The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-09
SWEEP OF A TORNADO.
Through Parts Of Illinois and Indiana
Fifteen People Injured.

Fifteen Pe0ple injured.
| ST. Louis, Mo-, Feb. S.-The town of
| ColIinsyille. twelve miles from st. Louis
| on the Vandalia Railroad. narrowly es-
| capped destruction by tornado today.
| Fifteen persons were injured in the i'm
| mediate vicinity of the village. some of
| them fatally and there was much damage
| 70 property. The miners who live on the
outskirts lost most severely by the wind.
| A group OF three fine residences standing
| on hid were reduced to splinters
| The injured are:
Paul Quarandh aged 81, perhaps IA
tally.
Otto Odderhole, aged II, seriously.
Sophie Fix, aged II, skull fractured.
Newton Anderson, not seriously.
Theodore Lawrence, internally injured.
Frank hobart, seriously.
John Marquette, badly bufn-d
Son and daughter of Frank kohart.
severely cut and bruised.
Tony Skalla, wife and two children,
badly bruised
Barney Palette. seriously hurt.
Tom Ponatti. arm broken.
The last two named were blown several
hundred feet from their houses into a
| field.
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, his
| son. and daughter, We're buried IN the
| debris and it was sometime before they
were rescued, bruised and bleeding from
| the wreckage. They were carried to
| neighbours house and given such care as
could be had until physicians arrived from
| the village.
| The great sfnokestack of the Hight
| Club Coal Company building was leveled
| 10 the ground and the walls somewhat
| damaged. From there the wind swept
| TO the Vandalia tracks. laying waste tele-
craph poles for a distance OF a quarter
of q mile. Beyond the Vandalia tracks
several large frame houses were leveled
and nothing is left save q mass of tangled
wrecka"e.
ALL TRAINS ABANDONED.
Kansas City. Mo-, Feb. S.-A fierce
snow storm with wind at 81 velocity
of 40 miles an hour has prevailed in Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Oklahoma and Indian
Territory since last night The worst
blizzard in years also is raging in North
ern Iowa, where business practically is
suspended. A blizA.d is raging through
Central Illinois and at Minnewaukan.
y. d.. the mercury touching 81 below
zero last night and much colder tonight
The blizzard now raging in Wisconsin,
has already left II inches of snow at
Chippewa Falls In Minnesota all ST.
Paul railroad trains are abandoned.
DROPPED 80 DEGREES.
Chicago. Ills, Feb. S.-This proved to
| ho IL al,l Lob do
| the history of the weather bureau in
greees above zero was the record made
in II hours This afternoon when it
changed to snow the wind had reached
! a velocity Of 60 miles an hour.
THE TORNADO ELSEWHERE.
/ indianapolis. Ind, Feb. S.-.t wind
storm swept Western Indiana and East
ern Illinois early this morning. Telegraph
| and telephone wires were seriously affect
| ed.
Meagre reports from the TERRITORY north
Of Collinsville, 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 Evansvil.t.
and the reports from many places indicate
that THE wind reached almost the velocity
| of n tornado at many points.
| Near the village of Cantana. H.. not
| far from Collinsville, large farui house
was completely destroyed The farmer
| and the members of his fanny escaped.
In the same locality n mile and a half
| of telegraph lines was blown down and
much debris piled on tho track OF The
| Vandalia Railroad The farmer whose
| hal n vxhi nj
! ing for his live stock noticed that he
track of the railroad was INSTRUCTED AMI
hurrying to the west a mule he tagged
| No. IA, the fast passenger train. due in
Indianapolis, AT $40 O'clock. It was ne:
yet daylight. and the officers nf the road
say the train would surely have been
wrecked but for the warning Of the fur
mer
\ BLIZZARD in NEBRASKA.
Omaha, Neb. Feb. S-The storm
| which began last night has assumed the
proportions of blizzard and is still
| raging.
TEN BELOW ZERO.
Denver. Colo, Feb. S.-Following the
| blizzard of last night the weather here
| this morning is clear but cold. Temper
atures in Colorado range from zero to
10 degrees below Trains from the East
are delayed.
PARALYSIS OF BUSINESS
Minneapolis. .Iinn., Feb S.-Minne-
apolis is experiencing the severest STORM
Of the winter. Shortly before midnight
a light snow began falling accompanied
by a high wind and low temperature. BY
daybreak the snow was close packed in
deep drifts in some places. while the
wind swep the groun dhare-:n .thrrs.
Business is at standstill and all trains
are Late
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