, 1890-01-16
BEARINGDEATH
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A. Terrible Seorna in the
EaAt,
CYCLONE AT ST, LOUIS
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Three Deaths and Great
Damage Reposted
I'm KANSAS AND ELSEWHERE
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Great Suffering ip Some Sections
The AnniveNserS OF the
Great 1ltgsard
I'm KANSAS AND ELSEWHERE


track.
There was scarcely Ny ~srnIng ofthc
approaching storm, ONJ ~ TO the fact
that the sky had been ONercost for sew.
eral hours before the f1l( lorve of the
wind was felt.
In addition to dozeRs or Dwellings and
stores in the southNr1, central and
northern sections of TIC city, more or
less wrecked, the folloVinE 6Is building,
were damaged; The Anehor mills, the
Goodwin candle factory, tie Pullman
shops, NanBpck's tirntWre factory,
Kingsland Il RergusoR's Girn aud inn
plcmont works, the Slissoue Pacific
hospital, the Holden sehOOI, the Ger.
man Evangelical cbNrch, the Second
Presbyterian church ~ Othcr buildings
Three fatalities are rsn0rtcd, but the
names of the victims (sVe not yet been
ascertained. They coedprise an entire
family, father, mothef ppd child, re.
siding on Mound slcCt. ThCy met
their deaths by buidies fallins on
their dwelling.
The losses on the pfNpeNtN are roughly
estimated at $4,000 but IL is likely
that they will prove to 'pe more,
The cyclone seemed 10 have entered
the city in its full iorNs 1t TTenty-third
street and Chateau layente, passing
northwest until it rrGIpei seventeenth
aud Oliy, streets wheNs It again turned
to the northeast, leaviAs lhs city and
striking the river just n0rlh OF Tyler
street.
The only announNsIner OF It's ap-
proach and progress M9s q dali and sui
len roar, quickly foll0Ned b torrents Of
rain, which 10 turn Sas SioCeodod by
sleet, and before the Nlcuns could real
i2e what had happeneQ, the storm had
swept by, leaving wTNg gbSas 20 aud man.
gled humanity in its pathSay. Trees
were torn up by the r1ots and broken
OIL, and Telegraph pNl6s swept down,
while the roof of bul(diRss We're liNed
and tossed into tire stroeS.
Mrs Charles Miller, %hu resides with
her husband at Twentieth apd Eugenia
streets, was sitting inA Char with her
babe in her arms when tho roof was
lifted from the house, Spe flushed to
the window, and just tpen THE wall gave
way and Mrs. Miller a6b tho babe were
buried under the debris. The babe es-
capped without scratch, but tho mother
was badly hurt and hoy not recover,
Mr.. Miller escaped, unii4N This l7 one
of fdozons Of ineideniN Vt the terrible
storm.
A telephone message from Venice, ILL.,,
opposite the northern bJr u the city,
says that the storm Wa Very disastrous
there and that seyeH,l lives were lost,
but no details are GiveN
The list of the victim. SECURED up 20
$3.50 +. NJ. are; Dead~>Nlrs, Maggie
Conners aged i0i Joe Weaver, aged ..
lnjured--Teresa WoAyeE aged o, both
legs broken, will pro- gably die; Mrs
Charles Miller, badly Nj aud bruised
Annie conners, Maskie COnhers and
Francis Conners.
A messenger who han arrived from
the east side of the riFNf says that the
storm in ST. Clair ooupty, H., is un.
usually severe. BrooSS6, village of
about 500 people, seemN 80 have suffered
most. The damage IL East ". Louis
and Venice is largely con hned TO rail.
road property and small dwellings and
telegraph and telephoNe bolcs. Brook
lyn is about three Ttcs north Of st.
Louis, and the poPb(bfipn Is largely
composed OF colored peGple. Although
several were injured, nN lyes We're lost.
A number OF dwellings are IN ruins. The
Baptist church was enUrely demolished
and the Methodist Episcopal chuTcn was
unroofcd and turned clpor around ON its
foundations.
At Bcllovillo, H., soNeral Public build.
ings were unrooted, h,lt no one is re-
ported to have been inhirCu.
The late Wabash trai1 aeriyed at East
ST. Louis about s:lj f. NJ Tho On.
gineer and conductor NcpOft that dur.
ing the storm they Gsred their train
would be thrown from NDe track so ter.
riRc was the force OF tie WIND.
Litchiiold, ILL.,, is also rOporteq as hay.
ing suffered by the stoNu.
Mrs Charles Miller, WHO was so badly
injured in to-day's stoNb, tolls the fol.
lowing story; "rhe entiSe roof OF our
house was blown away, tho Windows
shattered and the rest 81 the pousc more
or less damaged. When the storm
struck the house, wlN slttipg with my
baby in my arms. d(J not snow what
had happened at first put Jumped up
and ran TO the window tn An Instant
the roof seemed to be Ii aed OF above me,
the windows came IN T,Ib q crash, the
back gaiioTy anu sHis were blown
aaMiIs5{ Win n m"rts % % off ,nmSS " & Sec ,he AZ,
hlleu wv" p1 ~ ~ W,eck thht
was struck ON the head ahd fell to the
floor When | recoveeed seriousness |
the storm had passeQ. I was covered |
WIN Oioou' anu ,in'g my pa"y was
Ieau' ou' io''u"a''iy was 'he worst
hurt' 49, -. IA ..,, =,
vi Inc uoeto1 VINO eMsha'os Mrs.
Sansaronsts M,l,er s'G,e1 hur, "'s"t ps' snc was