Show WRECKED BY B A STORM 1 Tornado Destroys a Portion of Colinsville Ills FOURTEEN PEOPLE INJURED Several Residences were Reduced to Splinters Storm Strikes the Town Early Thursday Horning Near 1 Canstanc HI n Farmer whose House was Blown Awny Had Presence of Mind Enough to Flag a Train and Save it from Running into Obstructions Caused by Storm St Louis Mo Feb SThe town of Colllnsvllle III twelve miles from St Louis on tho Vandalia railroad narrowly nar-rowly escaped destruction by a tornado this morning Fourteen persons were Injured In the immediate vicinity of the village some of them fatally and there was much damage to properly The minors who llvu on the outskirts of the town lost the most bV the wind A I group of three residences standing on a hill were reduced to splinters INJURED Paul Quarandhl aged 35 severely bruised and burned injuries perhaps fain fainOtto Otto Odderhole 17 arm broken Internally In-ternally Injured serious Sophie Fix 17 skull fractured and bruised thought to be fatally Injured Newton Alderson scalp wound and bruised face not serious Theodore Lawrence cut and bruised and Internally Injured Frank Kobart seriously bruised Son and daughter of Frank Kobart severely cut and bruised Tony Skalla wife and two children badly bruised Barney Palette scalp wound and arteries ar-teries cut t I Tom Pomatts left arm broken The last two named were blown several sev-eral hundred feet from their house Into a field CAME IN THE NIGHT About 230 a m the storm was first felt at a point one mile south of Col llnovllle The first house demolished was that occupied by Frank Kobart He his son and daughter were burled In the debris and It was some time before be-fore they were rescued bruised and bleeding from the wreckage From this pace the wind swept to the north Its path being west of Colllns vllle by a quarter of a mile and the last trace of the storm la to be observed ob-served at Ilighlsvllle a manufacturing suburb one mile away THREE DWELLINGS WRECKED After the Kobart house a group of three dwellings was felled by the wind They were occupied by John Marquette Paul Marquette and Phillip Crossan und their families All the occupants escaped Injury except John Marquette Ills hurls from falling limbers are not severe but he Is badly I burned for the debris caught fire from an overturned lamp and the flames reached him before be-fore the neighbors could rescue him The Hlghlsvllle Coal company building build-ing was the next to be attacked the Immense smokeslnrk being leveled l to time ground and the walls somewhat damaged From there the wind swept to the Vandalia tracks laying waste telegraph poles for the distance of a fourth of a mile MASS OF WRECKAGE Beyond the Vandalia tracks stood a group of large frame houses occupied by ihe Lawrence Odderbole and Fix families The storm leveled them and nothing la left save It mass of tangled wreckage It wus here that Mr Odder hole and Mr Lawrence received l their serious injuries and It was here also that the members of the Fix family were wounded HOUSE SEPARATED That the children were not killed Is a marvel Harry Fix and his h = Ipr t Sophie were asleep In the same room on the second floor The house seemed lo separate and brother and sister were let down with their beds to the ground lloor Thera they were found upon their couches which had not been broken bro-ken by the all Harry not Injured In the least but Sc > hle crushed under a falling timber SAVED A TRAIN Near Cantane Ill not far from Col llnsvllle a large farmhouse was completely com-pletely destroyed The farmer and his family escaped A mile und a half of telegraph line was blown down and much debris piled on the track of the Vandalia railroad The farmer whose home had boon destroyed while out looking for his live stock noticed that the track of tho railroad was obstructed obstruct-ed and hurried to the west a mile He flagged the fast train duo In Indianapolis Indianapo-lis at S20 oclock It was not yet day light and the ofllcers of the road say the train would surely I have been wrecked but for the thoughtfulness of the farmer |