Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-16
THRILLING INCIDENTS
Attending the Terrible Cyclone Vista
tiOn TO COilinsvilIe, IIIinOIs-Names
of Killed and mi jared, and List
of Property Destroyed.

ST. LOUIS, April 15.-Among the houses
destroyed or damaged at Collinsville, Illinois,
were the following: A two-story frame dwell
ing, Mrs. Grlfith's, was demolished. A row
of four houses, owned by Fred Metz, occu-
pied by four families, was badly wrecked,
two of them being almost totally destroyed.
A large tenement house belonging to G. l..
Roberts, occupied by eleven persons, was
twisted from its foundation, carried about
ten feet, and nearly Quilted of its contents,
the inmates receiving only slight scratches
and bruises; another tenement house owned
by c. L. Roberts and occupied by Reynolds
& Doran, previously mentioned, was COM
pletey demolished. A residence owned by Mr..
Roebuck and occupied by VIM. Johnston, ed
ltor of the Argus, had its roof carried away.
A handsome two-story brick residence OF Fred
Metz, roof lifted off and front and side
walls were blown down, but the rear of the
house, in which Metz's family lived, was I'M
injured. The two-story frame-house occu-
pied by James Combs was almost totally de-
stroyed: the roof of this house was dashed
against the residence of w. G. Heldly,
smashing its rear rooms into splinters. The
building occupied by Charles Hennecke and
William Hass was nearly torn to pieces; in
mates unhurt. The blacksmith shop OF Mr..
Wendler was torn to shreds. The wagon
shop of John Greenour, large two-story
frame. well filled with wagons, carriages and
material, was totally destroyed and contents
torn to pieces. A cluster of tenement houses
belonging to Richard Withers were badly
damaged, but the occupants escaped I'M
harmed. The carpenter-shop and residence
of w. w. Nelson was wrecked, and Nelson,
his wife add two small children were more or
less injured. The large two-s story frame
house occupied by Henry Huffenbeck as a
saloon and clearinghouse, had porch about
seventy-fve feet long and eight feet high
carried away. The residence Of Louis Heck
had the roof lifted off and all four walls
crushed in, total wreck. The millinery
store of c. A. Singletory was badly
damaged, and stock nearly all destroyed.
The Episcopal church was badly
shaken up, funeral services being held in
the church at the time, and the falling plas-
ter and flying window glass bruislng and
cutting nearly all the people present, but
none seriously. Numerous other shops and
dwellings, fences, plank sidewalks, trees, out
hoIses, stables were blown to pieces or carried
away, gardens destroyed, etc, etc. The cy
clone, as usual, was rotary In its motion, and
struck and bounded from the earth three
times during its passage through the town.
It's width was only from sixty to eighty feet.
One Of the evidences of its force was the
picking up of a horse and buggy and carry
ing them to hight of twenty to thirty feet,
dashing them to the earth and crushing the
horse to jelly and the buggy to spllnters.
The cemetery Just outside Of the town was
laid waste, nearly every tombstone IN it be-
ing leveled to the ground. The storm disap-
peared in the east, and there are reports that
it did damage elsewhere, but these reports
ale not yet confirmed. The total damage in
Collinsville is estimated at fifty thousand
dollars.
The First RaII-StOrm on the Florida
Gulf Coast.
PENSACOLA, April IA hail-storm &C.
Cured here to-day, thing unknown before.
Hail fell as large as an egg.