The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-09-20
ITCIOyEAND TORNADO
n..4;ons of Missouri and Ten.
nessee Are Visited.
THREE DEAD AND MANY INJURED

eCsr. Picked OFF the Track and
c-,.,ed Twenty Feet Away-Funnel-
sr.ned cloud Deals Destruction to
,orvthing in It's Path.
c.,,grr,roz, Mo-, September 13.-Two
on we're killed anl a score injured,
r r them fatally, in a cyclone to-day,
I,''. ..,n.birb a train was blown from the
Track The killed are:
p,rmaIia Dempsey of Missouri and
r.Iari,k Mcclellan of Eldorado, Ill.
,mono the score of injured only the
,.n,n.ing names could be obtained:
Ragcage-master Coyle, badly bruised;
Davis Eldorado, leg broken; = ex-
-. Cantertown, O., internally injured;
W H Decamp, Hamilton, O., side badly
INITIAL D. Leming, Alto Pass, ILL.,, ia
.amr injured Il. V. Dexter, Moorehouse,
M shoulder disIocated; F. w. Hum
.lrov Ienora, Mo-, arm broken; J.
PfnLGSfiondon. Joplin, Mo-, arm hurt; Mrs.
NV " NrCollom, Dexter, Mo-, arm
Srolan. C. II. Millen, Corning, Ark.
badly bruised.
''' If was 3 O'Clock to-day when the west
honnd EXPRESS on the Iron Mountain
rosJ was struck by cyclone, and the
resnlt was one of the most serious
weeks ever known on the system. The
t,sin was in charge of Conductor Jack
ouar and Engineer Andy Hill. 1t had
inst inst reached the limits of the city when
The passengers and crew noticed the APP
rroach Of a iunnel-shaped cloud that
was dealing destruction to everything In
lis patb. uprooting trees and hurting
missiles before it. The train and the
cyclone met, and the wind lifted the
entire train of coaches and landed them
q 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 CartWel an even worse catastrophe
might have been recorded. He hastily
secured a 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 ia
portion of North Memphis was swept
by a tornado this morning at 80, de-
str0ying and damaging property to the
extent OF $500, killing a 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
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-
Slructlon many negro houses in the
nelghborhood we're unroofed or wholly
wrecked, and the Ebenezer Colored Bap-
list 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-
preach. Corn and cotton in the path of
the tornado were DESTROYED.