Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-01-26
Loss OF LIFE AND PROPERTY IN
ST. LOUIS.
SIxTY-SIX MILES AN HOUR.
THUNDER STORM, WITH HAIL y
SNOW, PRECEDED THE WIND.
Was Part of General Storm Reaching
From OkIahO na to Iowa-"Twist-
or" Near FL Reno, o. t.
Blizzard at T~Oyvandn,
lain Missouri.

st. Louis. Jan. "a gale of wind OF
greater violence than any experienced mere
since the tornado of May %. 1886, when the
destruction of life and property was so
great, prevailed here to-day. Its highest
velocity was siXty-sfX miles an hour, and
UP to noon two deaths. one fatal injury
and several minor casualties had been re-
ported. as well as considerable destruction
Of property.
The dead are:
August Weymyer. aged 81. a carpenter
who was blown from the roof oil the
Shields school. He lived but ten minutes
after being taken to the city hospital.
Thomas Joseph Peterson, 4 years Old.
blown from the roof of a porch at 2NN
Franklin avenue and killed.
Injured:
Mrs. Sarah ]. Lorin. of $50 Laclede ave-
nue.; spine crushed and she may Ole In
jury Was caused by blowing down OF q
fence.
Mrs. W. B. Doddridge, 1850 Westminster
place. blown under an express wagon; head
cut and bruised about the body and in
ternal injuries.
Mary Wilson, of 25i3 Olive street, struck
by sign and hip dislOcated.
Shortly after 3 a. IN. a terrific thunder
storm accompanied by a heavy fall OF hail
and rain. struck the city and prevailed for
an hour or more. By daybreah the sky had
cleared, but il soon became cloudy again
and the wind began 10 rise. By 1915 O'Clock
the wind WAS blowing at the rate of sixty
EN iiAito an lAohap IA lOli Nt'll iAAA'S iNsp
than the recorded velocity during the tor
nado of May, 1896 1t was a straight blow
from the southwest, and the residents of
the city, especially in the tornado-stricken
section. were seized with CONSERVATION,
expecting another visitation. Soon reports
began to come into the police stations from
all sections of the city indicating that there
had been considerable destruction of prop
crty. Swinging signs and window panes
were blown down and broken, outhouses
demolished and fences leveled, telegraph
poles and wires broken, and in some in
stances. roofs were taken off.
A frame building on Twelfth street. be
tween Locust and Washington avenues, was
blown down. but no deaths or injuries have
been reported.
The east wall of the ruins of the Raven
wood distillery at Madison and Twenty
third streets, was blown over. and a Soul
lin line car on Twenty-third street mar
rowly escaped being caught and buried I'M
der the wall.
AT Nineteenth and Market streets the
roof of a two-story building was blown OIL.
There were several thrilling escapes, but
so far AS can be learned, no one was IN
jured.
The roof of two one-story buildings. Nos.
500 and Sl Locust street, occupied respec-
lively by ]. h. Smart & Sons, tailors, and
the Old Mansion barber shop, was blown
clear across the street.
rush to escape, and several were caught by
flying debris, though all escaped serious in
Immediately adjoining, rushed excitedly
from their apartments. I:
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-
odus from the upper floors.
Considerable other damage to buildings IN
St. Louis was reported later. Mrs. Dodd-
ridge. one of those injured. is the wife OF
General Manager Doddridge, of the Mis-
souri, Pacific railway. it was learned to-
night that she was not seriously hurt.
In East ST. Louis. the storm of wind.
sleet and rain startled many of the res
idents into the belief that another tornado
had struck the city.
The wind demolished the baseball park
completely. entailing a loss of s.. 800. Sign
boards were scattered all over the streets
and a big section of wooden sidewalk on
East Broadway was blown across the COM
mons. The low places in the eastern por-
ton of the city are filled with water.
Signs. fences and outbuildings also suffer-
ed. but no casualties were reported on that
side of the river.
At the electric power house which SUD-
plies East St. Louis with light, the large
smokcstack was blown down, CARRYING with
1t the main wires of the city circuits, leay-
ing the city in darkness.
In BelleVille, ILL.,, many large smokestacks
aud chimney were blown down and there
were numerous narrow escapes from death
there and in East st. Louis.
The damage along the river was compar-
atively light, as there were but few steam
ers in the harbor. and these were safely
tied TO the shore.
1t was reported that several houseboats
scattered up and down the river had been
blown down.