Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-06-08
Southern Illinois. Indiana and
Kentucky Swept by Storms
and a Number Are Dead
and Injured.
CLOUDBURST RUINS
A KENTUCKY TOWN
York and New Minden. Illinois
and Sullivan. Indiana. Damaged
by Heavy Winds--Wdter Wash
eS Grddyville. ky., AWAY
Property Loss Great.

Chicago, ILL.,. June S-Dispatches
from southern Illinois. Indiana and
Kentucky, tell Of storms of tornado
severity which caused some loss OF
life ana destruction of much prop
erty.
At New Minden, Illinois, pa miles
southeast of St Louis, early today,
four persons were killed and a score
of others injured by the tornado.
AT Gradyville, Kentucky, a cloud
Of ten to fifteen lives, and washed
away eight houses.
AT York, Illinois, last night, twen-
ty-five or thirty houses were destroy
ed and a number of persons killed.
At Farmersburg and Sullivan, In
diana, much damage was done by
wind and rain.
Duquoin. Illinois was visited by the
same storm that caused so much de-
struction at York, but no lives were
lost there,
Four Dead at New Minden.
Nashville, ILL.,, June S.--A tornado
swept over New Minden, seven miles
south of this city this morning. kill
ing four persons and injuring over a
score of others.
The dead are
Mrs. Henry Weihe and two chill
dren.
Child OF Carl Steumeyer.
Mrs. Carl Steumeyer may die
Most of the houses destroyed were
cottages in the northern part of town.
The German Lutheran church was
badly damaged and its parochial
school demolished.
The four killed were all in Weihe's
house which was demolished and its
occupants blown with the debris into
neighboring fields.
Much damage was det,e In the sur
rounding community.
Eleven years ago New Minden was
visited by a tornado and four or five
persons killed.
Village Destroyed.
Louisville, Ky, June S.-Twenty-
one people are missing and the little
village of Gradysville in the southern
part OF this state almost totally de-
stroyed as the result of a cloudburst
which sent a great volume of water
down on the sleeping hamlet shortly
after midnight.
partial list Of the dead and
missing follows:
Mr. and Mrs. Strong Hill and fam
ily.
John Moore,
Austin Wilmore.
Miss Wilmore.
DR.. L. c. Nell former state sem
ator, and family.
IL. Moss and family of five chill
dren.
The storm began about 10 o'clock
last night and increased in intensity
until 1890.
A big creek overnowed, pouring
great volumes of water upon Grady
Vile.
Nearly every house in the place
washed away and thousands Of acres
of crops are ruined.
Gradyyille has a population Of
about $50.
Tornado at Sork.
Terre Haute, Ind. June S.-Meagre
details from West York, Illinois, tell
of a destructive tornado that visited
the village of York located on the
Wabash river southwest of this city,
last night.
The known dead are:
Henry Hook, aged so, found crush
ed to death in his garden.
Mrs. Malinda Pinkston, aged 45,
found dead in a tree.
Members of the families of these
two victims were injured.
The number of injured is placed
at 80. Forty or fifty houses were
demolished.
All wires are down, and particulars
are lacking
The tornado struck the village soon
after the supper hour and ragged for
several minutes.
South of here in Indiana there was
a severe storm of wind and rain and
much damage was done.