Show telegraphic NEWS ST louis feb 19 the following is a list as far as now known of the killed and seriously wounded by the cyclone at mt vernon this afternoon THE KILLED mrs russell dewey john C murray mr cummings an heane engineer ag ineer mary westbrook james Hearson on mrs holcomb dr john yearwood and wife I 1 samuel yearwood and wife geo princell mrs wm win jones and child john dobson miss josie sutton john shew a blacksmith name not known FATALLY INJURED lawler laclere Law lerE E legg leg mrs henry wat miss laura lisenby chas ellis bills mr and mrs C galbraith tb charles weir mr and mrs westbrook amanda amaada bearden W H hitman lizzle lizzie bennett J C Han hambrick brick chas pool miss misa corinne Han hambrick brick Biown brownlow low hawkins mrs albright Albris ht henry ellis bills mr rope joel howard evansville ind feb 19 news OI of the cyclone at mount vernon Verno nIll is is fragmentary but the associated press reporter will send connected account as soon as possible the train due from there at 12 a in will bring the details the telegraph lines are working ui unsatisfactorily satisfactorily the cyclone struck the town about half past four a in m and committed terrible damage the damage is principally in the northern part and on court house square the mayor telegraphed here tor for aid one tire fire engine and two hose carte were sent with firemen to work them also nine physicians and twenty five citizens including newspaper reporters the telegraph line between mt vernon aud and st louis is reported down the distance from here is 86 85 miles A special train will reach here about 11 and we will have some details soon after A destructive storm is reported at Nort nortonville onville kentucky no particulars the only connection from evansville is by railroad wire used to run trains by st louis has a limited telegraph connection FURTHER DETAILS OF THE DISASTER A chicago times special f from born mount vernon ills says at about 5 this afternoon a cyclone struck the town and left it in ruins it killed 15 to 20 people and it is feared that maby more than are now known to have been killed will be f fouad among the ruins A fire immediately bre broke ke out oat all over the city and ruins which is spreading rapidly owing to the damage done to the tae engines by the wind the storm passed from the southwest and had a rotary motion it swept down with fearful force and fury striking striking first just south of the city hall ball it then carried away the third and fourth of the mount vernow mill from there it swept on in a path yards wide the metho dist church fell lust just a few minutes after people had left the sunday school schoolroom room the rhe commercial hotel lost its third story next the wind struck the county court house ano an rendered it a heap of ruins by more mere luck the county records were saved crews cre Ws block on the south side of the square is leveled with the earth and under it was found the body of john crew owner of the block formerly tor merly of chicago the roof and second story of stratton cos hardware store was blown away and the large two story atory brick schoolhouse did not withstand the terrible shock any better than the smallest house bouse in the track of the cyclone the large two story frame house of george ward was picked up and carried about twenty feet and left unhurt while two brick buildings within feet were left in ruins the loss cannot be estimated but not less jess than halt a million dollars worth of property has been destroyed by the or fire in that neighborhood the sly my has cleared and no BO clouds give any intimation of the disastrous storm of only a few hours ago olt lit is growing c ader cader cj derand and many of the homeless will suffer if the weather becomes severe reports are coming in from the country and the storm seems to have SWEPT everything FOR MILES incalculable loss of life and great suffering will follow unless Bi si stance is given mayor C H harnell will receive aid who will rive give it to the proper commit tee A mewung atif the business men was held and a committee appointed to care tor for the dead and wounded and protect 0 t property as much as possible K many ec who escaped with life have bave nothing besides many are v walking the streets with no home to go to the north side of the court house square was injured considerably no buildings were wrecked there except howard stratton she wounded are being cared for by the physicians in ia the best possible manner the railroad shops are badly damaged and a great number of houses destroyed people are out oat of doors who lived in the track of the storm the dead and dying are scattered throughout the city all doors doers of the remaining houses have been thrown open kcf the less fortunate three fourths of the business portion of the city is ruined the public square is in ia the centre of the town tae court house horise is in the centre of the square toe school building is in the northeast corner of ef the city all the dwellings in that portion of tae the city are destroyed and the ruins of some are still burning in all FIVE HUNDRED BUILDINGS ARK ARE DESTROYED and many man others injured the dead are now being gathered at the supreme court house which has been converted a into a hospital for the dead and wounded tills this building buil dine is also damaged but not seli seriously gusly the latest report shows twenty nine dead and about injured some of whom will die before morning moraine later reports say two more have died they are eddie maxey and mrs col cooper A number of the wounded are dying A number of men were struck by falling timbers and aad whose names can not be learned at present are reported badly injured and and dying the storm was prece proceeded eded by hall hail but not more than five minutes elapsed until the fearful destroyer bad swept over the doomed town it came from the south west buildings were wrenched and aad twisted and then dashed to pieces total wrecks the storm passed assed south of the city ha hall 11 MIS missed d yoe joe chanc s house bouse swept a away ay t the he thard third and fourth stories of the mt vernon vernoa mill mi III and destroyed nearly every house bouse from the mill north for a space