Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-09-20
TWO CYCLONES
Parts of Missouri and Tennes,o,
Visited by Them.
coLoRED CHURCH WREcKsO

Train of Cars Picked or the Track -,
Carried Twenty Feet Away-Funn,,
Shaped Cloud Deals Destruction ;.
Everything in Its Path.
CHARLESTON, Mo-, September 1S.-Tr,
men were killed and a score iniurs3
half OF them fatally, in cyclone to.dsv
during which train was blown from fl.
track. The killed are:
Palmalia Dempsey OF Missouri and
Frederick Mcclellan of Eldorado, ILL.,
Among the score of injured only III.
following names could be obtained:
Baggage-master Coyle, badly bruised.
- Davis, Eldorado, leg broken; - Der.
ter, Centertown, o., internally injured.
W. H. Decamp, Hamilton, o., side badlv
hurt; A. D. Leming, Alto Pass, ILL.,. "a.
tally injured; H. V. Dexter, Moorehous
Mo-. shoulder dislocated; F. W. Hum.
phrey, Lenora, Mo-, arm broken; ]
McClendon, Joplin, Mo-, arm hurt; Mr
]. w. McCollom, Dexter, No., arm
broken; G. H. Millen, Corning, Ark
badly bruised.
1t was 3 O'Clock to-day when tile west.
bound express on the Iron Mountain
road was struck by cyclone, and tbp
result was one OF the most serion;
wrecks ever known on the system. Thu
train was in charge OF Conductor jail
Lower and Engineer Andy Hill. 1t hal
Just reached the limits OF the city when
the passengers and crew noticed the an.
proach of funnel-shaped cloud that
was dealing destruction to everything in
its path, uprooting trees and hurIiDg
missiles before it. The train and I'M
cyclone met, and the wind lifted tbe
entire train of coaches and landed them
a distance OF twenty feet from the track
almost turning them over. Those who
were not hurt seriously had to free them
selves and rescue the others less fortu.
nate. Efforts were made in this direC
ton, when new danger presented it.
self. Flames were seen in the rear car,
and only for the heroic action OF Brake.
man Cartwell an even worse catastrophe
might have been recorded. He hastily
secured heavy piece of timber and bat.
tered down the car door, rushed in and
extinguished the flames. Near by were
a woman and little child afre, and
hastily catching them, he extinguished
the fire, but not until both had been
severely burned. A little fellow 2 years
old is supposed to have fallen out OF the
window when the train overturned. He
was dead, having been fatally bruised
Aside from the train and passengers the
damage done by the cyclone seems to
have been purely local, and was slight
Its path was not over thirty yards wide,
and did not extend more than mile
! MEMPHIS STRUCK BY A TORNADO.
} MEMPHIS, Tenn, September 13.-A
portion of North Memphis was swept
by tornado this morning at IL 80, de.
stroying and damaging property to-.
extent OF $500, killing negro and in.
juring two other persons slightly. The
portion of the city visited is the seat Of
the lumber mills. The negro, Robert
Cuth, an assistant fireman employed by
the Hardwood Company, in his effort to
seek a place of safety was caught beneath
a falling smokestack. One HUNDRED
yards of the Wolf-river bridge of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Southwestern sid.
ing was picked up and thrown 100 feet
away. In addition to this work of de.
struction many negro houses in the
neighborhood were unroofed or wholly
wrecked, and the Ebenezer Colored Bap.
tist Church was destroyed. The tornado
came from the south, and Travelled al.
most due north. 1t is said by the weather
bureau to have been purely local, no
warning having been received of its ap.
proach. Corn and cotton in the path Of
the tornado were destroyed.