The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-09
TORNADO N ILLINOIS
Fatal Injuries and Wrecked
Houses at Collinsville.
NEARLY A TRAIN HORROR
ST. Louis Trembles From the
sShock of the Storm.

81. Louis, Mo-, Feb. S-The town OF
Collinsville, H.. twelve miles from st.
Louis, on the vandalia railroad, narrowly
escaped destruction by a tornado today.
Nine persons were injured in the immedi-
ate vicinity of the village. some of them
fatally, and there was much damage to
property. The miners VINO live on the
outskirts lost the most by the wind. A
group of three fine residences standing
on hill were reduced to splinters.
| The injured are: Paul vuarandhi, aged
IS, severely bruised and burned. injuries
perhaps fatal; Otto Odderhole. aged II,
arm broken, internally injured, serious;
! Sophie Fix. aged II. skull fractured and
bruised, thought to be fatally injured;
Newton A1dersan, scalp wound and
bruised face, not serious; Theodore Law-
renee, cut and bruised and internally In
| jured; John hobart seriously bruised;
son and daughter of Frank hobart Sc
verely cut and bruised; Tony Skalla, wife
and two children, badly bruised; Barney
Palette, scalp wound and arteries cut;
Tom Pematti left arm broken. The last
feet from their house into a feld.
| About 2:30 a. m. the storm was first felt
at point one mile south Of Collins
Vile The first house demolished was that
occupied by Frank hobart. He. and his
son and daughter were buried in the deb
ris and it was some time before they
were rescued, bruised and bleeding. from
| the wreckage. They were carried to
neighbours house and given such care as
could be until physicians arrived.
From this place the wind sweep TO the
north, its path being west Of Collinsville
by a quarter of a mile and the last trace
of the storm is to be observed at Rights
Vile, a manufacturing suburb one mile
away. After the hobart house, a group
of three dwellings was feled by the wind.
They were occupied by John Marquette
and Paul Marquette and Philip CrossaD
and their families Although the small
dwellings were completely demolished all
the occupants escaped injury EXCEPT John
Marquette His hurts. frem falling tim
bers, are not severe, but he is badly
burned. for the debris caught IRE from
an over turned lamp and the flames
reached him before the neighbors could
rescue him.
The Heights Club Coal company build
ing was the next to be attacked the i'm
mense smokestack being leveled to the
ground and the walls somewhat damaged
From there the wind swept to the Van
dalia tracks, laying waste telegraph poles
for the distance of a quarter OF a mile
Beyond the yandaHa tracks stood group
of large frame houses, occupied by the
Lawrence, Odderhole and Fix families
| The storm leveIed them and nothing is
| left save a mass of tangled wreckage It
was there that Mr. Odder1iole and Mr..
Lawrence received their serious injuries,
and it was here also that the members
of the Fix family were wounded. That
the children were not killed is a marvel
Harry Fix and his sister Sophie were
asleep on the second floor. The house
seemed to separate and brother and sister
were let down with their beds TO the
ground floor. They were found upon
their couches. which had ont been broken
by the fall, Harry not injured in the least,
but Sophie crushed under falling tim
hSr.
Indianapolis, Feb. ga terrific wind
storm swept western Indiana and eastern
Illinois early today Telephone messages
from the western border of the state and
from points in Illinois indicate that the
storm wrought much damage at Collins
Vile, III, a small town on the Nandals
railroad, west of Terre Haute. Meager
reports from the territory north Of Col
Iinsville indicate that there must have
been considerable loss Of property, and, it
is feared. loss Of life The storm seems
to have passed down the Indiana-Illinois
line to Evansville. Reports from many
places indicate that the wind reached al
most the velocity Of a tornado. Near the
village Of Cantana, H.. not far from Gel
linsville. a large farm house was COM
pleteIy destroyed. The farmer and his
family escaped. In the same locality
mile and a half Of telegraph line was
blown down and the debris piled on the
track Of the VanSalia ROAD The farmer
whose home had been destroyed, while
out looking for his livestock. noticed thai
the track of the railroad was ohstructed
and hurrying TO the west a nils, he
tagged No u the fast train due So
Indianapolis a. $40 O'Clock II was not
vet daylight and the officers ct the road
say the train would surely have been
wrecked but for the rroughrfutness OF the
farmer