Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-07-16
TORNADO KILLS 50
OHIO, MISSOURI, INDIANA AND
ILLINOIS SWEPT BY
CYCLONE.
20 DEAD AT CINCINNATI
Twenty Buildings Demolished and
Scores Are lnjured-Passengers on
Train Have Narrow Escape When

Chicago, July 9.-Meager reports
fltering into Chicago over badly dam
aed lines of communication indicated
that the death list in the tornado and
storm that struck five middle western
states Wednesday night may reach
so. Twice hat number has been
u~naccounted for in Ohio, Kentucky,
Indiana, Illinois and Missouri.
Thousands of houses were reported
to have been leveled and property
damage of enormous proportions was
inflicted on the storm-swept sections.
The greatest damage was done in
Cincinnati and Ohio river towns in
that vicinity. The latest authentic re-
port from Cincinnati said that 20 per
sons were known to be dead there,
and that it was feared that the death
list in that city alone would reach
nearly 100. Meager advices from Mil
ford and Terrace Park, O., and Gov
ingon, Newport, Bellview, Ludlow and
Dayton, KY, indicated that several per-
sons were killed in those cities. An
inestimable amount of property was
destroyed.
The storm smashed down upon St,
Louis and st. Charles county. Mis-
souri, An unconfirmed report stated
that seven persons were killed in st.
Charles county.
A report that could not be confirmed
stated that two persons we're killed
in Lawrenceville ILL.,, and that sever
were killed by falling timbers when
the storm struck Russellville.
At Vincennes. Ind, n and Law
renceburg. Ind, n person was re-
ported killed in each city.
st. Louis, July "a tornado and
cloudburst which swept st. Louis and
st. Charles county late Wednesday aft
ernoon caused damage which may ag-
gregate several hundred thousand dol
lars, isolated several small towns,
blew part of a passenger train clear
off the right of way and deluged parts
of this territory with four inches of
rain in half an hour.
Railroad men brought to st. Charles
a rumor that the village of St. Peters
had been blown away and that 40 of
its several hundred inhabitants had
been killed.
st. Charles suffered most from the
tornado, an area of more than one
hundred square blocks in this city
having been more or less damaged.
Between Gilmore and Wentzvilla
the tornado struck Wabash passenger
train No. 9, bound from st. Louis to
Kansas City, and hurled the mail, com
bination, chair and dining cars clear
off the track. The five passenger
coaches left on the track were coupled
to the engine and the train proceeded.
Two mail clerks were injured.
The damage at St. Charles alone is
estimated at nearly s250.00Q. The st
Charles Borromeo church, recently
erected at a cost of $100, 900. was
razed, the roof and west wall of the
Second Baptist church we're blown
away, as were the root and south wal
of the St. Joseph's hospital, More
than fifty residences were partly
wrecked. Instruments at st. Charles
showed a wind velocity of so miles al
hour during the tornado.
Terre Haute, Ind, July 9.-Law
re~nceville, ILL.,, so miles south of Terre
Haute, was visited by a terrific wind
storm. Two persons were killed an(
about fifty houses were destroyed. L
is estimated that the damage viii
reach nearly 100000.