Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-24
TERRIFIC TORNADO.

RED Bud, ILL.,. Nov. 19.-The city OF
| Red Bud, population 1900, situated
| thirty miles southeast of st. Louis on
| the Mobile & Ohio railroad, was visited
by a tornado at $3.50 o'clock yesterday
! morning of wonderful intensity.
Eighty-four buildings were demolished.
two persons killed, twelve seriously
hurt and many injured. It is esti-
mated that 100000 worth of property
| was destroyed.
| THE DEAD.
| Willie Keppie.
Mrs Nobe Keppie.
INJURED.
Mrs. Lewis Bayo.
Emma Crow.
| Peter Dose.
| Margaret Havermann.
Mr.. Heitman.
Mrs. Peter Kardel
Mrs. John Manierfield.
Aldell Starr.
Mrs Aldell Starr.
Charles Starr.
S. A. Speer.
Mrs. S. A. Speer.
It is believed several of the injured
will die.
THE ToRNADo's PATH.
Entering Red Bud from the south,
| the storm first unroofed and partially
| demolished the Catholic church and
| school and the residence of Herman
Droe e. The German Methodist church
was teen leveled. After destroying sew
| eral barns, blowing in gables and tear
| ing away all kinds of fences, it next
| attacked the large two-story residence
| of Peter Kardel1. which is of solid
! stone. and crumb1ed it to fragments.
Mrs. Kardell was seriously injured.
| The two-story frame house of John
| Hahn was unroofed and otherwise
| wrecked.
A large double brick, owned by L..
| Kaffenberger, and occupied by S. D.
Perry as dwelling, Office and compos-
| ing room of the Red Bud Democrat,
| was entirely destroyed.
BY miracle Mr.. Perry's family es.
capped serious injury. and crawled out
| from the mass of brick which had
| fallen on them while in their beds,
| coming forth almost naked and pain.
| fully bruised.
The new brick house of John Long
| was the next unroofed. Claus Peter.
sons agricultural warehouse had the
| second story cut away as by knife.
! The residences of John Landholdt.
Joseph Voght and Mrs. D. Offarding
suffered.
| The residences of Christ Jaeger,
Peter Jennemann, Ernest Budd and G..
Bolhoffner were destroyed, and new
| frame house belonging to Mrs. Jacob
Koch was blown to pieces. Mrs. Koch
| was injured SO seriously that she will
| proba bly, die. Her son of II years will
die of his terrible bruises
HOUSES NOW IN RUINS.
The following is list of the houses
| destroyed:
Catholic church and school. German
Methodist church, the houses of w.
Perkins, H. d. Roege, FIR. B. Roege. Jos.
Voght. John Lang. John Landhalt,
John Hahn. Peter Cardell, s. D. Perry,
L. Kaffenberger, Ernest Budde,
| Mrs. Budde, Christ JAEGER, city Jail
and engine-house, Mrs Hauermann, c.
Grelow. P. Jennemann, Mrs. Jacob
Kobe, Mr.. Rosemayer. John Kueker,
Henry Wahlmann, William Buettner,
Henry Bion. DIR. Alley, John Barnes.
| NJ. Trierveiler. II. w. Schmidt, VIM.
Voges. John Vanderbilt. VIM. Mich.
ais, B. Miller. Chas. Guebert. P. En-
zenauer, public schools. VIM. Stinde, J.
Just, Jacob Miller, VIM. Williamson.
Frank Lang. Geo. Reiss, Alden Starr.
Mrs. Sophie Rathert. Henry Rathert
Dorothea Rathert, John Wetzel, Mrs.
Wetzel, VIM. Kellerhalz, Frank Lish.
E~oI n C,,lyor TO hofo1 Nrc
Dora Kaufman, C. Boedecker's Office.
Lutheran church andc school.
UTTER DEsoLAT1oN.
Where Wednesday night stood beau.
tiful little city, full of happy homes,
there is to-day scene of wreck and
desolation. Houses. barns, fences and
orchards are leveled to the earth and
spread over the surrounding country.
Death and suffering, wounds and max
edness, cold and lack of shelter met the
eye when day broke yesterday morn
ing.
The horrors of an inky darkness.
lighted up momentarily by flashes OF
lighting. added to the fear and mad
ness which oppressed all minds during
this terrible visitation. Daylight only
IndUe more teTrlOle tndt WHICH ulkul
had hidden.
A TERRIBLE SCENE.
The scene is difficult to describe
The streets when lit up by the first
streaks of dawn presented a pitiable
scene of ruin and utter desolation.
On every hand rose the means of the
injured and the grief of their friends
| and relatives. The streets were
blocked with the debris of the storms
wreck and for some time it was impos-
sible to get an accurate list of the suf
, ferers of the terrible visitation. The
one given above is believed to cover all
the casualties, and the number OF
houses wrecked by the storm is fairly
complete.
As soon as the more fortunate of the
people of the little city recovered from
the first shock of the calamity efforts
were at once directed to caring for the
injured, who were taken to the homes
of the more fortunate.
Some of the freaks of the storm were
marvellous Here a house was liter
ally lifted from the ground and scarce
a vestige of it left. while a neighboring
residence seemed to have escaped with
comparatively little injury. Stone
buildings offer no resistance to the
strength of the cyclones fury. This
fact was fully attested by the fate
which overlook to handsome and solid
Sfr,1cfure cocup;ad aS a residence NJ