Show fawling ald mount vernon is visited and almost TOTALLY DESTROYED and many people killed and wounded I 1 BY A TERRIFIC CYCLONE I 1 what was lef t of I 1 lie town by the wind WAS LI ity i u r wh felt 3 arted while a strong gals was yit blowing cerrilo scene I 1 of havoc press to anz terrible cyclone CHICAGO feb 19 A cyclone struck mount vernon illinois today to day ta ie town was 1 les troyed A nuil her of lives mere 1 oat and many per gone injured such mere ilia reports that reached this city this evening bount vernon is situated in the southern part of tile mate about sixty miler eabe of fit bould in a direct line A dispatch from evansville ind ys er one hundred per dons more bolit i ilia c belone at bilowit ver non Illinois Tele grains are received this evening at evansville from mount bertlon Vert lon asking for help A train with two w a s a t 0 c e sent having on engines boar su r ge 0 n n rud suca ot tier assistance as could be has fily gathered A centralia illinois special to tb a D ia y A veu 8 s abir two thorda of blount V e r n j n f s u sped out besides ilia people killed outright many v ere n aured in response to calls for aid twenty members of ilia central fire department four a nd a number of leading citizens left toni lit for the acene of the cat astr ophe evansville ind feb 19 nes odthe cyclone at vernon I 1 I 1 ligols Is fragmentary but ilia asio coated press reporter ill send a connected account as soon as possible the train due from there at 12 p in will bring details the lialis are unsatisfactorily The cyclone struck the town about half past four and committed te aril le damage the damage is principally in the northern part and on court house square ahe mayor has ION graphed here for rid olle H re e angino and two holie reels sent witha firemen to work them also little ceans and twenty five citizens gitig newspaper re portera the tele grabil line between mount vernon and bt louis ili ie ported down 1 I ike distance from here is about 83 wiles A special train mill reach there about 11 and vt ill acme details soon after A destructive storm Is reported at nortonville Nort onville kv no tic ulars the only connect on from E Is by a railroad w ire wed to run traina by st louis has I 1 amit ad telegraph connection CHICAGO 10 A special to me daily aey s from evansville ind avs A r vernon L ills at a m today to day from the av beeping around a hall vircle anti halt the ton to n Tho remainder hive 0 h lint lace caught fire aal sit there was a strong wind blo ing tit e fit Is soon got beyond control of the fire d apartment part ment above the roar of the ind could be heard the and groans of the dying bodies hi tit buried in the debris could be seen on every hand ST louis feb ad following ia the i t as far as is now known of tile ki aled and seriously wounded hv t lie cyclone at mt I 1 life afternoon killed alm ilm sell dearey mrs john U walter and bully lien ty waters david F god and naife john 0 ill Cuni ming an 31 ry wei aaa bearbe dr john year w and eife samuel year god and wife george purcell mrs will jones and child john meon miss joie JO ie sutton john shaw ablack mith name not known fatally injured iealer E leigg mrs baiers miss laura Use tiby charles E is mr and mrs C galbraith charles weir and mr westbrook amana bearden IV 11 aliman liz ale bennetta Bennet tJ C hambrick Han brick charles pool corinne lian brick brown low 11 mrs albria fitt henry ellis joel ll oard CHICAGO fob 19 specia from blount vernon ills at about live this afternoon a cy clotte struck alie town and left it I 1 n gnipa killed fifteen to people and it Is feared many more are now known to have been killed will be found among the ruins of the builta ings A fire immediately broke oat all over the city abild the ruins spreading rapidly owing to the damage done to the by the wind the storm passed from the south and had n rotary motion it adept down w i tit fearful force and fury striking cirit jiust south of tile c ity hall then carried away the third and fourth of vernon mill from there it swept on in a path ards wide the t methodist eth odist huh f 1 ajust a deiv minutes after people bad left the sunday school room the hotel lost thin astory next the wind struck the county court house and rendered it a heap of ruins by rare luck bow ev erthe county records were saved crews balork on the south side of tile square is le velet ith the earth and under it iraq found the body of john crews owner of the mock formerly of chicago the root aej second story of it L stratton and cos hardware hard waxe ditore alev away A largo two ater brickhous bric khou 0 o did not the terrible shok any better than the smallest house ili the track of the cyclone rho two story framo georgo ward was pi axed up and about y feet anti left tin hurt while i u b u edings fit feet mere leit lit ruins the lose cannot be 1 but not less than damms of property has been d tr I 1 I 1 I 1 t 1 ae c or fire in that ry io u d the sav has cleared aal no clouds give a n intimation of the disastrous di storm Ta Itis grow in colder and m homeless wili infred if ani ar X oora a ports are conlin f in 1 t ibi 11 I 1 country and the storm aboms to have sv ept eve for miles le 08 aal great sul le ring will follow unless outside s t ili givan alador alayor C H hamell will give it to a proper committee A meeting 0 b me