Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-06-13
CYCLONE AND FLOOD
TORNADO SWEEPS ILLINOIS, IN
DIANA AND KENTUCKY.
TWENTY-NINE REPORTED KILLED
Many Escape Death BY Seeking Cover
in Caves and ceIIars-Property
Damage Enormous.

st. Louis.-Reports that nave come
in from the territory visited by high
winds and cyclones Friday night show
that the twisters were of unusual in
tensity. and that the loss Of life was
ABOVE the average for such visitations,
as widely separated as we're the angry
currents.
From New Minden, ILL.,, the follow
ing lot of dead are reported:
Henry Weihe, aged 80.
Mrs. Henry Weihe, aged 81.
Theodore Weihe, aged s.
Edwin Weihe, aged 8. :
Herman Weihe, aged 6.
Miss Elda Snemeier, aged q.
Among the injured were:
Mrs. Henry Stuemeier, back and leg
injured. So
Miss Lydia Heseman, abdominal in
juries.
Miss Clara Heseman, confusion of
the head.
Prof. Herman Wente, bruised about
the body.
Gottlieb Friedrichsmeyer, injured
about the head.
Mrs. Gottlieb Friedrichsmeyer, in
jured about the head and ear partially
torn off. "
Mrs. Lydia Nottmeyer, injured about
the body.
At, and e a Minden, property was
damaged to the extent of perhaps $685.
600. At this point two separate cy-
clones united and together wrought
their vengeance on the locality, with
but scant warning. Many people es-
capped with their lives by seeking
cover in caves and cellars.
At York, Ill, Friday night, at the
same time New Minden was being WIS.,
tied by the storm, a fierce tornado
swept through the town and three peo-
pie were killed and several injured,
some of them fatally. The dead we're:
Henry Rock, Terre Taute, Ind.
Mrs. Lucinda Pinkerton.
Mrs. John Bostick.
Fatally injured:
Clyde Scott, B. F. Miller, Mrs. B.
Miller, Mrs. S. F. Freeman, Annabel
Newman, Mrs. Lydia Foster, Jas. Lay
ton and wife, GRANVILLE, Ind.
The storm occurred at the supper
hour, and many families were buried
in the debris. The property loss will
reach $150,000.
On the same evening a storm swept
Gro the eastern portion of Perry
county, ILL.,, demolishing houses, barns,
orchards and carrying away live stock
and vehicles. Duquoin was also visit
ed and property to the value of per-
haps $4,000 ruined, at Duquoin, and
III that immediate vicinity. Portions
of the tracks Of the Illinois Central
railroad, on the Eldorado division,
were submerged and washed away.
The streets of Duquoin were Uttered
with trees and portions of barns and
buildings.
In the vicinity of Duquoin the storm
was largely in the nature of a cloud
burst, accompanied by high wind.
The same storm that swept across
a portion of Illinois dipped down into
Kentucky, and at GRANVILLE, located
six miles from Columbia, a cloud burst
Joined hands with a huge cyclone, up
roofing trees, growing crops, houses,
and in fact everything in it's path.
Over a score of lives were sent into
eternity without warning, the storm
appearing with unusual ~suddenness.
The reported dead are:
DR.. L. G. Nell, former state senator,
and family.
MI. and Mrs. Lum Hill and family.
John Moore and family.
Mrs. Austin Wilmore.
H.. Moss and wife.
Miss Ada Wilmore.
Miss Mary Wilmore.
Hatfield Moss.
Ora Moss, aged 18.
Carrie Moss, aged 10.
Pearl Moss, aged 16.
Matte Moss, aged 10.
Mollie Moss, aged 5.
Philip Moss, aged 3.
Mrs. Mary Moss.
Carl Wilson.
Garland Wilson.
Mrs. Keltner.
AS proof that it was the same storm
that visited portions of Illinois it is
pointed out that while the devastation
was under way at New Minden, and
other points farther away, the supper
hours was on, while at Gradyville it
was 10 o'clock at night when the
storm broke. 1t continued until IL
o'clock, by (which time it appeared
that the heavens had opened and We're
pouring down a deluge. 1t is believed
that a number of bodies were swept
away in the flood that raced down the
swollen course of Big creek, at Ora
dyville.