Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1894-09-21
TWO CYCLONES.
Parts Of Missouri and Tennessee
Visited by Them.
coLoRED CHURCH WRECKED

Train of Cars Picked on the Track and
Carried Twenty Feet Away Funnel
Shaped Cloud Deals Destruction to
Everything In It's Path.
CHARLEsros, Mo-, September 13.-Two
men were killed and a score injured,
half Of them fatally, in cyclone to-day,
during which train was blown from the
track. The killed are:
Palmalia Dempsey Of Missouri and
Frederick Mcclellan Of Eldorado, Ill.
Among the score Of injured only the
following names could be obtained:
Baggage. master Coyle, badly bruised /;
- Davis, Eldorado, leg broken; = Dex-
ter, Centertown, o., internally injured; /;
w. II. Decamp, Hamilton, o., side badly
hurt; A. d. Leming, Alto Pass, ILL.,, ia
tally injured H. v. Dexter, Moorehouse,
Mo-. shoulder dislocated; +. w. Hum
phrey, Lenora, Mo-, arm. broken; j..
McClendon, Joplin, Mo-, arm hurt; Mrs.
]. w. McCollom, Dexter, Mo-, arm
broken; G. II. Millen, Corning, Ark.
badly bruised.
1t was O'Clock to-day when the west
bound express on the Iron Mountain
road was struck by cyclone, and the
result was one OF the most serious
wrecks ever known on the system. The
train was in charge OF Conductor Jack
Lower and Engineer Andy Hill. 1t had
lust reached the limits OF the city when
the passengers and crow noticed the APP
proach OF funnel-shaped cloud that
was dealing destruction TO everything in
its path, uprooting trees and hurting
missiles before IL. The train and the
cyclone met, and the wind lifted the
entire train OF coaches and landed them
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 q 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
woman and little child afire, 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 TORNADO.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, September IA
portion of North Memphis was swept
by tornado this morning at IL 80, de-
stroying and damaging property TO the
extent OF $500, killing negro and in
iuring two other persons slightly. The
portion Of the city visited is the seat ol
the lumber mills, The negro, Robert
Cuth, an assistant fireman employed by
the Hardwood Company, in his effort to
seek place OF safety was caught beneath
a falling smokestack. One hundred
wards 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. II is said by the weather
bureau to have been purely local, nc
warning having been received of its ap'
proach. Corn and cotton in the path O.