Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-06-15
TERRIBLE TORNADO
Uses Over The Northern Part Of
Knox County, IllSs
aUSING GREAT LOSS AT GALVA
Missing Alba BY 0aly Three Niles and a
lf-Oas Person Killed a: Ga,ya and Many
I1iursd-Ihs Main Business Street.
Wrscksi-Cars Blown Away.

n11rsRURG. Ills, June 14-There pass
through the northern part Of this, Knox
nnty, about clock yesterday evening
most destructive tornado, ana rum was
10 al along is path.
Ia seems TO have made It's first appear
.nce northwest of Galva. About t'5O
oiclock two black threatening clouds were
noticed in the west approaching one an
other, aud the tornado IS thought 20 nave
resulted from beirjunction.
10 came with such suddenneSS tna5 Tue
citizens had no time iu which 10 ny 20
places OF safety. lu the free Methodist
church there was assembled a conSresa.
ton The church was quickly mass OF
ruins. A number were injured, one dan
gerOusly.
The roar Of the storm is described as ter
rible. It was accompanied uF moplSne
darkness and an awful sweep or wind lhaJ
carried everything 0ef0reiL Nearly every
business house along the principal sJreeJ
was unrO0fed and the stocks of goods were
badly damaged oy the floods OF water io--
lowing the tornado.
Tine Chicago. BurGnEtoa and Quincy
. r0unC-hOuse vas totally wrecked ne Nr.
. ". Barnett elevator near by was unrooied
and ten thousand bushels of grain deiugeu
with water. The Rock Island and Peoria
elevator anu q paI OF tl0 1Vt W. -.
Inc taA steep-d OF lle bap-''. 1"a'tu 1"a ly,l " %
CUT or as clean as ID os N-,.g ol .s.,.(,S
into the street The Congregational cnurcn
MAS also badly damaged
The saddesr feature occurred at August
Dlsou's house. There were iu the mousse az
I'D time MIR aud Mrs. Olsen, Charles o.
ser and four others The residence sad
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ne soulAe"sle.- p-Iy on ~ Ca-, y, - -
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river sYfTsrsd most severely. Ia passed
three and oue-ha.f miles from Alton. The
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