Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-03-16


nd ST LOUIS, March S-A mos
terrific hurricane passed over
st portion of East ST. Louis betweel
two and three o'clock this alter
III noon. The wind first came from
v. the southeast, accompanied by
n brisk shower but suddenly veere(
: to the southwest, and came with
fury and force never before witness
! cd in this latitude.
1t first struck the elevator on tho
bank of the river and took parts oi
= its roof off, and passing on in Q
a due northeast direction it totally
8 demolished the freight depot of the
ST. Louis u Vandalia Railroad, 800
n feet long by 100 feet wide, and q
a water tank 80 feet high, the freight
and passenger depot OF the South
/ eastern Railroad, two freight de.
pots, portion Of the passenger
depot and ticket office and a large
round-house Of the Chicago Il Alton
road, the car house, scale office.
freight office, and part of the freight
depOts Of the Ohio d Mississippi
Railroad, the freight and passenger
de2ots Of the Toledo u Wabash
road, and a number of dwelling
houses in the vicinity. A portion
Of the roof Of the Terre Haute Il
indianapolis depot was blown off.
Nearly all the derricks and other
4 appliances used in the construction
Of the bridge were thrown from
their places and blown into the
river. Everything within width
Of two or three hundred yards was
actually torn to pieces. A whole
train Of cars, including a thirty ton
locomotive, was blown from the
track and hurled some forty feet
into a slough. Another train of
thirteen cars laden with grain was
overthrow and smashed, and one
car blown into the river. A train
coming in on the Terre Haute road,
when at Brooklyn, three miles
north Of East st. Louis, was blown
from tie track, and some forty cars
standing on the side tracks OF the
Toledo IL Wabash and Chicago d
Alton Railroad, about nine miles
out, were overthrow. The round
house Of the Chicago II Alton Rail
road, after being blown down,
caught fire from an engine inside,
and its ruins burned. The en-.
gineer of the locomotive was burned
to death. The number of killed and
wounded can not be stated to-
night, but seven are known to be
killed; between thirty and forty
seriously, some dangerously, woun-
ded, and good many more slight I
lY injured. 1t is believed num-
Der of persons are still buried be- /
meath the ruins. The scene is {
frightful. Houses are torn to frag. !
ments, Others unroofed or upset,
and still others carried bodily from
their foundations. Scarcely bull '
ding or tree or anything else within +
the track Of the storm is standing. +
The wreck and ruin is complete. S
The pecuniOry losses are estimated I
as follows Chicago & Alton Rail S
road, $500,000; Ohio Il Mississippi !,
5000, 900; Toledo \ Wabash, Sl25,- b
200; st. Louis " Vandalia, $780,, "
300; Southeastern, 1000; Wig a
gins Ferry Company, 1925, 900. S
rwo or three steamboats, lying on 4
he eastern side of the river were "
llso very seriously dana 4ed. b
ST. Louis, March 10.-The losses t
n East ST. Louis by the tornado S
IN Wednesday were much exag- Ii
A more careful estimate b.
,laces them 1T about the following 81
Igures; Elevator, $4,000; Ferry m
$4,000, st. Louis & ol
Sandalia Railroad, between $780, sc
100 and $4,000, Southeastern h,
Dad, SIS, 900; Chicago q Alton, is
10000; Ohio q Mississippi, $780, sc
90; Toledo q Wabash, between ia
$4,000 and 100000. to
The steamer Mollie Able Is much
lore seriously injured than at first to
rported. She is almost stripped til
{ the upper works, and thirty pc
lousand dollars would hardly re- si
mir her.
The cost to the citizens can not lie
accurately given, but as some es
xty dwelling houses, of more or hi
SIS value, were either destroyed or to
the loss can hardly fall
lor Of 100000. bis
The railroad companies are busy tel
pairing damages, and the citizens wa
. endeayorlng to gather up the es,
of their houses and col. sn
citing their families together. ye
Reports from the country are Ill
ming in, and speak more or less
the injury in the track of the
mpest. In tome localities the dri
mage was considerable. In Nor. the
N county, Illinois, houses, fences bo
ID forests were blown down and fol
veral persons were badly injur. mo
. ing
Az Helena, Arkansas, the same fin
'ernoon, 9 hurricane passed over he
Q city, unroofing number Of col
uses end doing other damage to poi
pperty The storm also destroy. viii
property at 0sceOla and other rle'
iuts on the west bank Of the
err
= Father Corei is preaching in AZ
me, daily, violently denouncing i ;,