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Show Fw)ple Beported Killed by a Terriib Cyclone at yrophetstowii. 01, sTg VEEY MEAGRE AS YET. 1., Learned Except from the Trainmen Train-men of a Stock Train-Details, Train-Details, ,L.SGI0K, la., April 8.-A report .here late last night by railroad Lth3tprophetstown, Ills., has been ,Iir blo n away by a cyclone and people killed- No other particu-tw particu-tw learned, as the wires -are 'rostrated by the storm. Tnquir-Jt Tnquir-Jt in all directions up to 1 o'clock lilcd to bring further particulars storn at rrophetstown. .The eport, through railroad peoplo, mt a stock train was just leaving ,va when the storm struck it, ars being blown away. There- 1 !so stated that the town was al-ompletely al-ompletely swept away. . It seems ml if the report can be verified . phtststown is on the Clinton hof the Chicago Burlington & v railroad, iu Whiteside county, "one of the oldest " towns in the It has a population of 800 in-iats. in-iats. a 4:15 all efforts to get further in-tion in-tion about the actual state of i at Prophetstown were futile and ied not likely that anything could irned until daybreak. An ex-ly ex-ly severe thunder and lightning raged throughout northern Iowa, s and lower Wisconsin tonight, i serious damage is reported from her point. This leads to the be- :,t the report from Prophctstown ,e exaggerated. LATER DETAILS. Louis, April 8. A special re- at 8 o'clook this morning says rophctstown was blown away by idu. The only definite news ob-le ob-le was received from the train on a stock train which pulled out phetslown just after, i The train bay that either a tornado or a Q swept over the town aud that uln Js terrible. ' They say t that tifty lives were lost. The 'only of the dead obtainable are: "" liam Vance, station agent. v: iiles Murray, an old man em-" I by the railroad. :; m Wilson (or Nelson), a rail-iaa. rail-iaa. trainmen think that eight peril per-il Wilson's (or Nelson's) house killed. At 3:30 a telegram was id verifying the report that from 0 fifty people were killed. NEWS VEUT MEAGRE. aoo, April 8 A dispatch just re-! re-! from the railroad agent at Pho-own Pho-own reads as follows: A cyclone 1 Phophctstown at seven o'clock lening. A number of buildings blown down and a number of permit. |