New Britain herald., 1915-07-08

was over estilnatsd in carly reports. While the tornado swept . section of the city eighteen blocks long by nine wide. the damage with the ex- ception of the demolition of one church and the partial wrecking of another church, factory. a hospi- tai and a convent, was confined large ly to the unroofing and the uproofing 2 of trees. N
 Building Temporary Bridge.
 Two hundred men were at work to- day building a temporary bridge for the Wabash Railroad near Gilmore, Mo, the railway bridge having been swept away in yesterdays storm.
 Wabash trains between Kansas City and St. Louis were routed over the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy. Line today between Mexico, Mo-, and St. Louis It is thought that the new bridge will be ready for use ton1or- row. 8f
 Summer Camp Destroyed.
 A summer camp at Mitchell, I'll, eleven miles north of here, was de- stroyed by the stor. No one was hurt there. .
 The town of St. Peters, Mo, was almost demolished, but no one was seriously injured there
 Forty of the sixty buildings which formed the town of St. Peters were blown to fragments, but only a few slight injuries were reported from that place.
 Gilmore Nearly Wiped Out.
 Gilmore, Mo, was nearly wiped out, yet only one man was found dead there. Between Gilmore and Wentz- vile a Wabash passenger train crossed the path of the storm, and the first four coaches in the train We're neatly picked up by the wind and laid to one side of the right of way. Not 2 person was injured ser lously in this accident Those in tho ditched cars ran back to the five pas- senger coaches left standing lon the track, these were coupled to the tender and the train proceeded on it's journey. s.l N.
 Two miles west of O'Fallon the wind lifted a buggy off the road, carried 1t with horses and three occupants through the air for 200 yards and 1 then hurled it to. the ground. Daniel Minor the driver escaped with a few bruises. but his wife and one child were killed. Mother and Children Killed.
 At Dardenne, Mo, Mrs. Thomas Flaherty and her two children were killed Fifty other homes in this town were reduced to splinters and piles of brick.
 a At Wentzville, Mo, Mrs. Herman oberlind was killed and at Gilmore he body of Frank Kunzle was found n the railroad station platform after he storm.
 Catholic Church Razed. At St. Charles the entire central portion of the city, including more han one hundred residences was Search was being made oday for the bodies of a woman and | wo small children who took refuge n the St. Charles Borromeo Cath olic church a few minutes before it vas razed by the wind It is sup posed they perished The church l was built in 1862 at cost of $1O0.- 700.
 The property damage iii st. Charles done. it is believed, will aggregate 8j damage to wheat in St. Charles and t St. Louis counties is estimated at more than $1oO,00O. A dozen towns m these counties were isolated last light, as miles upon miles of tele- phone and telegraph wires were on he ground tangled mass.
 Business Section Flooded.
 From St Cha r1ns the tornad, l ,werved across the Missouri and Miss ssippi rivers into Illinois. There it oranched out, ending in cloudbursts at Rock Island and Mounds, near Cairo In the extreme southern part. The l business sections of both these towns were flooded.
 Three Killed at Indianapolis.
 Indianapolis, Ind, July 8-The l wind and rain storm which swept cen l tral and southern Indianiana last | night caused three fatalities, many in juries and much property damage.
 Indianapolis. Brazil, BicknelI Mar | tinsville. Terre Haute, GreencastIe. Vincennes and Muncie felt the storn, l most. At Vincennes a brewery and | furniture factory collapsed before the | gale, and near Vincennes the farm home of Tom Riley was blown down and Ri1ey's daughter killed. Silas Mellon, night engineer. was caught be-. heath the falling walls of the brewery and fatally innred
 LigI1fing Kills Prisoner. < At Greencastle prisoner in the state penal farm was killed by lignr~. ming while walking in field X MI s~~~ I~#8 ga