Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1896-06-04

wind struck the train full on its side,
upsetting all the cars like playthings.
Luckily no one was killed in the
wreck, but several were taken out
severely injured.
The wrecked part of the bridge is
just east of the big tower, near the
Illinois shore, and extends east for
about 800 feet. The entire upper por-
tion, traversed by the cars and car
riages, is carried away, while the
tracks beneath are buried in debris, in
some places eight feet high.
FIVE INJURED AT RENIcK, MO.
STURGEON, Mo-, May 2s.-A tornado
passed five miles north of here about
o'clock yesterday afternoon and at
Renick injured three men and two
colored children. Friendship church,
to the north, was destroyed and
bridges and fences torn down for
miles.
AT THE FAIR GROUNDS.
ST. LOUIS, May 2s.-Captain Pat
Carmody's presence of mind prevent
ed a panic at the fair grounds. When
the crowd appealed for protection
from the tornado, Pat corraled the
frightened people under the stand and
forced them to remain there. He held
a mob of about 300 in check and it was
lucky for them that he did SO. Every
body was trying to get out and want
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of the stand. While Carmody was
holding them back the roof of the
stand was blown out and the debris
fell just where the people wanted to
go.
The roof of the stand was blown in
all directions. Part of it landed on the
natural bridge road and several bodies
were buried beneath the debris.
In the crash a number of people lost
part of their bank rolls and the touts
had a scramble for the coin. Mrs.
Charles Van Duzen, wife of the well
known jockey, was caught in the
stampede and knocked down. She
lost her pocketbook containing $110.
Another woman from San Francisco
lost her purse, which, it is said, con-
tanned several hundred dollars worth
of diamonds.
One of the supporting pillars of the
stand fell through the first floor and a
number had narrow escapes from be-
ing crushed to death. Johnnie Goebel,
one of the bookmakers, was near at
the time and had the narrowest escape
of his life.
FOUR KILLED NEAR RENICK.
MoBERLY, Mo-, May 2s.-A terrible
cyclone passed through the southern
part of this county yesterday after
noon between Renick on the Wabash
and Clark at the crossing of the Wa
bash and the Chicago and Alton rail
ways. 1t is now reported that -four
persons are dead. The number OF
wounded cannot be approximated, az
the storm swept away all the telegraph
wires. Reporters and physicians have
gone on special train to the scene oi
the trouble. Not only were people
killed and wounded, but houses ant
fences were blown away and orchardl
were leveled to the grond. Much live
stock was killed and wheat fields de-
vastated. This is the second cyclone
which has visited this section of tht
country in the last three days.
| The Storm at Centralia.
The Centralia Courier in speaking o.
damage done by the storm says: The
storm around this city Wednesday
was general, but did no particular
damage outside of the line of the
cyclone of May, 1891, Along this belt
it wrecked barns, outbuildings and in
some instances houses. Among those
who had barns and outbuildings par
TALLY wrecked we were able to get the
following up to the hour of going to
press:
Reeves Upton, barn.
P. J. Mckinney, house and barn.
]. E. Lewis, house and barn.
John Naylor, sheds and barn.
Willie Bovine, house and barn.
| Jno. Sexton, barn and outbuildings
| Tom Irvine, outbuildings.
Mr.. McCaslin, barn.
G. W. Crawford, house and outbuild,
ings.
| Wood Settle, barns and outbuild-
ings.
Sam Kincaid, barn.
i Howard Barnes, outbuildings.
i Holly Baldridge, barn.
Il G. L. Denham, house and barn.
u Mrs. Howard, barn.
| j. F. Harrison, barn and outbuild.
ings.
John Wade, barn unroofed.
Ben Creech, house off of foundation
/ Joe Riggs, old barn.
Frank Traughber place, outbuild
ings.
Il Ad. Bovine, outbuildings.
] H. T. williams, outbuildfhgs.
A. B. Daniel, Jr., granery un
, rooted.
VIM. Avis, outbuildings.
!, The wind was from the northwest
, instead of from the southwest as tn
: cyclone of years ago.
Il At Sailing the wind blew dow
Friendship church and wrecke'
} fences.
On a line from Friendship to Har
rison's, fues, fences and outbuilding
, were promiscuously blown down.
The smoke stack of the Centrali
) Milling Co. was blown down Tuesda