Daily inter mountain., 1900-02-09
Several Towns Experience
a Tornado.
MANY LIVES ARE LOST
While Other Parties Had Most Mirac-
ul0us Escapes Blizzard Followed
the Wind St0rm-Bar0meter Fell
to Very Low Mark.

st, Louis Feb. S.--The town of Collins
willie, Ills, II miles from ST. Louis. on the
Vandalia railroad narrowly escaped de-
struction by tornado today. Nine per-
sons were injured in the immediate wen
ity of the village, some of them fatally,
and there was much damage to property.
Miners who lived on the outskirts OF the
town lost much of their property by wind.
A group of three residences standing on
the hill were reduced to splinters.
The injured are: Paul Quarandhi,
aged 35, severely bruised and burned per-
haps fatal; Otto Odderhole, II, arm brok-
en-, internally injured, serious; Sophie Fix,
II, skull fractured and bruised. thought
to be fatally injured: Newton Anderson.
scalp wound and bruised face, not SER
ious: Theodore Lawrence, cut and bruis-
ed and internally injured: Frank Kobart.
seriously bruised; Tony Skalla. wife and
two children, badly bruised: Barney Fal-
cite, scalp wound and arteries cut; Tom
Pomattas, left arm broken
The last two named were blown several
hundred feet from their house into a field.
About 2:30 a. M, the storm was first felt
at a point one mile south of Collinsville.
lit IlISt HOuSe utIliOitSNSu was lAdl W.
cupied by Frank hobart. He and his son
and daughter We're buried in the debris
and it was some time before they were
rescued, bruised and bleeding from the
wreck.
From this place the wind swept to the
north, it's path being west of Colinsville
about a quarter of a mile, and the last
trace Of the storm is to be observed at
Hightville. manufacturing suburb, one
mile away.
After the hobart house group of three
buildings We're felled by the wind. They
We're occupied by John and Paul Mar
lies All the occupants escaped injury ex-
cept John Marquette. His hurts from
falling timbers are not severe, but he is
BADLY burned. for the debris caught fire
from an overturned lamp and the flames
reached him before the neighbors could
rescue him. The Hightsville Coal COM
pany building was the next to be attacked
the immense smoke stack being levelled
to the ground and the walls damaged.
From there the wind swept to the VAN
dalia tracks. laying waste the telegraph
poles for distance of a quarter of a mile.
Beyond the Vandalia ira cls stood a
group of large frame houses occupied by
the Lawrence. Odderho!e and Fix fami-
lies These the storm levelled and moth
ing is left save mess of tangled wreck
age. 1t was hsre that Mr.. Odderhole and
Mr.. LaWrencs received their serious In
jures and t was hera also that the mem
beTs Of tie Fix family were wounded.
That the children were not killed was
marvel. Harry Fix and his sister, Sophia
were asleep in the same room on the Sec
ond floor The house seemed to separate
ard 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 not
injured in the l6ost. but Sophia crushed
under fallen timber.
Near Cantane. ILL.,, not far from Collins
Vile. large farm house was COMPLETELY
DESTROYED. The farmer and his family es-
caped. mile and half of telegraph line
was blown down and much debris piled
on the track of the Vandalia railroad The
farmer whose home had been DESTROYED
while out looking for his livestock motto
cd that the track Of the railroad was OBJ
structed and hurried to the west a mile,
nagglng the fast train due in Indianano-
lis at 500 O'Clock. 1t was not yet daylight
anu the o1hcers OF the road say the tra:n
would surely have been wrecked bn,t FOR
tne thoushtfulness of the farmer