The Awful Cyclone

WnïELiNG, W. Va., April 17.- The first genuine cyclone ever witnessed in this immediate vicinity was experienced Friday oaf ternoon. It wrought devastation over a section of country extending from St. Clairsville, O., ten miles we9t, to a point as far east as this csty. Little damage was done here. The storm was flrst feit at St. Clairsville at 3:15 p. m. Houses were demolished, trees snapped off like pipe-stems, horses and cattle proitrated and carried bodily hundreds of yards by the gale, and the sky was darkened with cloudsof flying debris. Two new brick houses beloneing to Colonel Patton and Judge Cochran west of town and a frame house belongïng to a man named Coleman were domoli.sh.ed and the furniture and portions of the roof and walls scattered for a mile. A mansion on the corner of Marietta and Main streets was cut off clean at the second floor and the walls and roof scattered in fragmenta. Of the First National Bank block and C. Trall & Sons' dry-goods store only a portion of the lower walls is left standing. The dwellings and business blocks oll E Fatterson, druggist, George Jepson, grocer, and James Patterson, dry goods, had the upper walls and roof swept off and the lower part of the houses badly damaged by falling bricks and timbers. About forty other houses were less ceriously damaged. No casualties to persons are reported. Benjamin Barkhurst's fine old brick mansion south of town was demolished, likewise the United Presbyterian Church. The loss in St. Clairsville will reach {200,000. Horses hitched in the street were blown about like chaff and the vehicles demolished. Ascantling sailed through the air for a mile and cut as clean a hole in the two walls of a brick house as a cannon ball would. Shingles were driven through weather-boarding like arrows. At Barton's Station, four miles north, a new brick house was leveled to the ground. At Pasco, five miles west of this city on the National road, the brick house of A. Hinkle was demolished and Hinkle was badly hurk Martin' s Ferry, on the opposite side of the river, at the north end of town, suffered even more severely than St. Clairsville. Here the eale licked up forest and farm homes and scattered fence in its path. One building of the Elston glass works, J. H. Drennen's house and L. W. Bailey's concrete residence were leveled. Henry Helling' eight houses, barns and sheds were destroyed. In the town proper seventy-five to one hundred houses were more or less damaged, and the loss will reach $165,000. The stove foundry was wrecked. James Reilly's house and saloon was blown down aod Mrs. Reilly was pulled unconscious from the ruins and may die. James Reilly, her husband, a saloon-keeper, had both legs broken ; Mrs. Wilhelm, a collar bone broken, and Mark Davis, of the Martin's Ferry stove works, is probably fatally injured. A Germán woman was dangerously hurt. f When the storm struck the river the water shot up in a perpendicular wall about twenty feet and then feil back in frothy, seething foam, and simultaneously a shower of boards, shingles, posta and timbers, with some large sections of houses, feil in a sheet on the turbulent water. The river for miles is strewn with wreckage. The Fairview school-house, one mile west, was wrecked, and Miss White, the school-teacher, badly hurt The aggregate loss will exceed $1,000,000. Wellsville, O., April 17.- One of the most terrific storms that ever visited this section passed over this part of the county at.three o'clock Friday morning, doing immense damage.