Show I TELEG I R < PEIIC CYCLONE CASUALTIES Great Destruction of Property in Three States St Louis 21Reports from Slranton Illinois state that during the tornado on Friday night some dozen or more graders on the Chicago Springfield i and St Louis Railroad were in camp in nn orchard when the storm same Trojs were uprooted and hurled against the tents injuring more or less all the men in them and killing two The killed were E Cantwell subcontractor subcon-tractor and Alva Berry ajed 14 a on of John Berry foreman Fatally injured in-jured Florence Berry daughter cf Foreman Fore-man Berry George Burns Arthur Robinson Ro-binson aged 4 eon of the sutler of the grading party badly injured Minnie Berry aced 12 another daughter of Foreman Berry Wm Smith August Johnson Ed Cantwell eon of the sub contractei Mike Thca Jag Riley Mike Butler nil members of the railroad parly In addition to these Mrs Livingstone Joseph and Carson Cabinn and James Dugan far hers are seriously injured The badly injured are being cred for hy farmers living near bye The seriousiy injured were taken to a hospital tit Litchfiold The storm raged with great violence in tho territory between be-tween R line drawn fom Kfokuk to Danville ard another line from St Louis to Vincennes There seems to have been three distinct storms in Illinois Illi-nois EO many towns were attacked Among the points damaged are Alton Edwardsville Grafont SpringlMd Ship man Havana Billsboro Puna No komes Litchfield Hunker dill and Sholbyville The 1 < S3 of property is much more serious in this district than on the Missouri side of the river In the neighborhood of Wenlzville the ttorm did rightful havoc About a mile from Weotzville the boue of Mrs Richards was blown away and her son James aged 18 year wes fatally injured A number of farm f houses were wrecked and the occupants injured Friday nights tornado plowed through tbreecounties Missouri Montgomery Warren and St Jharlea besides destroying de-stroying a largo amount of property and killing and seriously wounding over twenty people The greatest destruction was wrought In StCharles County where a large number of farm houses and bulidings were levelled Douglas Lockett wife and two daughters were all fatally injured John Jenkins was killed and and his two Eons fatally injured In the neighborhood of Eloristel St Charles County and thence fifteen miles into Warren County the track of the storm is traced by numerous wrecks and about twenty more people more or less injured On Dog prairie several large and costly houses ana barns loaded with grain were demolihed On Allen prairie dwelling and outhouses mot the same fate On Loutres Island in the Missouri Mis-souri River a number of mills were totally destroyed The losses in the three counties run up into hundred of thousands thou-sands An Illinois the storm raged in about the game manner that it did in Missouri the chief damage however being to county property it striking no town of any considerable s ze Tn the vicinity of Edwardsville three residences were utterly wrecked Mrs Frank Maxey was instantly killed fn the wreck of her fathers house M K Barnett and all other members of the family were injured in-jured A well on tho place containing twenty feet of water was sucked perfectly per-fectly dry Wolfs store at Hamel a few miles from Edwardsville was blown to pieces and four persons were killed their names are not known At Woods boro a brick schoolhouse a church and three residences were blown down and James Carey and wife were seriously injured The loss at and near Steelton previously reported is estimated at 840000and in the vicinity of Edwards ville is 35000 In Do Witt County nne houses were destroyed near Kinney and several others in Texas and three persons named Clifton were killed About dozen were badly injured The j house of a man named McPherson containing con-taining SIX persons was lifted into the air carried 100 feat hnd set down again Nobody received a scratch Aden 20The hurricane today was the worst in twenty years Serious damage dam-age on land and water St Louie 20lWD more deaths have occurred at btainton Illinois resulting from Friday nights storm Additional reports from places not heretofore heard from show that the storm in Illinois was widespread and destructive Houses and other farm property were destroyed in all directions within an area of a I dozen counties and many persons either I killed or seriously wounded Thirteen houses on Greeley Prairie a few miles south of Murraysville were blown down and A W Williams and two children killed Julia Story was fatally injured and two or three others badly hur At Pesoturn on the Illinois Central Railroad Rail-road several business houses and residences resi-dences were destroyed or badly wrecked but no deaths are reported |