The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-03-10

of Cars, Including Thirty Ton
Locomotive, Blown from the Track
and Hurled Forty Feet Into a
SIough..Seven Persons Known to
Have Been Killed. Thirty or Forty
Seriously Injured-.Damage to Prop
erty Over $3.50, 700.
... ST. LOUIS, March 8.
4 most terrific hurricane passed over q
portion of East st. Louis between two and
three o'clock this afternoon. The wind
first came from the southeast, accom-
panied by brisk shower but suddenly
veered' to the southwest, and came with q
fury and force never before witnessed in
this latitude. It first struck the elevator
on the bank of the river and took part Of
It's roof of, and passing on in a due north.
east direction, Il totally demolished the
freight depot Of the St. Louis and Van
dalil Railroad, eight hundred feet long by
one hundred wide, and O water tank eighty
feet high, and the passenger depot Of the
Southeastern Railroad; two freight depots,
portions Of the passenger depot and ticket
office, and the round.house Of the Chicago
and Alton Railroad the car house, scale
office, freight office and part Of one Of the
freight depots of the Ohio and Mississippi
Railroad; the, freight and passenger de-
pots ot'the Toledo and Wabash Road,
and q 1iumber.of dwelling houses in the
i vicinity. A portion Of the roof Of the
Terre Haue and indianapolis depot was
blown oil. Nearly NIL the derricks and
other appliances used in tho construction
CT the bridge were torn from their places
and blown into the river. Everything
within width OF from two hundred to
three hundred yards was actually torn to
pieces.
A whole train of cars, including
| thirty ton locomotive, was blown from
the track and whirlel some forty feet
into q slough. Another train Of thirteen
cars, laden with grain, was overthrown
and smashed, and one car blown into the
river. A train coming in on the Terre
Ilauto Road, when ut Brooklyn, three
miles northeast Of St. Louis, was blown
from the track, and some forty cars stand
Ing on side track OF the Toledo, Wa
bash, and Chicago and Alton'Roads, about
nine miles out, were Overthrown. The
round house of the Chicago and Alton
Road, after being blown down, caught
fire from an engine inside, and its ruins
were burned. Tho engineer Of the loco
motive was burned to death. The num-
Der of killed and wounded cannot be
stated tonight, hui seven arc known
to be killed, and between thirty
and forty seriously wounded, some
dangerously, and n good many
moro slightly injured. 1t is believed there
arc u number Of persons still buried be-
meath the ruins The scene Is frightful.
Some houses arc torn to fragments, others
unroofed or upset, and still others carried
bodily from their foundations. Scarcely
building or q trcoor anything else with
in tho track of the storm is standing. The
wreck and ruin Is complete Tho pccunl.
ary losses are estimated rs follows: Chi
caco and Alton Railroad, $3OO,OOO; Ohio
and Mississippi, $2O0OO0 Toledo and
Wabash, $125,0OO; St. Louis and Van.
dalia, $4,000; Southeastern, $4,000;
Wiggin's Ferry Company, $95O0O. Two
or three steamboats, lying on the eastern
side OF the river were also very serious.
ly damaged, m tah .Mt. fh'..fl
LATER.
ST. Louis, March 0.
The deaths caused by the tornado
which passed over East st. Louis yester-
day, rs far US known arc seven, as follows
John Halpln, employed on bridge; Jno.
B. O'Neil, purchasing agent, Southeastern
Railroad; John Vogel, Daniel Collins,
Timothy Dunn and Isaac Evans, engi.
neers on the Chicago & Alton Railroad,
burned in the round house; John Eisley,
brakeman on the Toledo s. Wabash Rail-
road; and o teamster, name unknown. OF
tho wounded the following are the most
seriously hurt Henry G.. c. Revcllng,
superintendent of the Virgins Ferry
Company, right shoulder fractured and
head cut by chimney OF ferry boat falling
across his carriage; George Schonemaster,
mechanic Of the Chicago 4 Alton road,
terribly cut on tho head and oneleg badly
crushed; NJ. Conway and two children
fearfully cut about the head and body;
Louis Parson, head badly cut; L. Marks,
OF Nashville, head shockingly cut; Chas.
Parry and Thomas Hamilton, seriously
cut; Peter Flynn, leg broken; Frank Don
negan and wife, badly hurt; Milton
Mcfarland, seriously hurt; Aaron Stanns,
agent Adams Express Company, head
badly cut; Harvey Stockman, yard mas.
ter Of Toledo & Wabash Railroad, head
terribly cut; T. Donehue, same road, head
badly cut; VIM. Lennet, fireman on the
Wabash road, shoulder dislOcated; VIM.
Hill, blacksmith on tbs Wabash road,
head terribly cut, and it is possible will
not recover; Peter Phillihan, conductor
OF o Pullman sleeping. seriously in
iured; Lucy Glasgow and Barbara Sim
craft, seriously hurt, and the latter will
probably die; Margaret Nolan and child
badly cut, the latter cannot recover;
Ellen Dalton, seriously; Timothy How.
ard, Chicago Railroad, terribly cut about
the head; Eliza Powell, head badly cut;
VIM. Stark, pilot ofa ferry boat, seriously:
Mat. Quinn, Tandala Railroad, arm bro
ken; Frank Edwards, engineer on the
Vandalia Railroad, terribly scalded; W.
+. Gaines, foreman of the Vandalia round
house, arm broken. The less seriously
and slightly injured will outnumber the
above.
Tho immense mass Of frame work in
and around the eastern abutment Of the
bridge, consisting of derricls and massive
supports for the other holsting apparatus,
were blown down like so many reeds.
Thirty families were rendered homeless
by their houses being blown down. Most
OF the latter were totally destroyed. The
steamer Mollle Able lost her chimneys and
texas. All the upper works Of the iron
ram, Vindicator, owned by the Ferry
Company, were swept away. The tug
boat Hewett, belonging to the Bridge
Company, lost her upper works, and Cap
tain Montgomery was blown into the
river, but he's was saved with slight injury.
At the sectional docks, this side OF the
river, below the city, the tornado struck,
carrying away the chimneys OF the steamer