Swept Into Ruins

THE CICLONE'S WEATH. Mt. vebnon, 111., Feb. 2O.-This city was visited by a horrible cyclone yesterday at 4:15 p. m. It had been thundering and rainiug for sonne time when suddenly a low rnmWlng noisewas heard, and a black cloud tbat seemed to touch the earthswept over the city, and it became very dark. As Boon aB the cioud passed, however, the eky brightenetl, and people realued the shock and loss they had eustained. The town is about two miles long east and west aiul the course of the cyclone took In about two-thirds of the east end, the western part of the town escaping. Hundreds of honses are heaps ol ruins, and the city in the cyclone district presenta a scène of the moet horrible desolation and min ; of the nf ty business buildings only six are leftstanding. Whole families were bnried nnder their roofs witbouc warning save that given by the storm-cloud as It bounded over the earth like an immense iubber ball. lüe wounded lay in the remnants ot over a nundredhouseB, andevery few mcmentsadead bodv batteredoutof all eeniblanee to ínmanity, was tenderly dragseü from (H pns. on and borne to a place of Bafety. The awíul vieitatton only lasted a few seconds and almost immediately fi re brok out in a nnmber of the ruined buildings. The tornado carne from the eouthwest, an the whole Bouthern portion of the town was leveled, the northern portion reraamin? intact, bub threatened every moment with flamea So far there are tbirty-five reported killed, andup to 9 o'clock twentyeeven bodies had been recovered. About 250 were wounded. Reporte are coming in trom ine couuujr , and the storm seems to have swept every thin ior miles. In all probabüity 5,000 dwellings are totally destroyed and many others badly damaged. Mount Veknon, Hl, Fek 21. -The firsfc excitement íb now over and the people of thie stricken city have been able to determine the extent of damage done by the cyclone. Tho list of killed, fatally injured and seriously hurt is officially reported as follows: Killed, 37; fatally injured and dyinr, 8; seriously injured but may recover, 30; wounded, but in no danger, 67 About 360 houaes were destroyed, and f ully '2 000 people are homeless. The firfit hnrried estímate that placed the loss at $1,000,000 was about correct, and it will iully equal tïiat suin. The great power of this cyclone is shown in the utter ruin of tbe railroad house the maeBive court-house and tne CrewB block. These were all solid and Bubstantial buildings, yet they were Uterallytorntopieces. The cyclone did ita awful work in lesa than tb reo minutes. The Crews block was a bnckbmldinf three stories high and witti a f rontage of eio-hty ieet It was occnpieil by Evans bank a grocery storo and a saloon. The ownerof the building, B C. Murray, was buried undpr the wall3, and then burned to a criíp. Elward Hannal, his wife and their small boy ran Vo the basement and were also buried under the rmns. üy the merest accident the debris was so piled around thera that Hannal was able to crawl out and make a passage through which his wife and child escaped The rnins at once caught fire, and pvfirv thinir but the brick, Ktone and iron in the building was burned. Flyin? tjmbers, out-houses, fences and even sidewalks were hurled through the air with the velocity of cannon-balla Summicg up the county buüding, the churchee, business houses and stock of goods aggregate a Iobs oí $410,000; fine residences totally destroyed, $38,000; fine residences injured, $10,000; cottages, warehouses, barns, etc., $115,000; total, $573,000. Other incidentals will increase An appeal lor financial aiö was sent out yeeterday, and Governor Oglesby also IsBued a proclamation calling upon the public to contribute. SPBraoFiELT, Hl., Feb. 22. -Adjutant General Tance notified Governor Oglesbv Tnesday that thirty-seven persons had been killed at Mount Vernon by the cyclone and that eighty were wounded, twenty of whom are in a serious condition.