashed down and swept aloug, while others were picked up bodily, torn to pieces, and the furniture and occupants lifted into the air, either to be hurled to the earth again or blown the Lord knows where. The dread i ul giant pursued its way, crushing, crunching and destroying with cruel wantonness. In the un­ earthly glare produced by the blazing lightning, which flashed wickedly and incessantly, and by the balls of fire with which tbe gyrating mass seemed to be alive, I could see the air tilled with Hying objects of every conceivable form, from scraps of paper to sections of roofs and floors, to the height of 4 i0 or 500 feet, and I don't know how much higher. A house would be crushed like an eggshell and iu less time than it takes to tell the materials that composed it would be climbing skyward with incredible rapidity. The air was charged with electricity, and where I ntood the aintospbere was of a ghostly pallor. The whirling monster threw out flashes, and sparks, aud balk as it pasned along. Mingled with the frightful roaring of thecvcione oould be heard thefihnll, blood-curdling shrieks of women as they were caught up and borne away to their death. The demon concert is ringing in my ears yet. The cyclone was probably a minute, or a minute and a half, passing me. It eeemed an age. Nothiug ever tilled me with such unspeakable i awe as this relentless riot of the elements-- this merciless march of death." I After the storm came a Mimting, drenohiug The Cyclone Elsewhere. The storm inflicted a damage of'•200,000 at Leavenworth, Kan. St Mary's Academy was blown down and five of the young lady pupils At St. Louis, Mo., the damage was consider­ able. A number of steamers were blown from their moorings and sunk. Hundred J of houses were unroofeid aud thousands of trees prostrated. At Kansas City, Mo., houses were unroofed, windows smashed, and a great deal of other damage done. The loss is estimated at 9SOO,- 000. At Cairo, IlL, the tornado unroofed the Vincennes wharfboat and overturned twenty box-cars in the Illinois Central yards. A col­ ored man was killed at Beach Ridge. At Me­ tropolis a coal-barge was sunk and Uie roofirof several buildiugs were taken off. 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