The record-union., 1898-01-26
WIND CREATES
GREAT HAVOC.
ST. Louis Has Another Visitation Of
a Terrific Gale.
The Wind Reaches Velocity Of SiSty-Sil
Miles an Hour.
Two Deaths, One Person Fatally
and Several Minor Injuries Re
corded as Result OF the Bio w
Considerable Damage TO
Buildings Also Reported-Heavy
Storm in Oklahoma Territory.

Storm in Oklahoma Territory.
ST. LOUIS, Jan pa terrific thun-
derstorm ragged for more than an hour
in this vicinity after :: a. m to-day.
The sky cleared for a time shortly after
daybreak, but the wind continued to be
low. 1t increased in intensity, until at
1915 a. m. the Weather Bureau Off
GERS reported a velocity of sixty three
miles an hour had been gained Thus
far there have been three fatalities as
far as known. August Weymeyer was
blown off the Shields building and died
in ten minutes from his injuries A
woman, name unknown, is reported ly
ing dead in some debris at 3S40 La
clede avenue, and a boy was killed by
having been blown from a porch roof
in another part of the city There is
every indication that it is strong
blow, but not a tornado
The gale of wind reached the highest
velocity of any experienced here since
the tornado of May 81, 1896, when the
destruction of life and property was
so great It's highest velocity was
sixtysix miles an hour, and up to noon
two deaths, one fatally injured and sew
eral minor injuries had been reported,
as we'll as destruction TO property.
August Weymeyer, aged 81 a car
penter, who was blown from the roof,
lived but ten minutes after being taken
TO the City Hospital. Thomas Jo-
sepher Peters, / years old. blown from
he roof Of porch and killed.
Injured: Mrs. Sarah j. Lorin, spine
crushed and she may die, injury caused
by the blowing down of fence; Mrs. w.
! Doddridge, blown under an express
wagon, internal injuries; Mary Wilson,
struck by a sign and hip dislocated.
Shortly after ) o'clock this morning
terrific thunderstorm, accompanied
" heavy fall of hail and rain. struck
he city. and prevailed for an hour or
more BY daybreak the sky had cleared,
/ but it soon became cloudy again and
/ the wind began to rise. BY 1915 the
wind was blowing al the rate of sixty
six miles an hour, but fourteen miles
! less than the recorded velocity during
the tornado Of '96. 1t was a straight
blow from the southwest. and the resi-
dents of the city, especially in the
tornado-stricken section, were seized
with CONSERVATION. Swinging signs and
broken; the houses demolished and
wires broken, and in some instances
roofs We're taken off.
frame building on Twelfth street
was blown down but no one hurt. The
east wall of the ruins of the Raven
wood Distillery, at Madison and Twen-
ty-third streets, was blown over. AT
Nineteenth and Market streets the roof
of a two-story building was blown
down. There We're several thrilling es-
eapes. but so far as can be learned no
one was injured
The wind created much alarm at the
Four Courts. especially among the jail
prisoners The big old building swayed
perceptibly and there was a general ex-
i odus from the upper floors.
Considerable other damage to build
ings in St. Louis was reported later.
Mrs. Doddridge, one Of those injured,
is the wife Of General Manager Dodd
ridge of the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
1t is learned tonight that she was not
seriously hurt.
In East St Louis the storm of wind,
sleet and rain startled many of the
residents into the belief that another
/ tornado had struck the city. The wind
demolished the baseball park COM
pleteiy. entailing a loss of 900 Sign
boards were scattered all over the
4 streets. and q big section of wooden
/ sidewalk on East Broadway was blown
/ across the commons.
The low places IN the western portion
/ Of the city were filled with water.
Signs, fences and outbuildings also suf-
fered, but no casualties were reported
/ on that side of the river.
| HEAVY STORM IN OKLAHOMA.
! KANSAS CITY Cao), Jan pa wet
snow fell throughout the Southwest
I last night, covering the ground to the
depth of a foot The storm began
/ about midnight and continued until
early this morning 1t was followed
/ by freezing weather, which caked the
snow on telephone and telegraph lines,
ana communication with many points
outside Of Kansas City has been
! stopped, while other points were left
for hours at Il time No serious de-
lay to trains has been reported.
A heavy wind storm. blowing down
| telegraph poles in all directions struck
here this morning. Between Kansas
city and Lawrence many poles were
| Ieveled Trains from the West were
badly delayed.
Snow drifted into the cuts badly
At FL Reno, Q. r. the wind was
strong enough to shake houses. topple
over chimneys and break many panes
of glass. The residence of William
1 Phelps, a farmer. two miles east Of
Fl Reno was demolished The family
escaped with slight injuries. A few
miles distant house was blown down
and the debris caught fire and was con-
suned No one was injured
All Guthrie. O. t.. a hailstorm pre-
vailed, and hundreds Of panes Of glass
were broken. Many people thought
! tornado was upon them, and fed TO
| their storm cellars.
ITp 10 O'clock this morning commu-
nicafion with the country was good.
Then the wires. burdened with several
! times their weight by ice and snow,
| tautened by the cold and lashed by the
/ wind. began to snap under the unusual
i tension.
| By o O'Clock nearly every circuit along
the Santa F'e and Union Pacific Rail-