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KILLED BY A TORNADO
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in the ruins. Neighbors came to their
assistance after the storm and all were
taken out alive and but slightly hurt.
scratches and bruises were the sum of
their injuries. There was terrible ex-
element at the natatorium, Nineteenth
and Pine streets, during the storm. The
natatorium lay short distance to the
west OF the track of destruction, but the
wind passing over it was very strong.
The building was shaken, and seemed
upon the point of being wrecked.
Between 500 and 600 girls and men were
there, dancing, as is usual on Sunday
afternoon. The girls became wild with
terror, and had it not been for some
cool men, there would have been stdm-
pede from the building. Several wom-
en- faintSd in the excitement, but no
one was injured and the building was
not damaged, The Office of the Smith
& Heller Lumber company, 100
North Broadway, small one
story frame building, fell during the
storm, burying Frank Kohler, an en-
ploye Of the COMPANY, in the wreckage.
He lay there until the firemen, who
were summoned, removed the boards
and drew him forth. He was badly
frightened. but not hurt, and walked to
his home. 29l3 North Broadway. No.
Diehl. and occupied by Mr.. Burns and
Mr.. Horn. Mrs. Horn, on the second..hoor
was blown out through the side of the
dwelling, with most of her household
effects, and landed almost uniniured,
but
SCARED NEARLY TO DEATH,
on the wreck Of what had just previous
ly been known as 922 Mound street.
The st. Louis planning mill at Tenth
and Mullanphy streets was badly shat
tered. An unknown man standing
under one of its sheds had his leg
broken by falling timber and was cared
for by the police. Passengers of the
Ferguson, Mo-, accommodation train
had a narrow escape, and they con-
graduate themselves now that a
have their heads cut off. How
they were saved from death or injury
is miracle quite as mysterious as any
OF the peculiar freaks of a cyclone,
which people never tire of telling about.
Col. Thomas Thoroughman tells the
story OF the passengers frightfull eX-
perience. He says the train had left
the station at Vine street, and had pro-
ceeded as far northWard along the river
front as Kuase, Stout d Co.'s lumber
yards, when the water poured down in
such quantities that no one could see
outside the coaches. Slowly the train
proceeded, and when everything looked
darkest and most dismal from the fury
of tine storm there was a smashing of
glass that rose above the din, and
INCH PLANKs CAME SHOOTING
into the coach windows one side and
went out at the other just like they had
been fred from a huge cannon. What
few passengers there were in the pas
senger coach crouched down close to the
floor and the lumber went flying over
their heads. The storm of planks and
wood was so heavy it crashed every
pane of glass in the last coach, and the
wind damned itin piles on the track be-
tween the trucks, stopping the train.
There the cars stood until the storm had
somewhat abated, when the train crew
got out and cleared the roadway. after
half-hour's tussle in the drenching
rain. The cal was taken on to Fergu-
son, where it was side-tracked for re-
pairs.