Daily globe., 1883-05-21
WIND AND FLOOD.
DETAILS OF THE CYCLONE
IN MISSOURI IND ILLINOIS.
The List of Casualties Increasing-Dead
wood Visited by a Destructive Flood
Damage Estimated al $7OO,OOO-Fires
and Railroad Accidents.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 2O.-Additional de
tails gathered from various sources show
the tornado last FridayInight ploweG
its way through three counties in Missouri
Montgomery, Warren and st. Charles
and besides destroying large amount ot
property, killed and wounded over twenty
persons. The largest amount of destruc-
ton seems to have been wrought in St
Charles county, where the storm swept
along south of the Wabash railroad, level.
ing to the ground nearly everything in its
path, and leaving nothing but devastation
and ruin in its track. The principal
| losses in addition to those reported last
night are the farm houses of Joseph Post.
| VIM. Henis, George Jenkins, Jessie John
| son, E. 7. Wolff, G. G. Allen, W. Water, O.
P. Arlington and Henry Mercer. Doug
lass Luckett, his wife and two daughters
were severely injured. At the house of
John Jenkins, which was ruined and part
of it carried away, Mr.. Jenkins was killed,
two sons seriously injured, two daughters
badly injured, and John Lowry good deal
bruised. In the neighborhood of Flaristee,
st. Charles county, and thence into Warren
| county for about fifteen miles,
the line of the storm is traced
| by the following wrecks: James Brooks,
! house and outbuildings destroyed; Thomas
/ Mills, 1ditto; NJ. J. Young, house unroofed
and badly wrecked; John Glassford, resi-
dence torn to pieces, and John Glassford
and MRS Glassford slightly injured; N. S.
| Pringle, dwelling unroofed and outhouss
destroyed; VIM. Spiers, residence and all
| outbuildings blown away and Spiers and
| Ira Sherman severely hurt, Mrs. n. p. Par
! son, thrown down; George p. Strong, dwell
! ing and outhouses and large peach or
chard destroyed; Mrs. Strong seriously, and
! Miss Strong slightly hurt; Joseph Burling-
anne, all buildings carried away; John Meir,
everything gone, and one of his children
injured; S. Cney and R. Johnson, houses
down; John Panhart, house gone; P. John
| son, all buildings down and self and wife
wounded; D. Brick, home demolished; G..
G. Allen, all his buildings and machinery
| destroyed and stock killed; David Cole
man, elegant residence and outbuildings
swept away. Besides these, more than a
score of buildings were unroofed or other
wise damaged and no end of fence and
other property destroyed. On Dog prairie
near Riehland station on the Keokuk rail
|
barns and granaries of Elisha McTee and
Leo Hayden were almost utterly destroyed
entailing q loss of at least $4,000 to
each gentleman. Mr.. Melee was injured.
The dwelling and outhouses of Conrad
Short near Rlchland and two houses be-
longing to Mrs. Isenbrand on Allen
prairie were carried away, and fences torn
down. On Loutre island in the Missouri
NV oe
southwest of any of the above named
dwellings and outhouses of VIM. Maxey,
Mr.. VIM. Kelmeyer, VIM. Hatwick, j. @.
Whitesides and Henry Van Willick. No
estimate has yet been made of the damage,
but it is very bad, and will no doubt
run up into the hundred thousands. Sew
eral persons in describing the storm say
the whirling funnel-shaped cloud looked
like an immense column of mist, and
emitted myriads of electric sparks
which presented a very beautiful appear
| ance.
Over in Illinois the storm ragged in about
the same manner it did in Missouri. Luck.
lily there is on this side of the Mississippi
river it struck no town of much size, but
spent its force upon farm honses, country
|
the vicinity of Edwards, ILL.,, on the Indian
apolis & st. Louis railroad, the residences
of Geo. ". Kinder, Isaac Davis and M. K.
Barnett, were utterly wrecked. At the lat
ter house, Mr.. Barnett's daughter, Mrs.
Frank Maxey, of Upper Alton, who was Wis
iting her parents, was Instantly killed, and
all other members of the family more or
less injured. A we'll on the place contain
ing twenty feet of water, was sucked per-
fectly dry. VOLTS store, at Hammel, a
few miles from Edwardsville, was blown to
pieces and four persons killed, but their
have not yet been reported.
At Woodsboro a brick school house.
church, and three residences were blown
down and James CHAIR and wife seriously
injured. The loss at and near Staunton,
previously reported, is estimated at $50,
600, and in the vicinity of Edwardsville
$4,000. In Dewitt county nine houses
were destroyed near Kenny, and several
others in Texas township and three per-
sons, named Clifton, killed and nearly a
dozen badly injured. The house of man
named Mcpherson containing six persons
was lifted into the air, carried 100 feet and
set down again and nobody received g
scratch.
DESTRUCTIVE STORM AT DEADwooD.
DEADwooD, D. T., May 20.-A storm be
gan here yesterday morning with the high
est water ever known. Whitewood stream
runs through the heart of the city. A
channel was cut 100 yards wide and every
thing went before the flood. All the tow
: up the gulch is badly damaged. Penning
> ton is entirely gone, the valley flooded ant
! half of Spearfsh washed away. Crool
City is nearly all gone. The water is nov
falling, though there is much snow in tn,
mountains yet. George Chandler and wifi
and two unknown men are known to b.
drowned. Loss roughly estimated a
$60O,OGO. Rope and basket communica
tion is established between the two part
of the city.
= BISMARCK, D. T., May 2O.-The Tribune
!, , special gives additional facts as to thc
l food at Deadwood. A heavy snow an,
food was reported some days ago in dis
l patch from Stevenson. At Deadwood ad
ditional rain had fallen almost every da
:, for month, making the roads impassabl
f and saturating the ground thoroughly wit
water. This was followed by