n was held and committees ap I 1 to care for the doid and ed and protect arty as much a 9 possible many w ho escaped with th e ir lives have noab ang besides many are walking the streets with no home to go to the north side of the ourt house square is injured consider ably no build in were brockel ex capt howards ggs Strut tons the wounded are being cared for by ceans in the best possible danl er the railroad shops have been badly damaged and a great number of homes destroyed ees troyed people are out of doors who 11 ved in the track of the the dead and dy ig or throughout it ty all the doors of remaining h 6 a be on thrown open tot a leos leo s fortunate three dourthe of the business portion of tile city is ruined the public squar eis in tho contre of the town the court P square file choul in the northeast corner of ilia city all the dwellings in that portion of the city are destroyed and the ruins of some are still ba ning in all building are destroyed and many others injured the dead are now being gathered at the su prene court house which is also converted into a hospital for the dead and wounded this building is also damasd but not seriously atte t reports chow twenty nine dead and abow injured some of bhora will dio before lster morning reports pay two more hav 0 d e th are eddie maxey and mrs C Y coo r A of wounded are da ir g A number of men struck by failing timbers and names cannot be learned at present are reported badly injured and lying file storm wa 1 ec but act more than five ea elapsed until tile fearful destro I 1 adept over lite doomed bosn it came from the buildings and sted and then dashed to wrecks the storm south of tile city hall m i s J h a n e y s h 0 u s e v p t a w a sat I 1 i e oo 00 h i 2 I 1 a n d 0 u rt h t t r le se 0 ilia I 1 aunt vernon mill and des nearly every house from the ill gottli for appah a of five hundred bards the commercial hotel lost its ichird story the entire west side of ilia square was wrecked the count courthouse vt as st uck and a building reduced to a massive pile of ruins cle ks have worked in to tile rewords and they are saved tito home of fiji was covered by the bricks of this building and escaped by a miracle fie was covered up and charles ellis ilia brother was seriously injured it E ryan escaped in a manner al mft incredible ile was standing by murray in crews block and tola chiku to run but remained and was killel ryan ran vest and inythe street fall of flying timbers into a doorway door wai held to a atall and the building against which he WAS standing fell around him but lie e untouched A B coxs store Bl organs store swifts bunro and jacksons Jak sons store are all in ruins the south portion of vernon Is tile n a ct part of the cit and has man y largo and fin a tile stanlis cour hou o has not been but alone all about is ruin and and it is now being need a for the wounded su aaa ar frering greatly it i s now thought lite northern portion of the town w ill escape the fire which is confined to tile east ani south and west sides and Is being fought man fully A pathetic incident of ilia disaster iq the fact that the operator op prator at the vernon end of the Lou kville and nashville coee name Is yearwood has all unde and in the ruin and the poor I 1 1 w alth his h emt bursting mith grief Is sitting manfully at his post of duty men ili tile evans bank were imprisoned in the rooms and burned t 0 death th a ir cries of pain and 1 I tress were agonizing in the extreme be done to reach them their names could not be ol 01 tanned ned twenty one physicians have dined the calif train from evansville en aronte they arrived shortly before midnight at 1 a in afie alres were under control oy the occasional droane of the dying and tile broad track made by the cyl lone remain botell of the terrible catastrophe in feb 19 the senate will devote and tuesday of t a coming week to the n of ciscel aleons anat on its calendar and oil wednes lay it u ill take up the bill Alli sons purpose to that tile estial adjournment from to the lol lowing day be dispensed week un leaf this measure shall have been passed by thursday night which is not probable the executive calendars contain little to occupy the time of the senate except ilia nomination of consul gene al rathbone of paris whose confirmation Is vigorously opposed but the fis berlis treaty w aich is expected tomorrow to morrow vial ailse to some discussion du ringa week it is the intention of somo senator ito at k that the treaty he made public at once and the majority Is doubtless in favor of adix a course but as the 11 precedents and aradi lien of the senate are it the result is doubtful it his happened before this when both the senate and state department were willina or desirous to have a matter of this kind made public that nether felt at lib et y lo 10 take tile initiative and no way of the publication was offered except to have the matter cabeda from some cott where precedents were less embarrassing embair assing unless like report of ilia secretary of upon the bontello Bou tello battle flag resolution should be transmitted to the house of representatives tomor to mor row and the day is consumed ia pol disca rian the speaker after tile introduction of bills will call tile committees for motion to sit the rules none of the committed comm ittes have its vet