apace of about live five hundred yards the commercial hotel lost its third story the entire west side of the square was wrecked the county court house was struck and the building buil dine reduced red 4 bed to a MASSIVE PILE OF RUINS the clerks have worked into the records and they are saved henry ellis el its was covered by the brickoff this building and escaped by a miracle charles ellis his brother was seriously injured R E ryan byan escaped in a manner almost incredible he was standing by murray in crews block and aad told him to pun p un tat but murray remained and was killed ryan byan ran west and finding the tract full of flying timbers jumped into a doorway hold held to the latch latch and the building buil dine against which he be was standing WELL B AROUND HIM but he escaped untouched touched uti A B coxs store G W morgans lewelly store maxey west and S wilts store and jacksons lerv store are all in ruins and on the south side of the square a frame building though injured escaped destruction haser haeser mans mana the ahe baptist church cooks drug store marrienus Marr Mar lons rients saloon perrys hotel and St rallon J johnsons ohn sons brick store were leuel leveled ed to the ground the entire east side of the square is destroyed and in one of the buildings john walters and child lost their lives as did henry walters lather father of john Mrs Walters was found with a babe in her arms both dead in the northwest corner ot of the square howard bros grocery was blown down and the root roof and see sec ond story of R M LS atton co s hardware store blown away while the frame hotel adjoining was unharmed across towards the northwest portion of the city swept the storm and a number ox of people were killed and the school building blown down not less than half a million dollars worth of property has been destroyed by the cyclone and fire are ST louis louig feb 30 20 ant ani eye witness who saw the cyclone at mount vernon ill III from the louisville nashville train describes it thus 11 1 I beheld a feard fearful ul black cloud coming from the northwest it was in the shape of a large inverted cone conrand and could be plainly seen revolving around an imaginary axis and at the same time bouncing up and down through the air with wonderful speed it grew denser and the blackness and fierceness which it assumed was appalling the wind in our immediate vicinity was now blowing with almost incredible VELOCITY men and women on the street were blown to the ground in a moment the whirling cloud arrived at the town and could be seen dipping dip pins down here and there tearing off house roofs and then rising higher in the air again like a swaying balloon it would float along with lightning like rapidity but soon swoop down again ain g upon the defenseless littfe little town in another spot rals raising r g houses and trees licking the aid side of buildings and tearing great holes in them and leaving devastation along every part of its course As the cloud would dip down and rise again again it would carry trees upward in t the e air and throw them to the with a mighty force parts of house roots roofs trees boards bricks with all kinds of debris were flying through the air at a fearful rate struck the southwestern portion of the city everything in its ipach taking a diagonal course through the business part of the city and dismantling the supreme court build eftig and aed crushing the methodist and baptist churches into wort bless masses at one point the destructive element jumped upward and missed several stores and ana residences but soon pounced down again bearing so down wn heavy brick and tearing frame structures out oat of semblance and making a useless mass out of the solid banks the massive court house that occupied the public square was literally gornto tor nto places pieces tats tais was the extreme point to the north which the storm reached A fifty yards south the storm being at its height at the corner of washington street and the public square crawls block a th ree story brick building WAS demolished and then taking fire was cone consumed timed the owner being caught in the falling walls and cremated across the street was a row of two story frame with occasional brick buildings the brick buildings bull dings were caved in and the frame buildings were crushed out cue of shape against each other near the corner to the south were a lot let of frame structures which served as dwellings and warehouses they were blown down and then burned up jup entirely the storm was over in three minutes and people who were unhurt nave gave assistance to the needy the fire company aided by the citizens who had reorganized into squads began the work of putting out the tire fire and RESCUING TUR unfortunates the mayor called for assistance from neighboring towns which was promptly given what was left of the supreme court building was turned into a morgue the storm does not appear to have done any damage outside of mount vernon had the storm occurred an hour earlier the loss of life would have been frightful al as churches which were destroyed de at were crowded at the time the T he south portion of mount vernon is the newest part of the city and had bad many large and fine buildings the court house has not been injured but stands stand alone salone all about itis it is rula and desolation and it is no now beina bein e used as a hospital for the wounded many are suffel ing greatly it is now thought the northern portion of the town will es escape cape the fire I 1 which to is confined to the east south and west sides and is being fought hard bard A pathetic incident of the disaster is the fact that the operator at the mount vernon end of the louisville Nashville whose name is yearwood Year wod ad has an uncle and cousin dead in the ruins and the poor fellow fello 9 with a heart bursting with grief i is sitting manfully at the pot of duty four men in evans bank were imprisoned IMPRISON XI AND BURNED TO DEATH their cries of pain and distress were agonizing in the extreme but nothing could reach them their names could not be obtained twenty one physicians joined the relief train from evansville ans ville en route they arrived shortly before in midnight Id night I 1 |