Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-05-20


From Round PrsiYie the storm sSsp; on
20 Dawson. nine miles northeast. bu.
doing 10 serious damage until that
Isia: vas reached. Hare 3 number of
houses were torn down and Grs- Ferris
Sas killed. \: Ba1alo, another little
hamlet Mrs. Ihos. Chandler vas killed
and many hoaSes blown away, bu. no
other lives were lost Another storm is
reported 10 have struck the earth just
east OF jacksonville and pursued 4
Eor.hsasteFly course twenty-five miles
west Of Springfield. II is said the little
hamlet OF LeitenbJrg Vas destroyed
and eight persons killed and injured.
Morgan county experienced last eve
ming the most disastrous wind storm
eveE kaown in her history. In the city
there Vas considerable wind and rain
but 10 destruction of life OF property.
On Grassy Prairie, eleven miles south,
farm houses were destroyed 4 man, a
boy and two children were killed and
! others injured southeast of the cit.
Along the line OF the Jacksonville South
eastern Railway much damage is re-
| ported. Near Franklin the storm was
| tearfully destructive. At P!sgate, the
house. barn and orchard of Jas. Oxley
we're swep. away and his wife and chill
dren seriously injured. At Wocdlawn.
where there was a fatally severe torna-
| do three years ago. the railroad depot
was destroyed and ears blown from the
| track and into atoms, the track being
partially torn up. Tue worst of the CIV
4 clone, however, was some nine miles
north of here, on the Peoria branch OF
| the Wabash. The storm was IN the
| shape OF q column, and struck the south
/ part Of town a! the southern edge, going
northeast. completely across the bust
ness and residence portion of the place,
! leveiing four stores, two churches, the
/ depot, repair shops and - dwellings,
! besides I'M urles So others and destroy
Ing much other property. A! Mrs.
/ GEitiin's house her two sons and one
daughter were injured, and another
| daughter, aged %. killed. Another ru-
| ined dwelling WAS that of her son, DIR.
| ). Griffin. who, with his wife. were at
| the city hospital here, and both are
/ probably fatally internally injured. A
ssyen-months-old daughter was killed.
James Stephenson's house WIS destroy
/ ed and his wife killed. Nh. and Mrs. j.
| w. Halter, an aged couple, lost their
I lives i'll their wrecked home, making >
| dead in town, ard fully l. injured,
/ of these ; viii probably die.
| 1nlfd&-.s Ill MAY ~ Ie CNClOLS
! passed through this section, doing great
| damage, and a number of persons are
reported seriously injured and one dead.
| TIE storm came from the southwest,
passing half mile west of this place,
and one mile east IL plain view, cover
| ing about q quarter of Il mile in width
Citizens are responding toward the 70
lief of sufferers.
LTTCHFIELg, H.. May l9.-The cyclone
straok this section of country at 10
o'clock last night, GciDe great damage
to barns, fences, stock, etc, together
with loss of life 1T Stanton, Mt. Olive,
! Barnett, Hillsboco. Woodbury.. Ed
wardsvllle aud several other places. II
struck fiillsboro ut $50 p. m. tearing
away the iron bridge on the !. d st. l..
Il. t., letting through an engine. bag
| gage car and passenger train No. -, 60
| ing east, fifteen minutes late, down in
the creek, killing Engineer Welch AID
orippling and saalding Fireman Har-
| ringtun, who vas brought here aud
placed IL the hospital The smoking
ear lisaed over. bat no enc Was hurt.
One house and barn was blown away at
| Stanton. 4. ut. Olive il struck the
I tents of men working near the railroad,
/ killing two or three persons. Reports
/ are still coming IL of terrible storm raw
| ages.
The StorBs Near 81. Leuis.
| ST. Louis, May ia heavy rain
storm passed over the city tonight.
| High winds created a good deal of ap-
preheusion. Up to a late hour no dam
| age has been reported. Meager infor-
nation from Mitchell, Illinois, says the
wind was heavy and did some damage
at Warrenton, Missouri. All the tele
| graph poles were blown down. No in
| formation is obtainable at Nation, II
linois. Ths bridge on the indianapolis
and st. Louis railroad was blown down,
taking with it an engine, and killing
| the engineer.
| At Grafton. few miles north, great
damage was done. All the derricks OF
the Grafton stone quarry company we're
destroyed, together with five engines
and several houses, the loss being very
heavy. Three houses in Shinn Hollow,
near Grafton. were totally wrecked.
Mrs. Garner was killed, and her hus-
band is supposed TO have been thrown
into ravine and killed and the body
rushed into the river. Mike Garner
had his legs dislocated, and a daughter
of Denny Shay had o leg broken. The
Mrs. Will Naked, of Alton, while going
from her fathers, near Edwardsville,
20 n neighbors, was killed by being
blown against tree. The roof of the
court house was blown of.
From advices received by telegraph
by the Gi0je-Democrdt and from ac-
counts gathered by its own reporters,
it seems that tho tornado which swept
over this part of Missouri last night
had its origin within few miles of
Washington, where it destroyed four
farmhouses and damaged other proper
ty. From there il passed down the line
of the Missouri river. At Cattlesvllle,
near st. Peters, two houses we're totally
DESTROYED, and much other property de-
stroyed, entailing an estimated loss of
$4,000. A lady named Tolle was in
one of these houses holding
baby in her arms. She was killed, bat
the infant was unhurt. From here the
storm passed northward, striking Jones'
boro, on the Wabash Railway, and con-
tinuei in a very fiat curve nearly due
east, and keeping south of the Wabash
road and Warrentowu, Wright City and
Forester. North of Wentzville it
crossed the Wabash track, then cutting
across Dogs Prairie by the little tewn
of st. Paul it struck against the Missis
sippi bluff on the Illinois side, where it
seems to have been detected down to
Grafton, thence east across country
to point named in other dispatches.
1t thus in its course made, reversed
curve. something like a very tall letter
s. The devastation by the storm is
very great and general. At Janesboro,
a large residence and mill were de-
stroyed, and lady killed. At Mentz-
vile, one man was killed and boy ia
tally injured, and number of houses
destroyed.
PACIFIC COAST.