New-York tribune., 1890-01-13
A TORNADO IN ST. LOUIS.
THREE PERSONS KILLED BY THE FALL OE
A HOUSE.
SEVERAL HUNDRED HOUSES WRECKED On
DAMAGED-SUBURBAN VILLAGES AL
MOST SWEPT AWAY.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBUEYI

ST Louis, Jan. l2.-At twenty minutes after
o'clock this afternoon a gale swept over st.
Louis, killing three persons and damaging more
tGan 300 buildings. The day was showery and sui
try, the thermometer reaching 20 degrees at noon.
An hour later stacks of black clouds began to
pile up in the southwest. The wind increased,
and at o'clock it was blowing violently with
the clouds scudding before it. Suddenly dellge
poured down, surprising any rainfall in the
memory of the oldest inhabtant. In five minutes
the streets were flooded, the sewers choked, and
the lower portions Of the city covered with water
At this moment sulphurous cloud was seen
approaching from the southwest. IL assumed
the twisting tornado form, and on reaching
Lafayette and Grand aves in the extreme
southwestern part of the city, it began the work
of destruction. Two brick houses were first
unroofed, and Mrs. Miller and her child danger.
ously hurt. The wind continued in a north
easterly course across the city, blowing down
steeples, telegraph poles roofs, fences and houses
The greatest damage was done in the northern
part of the city, where it passed across the river
into Illinois
Near the corner of Ninth and Mound sts. the
roof of a two-story brick building carried
away. The house collapsed, and man, woman
and one child were killed by falling walls All
the houses in an area of two blocks by four in
this neighborhoOd were wrecked and damaged
The killed Mrs Maggie ConnOrs, age forty;
Bernard Mcconnell age forty, and Joe" Weaver,
age nine. The Mcconnell and Connors families
occupied the house jointly There was a party
for children in progress when the building went
down. Four persons were seriously hurt. One
child was taken out from under the roof 100
feet away, and. though badly injured, will live.
The list OF those killed and injured is as follows:
KILLED.
CONNORs Mrs. Maggie.
MCCONNELL, Bernard.
WEAVER, Joe.
WEAVER, Teresa, age six. had both legs broken win
probably die.
MILLER, Mrs Charles. badly cut and bruised, ana
is in serious condition.
CONNORS Annie.
CONNORS Maggie.
CONNORS Francis.
The wind passed over the lumber district on its
way to the river and literally filed the river
with lumber. Whole stacks Of pine were
picked up and carried over to the Illinois shore.
Among the buildings damaged were the Anchor
Mills, the Hodgins School, the Missouri Pacific
Hospital the First Lutheran Church, the
Second Presbyterian, the st. Lawrence O'Toole
Cathedral Warbrooks furniture factory Kings
land & Fergusons factory, the Advance Ele-
VafOrs, fellcrS cndlr factory ana nan Il HuulItu
others. The churches named lost their steeples.
4 messenger just arrived from the east side
Of the river says that the storm in St Clair
County, H., was unusually severe. 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 three miles
north Of East St Louis. Its population is largely
composed of colored people. Though
several persons were injured, no lives
were lost. number Of dwellings are in ruins.
Tie Baptist Church is entirely demolished and
the Methodist Episcopal Church, frame build
ing unroofed and turned clear around on its
foundations At Bellevle, H., several public
buildings were unrooled, but no one reported in
jurcd
A late Wabash train arrived at the relay depot
in East ST. Louis about :l5 p. m The engineer
and conductor report that during the storm they
feared that their train would be thrown from the
track SO great was the force of the wind.