The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-13
A CYCLONES WILD WORK.
ST. LOUIS VISITED BY THE DEMON
OF THE AIR.

ana 1Tttlu C6ENlC6 OElppl6Q-A6 howl
ing Blizzard Follows in the Cyclones
Wake.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 12.-This afternoon,
shortly after 4 O'clock, a perfect hurricane
struck the city, unroofing houses, tearing
out trees by the roots, blowing down stee-
ples of churches, leveling telegraph poles,
and doing considerable damage generally.
All the eastern telegraph wires centering at
East st. Louis are blown down, and a
rumor comes from the little town of Venice,
three miles north of st. Louis, that several
houses were destroyed there and three or
four persons killed, but this lacks conflrma-
ton.
SEVERAL LIVES LOST.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 10, 1890 P. NAT this
hour it has been ascertained that several
lives were lost during the afternoon storms.
Reports from the surrounding country are
delayed by the telegraph service being
crippled by the storm.
A LATER ACCOUNT.
About 4:30 o'clock this afternoon
cvolone struck the southwestern section
Of the city and swept on through
TO the northern limits, making
pathway uehTIy QudEIeT OI u Illl0 WlQ6,
and leaving death and desolation in its
track. There was scarce any warning of the
approaching 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 residing in and near
the path of the cyclone scarcely realizing
what had happened until it was all over.
EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE.
In addition to dozens of dwellings and
stores in the southern, central, and north
ern sections of the city more or less
wrecked, the following big buildings were
damaged The Anchor mills, the Goodwin
candle factory, the Pullman shops, Van
Brooks furniture factory, Kingsland q
Ferguson's farm implement works, the
Missouri Pacific hospital, the Hogden
school, the German Evangelical church, the
Second Presbyterian church, and others yet
TO be heard from.
ENTIRE FAMILY KILLED.
Three fatalities are reported, but the
names of the victims have not yet been as
certained. They comprise an entire family,
father, mother, and child, residing on
Mound street, near Tenth, and they met
their deaths by the falling of an adjoining
building on their dwelling.
LOSSES ON PROPERTY.
The losses on property are roughly esti-
mated at 100000, but will likely prove
more The Harmony Club, a Jewish or
ganization, suffered a loss of $4,000 on their
club house, on the corner of Olive and
Third streets.
COURSE OF THE STORM.
The cyclone entered the city in its 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
Fourteenth, and then again turned to the
northeast. leaving the city and striking the
river Just north of Taylor 8 treet.
The only announcement qf the approach
and progress of the storm was a dull,
sullen roar, quickly followed by torrent
of rain. which in turn was succeeded by
sleet, and, before its victims could realize
what had happened, the storm had swept
by and on. Trees were torn up by the
roots and broken off, telegraph poles were
swept down as though mere sticks, whole
roofs of buildings were lifted from their
moorings like feathers and tossed through
the street.
BURIED UNDER A FALLING WALL.
Mrs. Charles Miller, who resides with her
husband at Twentieth and Eugenia streets,
was sitting in a rocking chair with her
babe in her arms. when the roof was lifted
from her house. She rushed to the window,
and just then wall gave way, and Mrs.
Miller and her babe were buried under the
debris. The babe miraculously escaped
without scratch, but the mother was
badly hurt, and may not recover. Mr..
Miller was in another part of the house and
escaped unhurt. This is only one Of the
incidents of the terrible storm.
REPORTS OF DISASTERS.
All sorts of reports are now coming in.
A telephone message from Venice, Ill.,, op-
posite the northern part of the city, says
the storm was very disastrous there and
that several lives were lost 1t is reported
that number of passenger cars were blown
from the track in the upper part of Mill
Creek valley, the western outlet of the
union depot yards
LIST OBJ VICTIMS.
The list of victims by the storm secured
up to this hour (9:30 o'clock p. m.) are as
follows:
DEAD.
Mrs. MAGGIE CoNNoRs, aged 40
BERNARD MCCONNELL, aged 40.
JOE WEAVER, aged 9.
INJURED,
THERESA WEAVER, aged 6. Both legs
broken, and will probably die.
MRS. CHARLES MILLER, badly cut and
bruised.
SERIOUSLY INJURED.
ANNIE CoNNORs.
MAGGIE CONNoRS.
FRANCIS CoNEoRs.
DESTRUCTION IN ILLINOIS.
A messenger Just arrived from the east
side of the river says the storm in st. Clair
county, ILL.,, was unusually severe. and
Chat the cry of "Good Lord, save us, was
heard frequently outside of church walls.
brooklyn, village of about 500 people,
seems to have suffered most, as the damage
at East st. Louis and at Venice
was largely confined to railroad
property and small dwellings, and telegraph
and telephone poles Brooklyn is about
lhree miles north of East st. Louis. Its
population is largely composed of colored
people. AT 8 o'clock p. m. it was reported
N East st. Louis that the little village had
oeen swept off the face of the EARTH 1t
proves not quite so bad as that, though
pad enough, and though several were injured
no llves were lost. A number Of dwellings
are IN ruins. The Baptist church is entirely
demolished, and the Methodist Episcopal
etuuren, frame building, unroofed and
~ Turned clear around on its foundations. At
.Delevlile, ILL.,, several public buildings were
I'll. ooled, but no one was reported injured.
i late Wabash train arrived at the relay
TTspot T IN East st. Louis about S:15 p. m.
5, 55ne engineer and conductor report that
turlng the storm they feared that their
t lam would be thrown from the track, SO
''rrlnc was the force of the wind.
SEVERE BLIZZARD RAGING.