The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-26
sfxfy-six-MiIe an Hour Hurricane Mt
st. Louis, and Two People Killed
and One Seriously Injured.
STRONG GALE IN INDIANA
ONE LIFE LOST, BUILDINGS AND 9TH
ER PROPERTY DESTROYED.
Blizzard i'm Illinois, Missouri, Kansas
drifts and Wires Down.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. PA gale of wind that
reached the highest velocity of any expert
enced here since the tornado of May o. 1896,
when the destruction of life and property
was so great. prevailed here to-day. Its
velocity was sixty-six miles an hour, four
teen miles less than during the tornado.
Two deaths, one fatal injury, and several
minor casualties were reported, as well as
considerable destruction of property. The
casualties are:
AUGUST WEYMEYER, aged thirty-sev-
en- carpenter, who was blown from the
roof of the Shields School. He lived but ten
minutes after being taken to the City Hos
pltal.
THOMAS JOSEPH PATERSON. four
years old. blown from the roof of a porch
at $500 Franklin avenue and killed.
MRS. SARAH LORIN, of 3S4O Laclede
avenue, spine crushed; may die. Injury
caused by blowing down of fence.
Shortly after 3 o'clock a. m. a terrific
thunderstorm. accompanied by a heavy fall
Of hail and rain, struck the city and pre-
vailed for an hour or more. BY daybreak
the sky was cleared, but it soon became
cloudy again and the wind began to rise
BY 1910 O'Clock the wind was blowing at
the rate OF sixty-three miles an hour, but
seventeen miles less than the recorded
velocity du.ing the tornado of May, 1885, 1t
was straight blow from the southwest and
the residents of the city, especially in the
tornado stricken portion, were seized with
CONSERVATION, expecting another visitation
Soon reports began to come INTO the police
stations from all sections of the city in
dicating that there had been considerable
destruction of property. Swinging signs and
window panes blew down, and broken, out
houses demolished and fences leveled, tele-
graph poles and wires broken and in some
Instances roofs were taken off. frame
building on Twelfth street. between Locust
and Washington avenues, was blown down,
but no injuries have been reported. The
east wall of the ruins of the Ravenwood
distillery at Madison and Twenty-third
streets, was blown over. A Scullin line car
on Twenty-third street narrowly escaped
being caught and buried beneath the wall.
At Nineteenth and Market streets the roof
of a two-story building was blown down.
There were several thrilling escapes, but so
far as can be learned. no one was injured.
The roofs of two one-story buildings, Nos.
500 and S11 Locust street, occupied by Smart
& Sons and the old Mansion barber shop,
were blown across the street The occu-
pants of the store made rush to escape
and several were caught by flying debris,
thougls none suffered serious injury. The
guests of the st. Nicholas Hotel, immediate
ly adjoining. rushed eXcitedy from their
apartments. The wind created much alarm
at the Four Courts, especially among the
jail prisoners. The big building swayed
perceptibly and there was general exodus
from upper floors.
At the electric power house which supplies
Last ST. Louis with light the large smoke
stack was blown down, carrying with it
the main wires of the city circuits, leaving
the city in darknt SIS. In Belfeyille, H..
many large smoke stacks and chimneyS
We're blown down and there were numerous
narrow escapes from death there and in
East st. Louis. The damage along the river
was comparatively slight as there We're but
few steamers in the harbor and these were
safely tied to the shore. 1t was reported
that several of the households scattered up
and down the river had been blown down.