Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-06-25
TERRIBLE TORNADO.
Life and Property Destroyed.
THE STORM SWEEPS ACROSS THE
ENTIRE STATE.
Miraculous Escapes.-Much Less De.
structiYe Than a Cycl0ne.-NOteS.

night a tornado swept over the entire
state from Kansas City to Louisiana.
Although it was not a cyclone but a
straight wind the destruction of
property was very large and one life
at least was lost and many marrow
escapes were made. On hearing the
result of the storm west of here Sun
day morning two reporters OF the
LEDGER took the west bound c. & A.
train to visit the scenes of disaster.
Glasgow suffered the most. We
found that the storm struck that little
city about midnight Saturday night.
The wind struck the large buildings
on Water street first and scarcely one
escaped serious damage. The larg- |
est buildings Jared worst, and brick
buildings even worse than frames.
The Glasgow hotel, erected recently
at a cost of $4,000, is almost a
total wreck.
Alex. Lewis brick blacksmith shop
has nothing but part of the walls
standing, and Turner's brick store
house, on Main and Commerce, is
totally destroyed.
Meyers large brick building has
the west end blown in, and the same
is true of Groves, Henderson's and
others.
Pythian hall is now only a three
story brick building instead CT four
story building as formerly.
The NJ. E. church and the Presby-
terrain church are badly injured; the
latter unroofed; both with the cupo-
las blown away.
:. The printing offices and saloons
escaped.
, Trees are blown down all over the
!. city and heavy timbers carried sew
eral blocks. Almost every large
building having a tin roof now has it
rolled up in a corner of the building
' or off on the ground. Chimneys
: were blown down all over the city,
and porches and outhouses blown
away. A great many windows were
: blown in and III the CASE of merchants
the stocks were badly injured.
1t is a remarkable fact hat with all
the damage done only one life was
lost-Mr. ]. G. Wilson, of Alton, ILL.,,
. the travelling agent for the Sandwich
| Irvine binder connected with the
kingman works of Peoria. He went
e to his room in the third floor in the
g Glasgow hotel Saturday night. The
debris was removed the next morn.
ing from the wing of the building
;, which was most seriously injured.
u The last of the brick and mortar was
= taken away about 5 o'clock and the
body of MI. Wilson was found in his
bed ON the ground floor with his arms
t folded over his breast. He was mosl
probably killed while asleep. He
leaves a wife and two children.
= Miss Pamela Mari, sister of the
b proprietor of the Glasgow hotel
, made a narrow escape, stepping into
the main hall just as her went
down.
', Several of the public buildings are
injured, especially Lewis library and
the buildings out at Pritchett Insti
e tute.
The losses are very great, though
q distributed among a great many, the
heaviest losers being the Glasgow
hotel company and the Pythian Hal
n association. The total loss in The
. city is about $4,000.
:: It was decided by scientists thai
this was a simple wind storm and {
straight blow, that it was no cyclone
:. Or twister. Parties who saw thu
storm cross the Missouri river assert
. that raves were lifted as high as ths
Chicago and Alton bridge, and thai
it seemed almost as if one could see
the bottom of the river between The
waves.