The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-05-22
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CYCLONE CASUALTIES.
Great Destruction of Property in
Three States.

Great Destruction of Property i'll
Three States.
St. Louis, 2l.-Reports from Stranton,
Illinois. state that during the tornado on
Friday night some dozen or more graders
on the Chicago, Springfield and st. Louis
Railroad vera in camp in an orchard
when the storm game Tre,s were
uproo:ed and hurled against the
tents, iDjuring more or less all
the men in them and killing two
The killed were E. CantWell, subcon-
tractor, and Ava Berry, aged IA, a fon
of John Berry, foreman. Fatally in-
jured, Florence Berry daughter CT Fore
man Berry; George Burns, Arthur Ro,
binson. aged a, son of the sutler Of the
grading party, badly Injured; Minnie
Berry, aged II, another daughter of
Foreman Berry; VIM. Smith, August
johnson, Ed Cantwell, SOC of the sub
contractor; Mike Thea, JAS. Riley.
Mike Butler, all mem bers of
the railroad party. In addition to
these Mrs. livingstone. Joseph, and
Carson Csbipe, and James Dugan,
far ners, are seriously Injured. The
badly injured are being cared for by
farmers living near bye. The seriously
injured we're taken to q hospital st
Litehfeld. The storm ragged with great
violence in the territory embraced be-
tween line drawn f,om Keosuk to
DanVille, ard another line from ST..
Louis to VincenDes. There seems to
have been three distinct storms in Hi
nois, go many towns were attacked.
a ~ Dc,
Edwardsville, Graf on, Springfield, Ship
man, Havana, Hillsboro, Pana, No
homes, Litchfelj, Bunker all, and
Shelbyville. The /, IS ofproper y is much
more serious in this district than on
the Missouri side Of the river. In the
neigh borbood of WenlzVille the storm
did trIghtful havoc. About mile from
Weutzvllle the huuse Of Mrs. Richards
Was blown away, and her son james,
aged Is years, YVES fatally injured. A
number of farm houses were wrecked
snd the occupants injured,
Friday nights tornado plowed through
thu ee counties il Observation-Disclosures
Warren snd st. Charles-besides de-
stroying large amount Of property and
killing and seriously wounding over
twenty people. The greatest destruction
was wrought n S.. Charles County where
q large number Of farm houses and
buildings were levelled. Douglas Lockett,
wife and two daughters were all fatally
injured. John Jenkins was killed and
and his two sons fatally injured. III the
neighborhood Of Floristel, st. Charles
Warren County the track of the storm ia
traced by numerous wrecks and abou.
twenty more people more or less injured.
On Dog prairie several large and costly
houses anG barns loaded with grain
were demolished. On Allen prairie,
dwelling and outhouses met the same
fate. On Loutre's Island, in the N is.
souri, River, a number of mills were
totally destroyed The losses in the three
cour ties run up into hundred OF thou
sands.
In Illinois the storm ragged in about
the same manner that it did in Missouri
the chief damage however being to
county property, it striking no town OF
any considerable SIZE. IL the vicinity OF
Ed wardsviile three residences were
utterly wrecked. Mrs. Frank Maxey
was Instantly killed N the wreck Of hel
fathers house; M. K. Barnett aud all
other members of the family were in.
jured. A well OF the place containing
twenty feet of water was sucked per.
feetly dry. VOLTS store at Hsmel, 6
few miles from EdWardsville, was blown
to pieces and four persons were killed
their names are not known. At Woods.
boro brick sehoolhOuse, church anG
three residences were blown down anc
+. 70
seriously Injured. The loss at and neal
Steelton previously reported is estimated
at SAC, 000,and in the vicinity of Edwards
vile is $35, 600. In De Witt County
n ne houses were destroyed near Kinney,
ami several others in Texas, and thret
persons named Clifton were killed.
About dozen we're badly injured. The
house of q man named Mcpherson, con.
tainlng six persons, was lifted into the
air, carried 100 feet Ind set down again.
Nobody received a scratch.
Alden, 20.-The hurricane to-day Yves
the worst in twenty years. Serious DAM
age on land and water.
st. Louis, 20.-TWo more deaths have
occurred at Stanton, Illinois, resulting
from Friday nights storm, Additional
reports from places not heretofore heard
from show that the storm in Illinois was
widespread and destructive. Houses
and other farm property we're destroy ed
in all directions, within an area of 6
dozen counties, and many persons either
killed or seriously wounded. Thirteen
houses on Greeley Prairie, few miles
south of Murraysville, we're blown down
and a. w. Williams and two children
killed. Julia Story was fatally injured
and two or three others badly hur:. A
Pesotum, on the Illinois Central Rail.
ROAD, several business houses and resi-
.dsnces were destroyed or badly wrecked