The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-23
THE CYCLONE.
Another Fearful Storm.

ST. LOUIS, May 19.-At Grafton, 9
few miles north Of here, great dam.
age was done. All the derricks ol
the Grafton Stone Quarry Co. were
destroyed, together with five engines
and several houses. The loss is very
heavy. Three houses in Shinn Hol.
low. near Grafton, were totally
wrecked. Mrs. Garner was killed,
and her husband supposed to have
been thrown into q ravine and killed
and his body washed into the river.
Mike Garner had his legs
dislocated, and his daughter
of Denny Shey had her leg broken.
The storm was also severe at Ed
wardsville. Mrs. Will Morey, OF
Alton, while going from her fathers,
near Edwardsville, to neighbours,
was killed by being blown against a
tree. The roof of the court house
was blown off.
6HIPMAN, ILL.,, May IA cyclone
passed through this section doing
great damage, and a number of per-
sons are reported seriously injured
and one dead. The storm came from
the southwest, passing half a mile
west of this place and one mile east
of Plainkew and covered about q
quarter of mile in width. Citizens
are responding towards the relief of
the sufferers.
JACKSONVILLE, ILL.,, May 49,
Morgan County experienced last
evening the most disastrous wind
storm ever known in her history. In
the city there was considerable wind
and rain but no destruction of life
and property.
On Greasy Prairie, eleven miles
north, q farm house was destroyed.
A man and boy and two children
were killed and others injured.
At Pisgah the house, barn and or
chard of James Oxtoy were swept
away, and his wife and children
seriously injured.
At Woodiawn, where there was a
fatally severe tornado three years
ago, the railroad depot was destroyed
and cars blown from the track into
atoms, the track being partially torn
up. The worst of the cyclone, how
ever, was some nine miles north of
here on the Peoria and Wabash
branch. The column struck South
port, town at the southern edge,
going northeast completely across the
business portion of the place, lev
elling four stores, two churches,
depot, repair shop and thirteen
besides injuries to others,
and deetroying much other property.
At Mrs. Griffin's house her two sons
and one daughter were injured, and
another daughter, aged %, killed.
Another ruined dwelling was that of
her son, DR.. S. Griffin, who, with his
wife, is at the city hospital here, and
both are injured internally, probably
fatally. His daughter, seven months
old, was killed. MIR. and Mrs. Jno.
Trotter, an aged couple. lost their
lives in their home; making five
dead in the town and fully fifteen in-
iured. The pecuniary loss by the
storm will not exceed $4,000. The
demolished were mostly
frame ones, and individual losses
range from $500 to $1,000. Further
to the southeast along the track of
the storm, scattering farm houses and
barns were levelled to the ground.
The storm extended as far south as
Litchfield not far from which place
the railroad bridge was swept away
and the passenger train on the In
& st. Louis Railroad was
nlunged into the ravine. The en-
rineer was killed end the fireman
scalded, probably fatally, but no pas
senpers were hurt. Another of the
sufferers, a young man, died this
morning, making six dead there.
The dead at Grassy Prairie, now
number four, a man named English,
a twelve year old boy and two chill
dren. In Westroot family were
killed, making ten dead in this