The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-10
ST. LOUIS.
A Terrific Hurricane-SeVera Per.
Sons Killed.

hurricane passed over a portion OF East
st. Louis between two and three o'clock
this afternoon. The wind first came
from the southeast, accompanied by a
brisk shower, but suddenly veered to
the southwest, and came with fury
and force never before witnessed IN this
latitude. 1t first struck the elevator
on the bank of tire river and took a
part of its roof off, and passing on in a
due northeast direction, it totally de-
molished the freight depot OF the st.
Louis e. Vandalia railroad, eight
hundred feet long by one hundred wide,
and a 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 d
Alton railroad; the car house, scale
office, freight office and part OF one OF
the freight depots of the Ohio u Miss,
issippi railroad; the freight and passen'
ger depot of the Toledo " Wabash
road, and a number of dwelling houses
in the vicinity. a portion of the root
Of the Terre Haute d Indianapolis de,
pot was blown off, Nearly all the der
ricks and other appliances used in the
construction of 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 a
thirty ton locomotive, was blown from
the track and whirled some forty feet
into a slough. Another train Of thir'
teen cars, laden with grain, was over
thrown and smashed, and one car blown
into the river. A train coming in on
the Terre Haute road, when at Brook
lyn, three miles north of East St
Louis was blown from the track, and
some forty cars standing on a side track
Of the Toledo, Wabash ~ Chicago and
Alton road, about nine miles out, were
overthrown. The round house Of the
Chicago & Alton road, after being blown
down, caught fire from an engine inside,
and its ruins were burned. The en-
gineer Of the locomotive was burned to
death. The number OF killed and
wounded cannot be stated tonight, but
seven are known to be killed, and be-
tween thirty and forty seriously, some
dangerously, wounded, and a good many
more slightly injured. 1t is believed
there are a number of persons still
buried beneath the ruins. The scene
is trightful. Some houses are torn to
fragments, others unrooted or upset,
and still others carried bodily from
their foundations. Scarcely a tree or
anything else in the track of the
storm is standing. The wreck and ruin
is complete. The pecunary losses are
estimated as follows: Chicago Il Alton
railroad, 100000; Ohio IL Mississippi,
100000; Toledo d Wabash, $l25, ,0OG
st. Louis & Vandalia, $4,000; South
eastern, $30,00e Virgins Ferry com.
pany, $4,000. Two or three steam
boats lying on the eastern side Of the
river were also very seriously damaged.
ST. LOUIS, March 9.-The deaths
caused by the tornado which passed
over East St. Louis yesterday, as far as
known, are as follows: John Halpin,
employed on bridge; John B. O'Neil,
purchasing agent Southeastern railroad !;
John Vogel, Daniel Collins, Timothy
Dinner; Isaac Evans, Engineer Chicago
~ Alton railroad, burned in round
house; John Eisley, brakeman Toledo
4 Wabash railroad, and a teamster,
name unknown. OF the wounded the
following are the most seriously hurt
Henry c. Creveling, Superintendent
Virgins Ferry Company, right shoulder
fractured and head cut by chimney OF
ferryboat falling across his carriage
Geo. Schone, master mechanic Chicago
Il Alton road, terribly cut on the head,
and one leg badly crushed; NJ. Conway
and two children, tearfully cut about
the head and body, Louis Parron, head
badly cut; 5. Marks, Of Nashville, head
shockingly cut; Chas. Parry and Thos.
Hamilton, seriously cut; Peter Flynn,
leg broken; Frank Dunnegan and wife,
badly hurt; Milton Mcfarland,
seriously; Aaron Stanus, agent
Adams Express Company, head
badly cut; Harvey Stockman, ward
master Toledo d Wabash railroad,
head terribly cut; Timothy Donohue
same road, head, badly cut; VIM.
Dennet, fireman on Wabash road
shoulder dislocated; William Hill,
blacksmith Wabash road. head terribly
cut, possibly will not recover; Peter
Phillihan, conductor Pullman sleeping
car, seriously; Lucy Glasgois and Bar.
bars Sincraft, seriously, the latter will
probably die; Margaret Richardson
and child, the latter fatally; Margaret
Nolan and child, badly cut, the latter
cannot recover; Ellen Dalton, serious
ly; Timothy Howard, Chicago railroad
terribly cut about the head; Elizs
Powell, head badly cut; VIM. Stark
pilot ferryboat, seriously; Nat Quinn
Vandalia railroad, arm broken; Frank
Edwards, engineer Vandalia road, terri.
bly, scalded; W. F. Gainey, fireman
Vandalia round house, arm broken
The less seriously and slightly injured
will outnumber the above.
The immense mass of frame work ir
and around the eastern abutment o
the bridge, consisting of dericks and
massive supports for other hosting 'ap
paratus, was blown down like 80 many
reeds. Some thirty families are rendered
homeless by their houses being blown
down. Most Of the latter were totally
destroyed. The steamer Mollie Able