Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-06-08
MANY PERISH IN
AWFUL TORNADO
Severe Storms in
Illinois, Indiana
and Kentucky
TOWNS AND CROPS SUFFER
Devastation Extends Over
Wide Area and Damage is
Very Great.

Chicago, June S.--Dispatches from
Southern Illinois, Indiana and Ken
lucky tell of storms of tornado sever
ity which caused considerable loss
of life and the destruction of much
property, At New Minden, Illinois,
% miles southeast of st. Louis, early
today four persons were killed and a
score of others injured by a tornado
At Gradyville, Kentucky, cloudburst
is said to have caused the loss of ten
to fifteen lives and to have washed
away eight houses. At York, Illinois,
last night twenty-five or thirty houses
were destroyed and a number of per-
sons killed. At Farmersburg and
Sullivan, Indiana, much damage was
done by wind and rain. Duquoin, Hi
nois was visited by this same storm
that caused so much destruction at
York, but no lives were lost there.
Illinois Village Devastated.
Nashville, Ill.,, June S.-A tornado
swept over New Minden seven miles
north of this city early this morning
killing four persons and injuring over
a score The dead are:
Mrs. Henry Weihe and two children
A child of 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 persons
killed were all In Weihe's house,
which was completely demolished and
the occupants blown with the debris
into neighboring fields. Much dam
age was also done in the surround
ing country.
Eleven years ago New Minden was
visited by tornado and four or five
persons were killed.
coudburst Wipes Out Kentucky
Hamlet.
Louisville, KY. June S.-Twenty
one people are missing and the little
village of Gradyville in the southern
part of this state is almost totally de-
strOyed as a result of clOudburst
which sent volume of water on the
sleeping hamlet shortly after mid
night. A partial list Of the dead and
missing are;
MR.. AND MRS. STRONG HILT and
family.
JOHN MOORE.
AUSTIN WILMORE.
MISS W1LMORE.
DIR. l.. c. NELL, former state Sena-
tor and family.
H. MOSS and family of five chill
dren.
The storm began about 10 o'clock
last night and increased in violence
until 1890 o'clock. A big creek bord-
ering on the village overflowed, pour
ing a great volume of water upon
Gradyville. Nearly every house in the
place was washed away. Thousands
of acres of crops were ruined. Grady.
vile has population of about $50.
Two Killed at York, Illinois.
Terre Haute, Ind, June S.-Meager
details from West York, Illinois, tell
of 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 fifty years,
found dead in garden.
Mrs. Malinda Pinkston, aged forty
five years, found dead in tree.
The members Of the families of
these two victims were injured. The
number of injured is placed at thirty.
Forty or fifty houses were demolish-
ed. 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 accompanied by wind and rain