The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-21
MISSOURI.
The Course of the Tornado and the Damage
1t Did at Various Points.

The Course of the Tornado and the Damage
1t Did at Various Points.
ST. LOUIS May 19.-From advices received
by telegraph by the Globe Democrat and
from accounts gathered by its own reporters
it seems that the tornado which swept over
part of Missouri last night had its origin a
few miles west of Washington, where 1t de-
stroyed four farm houses and damaged other
property. From there it passed down the
line of the Missouri river. At Cattleville,
near St. Peters, two houses were totally de-
| stroyed and much other property damaged,
entailing an estimated loss of $4,000. A
lady named Tollie, in one of these houses
having baby in her arms, was killed, but
the infant was unhurt. From here the storm
passed northward, striking Jonesboro, on the
Wabash railroad, and continued in q very
fat curve nearly due east, and keeping south
of the Wabash road and south of Warrenton,
Wright City and Florestel, north of Wentz-
Vile, crossing the Wabash track, then strik-
ing across Cutting Dogs prairie, by the little
town of st. Paul, and striking against the
Mississippi river bluff on the Illinois SIDE
where it seems to have been DETECTED down
the river to Grafton, eastward across the
country to the points named in other dis
patches. 1t thus in its course made re-
versed 49," something like a very tall letter
IS"
The devastation by the storm was very
great and general At Jonesboro a large
residence and mill were destroyed and one
lady killed; at Wentzville one man was
killed and several injured A number of
houses were DESTROYED on Dog prairie.
At Richland station, on the Keokuk and
St. Louis railroad, two residences worth $780,
600 were destroyed and the inmates made a
very narrow escape. Cattleville was seri-
ously damaged one woman killed and sew
eral other persons injured.
The storm moved in varying width from
500 to / 900 feet. Trees in its track lost their
limbs and bark, and looked as though they
had been killed year or two ago. Mud was
| splashed on the trees twenty feet high. Corn
stalks lie around, and look as though they
had been left by a flood. Logs ten and
twenty feet long were carried hundred
wards Houses were leveled with the ground
and people who suffered the least were those
who took refuge in cellars. One man put his
wife and children in ditch three feet deep,
and from this retreat saw his house swept en-
tirey away. The whole country outside the
track of the storm has become great relief
society. Doctors are attending the injured
and to-day the men turned out en- masse to
corral stock and put up the scores of miles of
fences torn down.
Latest Details of the Damage in Missouri.
ST. LOUIS, May 20-Additionat details
gathered from various sources show that
the tornado on last Friday night plowed
its way through three counties in Missouri
montgomery Warren and St. Charles), and
besides destroying large amount of prop
erty. killed and more orless seriously wound
ed over twenty people. The largest amount
OF destruction seems to have been wrought
in ST. Charles county, where the storm swept
along south of the Wabash railroad, leveling
to the ground nearly everything in its path,
and leaving nothing but devastation and
ruin in its track. The principal losses in ad-