, 1890-01-14
WILD WINDS.
Loss of Life in a Kentucky
Tornado.
High Winds Demolish Houses
in Rochester, N. Y.
Terrible Blizzard and Intense
Suffering in Kansas,

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CAIRO, Ills, Jan. ia tornado last
night struck the east side of the city Of
Clinton, Ky, demolishing fity.f five
houses and killing eleven people and
wounding ifty-three. The killed SO far
as ascertained are j. A. Rhodes and two
children, Mrs. William Bone, Burnett
Bone, Walter Nance. John W. Caddie
and an infant of J. G. Hodges and one
other not yet identified. The storm also
visited Wicklf, KY, doing considerable
damage to property, but no loss of life.
A special to the Post Dispatch says:
For several miles around Clinton nearly
everything RACED to the ground. The
first building struck was a section house
about a mile from town and which was
occupied by John Rhodes and his family,
consisting of his wife and three children,
all of whom were killed. The population
of the town is about ZOO and at first it
was feared hat hundreds had been killed
but the list was found to be comparatively
small, only eleven bodies so far having
been found.
Small houses were lifted bodily from
the ground and whIrled around in the air.
dropping to the ground with a terrifying
crash and being literally mashed into
kindling wood. Flying timbers filled the
air, and the crash of falling buildings,
mingled with the shrieks of people fleeing
from their homes. The path of the tor
nado was about 300 yards wide, as shown
by the debris. The loss to property is es-
timated at about $40, 0 Two messen-
gers from the scene of the disaster report
eight of the f~fty-three wounded are SO
seriously injured that they are not ex-'
pected to live. At Wickliffe, KY,
thirteen of the principal business houses
were wrecked, and twenty two people
were more or less injured.
A special to the Post Dispatch from
jackson, Tenn, says the cyclone visited
Moscow, Ky, and that two persons we're
killed and four or five wounded at that
place.
CHICAGO, Jan. l3.-The ra:nstorm of
yesterday afternoon gave place to a gale
which ragged with great force all last night,
and which has only diminished with the
advent of cold weather. While during
part of yesterday the thermometer was
between So and CO. above zero, it began
falling rapidly late last night, and at an
early hour this morning marked l8o above.
The signal service bureau reports the
storm general, and Geographic service
from the West, Northwest and South.
west fully ~corroborate this report. The
wind has played havoc with electric wires
all over the West. Geographic service
being demoralized. This morning a light
fall of snow covered the ground.
Reports from the Dakotas, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas,
indicate about the same weather in those
states. The only variation being hat the
blizzard is more intense aad the snow
much deeper in the North. Since yes.
terday s cyclone st. Louis has been prac-
.ically cut off from the rest of the world,
so complete was the decentralization of
the telegraphic service. Wires in every
direction were down; aud it was not until
10 this morning that the Associated Press
finally established connection with the
storm stricken city.
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. l3.-The storm
did very little damage in the Northwest.
Trains on some roads are a little late, but
there is now no serious delay. Weather
clear and cold.
TOLEDO. Jan. '13.-During a heavy
gale a freight car was blown from the sid
ing at Custer station, on the Cincinnati,
Hamilton II Dayton railroad, thirty five
miles south of Toledo, upon the main
track, and then driven three miles north,
where it collided with a south bound pas.
senger train, leaving here At midnight.
The engine, baggage and mail car of the
train were wrecked. and both engineer
and fireman injured, but not fatally.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, Jan. ia hur-
ricane prevails here and the wind is said
to have reached a velocity of rs miles an
hour. Many buildings have been par
TALLY demolished and several persons in.
iured by falling debris. Geo. Weller was
struck on the head by a falling chimney
and killed. Geo. Seward, express wagon
driver, was kicked in the head by a horse
which had been blown down by the force
of the wind. Seward is not expected to live.
The south wall was blown down of the
Joselyn block, falling on and crushing a
frame building next door; no one injured.
There were many narrow escapes.
CLEVELAND Jan. lathe wind reached
a velocity of f~orty-ive miles an hour here
last night, and the temperature dropped
from co. to below freezing point. Tele-
phone and telegraph communications was
interrupted during the forenoon. Roofs
we're torn off two school buildings, trees
torn down and signs carried away, but no
one was injured. Reports from adjacent
all Northern Ohio, but did no serious
damage to property.
SYRACUSE. N. Y, Jan. IA severe
wind storm ragged here this afternoon and
many buildings have been unr6oted.
The Lew freight house of the Rome,
Watertown & Ogdensburg railroad in
course of erection, was blown down.
SIXTY hive men were at work on the build.
ing at the time. VIM. Willis, a carpen-
ter, was killed and about twelve other
carpenters severely injured.
UTICA, N. Y. Jan. ia heavy
wind storm passed over the Northern part
of this county at noon to-day. In The
village of South Trenton the Baptist
church was unroofed and steeple Of the
Union church blown down. A number
of houses and barns were unroofed and
trees uprooted. Fences and small build.
ings we're blown down and many Orchards
nearly ruined. A dispatch from Oswego
states the storm very severe there,
MONTREAL, Jan. ia dispatch from
St. Hilaire says: The Grand Trunk train
from Montreal was blown from the track
to-day. The conductor, brakeman, and