The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-23


doing we'll at last accounts.
The new African Methodist church, on
Seventeenth street, between Washington
avenue and Walnut street, was completely
demolished, and lies in confused mass
over and around its brick foundation. Two
men were in the church when the storm
began, but one of them % white NAM who
had been engaged repairing the gas fix
lures, noticed that little girl who was
coming toward the church was in danger Of
being blown from the sidewalk. He went
toward her and assisted her home, and
while thus engaged the great church fell,
burying the other man Gan old negro be-
meath its ruins. But the old man came
forth with but few scratches about his
hands. In falling, portions of the church
fell upon the unfinished residence of Mr..
Moses Foss, damaging it considerably, but
not injuring any one inside
In the way Of destroyed property with
out danger to life, the Cairo city gas COM
pany stands first on the list, for the gas
works were very seriously damaged. One
of the great reservoir, the largest one was
lifted out of its bed, the gas shot up in
the air in column of fire over a hundred
feet high, and the great sheet iron tank
settled down in shape
less heap. Every one OF
the six or eight cast iron piers wese either
torn away or broken of in the middle.
The gas works proper were also seriously
damaged. The two or three large brick
chimneys we're blown down, falling on the
roof and crushing it in, and other minor
injuries were done. The money value OF
the damages to this institution is estimated
at between four and five thousand dollars.
The metallic roof of the Egyptian mills
was almost entirely torn of, scrolled and
hurled down upon caboose on the Illinois
Central track, in which several railroad
men we're, who were only badly scared,
The marble work shops Of Messrs. Dris-
col & Miller, on Commercial avenue, near
Tenth street, which were almost filled with
stones of various sizes and styles of work
manship, and was standing about
eight feet above the ground,
was blown down flat upon
the ground and badly out of shape, but not
entirely wrecked.
The entire front Of the wagon factory of
Mr.. John Major, on Tenth street, was
blown out, leaving the whole interior visi-
BILE. Judge W. II. Green who had been
caught in the storm and was passing there,
narrowly escaped being struck by the fall
ing timbers.
On Ohio levee, from Fourth street up, for
a distance of not less than forty feet, the
sixteen.foot wide, heavy oak plank side
walk was lifted up and thrown across the
Illinois Central track twenty-five or thirty
feet away, and coming in contact with
telegraph pole 'ebout twenty inches in
diameter at the base, broke it of short and
into three or four pieces, carrying the wires
with IT,
Three frame buildings standing in what
ia known az "Locust Grove" were blown to
the ground, and all more or less wrecked.
One of them, belonging to Mr.. W. A.
Stoner, is almost total wreck.
One freight car on the Illinois Central
track, just below the Halliday, two on
tho Wabash track on Commercial avenue,
below Sixth street, and four or five on the
Mobile and Ohio tracks, near the Missis-
sippi levee, were derailed by the storm.
The two story, two hundred foot long
cooper shop Of the Cairo on company,
standing near the oil works, was blown fiat
to the ground. II was unoccupicd, but the
company intended to operate 1t to its fullest
capacity next fall or sooner.
Tho rear end of the roof Of Messrs. Green,
Wood q BENEFITS corn meal mills, on Ohio
levee, near Eighteenth street, was raised
about foot, and then let down again. The
fro wall on top was thrown over onto the
adjoining building.
About two hundred feet of the eight foot
wide plank walk, on tho westerly side Of
Washington avenue, between Fourteenth
and Sixteenth streets, was torn up and scat