New-York tribune., 1896-05-30
IN THE PATH OF THE SIORM
TOWNS AND VILLAGES STRICKEN
HEAVILY.


DISTRESSING LOSS OF LIFE IN ILLINOIS AND
MISSOURI HAMLErs-A TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION
LEFT BY THE FUSNEI-sHAPED CLOUD.
St. Louis. May o0.-Dispatches from points in
Illinois and Missouri record loss OF life ana
casualties resulting from "Wednesday nights
tornado follows:
At Berkner. Ill-Ked: James Greaves: hs.I his WIFE
aged thirteen: baby. Lizzie Greaves; Mrs. Thomas
Southern. Frank Linke,. Gertrude Boatman and ana
Bertha Boatrlan, Mrs. Davis, Mrs. shanahan Pete Peter
:nke, Foster LotSie Foster oIH, Frank aSa Bna MSs
creaves, mother Of James Greaves.
ssss ten P z ays safSS ks Ss
S4ef 9er four %am na M ased
Peters Peters. aged 1--WE twenty-t~o and little daughter Q,
j. FreckIoser. Injured John Barnes wife s.rsnl and
son snd wife il H%s and sh ehd Emma and Mrs Bach
man and SON besides an oa nov BE- peaFned ana
At Harmony ststion IImKed d. Henry y. TaIkard' an
'Osfas sBrecSenridst fsfDfd % %Ksd Mr. Jenkins and H.
Barnet struck by shi1ins5 Johnnie Beatty aged
At Vandailn. TIl.Intured; Mrs Beaun and three
na Mrs BeRtFl Alien
eleven Nora Howard, aged hye. Seriously injured;
Anna Howard, aged nine: John Howard and MIS-.
k5Se s cy Three cnrea Ms c
srsa sen hs 81 Hfs ss Esasfn school children
M A4dran % cGyy M5 ax .x sa xears oi
Miller. i i nine years Old; Rose Hodge. six years old
son Of Albert GnHree sna MIs ussme
Lott seven years old Pearl Hodse eight s Years r 1G
Bncoe in" o. teacher T and % Felix Ronnser seriously in
ured Clare Lerhemer six years ,,1,d 9d Riley hs hsssen
the 's Rev Mr. Jenrsh child Of Robert Walters two
cg and G'a arm ~ broken os little
1s m a. r. and em six @ @c sT o cde
In franklin county. Mo.-Ki;led Robert. e.
b9mpysr TSGmpyen and Herman j. So~Sk
At Renlck. Mo-Fatally injured: W II. Stiles. Mr.
iaughlin and an unknown man.
At and near Mascoutah. H. In few minutes
time Wednesday evening the tornado worked
terrible destruction and ruin. The total inan-
! cal loss. a conservative estimate, will foot
up SJOO.OOO. More than hundred houses
were unroofed. Only life was lost in that
! city There were however. miraculous escapes
without number The life lost was that Of
| Johnnie Beatty the seven- -year-old son Of James
/ Beatty, the electrician in charge OF the Mas
| coutah electric light plant
The little town OF New-Minden. Ill. al
! most totally destroyed Seven people were killed
and forty or fifty injured. Scarcely house
| is left standing.
The tornado approached New-Baden, Ill. from
| n northeaeterly direction, accompanied by vivid
and incessant lightning and deafening peals OF
! thunder. rain falling In torrents. The over
hanging clouds presented an unusually strange
appearance funnel-shaped cloud was seen
! approaching rapidly seeming TO ascend and de-
scend at intervals in It's rapid flight The first
warning the doomed people received the
| oolxif inc Of limb head nd furis :
OF trees from their trunks In instant the
entire village was a mass Of ruins The north
| eastern portion OF the town struck first.
| The bounding and bouncing cloud cut a swath
| representing a semi-circle, then turned again.
| following a course representing q figure :. The
air was filled with flying wreckage. cattle horses
and human beings. In less than a minute the
| tornado had spent it's force. In that space Of
| time the wreck was complete. dead and MANNED
! being all sides. There u before the
! storm. accompanied by a sitting suiphuric odor,
! the town being at once plunged into complete
! darkness
Rockford H.. May 20-Godfrey Hildebrand.
! farmer whose wife was beheaded and daughter
! killed In the wreck Of his dwelling by a tornado
! Monday. dropped dead yesterday as the funeral
procession passed the site OF his home. Two
| children OF Ms. Isora Bird. who was killed. died
! yesterday.
bridgeport. H., May 29.-A severe windstorm
swept through Lawrence County about ii o'clock
on Wednesday evening. At Friendshall. fifteen
miles southwest, the Presbyterian church was
completely destroyed several houses unroofed
and orchards badly damaged. William Symme's
| bare struck by lightning and burned. The
storm passed above Bridgeport. but no damage
was done other than TO shade trees. Four miles
| northeast the tornado settled and moved a swath
ten rods wide through a heavy forest No lives
| are reported osr.
Mount Vernon H.. May 29-Mrs. Margaret
| Carroll Robert Noster and three children and
their aunt are reported killed near Jefferson CITY
this county. by the tornado Of Wednesday night
Many are injured all over the county. Many
| dwellings and other buildings are entirely swept
away. At Dye schoolhouse four were killed and
eighteen injured the teacher. Mary Elincoe. IA
| tally At High Hill Mrs George See was killed
| and all her children injured.