DISASTROUS CYCLONE IN ILLINOIS.
(TVER 100 LIVES LOST. Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Ur'ted Press Association. New York, Feb 20. has been received of a disastrous clyclone wh'cli has swept t) rough the State of Illinois on Sunday afternoon. Half of the town of Mount Vernon, the capital of Jefferson County, was destroyed, and, the ruins taking fire, an awful panic ensued. The flames spread with wonderful rapidity, and a great many persons were hr mod to death. Fortunately for tho safety of that portion of the town wl ‘ch had escaped the full fury of the cyclone, a heavy rain set in and quenched the flames. Over 100 hundred people were killed and fully 200 injured by faU'ng bouses, etc. A good deal of destitution prevails, many families having lost all of their possessions.
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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 310, 22 February 1888, Page 2
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133DISASTROUS CYCLONE IN ILLINOIS. Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 310, 22 February 1888, Page 2
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