Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1890-01-13
DEATH IN THE CYCLONE.
Like a Flash II Passed Over
the Mound City.
FOUR KILLED, MANY INJURED.

II Was All over In Very short Time.
but 1t Left wreokage and mangled |
Humanity in Its Path--Ths Miraculous
Escape OF an Infant.
81. LouIs, Jan. l3. "A cyclone struck St
Louis yesterday afternoon, leaving death,
desolation and ruin in its wake IL entered
at the southwestern section Of the city aud
swept on like Titanic destroyer to the
northern section, making pathway a
quarter Of a mile wide.
The dead reported thus far are Barnard
Mcconnell, aged 40; Mrs Maggie Connors,
aged 40; Joseph Weaver, aged Q; Joseph
Marx, aged 6, died Of fright
The injured are: Annie Connors, Maggie
Connors, Francis Connors, Mrs. Charles
Miller, Teresa Weaver.
The Weaver girl is aged o She has both
legs broken and will probably die.
1t was over in an incredibly short time
Cut Its Way Through.
The cyclone seems to haveentered the city
In It's full force at Twenty-third street and
Chouteau avenue, passing northeast until It
reached Seventeenth and Olive streets,
where it swerved, taking a direct eastcrly
course TO Fourteenth street and then again
! turned to the northeast, leaving the city
and striking the river just north Of Tyler
street. The only announcement Of the
progress Of the storm was dull snllen roar,
quickly followed by a torrent OF rain. which
in turn was succeeded by sleet, and before
the victims could realize what had happened
4 bn haH 44 nrtH gittfr
wreckage and mangled humanity in its path
way Trees were torn up by the roots and
broken off, telegraph poles were swept down
as though mere sticks, while the roofs OF
buildings were lifted from their moorings
like feathers and tossed into the street
The Babe uniniurrd.
Mrs Charles Miller, who resides with her
husband at Twentieth and Eugenia streets,
was sitting in a rocking chair, with her bahe
in her arms, when the roof was lifted from
her house. She rushed 70 the window, and
just then the wall gave way. and Mrs Miller
and her babe were buried under the debris,
TIE babe miraculously escaped without a
scratch, bnt the mother Is badly hurt and
may not recover. Mr. Miller was III another
part OF the house and escaped unhurt. This
is only one Of dozens Of incidents Of the ter
rible storm.
All sorts Of reports ara now coming IN A
telephone message from Venice, Ills, oppo
site the northern part Of the city, says thl
storm was very disastrous there and tina
several lives were lost, but 40 "details ar
I given II is reported that several pnssenge
! cars were blown from the track ID the uppo
part Of the Mill Greek valley, the wester
outlet Of the Union depot yards
Dozens Of Dwellings Wrecked.
Dozens Of dwellings and stores IN th
southern, central and northern sections o
the city are more or less wrecked Th
Anchor mills, Goodwin CsSidle factory
Pullman shops, Van Brooks furniture fac
tory, Kingsland q Ferguson, farm imple
, nent works, Missouri Pacific hospital, Hod
= gen school, German Evangelical church
Second Presbyterian church and others We
l to be heard from. 1t was also reporte
that another section of the Academy 0
Z Music, which collapsed few days since
, had been leveled by the storm, but this
! now denied The losses on property ar
= roughly estimated at 100000 but wi
likely prove more. The Harmony club,
/" Jewish organization, suffered a loss q
S3, 600 on their club house on the corner q
Olive and Eighteenth street.
! In Neighboring Towns.
y A messenger just arrived from the east sid
Of the river says that the storm in St. Clai
county, Ills, was unusually severe, and tha
the cry of good Lord save u.s. was hear
frequently outside OF the church walls.
Brooklyn is about three miles north
i East St. Louis. Its population is largel
y composed Of colored people. At 5 p. m.
y was reported in East st. Louis that the lit
y village had been swept or the face Of Il
= earth. 1t proves not quite so bad as tina
4 though bad enough, and though several wei
y ! injured no lives were lost Several dwell
ings are in ruins The Baptist church Is q
4. tirely demolished, and the Methodist Epi
= copal church, a frame building, unrooft
= = and turned clear around on its foundation
4 AT Belleville, Ills, several public bull
~ ings were unroofed but no one reported 4
jured A late Wabash train arrived at 81
relay depot in East St. Louis about s.;
p. m. The engineer and conductor repo
to that during the storm they feared that the
Of train would be thrown from the track,
I'd terrific was the force of the wind.