derided what inca Aures they will submit for action under this call butu lany of them will hola sessions to morning for that 1 atia probable that alie moans committee will endeavor to obtain the passage by the house of int row lutio forthe investment f the surplus in the frei tury and that ilia judiciary coni ri littee request action upon it le aloar resolution proposing a conati tut tonal amendment to chatine the date of inauguration day I 1 if the post committe Is it solution dixi it ag the adato for gurthet confide con side ra tit n of tua 0 bill in ilia order of busi nelis would not probably be again on the calendar during the present in af the g houe thel aill dortho stale of the bl k bob indian reservation in kansas is the unfinished business angwill a istir e committee on territories will 11 up oneff the relating to territories the moat important of which upon the calendar I 1 that pro viding for tile organization of lite terri tory of Okla llama I 1 the bresat lis of tuesday wednes lay thursday and saturday actor consideration of the morning hour each day i t have been assigned for bui ding bills and the friends athis of are numer ous enough to prevent any other ness displacing the special order al hough an adjournment over birthday 6 spoken of friday mill io devoted to private bills interrupted only by the report of the committee on upon tile resolution directing the secretary of the treasury to institute an I 1 all into tile new york sugar I 1 ru c may give riso to a brief debate gen sheridan declines washington feb 19 the avash ington agent of the press sought an interview mith general sheridan this evening for the purpose an ment in regard to ilia alleged dent ial I 1 fie genera arest ave his consent and it m ill be seen from verbatim report bithe conversation that ilia declination is thoroughly exploit it of couppe general yon have noticed that there has been con id erable mention of bour name dur ing tile past few mocks as a possible or atle ran didat for tile 11 res I 1 dency next general sheridah Sheri dau yes I 1 have not icett it but have never ak d upon those ne A inore than tile usual shooting around in ilia woods aich haa once or I 1 ice before in spars brought in alanie u p jn that connection bur e eral ilia talk is more serious this time and there appears to be something like a concerted coner ted arrange m e antl to bring about our nomina t lo 10 n general sheridan welli know nothing more about this alleged boom than m hat t have read ili tile papers except that now and then ake stiena me about beo ning a candidate but it chit matter Is really now disbursed dis cuRsed it is time that all part es concerns con cerne I 1 s hould be inform ad it la L k I 1 toy are batting their breath I 1 have never bad tile dennial bee in my bonnet and I 1 dont izi teni to have it for there is noling noli ig that would in duco me to ibave he profession in nearly forty vears of rily life have been spent to enter upon a civil career so rall talk about illy being a candidate tandi date ajay as ell end I 1 but suppose tile Re convention gen sheridan nominate me I 1 gouid not accept 1 ut not the bt probability of my bein nominated and in any event f bouli not av capt not under any c es I 1 do not that or avil office 11 I 1 terrible distress ST feb 19 tile ther reports of lite terrible distress adiong tile indians in the far north rev W S Pe alove it has reached winnipeg noath of iziver here lie has been for nine years ills journey down took ne arly three from peace altier lie heard of cases u here the indians had died of starvation arid had then been eaten by their acer have been very carce for tile past t 0 3 pars there is much feeling because tha govern hasta koit ilia eti lulion of these indiana repeatedly peat edly brought to its attention I 1 I 1 the crown B erlan feb the official hul 1 etin regarding tile coll of tile crown frinco today to day tile wound in the throat eim a more favorable and is grada ally cloning clo bing tile long is the y aberday aA erday ebere is a little mote the patients appe lite is excellent other rela rig i ay the cough is collid and that e x pet to ration is tinted it it iocim Io cid SAN aeh 19 the aroian prince isome A aliat liat let I 1 er his tigh is le although going oil airey airly lie does not show the average power of recuperation thief sac tex afi 19 ai chael carutt wits arrested to dav on ilia of a telegram aroi il c sher iff white of EI paso 1 I he cripner ner is chair ged ith having molen or I 1 as i ted th booma ter rl anite mexico ili lt ealing fame J ro ir ort of diamonds that ciul been consigned to ident biaz mex ice little been ismieal tl for the extradition of cuatt and the arival a rival G ian officer from JI paso Is abt sited kallus can veto sm fell 19 the riler Alam toda arrived from australia find honolulu today to day br lit tile following intelligence from the wand tho pu I 1 a C urt of hawaii on lie oth of R r decided thai under lite con of 1887 the kinga right of veto is a personal one arid that he is not required to consult ills cabinet in exercising that right A scouring rob 19 du an at alx tempt to arrest an illegal dredger today the state o fter police Ech captain clarke attacked by friree vessels and shooting was done oil sides af affray it 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