The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1907-06-13
RUIN AND DEATH
IN PATH OF STORM
SCORE MISSING AFTER CLOUDBURST
WHICH ALMOST DESTROYS
GRADYSvILLE, KY.
MANY TOWNS SUFFER.
Various Points in Southern Illinois, H.
diana and Kentucky Report Dam
age and Loss of Life

| age and Loss of Life.
( CHICAGO, ILL.,, June S.-Dispatches
from various places in southern Illinois,
Indiana and Kentucky tell of severe
storms of tornado severity which have
caused some loss of life, and the destruc
ton of property.
Early today the town of New Minden,
ILL.,, twenty-five miles southeast of st.
Louis was visited 10y Il tornado which
killed four people and injured a score.
At Gradyville, NY, cloudburst is
said to have caused the loss of from~ten
TO twenty lives and washed away num-
Der of residences.
At York, H., last night twenty-five or
thirty houses were destroyed and a mum
Der of people are reported dead.
The storm was especially severe in
southern Indiana, aud at Earmersburg
and Sullivan, much damage was done by
wind and rain.
DuQuoin, H., was also visited last
night by storm and a number Of houses
We're blown down.
Score Dead in Kentucky Town.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, June S-A number
of people are missiug and the little vii
lage OF Gradyville W the southern part
of the state, is almost destroyed as the
result of a cloudhur~t, which sent n
volume of water down upon the sleeping
hamlet shortly aftcr the midnight hour.
The bodies of the following had been
recovered up to noon,
DIR. NELL.
MRS. CALVIN WIINORE.
MRS. AUSTIN WILNORE.
MISS ADA WILMuEE
MISS MARY WILMORE.
STRONG HILL, wife and family.
HARTFIELD MOSS
MISS PEARL MOSS.
MISS CARRIE MOSS
MISS IRENE MOSS.
Two sons of Hartfci Moss.
MRS. MARY MOSS
CARL NELSON.
GARLAND NELSON
MRS. KELTNER.
Nearly Every House a Wreck.
The cloudburst turned Big Creek into
torrent which quickly ovcrtiowed its
banks and poured water down upon
Gradyvil'c. Nearly every house in the
place was damaged and those who met
death drowned or were crushed to death.
Columbia was tcicphoncd for assist
anCe and a large number of citizens left
that place at once, but owing to the con
dition of the roads. it will require
some time to make the trip. Thousands
Ol btItS OF corn N'lt ] llH'h.
Gradyviile has n population of about
100.
Four Dead at New Minden, H.
NASHVILLE, H., June S.--A tornado
swept over New Muden, seven miles
north of this city last night, killing four
PERSONS and injurng several. a number
of houses were demolished.
The dead:
MRS. HENRY WEIUE and two children.
Child of Carl Stuemyrr
The injured
Henry Welhe.
Mrs. Carl Stuemeyor, may die.
Herman Weihe, arm and leg broken and
internally injured.
Tcn-year old child Of Henry Hcseman, alb
dominal injuries.
A score of others we're bruised by
debris. The storm struck the northern
portion of the town and most of the
houses destroyed were country cottages.
The German Lutheran church was dam
aged. The church bell was hurled
through the large pipe organ below. On
the north side OF the church the parochial
school was demolished. These buildings
were practically the only ones in the
village proper that were damaged.
From this point the tornado continued
on and leveled about seven farm houses.
The Weihe house, in which the four peo-
pie were killed, was about the last house
struck. 1t was demolished. The occu-
pants were carried with the debris of the
house in the adjacent fields.
a report has reached here that a farm
cr driving from lioyleton to New Min
den with farm wagon and binder had
disappeared. 1t is believed he was
caught in the path of the storm and
carried to his death. Much livestock was
killed.
At Covington considerable propcrty
damage was done.
Eleven years ago New Minden was
struck by tornado and four or five pco-
pie killed and score or more injured.
At that time the tornado demolished
almost every building in the village.
Tornado at York, Ind.
TERRE HAJTE, Ind. June s.
Mcager details from West York, H.. tel
of n tornado which visited the village
of York. located on the Wabash river.
southwest of this city, last night. The
known dead;
ROCK, HENRY, aged 80, found crushed
TO death in his garden.
PINKSTON, Mrs MALINDA, aged a.,
found dead in tho branches Of a tree. some
distance from her home.
The number Of injured is placed nj
thirty. Forty or fifty houses have been
demolished. The tornado struck the vii
iage shortly after the supper hour and
ragged for several minutes
At FarmersburL and Sullivan, Ind.
bridges and culyrrts were washed out
and crops injured.
Damage at DuquOin, H.
DUQUOIN, iii June S.-DuGuon and
the west portion AZ Perry county were
swept last night hy the most destructive
tornado in many ears: At least 100
residences were wrecked. Many houses
were lifted from their foundations and