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Show GREAT DISASTERS. Eighteen Persona Injured and Mnch Properly Destroyed by An Ohio Tornado. A SIMILAR OCCURRENCE IN MISSOURI. MIS-SOURI. . PennsTlrania Has a Cjclone which UcsuIU In Heath aad Destruction. IT IS ACCOMPANIED BY A CLOUDBURST" CLOUD-BURST" Detrotlial of the Russian Czar's Eldest Daughter. Work Before Be-fore Congress. Cy Telejrraph to lheNatea.1 ji o it u 1 itx.t no in. Ohio, 3!Konrl mid Ienuylranla tlltrd l.y llextrtirllie 13 elene-... AKitox, Ohio, May II. Darkness set in so soon niter the tornado that tore through the southern part of the city Saturday evening that not half an ideacouM he gotten of the fierceness fierce-ness or extent of the terrible storm. Itmovtdin almost a straight line through tlie will-settled (art, and scarcely a foot of the mile and a half but is strewn today w ith house-timbers, splinters, broken furniture, uprooted up-rooted trees aud leveled barns aud outhouses. In a trip over the storm's lath today nineteen duellings were counted, either ripped Into kindling-wood kindling-wood or so badly w recked tliat they cannot be occupied. 1 w enty families, fami-lies, uumbcring about seventy-lie persons, nre out of house and home, and are being sheltered by friends. Of tho lighteeii Is-foiis injured all will prolinbry recover. Seventy-five Seventy-five buildings Including residences, barns and outhouses, w ere DAMAOEU BY THE WIND. and not one escaped that was in the direct line of the turnado. LT rooted trees aru counted by scores, outhouses In some cases were carried car-ried from fifty to one hundred feet and set down In neighboring yanln. Thousands of people visited the scene of destruction today. In several sev-eral churches relief -upcm were started, and several thousand dollar raised for tlie Immediate wants of the homeless iieoplc. William Ptoleand daughter, who had Ju-t drlvtn into their Isiru, were caught up with the building and rolh 1 to thu bottom of tlie hill on which it stood. That no lives were lost Is ni'jst wonderful. 1 11 njauy imtancei. families escaped by taking nfuge in cellars. ir-ti:uction in -dissour.i. St. Ixjcis, May II. Sevcrl violent vio-lent storms iu the form of tornadoes have occurred in dlffertut nrts of North Missouri within tlie past two days, and a large amnuut of proirty lias been destroy oil and several j-er-sons killed. In Harrison couuty a number vf lious--s anil barns were demolished and a largu amnuut of farm property destroyed. William Wilson and two small children were bloivn away with his house, and killed, and several .-rsuns Injured. In-jured. In Gentry County more than twenty buildings were destroyed and Mn. Nathan Greine was killed. Cattle and hogH were killed, and a greatdenlof farm prcjieity as will is cni greatly injured. Pivcorsixbulluint-s were blown away south of Memphis, Mo., near ltl theilale. Mrs. Jane Moore, and .Mrs. Henry Young were fatally injured in-jured and n number of other persons more or le-s seriously hurt. More than a dozen houses were wrecked and other properly destroyed. A l'lN -.YLVANI A Ci CLONK. Fkaniclin, Pa., May II. A cyclone cy-clone passed oer the southern art of tills county last evening. Two people, Noah Jackson aud wife, were killed and a large number of jiersons were dangerously Injured Hie storm w as general throughout tlie county, but the cyclone wasonly about 300 f.tt wide. It extended about 25 miles. Kverythiug in its icith was demolished. Trees were uprooted and houses and barns com pletely destroied. A Large tiumU-r of cattle wtiu killed. No trains havearrived in tlie Allegheny Valley Val-ley since Iat night on account of slides and a bad wreck near here. CLOUDBURST AND CYCLONE. Oil City, Ta, May 11. Tho most destructive cloudburst and cy-lone cy-lone ever known hen struck this section alout II o'clock Saturday night. Houses, barns, bridges, oil well rigs and gas lines are iu ruins. At lxst Sandy, about eight miles from here, the residence of William F. Munnemaker was blown down, burying the entire family In the ruins. Mr. and Mrs. Munnemaker were seriously Injured and two children chil-dren will die. Mr. and Mr. Jack-sou Jack-sou were buried In the ruins of their residence and taken out dead. The resiliences of Thomas Starr and William Ijaml-rtson were destroyed. des-troyed. The Valley Railroad suffered suf-fered severely. The Cajtr's Inua;hfer. St. IETEiisuuna,May II. Negotiations Nego-tiations aru in progress looking to the U'trothal of the ilder daughter of the Czar, tlie Grand Duchess Xenta, to the young King Alexander Alexan-der of Servia. Alexander I. Is not yet H years old, bis birthday falling on August 14, while the Russian princess la oldtr lhau her proi-osrd fiancee, having attained her fifteenth fif-teenth year last March. This arrangement, ar-rangement, If carried out, will strongly emphasize the support of the St. Petersburg government to Queen Natalie nnd tlie regime In Servia, and will be, in a measure, a ;dow to Austria and a menace to Bulgaria. A Monk's neslsnallnn. IoClSYlLXK, Ky., May 11. Father Benedict Abbott, or the famous TrappM monastery at Geth-semane, Geth-semane, near Bardstown, lias resigned re-signed on accouut of h.avinglK.-come a paralytic, and therefore !ticntn-tent !ticntn-tent to attend to his duties. Father Kd wards has been chosen in bis place. Cause ol Ihe I'laalr. Chicago, May 11. 'Iho fizzle of the projected packiug-housc strike on May 1st is now reported b have been due to 1 Secret plan font licttcr organized walk-ouAn July, when theincking-houses will be extremely busy, thus augmenting the chances of success. dated Chinese. Tientsin, May II. I.I Hung Chung today opened tho Municipal Hall, which Is'namoJ after General "Clilneso" Gordon. At a banquet following the opening, Denby, the American minister, predicted that there would be a railway la Manchuria Man-churia In two-years. a F. Trains TJlorl. IxjNDOS.May 11 .George Francis Train sailed for New York on the tlruna today, expressing confidence confi-dence in his ability to complete the trip to Taconm In sixty or sixty-one days. |
