The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-02-09
SWEEP OF A TORNADO
WIND DID GREAT DAMAGE IN THE
TOWN OF C0LLINSVILLE, ILL.,,
AND ELSEWHERE
ST. LOUIS CITY SUFFERED
One Life Lost by Woman Coming
Into Contact With a Live Wire
Buildings Wrecked and Many
Narrow Escapes Recorded-StOrm
Was General Throughout Sew
eral States.

ST. LOUIS, Feb 8-The town Of Col
linsville, twelve miles from ST. Louis,
on the Vandalia railroad, narrowly es-
capped destruction by tornado today.
Nine persons were injured in the 1mme-
Giate vicinity of the village, some Of them
fatally, and there was much damage to
property. The miners who live in the
outskirts suffered most from the wind.
Three fine residences standing on hill
were reduced to splinters. The injured
are: Paul Quarandhi, aged thirty-fve,
injured, perhaps fatally; Otto Odderhol,
aged seventeen, internally injured, ser1-
Gus; Sophie Fix, aged seventeen, thought
to be fatally injured; Newton Anderson,
Lot serious; Theodore Lawrence, inter-
nally injured; Frank hobart, son and
daughter, severely cut and bruised; Tony
Skalla, wife and two children, badly
bruised; Barney Palette, internal in
juries; Tom Pomatti arm broken.
The storm was first felt at a point one
mile south of Collinsville about 2:30 a.
M The first house demolished was that
occupied by Frank hobart. He, his son
and daughter, were buried In the debris,
and 1t was some time before they were
rescued, bruised and bleeding, from the
wreckage They were carried to neigh
boris house and given such care as could
be had until physicians should arrive
from the village.
From this place the wind swept to the
north, it's path being west Of Colhnsvllle
by quarter of mile, and the last trace
= ~ L., r. h1rnr cd n
Vile, a suburb, one mile away.
After the hobart house a group Of three
dwellings, was felled by the wind. They
were occupied by John Marquett, Paul
Marquett and Philip Crossan and their
families. Although the small dwellings,
were completely demolished all the occu-
pants escaped injury except John Mar
uuett He is badly burned from the de-
bris taking fire from an overturned lamp.
The Hight Club Coal company building
was the next to be attacked, the immense
smokestack being leveled to the ground,
and the walls somewhat damaged. From
there the wind swept to the Vandalia
tracks, telling telegraph poles for dis
lance of a quarter of mile.
Beyond the Vandalia tracks stood a
group of large frame houses, occupied
by the Lawrence, Odderhole and Fix fam
lilies. The storm leveled them, and moth
ing is left save mass of tangled wreck
age, It was here that Mr. Odderhole,
Mr.. Lawrence and the Fix families were
injured. That the children were not kill
ed is a marvel. Harry Fix and his sister
Sophie were asleep In the same room,
on the second floor. The house seemed
to separate, and brother and sister were
let down with their beds to the ground
floor There they were found upon their
couches, which had not been broken by
the fall, Harry uninjured, but Sophie
crushed under falling timber.
TORNADO IN ST LOUIS.
Considerable damage to property in va
rious parts of ST. Louis and vicinity was
wrought between 2 and o'clock this
morning, by wind that reached a veloc-
ity of sixty miles an hour, and was in
the nature of tornado. Between those
hours the barometer fell to 1885, the low
est point ever reached in this vicinity, ac-
cording to the weather bureau officials
here.
Previous to the wind storm a terrific
thunder storm had ragged for several
hours, the rain falling in torrents. The
rainfall was 19 inhces.
Mrs. Susie Thompson became entangle1
in live wire which had been blown
down at Winnebago street and Marine
avenue, ard before she could be rescued
was killed.
The greatest damage was to property
in the burned district, between Franklin
avenue, Morgan street, Third and Sixth