Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-01-16
TORNADO TORN

81. Louis visited Aty a EoAffui AofuA00-ve
Churches. Emctorics aud Other BuId-
inRs wrecked Several Per4ons lied
and others InJured = Damage 10 iitt-
noIs.
ST.. Louis. Jan. 13.--About 4;39
o'clock yesterday afternoon cyclone
struck the southwestern section 0f the
city and swept on through to the
limits. making pathway nearly
qu rter Of a mile wide and leaving
death and destruction in its track.
There was scarcely any warning OF
the approaching storm, though the
fact that the sky had been overcast for
several ours before the full force Of
tie wind WIS felt and 1t was all over in
very brief period Of time. th3se re-
siding Iii and near the p th Of the
cyclone scarcely realizing wnat had
happened until it WIS all over.
In addition to dozens OF dwellings
and stores In the southern, central and
northern sections of the city more or
less wrecked, the TO lowing big
buildings were damaged: The
Anchor mills, Goodwln's candle
factory, the Pullman shops, Van
Brooks furniture factory, Kings
land II Ferguson's farm implement
works, the Missouri Pacific hosp tai,
the Ogden school, the German Evange-
lical chur h, the Second Presbyterian
church and others yet to he heard
from. The losses on property are
roughly estimated at 10000 but win
likely prove more.
A dwelling house was wrecked at
Tenth aud Mound streets and the fol-
lowing perso1s were killed: Mrs. Mag
gle Connors, aged forty; Bernard ME-
Connell, aged forty; Joe Weaver, ged
eight years; Willie Marks, aged six
years. The injured are; Teresa Weaver,
aged eight, beth leg broken, will prob
ably die; Mrs Charles Miller, baily cgt
and bruised, serious condition; Annie
Connors; Francis Connors-
The cyclone seemed to have entered
the city tn its full force at Twenty
third street and Chouteau avenue, pass
ing northeast until it reached Seven
teenth and Olive streets, where it
swerved, taking adirect easterly course
to Fourteenth, and tn n again turned
TO the northeast, leaving the city and
striking the river just north Of Tylers.
The only announcement Of the APP
proach and progress OF the storm
was dun, sullen, roar, quickly iol-
lowed by torrent of rain. which in
turn was succeeded by sleet, anu be-
fore the victims could realize what had
the storm had swept by and
on, leaving wreckage and mangled hui
manity in its pathway.
Trees were torn up by the roots and
broken off, telegraph poles swept down
as though mere sticks, while the roofs
of buildings were lifted from their
like feathers and landed in
the streets
The cyclone was Of not longer dura-
tion than five minutes, but in that
short space OF time it left behind it
track of wrecked buildings, unroofed
houses, dismantlei churches and
schools and mills, streets heaped With
debris, telegraph poles blown by thou
sands all the wires over the city tenn
poraiily destroyed and the usual dread
accompaniment loss of life and wide
spread injury to human beings that left
a panic stricken populace gathe ed on
every street corner to discuss the sud-
den horror which marked the closing
of \ Sabbath aitern on.
From the evidence Of eye witnesses
the storm was an undoubted cyclone,
dropping upon the city at about the
initial point designated and gaining
\ f4s Aiue II
toward the river. The usual sudden
of the skies at the point
where the cyclone burst, the awfulness
Of the funnel-shaped cloud and the
havoc of ran following its touching
terra llrma, is all told in the stories of
those whose IT flying fortune 10 was
% witness the approach and passage Of
.he hurricane.
Among the long list of damages en-
allied by the cyclone, the following
AVE been reported as the most disas-
.1ous: The Ogden school, on Cali
'ornia avenue, near Fayett Missouri
Pacific hospital, California and Old5
avenues; German Lutheran church,
and Morgan reefs; Second
Presbyterian church, Seventeenth and
Lucas place; Goodwine cand factory
It Twentieth and Poplar, Anchor mills
1t Twenty-lrst and Scott avenue, the
louse 1908 Euge ia street; at Twenty
hird and Gratiot streets the entire
orner of an unoccupied brick house.
TIE STORM IN ILLINOIS.
Brooklyn, village of about 500 peO~
lie, seems TO have suffered most,
he damage at East st. Louis and AZ
Tenice was largely confined to rail-
oad property and small dwellings and
and telephone poles. Brook
yn is about three miles north of
East st. Louis. Its population
5 largely composed of colored
eople. At eight p. N. it was reported
n East ST. Louis that the llttle village
ad been swept off the face # the
arth. It proved not quite so had as
hat. though bad enough. Though
everal We're injured, no lives were
Dst. A number Of dwellings are in
uins. The Baptist church was en-
rely demolished and the Methodist
hurch, a frame building, was un-
oofed and turned clear around on its
At Belleville, Ill. several public
were unrOofed, but no one
aported injured.
Litchfeld. H., is reported as having
Uttered severely By the storm.
Noted Racer Burned.
VERSAILLES, Ky, Jan. l2.-The sta
les Of Macy BTothe burned this