The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-15
SWEEP OF A WIND DEMON
AN ILLIN oIs TOWN LAID IN RUINS
BY A TORNADO.

One Man Killed IN the Fall OF His House
But No Other Fatality Reported.
Rleven Persons Injured-The Storms
Descent So sudden that No One had
Time to Flee.
GALEsBURG. ILL, June 14.-There passed
through the northeastern part of shis (knox)
county, about 8 o'clock yesterday evening
most destructive tornado. and ruin was left
along its path. 1t seema 10 have first made
its appearance northwest Of Galva. About
7.50 o'clock two black, threatening clouds
were noticed in the west approaching one
another, and the tornado is thought TO have
resulted from their junction.
Its course was south and east through
that city, and the main body of the storm
passed along the main business street OF the
city.
NO TIME TO FLEE.
It came with such suddenness that the
citizens had no time in which to fly to
places OF safety In the Free Methodist
church there was assembled q congregation
In the rink there was a gathering of a COM
mittee to arrange for Fourth OF July cele-
bration, The church was quickly o mass
of ruins and the members Of the conRrega-
tion were imprisoned. A number were
injured, one dangerously. The rink also
was blown down, but those inside managed
10 escape without injury. Had the storm
come few minutes later many would have
been In this building and loss Of life would
surely have resulted.
CAME WITH A ROAR.
The roar of the storm is described as ter-
rlble. IL was accompanied by midnight
darkness and an awful sweep of wind that
OarEfaA auATuthiDn hafnFa IL NQaFlv
every business house along the principal
street was unroofed and stocks Of goods
were badly damaged by the floods Of water
following the tornado.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
round house was totally wrecked.
The Barnett elevator near by was un-
rooted and 10000 bushels OF grain
were deluged with water. The Rock
Island and Peoria elevator and part OF the
depot went next.
The tall steeple Of the Baptist church was
cut Off as clean as IL by knife aud was
hurled into the street. Tho Congregational
church was also badly injured.
THE FATALITY.
The saddest feature occurred at August
Olson's house. There were in the house at
the time Mr.. and Mrs. Olson. Charles Olson
and four others. The residence collapsed,
killing Mr.. Olsen Instantly. The others es-
capped by a miracle.
The place to-day was In a state of demor-
alizatlon. Business was completely sus-
pended and the streets were filled with
| debris OF every description.
| The stores are more or less IN ruins
| There Ia hardly a residence but what will
need repairs. The damage is estimated at
S2o0, 900.
| A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
| Considering tho number of buildings
| wrecked IL 10 surprising that there was not
greater loss of life. Olsen was the only one
| killed. Eleven persons were badly hurt.
The storm left Galva in southwesterly
| direction. Its track Is three to four miles
wide. West OF Galva about q mile stood
| fine large farm house, before the storm.
| Not a vestige of 10 now remains.
| OTHER TOWNS SHAKEN UP.
| WASHINGTON, June 14.-Cyclonic storms
| similar to that which struck GAlva, Ill
| are reported from Peoria, Sand wich, Rock
| ford and elsewhere In Illinois, Boone, Ia.
aud Hammond, Ind. A great deal of dam
| age was done to property, and many people
| we're injured, but no actual loss OF life
occurred anywhere except at Chicago and
Galva.
THE TORNADO AT CHICAGO.
CHICAGO. June 4.-Yesterday after
| noon's storm was much more destructive
| than first reports indicated. AT least seven
lives were lost in Chicago and that vicinity
| ana nIteen persons, more or Iess, were ln-
| jured. 1t will probably take hundreds Of
thousands OF dollars to repair the damage
done by the tornado.
| ST. JOHNS FEELS THE BREEZE.
ST. JOHNS, QUEBEC, June IA. st. Johns
had a cyclone to-day with all the ao-
compartments Of demolished buildings
lumber, sailing through the air. trees up
| rooted, water spouts sucked up from the
river, terrifying noise and darkness made
familiar by the news dispatches from
| Illinois and Iowa. Fortunately no life was
lost so far as known. Several large build
ings were completely swept away.