St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-13

walls. Brooklyn, village of about 500
people, seemed to have suffered most.
The damage at East st. Louis and at
Venice was largely confined to railroad
property and small dwellings, and tele-
graph and telephone poles. Brook
lyn is about three miles north Of
East st. Louis. Its population is largely
composed of colored people. at p. m.
it was reported in East st. Louis that
the little village had been swept off the
face of the earth. 1t proves not quite so
bad as that, though | ad enough, and
though several were injured, no lives
were lost. A number of dwellings are
In ruins. The Baptist church is en-
tlrely demolished and the NJ. E. church,
frame building, unroofed and turned
clear around on its foundation. At
Belleviile, ILL.,, host of public build
ings were unroOfed, but no one report
ed injured. A late Wabash train ar
rived at the Relay depot. at East st.
Louis, about S:15 p. m. The engineer
and conductor report that during the
storm they were afraid their train
would be thrown from the track, SO ter
Flnc was the force of the wind.
MRS. MILLER's STORY.
Litchfleld, ILL.,, is also reported as hay
ing suffered severely by the storm.
Mrs. Charles Miller, of Twentieth and
Eugenia streets, who was so badly i'll
Jured in to-day's storm, tells the fol-
lowing story of how it happened: "The
entire roof of our house was blown
away, the roof taken off, windows shat
tered and the rest of the house more or
less damaged. When the storm struck the
mousse L was sitting with my baby in
my arms. L did not know what had
happened at first, but jumped up and
ran to the window, throwing my weight
against it to keep the wind from blow
ing 1t in. In an instant the roof
seemed to be lifted Off above me, the
window came in with a crash, the back
gallery and stairs were blown away,
and had time only TO see that the air
was filled with parts of the wreck
that seemed to be whirllng around.
when L was struck on the head. aud fell
to the floor. When [ recovered con-
sciouSness the storm had passed. | was
covered with blood, and [ thought my
baby was dead, but fortunately was
the most hurt" Dr.. Nichols, who is at
tending Mrs. Miller, stated tonight that
she is dangerously hurt. The babe is
all right. Another death is Just report
ed. Willie Marks. aged six years. whose
parents reside in the northern section
of the city, was IN bed with a 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 FREIGHT.
The cyclone was of not longer duration
than five minutes time, but in that short
space 1t left behind it track of ruined
buildings, unroofed houses, shattered
walls, dismantled churches and schools,
wrecked factories and mills, streets
heaped with debris, telegraph poles
blown down by thousands. the wire
service of the city temporarily
destroyed, and the usual dread
accompaniment of loss of life and wide
spread injury to human life that left
panic-stricken populace gathering on
every street corner to discuss the sud-
den horror marking the closing of Sab
bath afternoon. From the evidence of
eye-witnesses the storm was an
undoubted cyclone, dropping upon
the city at about the initial
point designated, and gaining in inten-
sity as it swept in diagonal path to-
wards the river. The usual sudden
darkness of the skies at this point
where the cyclone burst. the awful de-
scent of the funnel-shaped cloud and
the havoc of ruin following its touching
of terra firma, are all told in tie
stories of those whose terrifying for
tune it was to mark the approach and
passage of the hurricane. As is usual
in such cases, the weather preceding
the cyclone was close, muggy and OPP
pressive, the atmosphere being sur
charged with electricity, and all the ele-
ments of a disastrous outbreak of the
forces of nature being present. During
the forenoon the day became
DARK AND LOWERING,
the temperature being of spring-time
mildness. almost debllitating in its lam
guor. Towards afternoon heavy and
increasing rain began, that was accom-
panied by fitful, but severe gusts of
wind, suggestive of a stormy March
day. About o'clock the skies dark
ened terribly. Shortly after that hour
one solitary flash of lightning
illuminated the lowering scene.
and severe peal of thunder followed.
1t was the only thunder clap of the
threatening day, and might fifty be
called the siginal for the dread outburst
that followed, for hardly had the echoes
died away when the cyclone burst
upon the city, and brief
reign of terror and desola'ion
| succeeded, When that was passed and
people dared to venture out of their
dismantled homes, the storm still con-
tinued in modified form, and severe
wind prevailed throughout the evening
and night with the temperature steadily
| falling. Swaying and threatening
| walls marked every corner along the
| track of the cyclone, and streets looked
as If an earthquake had rocked
| the city upon its treacher0us bosom.
and scattered the roofs, chimneys and
church spires down into the broad thor
oughfares until an aspect of general
ruin prevailed. Following the sIeet
and storm of last Tuesday night the
effect of to-day's cyclone on the tele-
graph and telephone service was dis
astrous. and a network of
TANGLED AND swAYING WIRES
festoons every street crossed by the
swift sweep of the wind. The effect of
the storm, perceptible at every foot of
its progress, indicates, however, that it
gained in intensity as It passed through
the city and wreaked its fullest force of
fury in the northeastern portion
of st. Louis as it approached
| the river. An estimate of
| financial loss caused by the
cyclone is rendered impossible at the
present moment. but there is no boubt
| the total will swell into a magnitude
that will cause the day to be memora-
Bile one, while the loss of life and in