Show RIVERS RS IN TH THE STR STILTS TS ST ST. JOSEPH Mo July 19 A A tornado and a tremendous ra rain n did heavy damage in St St. Joseph and vicinity last night Houses were were- wrecked street railway tracks torn tom out and cellars flooded The lh family of oC Daniel RIordan one mile east of the city had a miraculous escape from death The residence e. e two two stories in to height was vaa torn from Crom the foundation and completely com coin demolished RIordan his wife nife and t three children had taken talen refuge in th the basement mb t- t They were Mere burled dh in the e de debris debris de- de d I Ithe bris but the wind Ind lifted the houses s b bodily bodily bod bod- ily from the foundation and none of ot the I heavy timbers fell on them Scores of oC houses were washed nashed from their foundations in the city by rain which amounted to a cloudburst St. St Joseph Joseph Jo Jo- JoI I seph nestles in hills and the force torce of off II th the tornado was broken Sewers could not carry oft off the water and ragIng torI for tor- or- or rents T. flowed through the outlying parts df the df city I Adam CM attempted to wade one of these torrents He lie was swept ept from his feet reet and carried towards the Missouri I rives river two blocks distant He ne caught a telephone l pole and clung I there twenty 1 lere at i 1 minutes until rescued e bj by a party y of men with ropes I In Brookdale a low lying hing suburb a aI score of or families were Viere dr dm ven en from their I homes bv by b water which reached t the e windows win dows upon tio iho first floor A dozen residences were struck uck by Lightning U but no fatalities were report report- ed The home of or Fred Shoemaker where here a funeral party was caught b by the tho storm was vas struck b bj by lightning twice and several persons stunned Reports from farming sections east of ot the rity said fald crops were leveled le in the I path nth of the storm and the loss will be |