St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-13
STORM SWEPT
A Cyclone Passes Over the
Southwestern Portion of
the City Of st. Louis.
Half a Dozen People Known
to Have Been Crushed Be-
meath Buildings.
One Whole Family, Father,
Mother and Child, Report
ed Among the Dead.
Houses Blown Down and
Trees Literally Torn Up
By Their Roots.
The Village Of Brooklyn Prac-
tically Swept Out Of Ex-
istence.
Churches and Other Strue-
lures Crushed in Tennes-
see and Mississippi.
Heavy Shows in Kansas, Ne
bpaska, Iowa and Mis-
souri,.
Trains Are Abandoned in
Every Direction in TWO
or Three States.
st. Paul and Other Sections
OF Minnesota Stirred Up
Churches and Other Strue-
lures Crushed in Tennes-
see and Mississippi.
Heavy Shows in Kansas, Ne
braska, Iowa and Mis-
souri,.
Trains Are Abandoned in
Every Direction in TWO
or Three States.
st. Paul and Other Sections
OF Minnesota Stirred Up
by Boreas.

oT' LOUIS, MO-, Jan. 12.-Ab0ut 4:S0
this afternoon a cyclone struck the
southwestern section of the city and
swept on through the northern lin
its, making a pathway nearly quarter
OF mile wide and leaving death and
desolatiOn in its track. There was
scarcely any warning of the approach
OF the storm, owing to the fact that the
sky had been overcast for several hours
before the full force of the wind was
felt, and it was all over in an incredibly
brief period of time, those resid
ing III and near the path of
the cyclone scarcely realizing
what had happened until it was 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 following buildings
were damaged: The Anchor Mills,
Goodwin Candle factory, Pullman's
shop, Van Brooks furniture factory.
Kingsland & Ferguson, farm implement
works, Missouri Pacific hospital, Hodg-
den school, German Evangelical church,
Second Presbyterian church and others
yet to hear from. 1t was also reported
that another section of the Academy of
Music, which collapsed few days since,
has been leveled by the storm, but this
is now denied. Three fatalities are re-
ported, but the names of the victims
have not yet been ascertained. They
comprise
AN ENTIRE FAMILY,
father, mother and child, residing on
Mound street, near Tenth, and they
met their deaths by the falling of a
building Oh their dwelling. The losses
on property are roughly estimated at
100000. but will likely prove more.
The Harmony club, Jewish organiza-
ton. suffered loss of 5000 OIL their
club. house on the corner of Olive
and Eighteenth street. The cyclone
seemed to have entered the CITY
in full force at Twenty-third
street and Chouteau avenue, passing
northeast until it reached Seventeenth
and Olive streets, where it swerved.
taking direct easterly course to Four
teenth, and then again turned to the
northeast, leaving the city and striking
the river just north of Tyler street.
The only announcement of the approach
and progress of the storm was a dull,
sullen sky, quickly followed by tor
rent of rain, which in turn was sue
ceeded by sleet, and before the victims
could realize what had happened, the
storm had swept by and OIL, leaving
wreckage and mangled humanity in its
pathway.
TREES WERE TORN UP
by the roots and broken off and tele-
graph poles swept down as though mere
sticks, while the roofs of buildings
were lifted from their moorings like
feathers and tossed into the streets.
Mrs. Charles Miller, who resides, with
her husband. at Twentieth and Eugenia
streets, was sitting in rocking chair
with her babe in her arms when the
roof was lifted from her house. She
rushed to tn window, and just then the
wall gave way, and Mrs. Miller and her
fabe were buried under the de.
bris.. The babe miraculousiy escaped
without q scratch, bat the mother is
badly hurt and will not recover. Mr..
Miller was in another part of the house,
oHo woo Ills Is uub one or
dozens of incidents of the terrible
storm. All sorts of reports are now
coming in. A telephone message from
Venice, ILL.,, opposite the orthern part
of the city, says the storm was very dis
astrous there, and that several lives
were lost, but no details are given. Ii
is just reported that number
of passenger cars were blown from the
track In the upper part of the Mill
Creek valley, the western outlet of the
union depot yards. Particulars will be
| received later. The list of victims re-
ceived up TO this hour, 9:3O p. M, is as
follows: Dead: Mrs. Maggie Connors,
aged forty: Bernard Mcconnell, aged
forty; Joe Weaver. aged nine. In
jured: TeSsa Weaver. aged six, both
legs broken. will probably die; Mrs.
Charles Miller, badly cut and bruised
serious condition. A nnie K. Connors.
Maggie Connors, Francis Connors. A
messenger just arrived from the
EAST SIDE OF THE RIVER
says that the storm in st. Clair county.
Illinois, was unusually severe, ana that
the cry of "Good Lord, save u.s." was
heard frequently outside Of. the church