The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-24
TERRIFIC TORNADO AT ST. LOUIS.
a MIIIion Dollars Worth OF Property
Desfroyed--SeveralP Persons Killed and
Many Wounded.

/. Mtllion Dollars worth of Property
Desfroyed--SeveralP Persons Killed and
Many Wounded.
Sr. LOUIS. March S.-A most terrific
hurricane passed over aportlon OF East
ST. Louis between two and three p. m.
The wind first came from the south
east. and came with a fury and force
never before Witnessed ID this latitude.
IT first struck the elevator and took q
mart of the roof off, then totally de-
stroyed the freight depot of the st.
I,ouis and Vandalia railroad, 800 feet
long by 100 feet wide, and water tank
so feet high, the freight and passenger
depot of the Southeastern railroad, two
freight depots, a portion of the pas
seneer and ticket Office, and the round
house of the Chicago & &Alton road; the
car-house. scale-offiee, freight-ofice,
and portion of the freight-depots of
the Ohio & Mississippi railroad ; the
freight and passenger depot OF the
T. & w. railroad, and number OF
dwelling houses in the vicinity. A por-
ton of the roof of the Terre Haute and
indianapolis depot was blown of, and
nearly all the derricks and other apph-
ances used in the construction OF the
bridge torn from their places and
blown into the river. Everything with
in a width of from 200 to 300 yards was
actually torn to pieces. A whole train
of cars. including a 30-ton locomotive,
was blown from the track, and hurled
20 feet into a slough. Another tram OF
thirteen cars, laden with grain, was
oyertlrown 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 the track, and
some forty cars standing on the tracks
of the Toledo and Wabash and Alton
roads, about nine miles out, were over
thrown.
The round house of the Chicago and
Alton road, after being blown down,
caught fire from the engine inside, and
its ruins were burned. The engineer
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 between
thirty and forty seriously, some dan
eerously. wounded, and a good many
Slightly injured. Il is believed that
persons are still buried beneath the
ruins.
The scene is frightful Houses are
torn to fragments, others unroofed OF
upset. and still others carried bodily
from their foundations. Scarcely q
building or tree, or anything else with
in the track of the storm, is standing.
The wreck and ruin is complete.
The pecuniary losses are estimated
as follows: Chicago & Alton Railroad,
$500. 600; Ohio & Mississippi, $780,
600; Toledo & Wabash, 1925, 600; st.
Louis & Vandalia, $4,000; South
eastern, $4,000; Wiggin's Ferry Co.,
! s25. 600. Two or three steamboats,
living on the eastern side of the rivel
were also seriously damaged
ST. LOUIS, March 9.-The deaths
caused by the fearful tornado which
passed over East st. Louis yesterdas
afternoon, as far as known, are as fol
lows: John Holpin, employed on thu
bridge; Jno. B. O'Neil, purchasing
agent of the South Eastern Railroad
Jno. Vogel, Daniel Collins, Timothy
Drumm Isaac Evans, engineer on thu
Chicago and Alton Railroad, burned IL
the round-house; Jno. Eisley, brake
man on the Toledo and Wabash Rail
road, and a teamster, unknown.
of the wounded, the following wer'
were most seriously hurt: Henri.
G. Creveling, Supt. Wiggins Ferry Co.
right shoulder fractured and hea'
cut by the chimney of the ferry boa
I falling across his carriage; Geo. Schone
master mechanic, of the Chicago d Al
4 ton road, terribly cut on the head ant
one leg badly brushed Margaret Con
way, both legs broken; Michael Con
way and two children, fearfully Gu
about the head and body; Louis Par
ron, head badly cut; L. Marks, Q
Nashville, Ill, head shockingly cut
Chas. Parry and Thomas Hamilton
seriously cut; Peter Flynn
leg broken; Frank Donnegan, an,
wife, badly hurt; Milton Mcfarland
seriously; Aaron Tanner, agent Amer
can express, head badly cut; Harve
Westman, yard master, Toledo & Ws
bash road, head terribly cut; Tlmoth
Donahoe, of the same road, head badl
cut: VIM. Bennett, fireman, on Wabas
road. shoulder dislocated; VIM. Hill
blacksmith on Wabash road, head tel
ribly cut, and probably viii not recover
Peter Philpon, Conductor Pullma
Sleeper, seriously Leroy Glasgow an
Barbara Sincroft, seriously, the latte
will probably die; Margaret Richard
son and child-the latter fatally; Nj
garet Nalan and child, badly cut-th
latter cannot recover; Ellen Daltor
seriously; Timothy Howard, Chicag
Railroad, terribly cut about the head
Elizabeth Powell, head badly cut; Wn
Stark, pilot of the ferry boat seriously
Mat. Quinn, Vandalia Railroad, an
broken; Frank Edwards, engineer Val
dalia Railroad, terribly scalded; w. 1
Carney. foreman Vandalia round houst
arm broken. The less seriously an
slightly injured will outnumber th
! above. e- .-it
The immense mass of framework
and around. .the eastern abutment {
the bridge, consisting of derricks an
massive supports for other hoistin
apparatus, were blown down like S
MANY reeds. Some thirty families wer
rendered homeless by their houses bt
ing blown down. Most of the latte
were totally destroyed -
The steamer Mollie Able lost he
; chimneys and texas; all of the uppe
| works of the iron ram Vindicatol
ownei by the Ferry Company, wei
5 swept away. The tug boat Hewitt
belonging to the Bridge Company, 10:
2 her upper works, and Captain Mon
gomery was blown into the river, br
: was saved with slight injury.
At the sectional docks, this side I
: the river, below the city, the stor
! struck slightly, carrying away tt
; chimneys of the steamer w. B. Dane
! and displacing her cabin several inc
J es, and forcing the steamer Rubicc
and several others from their moo
= ngs. .-.L $50 -,
At the Pittsburg coal dyke, on i
J, Illinois shore, the ferry boat Ameri
: lost her upper works, and her pile
y Richard il hnson, was very badly hun
Several small houses we're demolish'
at this point
A CORRESPONDENT of Southern P
= per writes this of Natchez: "Natch'
= is sadly changed The aristocrac,
q proud and exclusive, yet generous a
. chiyalric, have disappeared. The
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