Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-01-16
WORK OF THE WIND.
A Cyclone Causes Death and Ruin
in st. Louis.
-Four Persons Lose Their Lives and Several
others Are Badly InJured-Much
Property Destroyed-storm
Elsewhere.
THE ROWLING WIND.


ST. Louis, Jan. 49, - AT 4:30 Sunday
afternoon cyclone struck the south
western section of the city and swept
through TO the northern limits, mark
ing pathway nearly quarter of mile
wide and leaving death and desolation
in It's track. In addition TO dozens of
dwellings and stores in the southern,
central and northern sections of the
city more or less wrecked, the following
buildings were damaged: The Anchor
mills, Goodwin candle factory, Pullman
shops, Van Brooks furniture factory,
Kingsland & Ferguson 5 farm-implement
works. Missouri Pacific Hospital, Hold
gen School, German Evangelical
Church, Second Presbyterian Church,
and others vet to be heard from. 1t
was also reported that another section
OF the Academy of Music, which col
lapsed few days since, had been lev
eled by the storm, but this is now de-
MED
The losses on property are roughly
estimated at 500, 900, but will likely
prove more.
The list of killed reported up to $50
D. M comprise the following persons:
Mrs Maggie Connors aged 40; Bernard
Mcconnell aged 40: oe Weaver, aged
8; Willie Marks, aged The latter re-
sided with his parents in the northern
part of the city. lie was in bed sick
with fever The storm blew the roof
off the Marks home and bricks came
crashing into the room, resulting in the
death of the boy from sheer fright
A messenger just arrived from the
east side of the river says that
the storm in ST Clair County,
H., was unusually severe and that the
cry of Good Lord save u.s." was heard
frequently outside OF the church
walls. Brooklyn, village Of
about 500 people, seems to have
suffered most The damage at
East st. Louis and Venice was large
ly confined to railroad property and
small dwellings and telegraph and
telephone poles. Brooklyn is about
three miles north of East st. Louis
It's population is largely composed
OF colored people. At $ p. IN. it
was reported in East Louis that the
little village had been swept off
the face Of the earth. 1t proves not
quite so bad az that, though bad enough
and though several were injured no
lives were lost A number of dwellings
are in ruins The Baptist church is en-
tirelv demolished and the Methodist
Episcopal church, frame building, un-
rooted and turned clear around on it's
foundations
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Jan. ia Sc
we're blizzard RACES in Kansas, Mis-
souri, and Nebraska. Dispatches from
points in Kansas say that the storm is
by far the worst or the season, and some
points report that it is the most severe
ever experienced. The storm began
Saturday night, continuing throughout
the day and most Of Sunday night.
A dispatch from Lincoln, Neb., says
that reports received there are to the
effect that a storm of great severity is
raging throughout the State. A peculiar
feature of the storm is its occurrence on
the anniversa Y Of the terrible blizzard
two years ago, when so many people
persisted from the cold. Reports of the
present storm indicate il is no less Sc
we're than that Of which it Is the ami
versary.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Jan. l3.-A heavy
wind-storm. accompanied by rain, struck
Memphis about } o'clock Sunday after
noon, but beyond general prostration
of wires no damage was done in this
immediate vicinity. A special from
Sardis, Miss, sixty miles south of here,
reports heavy storm of wind rain and
hail. The Episcopal and Presbyterian
churches and Ballentines livery stable
were blown down. Henderson Bros store
and the Reporter Office were unroofed,
and several stores and residences dam
aged. No fatalities are reported.