Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-03-23
TERRIFIC TORNADO AT ST. LOUIS.
Wilton Dollars Worth of Property
Desire yed-SeveralP Persons Killed and
Many wounded.


II Iorjs between two and three p. IN.
The wind first came from the south
cast. and came with a fury and force
never before witnessed III this latitude.
Il first struck the elevator and took a
mart of the roof of, then totally de-
stroved the freight depot of the st.
Louis and Vandalia railroad 500 feet
long by 100 feet wide, and water tank
50 feet high, the freight and passenger
lepot Of the Southeastern railroad, two
freight depots, a portion OF the pas
senger aud ticket Office, and the round
house Of the Chicago l. Alton road; the
car-house, scale-otfice, freight office.
and a portion of the freight depots of
the Ohio y Mississippi railroad the
freight and passenger depot of the
IT. & 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 off, and
nearly al he derricks and other appli-
auccs used ia the construction of the
bridge torn from their places and
blown into the river. Everything with
IN a width Of from 300 to 800 Yards was
actually torn t0pieces. A whole train
of cars. including Bottom locomotive,
was blown from the track, and hurled
~ reet .4-o slough. Another tram Of
thirteen cars laden with grain, vas
ayertlr0wn and smashed and one car
blown into the river. A train coming
In ON the Tegre Haute Road when ut
Brooklga three miles north Of east St
Louis, VAS blown from the track. ana
some forty caIe standing on the tracks
If the woleao and Wabash and Alton
roads. ,b0'l5 nine miles out, were over
thrown.
The roEud house Of the Chicago and
Alton l0ad. after beng blown down,
caught IRE from the engine inside, and
its ruins We're burned. The engineer
Of the locomotive was burned to death.
The nnmherof killed and wounded
cannot be stated tonight but seven
are known TO be killed and between
thirty and forty seriously, some dan
gerousIy, wounded, and a good many
Slightly injured Il is believed that
person are still buried beneath the
ruins.
The scene Is frightful Houses are
torn to fragments. others unroofed or
upset. and still others carried bodily
from their foundations. Scarcely n
building on tree, or anything else with
in the track of the storm, is standing.
The wreck and ruin is complete.
The pecuuiary losses are estimated
as follows Chicago & Alton Railroad,
$500, 600, Ohio Il Mississippi, $780,
coo: Toledo X Wabash, S125, 900; St.
Louis & Vandalia, $4,000; South
eastern, $4,000; Wiggins Ferry Co.,
S25, 900 Two or three steamboats,
living on the eastern side of the river
were also seriously damaged
ST. LOUIS March 9.-The deaths
caused by the fearful tornado which
passed over East st. Louis Yesterday
afternoon, as far as known, are as fol-
lows: John Holpin, employed on the
bridge Jno. b. O'Neil. purchasing
agent Of the South Eastern Railroad :;
Jno. Vogel, Daniel Collins, Timothy
Drumm; Isaac Evans, engineer on the
Chicago and Alton Railroad, burned in
the roundhouse; Jno. Eisley, brake
man on the Toledo and Wabash Rail
road. and teamster, unknown.
OF the wounded, the following We're
were most seriously hurt Henry
C. Creveling, Supt. Virgins Ferry Co,
right shoulder fractured and head
cut by the chimney of the ferry boat
falling across his carriage; Geo. Schone,
master mechanic, of the Chicago & al
ton road terribly cut on the head and
one leg badly crushed; Margaret Con
way, both legs broken Michael Con-
way and two children. fearfullv cut
about the head and BODY; Louis Par
Nashville, H., head shockingly cut;
Chas. Parry and Thomas Hamilton,
seriously cut Peter Flynn,
leg broken; Frank Donnegan, and
wife, badly hrrt; Milton Mcfarland,
seriously Aaron Tanner, agent Ameri-
can express, head badly cut Harvey
Westman, yard master, Toledo & Wa
bash road, head terribly cut; Timothy
Donahoe, of the same road, head badly
cut VIM, Bennett, fireman, on Wabash
road, shoulder dislocated, VIM. Hill,
blacksmith on Wabash road, head ter
nbly cut. and probably will not recover;
Peter Philpon, Conductor Pullman
Sleeper, seriously; Leroy Glasgow and
Barbara Sincroft, seriously, the latter
viii probably die; Margaret Richard
son and child--the latter fatally; NJ r
garet Nalan and child, badly ciit--the
latter cannot recover; Ellen Dalton,
seriously; Timothy Howard, Chicago
Railroad, terribly cut about the head !;
Elizabeth Powell, head badly cut; VIM.
Stark, pilot of the ferry boat, seriously !;
Mat. Quinn, Vandaha Railroad, arm
broken Frank Edwards, engineer Van
dalia railroad, terribly scalded: W. +.
Carney, foreman Vandaha round house,
arm broken. The less seriously and