Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-21

hip dislocated and daughter of Denny
Shey leg broken.
| The storm was also severe at Edwards
vile. Mrs. Will Maxey, of Alton, while
| going from her fathers, near Edwards
| vile, to neighbor's, was killed by being
blown against tree. The roof of the
court house was blown OF.
The storm yesterday evening at Graf
ton, says another report, demolished sew
eral buildings, killing Mike Larned and
wife, and fatally injuring his two children.
THE STORM AT sHIPMAN.
SHIPMAN, ILL.,, May ia cyclone passed
through this section doing great damage.
number of persons are reported as Sc
riously injured and one as dead. The
storm came from the southwest, passing
half mile west of this place and one mile
east of Plainview, covering about one
quarter of mile in width. The citizens
are responding towards the relief of the
sufferers.
The storm that passed over Grafton,
Shipman and other places in Illinois last
night, seems to have come directly from
the west. The first heard of it was at
Jonesburg, Mo-, where it crossed the Wa
bash railroad, leveling several houses to
the ground in the town and killing one
lady in the country. The telegraph lines
are broken and no details are yet received.
Last nights train on the indianapolis &
| St. Louis railroad, when nearing Hills
| boro, Ills, sixty five miles from here, met
with fatal accident on bridge across a
small stream which was blown down by the
storm, and in the darkness and peIting
rain the train rushed right into the gap,
precipitating the engine and baggage car
into the stream. Pat. WEIGH, engineer, was
instantly killed, and Don Harrington, the
fireman, very seriously injured. No pas
sengers were injured.
THE HURRICANE AT CLINTON.
CLINTON, ILL.,, May ia terrific and de-
structive cyclone seYenty-fve yards wide
from the southeast passed over portion
of De Witt county last night, doing inn
mense damage wherever 1t struck. It was
funnel shaped and revolved with great
rapidity. Near Kinney hail fell as large
as hickory nuts. In all eleven farm hou5-
es were utterly wrecked, and the families
made homeless. Mr.. Bemison's house was
blown out of sight, and he fatally injured
The following are the dead and wound
ed:
Dead-George P. Clifton, Mrs. Clifton
his wife, Ollie Clifton aged seven.
Wounded-Mrs. Bemison, badly injured
in back and face; Lucy Bemison, seven
years, badly injured and bruised about the
face and back; Elizabeth Bemison, leg
badly cut and face bruised; little baby
of Mrs. Bemison's, blown 40 feet and
picked up badly injured; Garfield Clifton
three years old, seriously if not fatally in
| jured, an arm broken and face cut and
bruised; another, a little girl named Cliff
ton, received broken leg and was other
wise injured. The house occupied by a
family of six named Mcpherson was pick
ed up and carried about 100 feet and
dropped. The family miraculously es-
capped without serious injury. At Joe
Blues residence 100 sheep were killed. The
total destruction will reach $4,000 at
least. Great trees were wrenched off like
corn stalks, fences in the course of the
wind blown hundreds of feet, and half a
mile of telephone wire broken from the
poles and carried 200 or 800 feet into the
| tops of trees.
RAILROAD LABOREIS KILLED.
LIrouFIELD, ILL.,, May ia cyclone
struck this section of country at 10 O'Clock
last night, doing great damage to barns,
fences, stock, etc, accompanied by
loss of life at Staunton, Mt. Olive, Burnett
Hillsboro, Woodbury., EdwardsVille, and
several other places. 1t struck HilIsboro
at $3.50 p. III. tearing away bridge on the
indianapolis Il st. Louis railway, letting
an engine and baggage car of the passen-
ger train No. p, going east, fifteen min.
utes later, down into the creek, killing
Engineer WEIGH, and gripping and scald.
ing Fireman Harrington, who was brought
here and placed in the hospital. The
smoking car was turned over, but no one
was hurt.
One house and barn was blown away al
Stanton. At Mt. Olive it struck the
tents of the men working on the new
railroad killing two or three persons al
each place. Reports are still coming in
OF the terrible storm.
FURTHER REPORTS.
SHIPMAN, Ill, May 19.--Later reports
from PIainview show more destruction Of
property and loss of life. Mr.. Miller,wif
aud four children and number of others
are reported seriously injured, and COCO
deal of property destroyed.
MORE FATAL RESULTS OF THE STORM.
JACKSONVILLE, ILL.,, May 19-Morgar
coun4y experienced last evening the mos
destructive wind storm ever known in he1
history. In the city there was considera
BILE wind and rain but no destruction of
life and property. On Greasy Prairie,
eleven miles south, the farm houses Of
Porter Story, Alex. Gum, VIM. Brakeman
Thos. Kesler, Jesse Covington and A. War.
sup were destroyed. One man, a boy aud
two children were killed and others in
jured. Southeast of the city along the
line of the Jacksonville & Southeastern
railway much damage is reported, neal
Franklin. The storm was fearfully destruc.
tive at Pisga. The house, barn and orchard
of Jas. Oxley were swept away and his wife
and children seriously injured. At Wood
lawn, where there was a fatally severe
tornado three years ago, the railroad
depot was destroyed and cars blown from
the track and into atoms
the track being partially torn up
The worst of the cyclone, however, was
some miles north of here on the Peoria
branch of the Wabash, The storm closed,
was in the shape of column and struck
the south part of the town at the southern
edge, going northeast completely across