| Show A SALT LAKERS LOSS what my lie be icrael very marjy news newe concerning some of the fatal work of 01 the recent st louls louie tornado hac just been received io in abig city by a mr thomas grieve a conductor olk oa one of the salt bait ij ke ike a lines mr grieve lives at wellington avenue IVO DUe june 11 he had charge of a ear no 10 which ran between the union flacil pacific lIc depot and east waterloo A NEWS mart man was a passenger paea enger on one of the trips tripe and from the grief stricken conductor obtained the he following story on the day of the ST couts louts cyclone one of my brot brothers herg hla big wits and ad two children were Ineta Instas aUy illY killed while two more of the children and my mother were seriously injured tod sod are now in the hospital hoe pital mother la Is reported to be doing nicely bat I 1 d mt it know whether the orphans will got get better or not I 1 got many particulars ulars and what I 1 ascertained came to me a couple of nights ago from a strange lady who learned that 1 w was in salt lake and wrote ma 1 but you read the names namee of the dead and injured in the salt lake lak papers at the time of the terrible abeln seeing that you yon had relatives vea whets where it occurred asked the he newspaper won wao ono no P was waa the reply supplemented by the statement at least not all al and what I 1 did read more particularly was waa about st louis oay my folks did not live in the city but bat eleven miles of aist birkner station on the L and M which is 16 in st dt clair county 1111 DOIS and which was it seems directly lu in the path of aho ib cyclone there was wae not much said about damage over there so and d as aa I 1 not act no word from the folks I 1 thought it meant good news newe now it seems seema thus that nobody was wa left to write tome to me la in her letter cettei to me this lady just juat tells tell or of the death of my brother jamef jame his wife and their two children and the julury to my mother and the other two little ones onee I 1 bad two other brothers and two sisters living oar near the same place I 1 dont donst know why I 1 bacen baven 19 heard board from them and dont know whether they too are killed it seems so 80 stra strange D ge tb that at tb they ey d dont on 9 w write rite I 1 b have ave written to them out but have got no reply and it troubles me greatly it if I 1 hall bad the mesne I 1 would go back and visit them As it is I 1 must stay elay here and and out the best beat way I 1 ORD can james jamee vias waa about 68 53 years ot of age and I 1 saw him and the ret refit ot of the folks folka lat last six years year ago when I 1 come came to salt bait lake to live mr grieve says that there was according to the bellville advocate published in st bt clair county ill but one anc house bouee left et st anding aDding in the vicinity of bickner elation where his ble brother real resided re aided tied all others were completely wrecked and carried away the game paper in the funeral ot of the grieves Gri evee says that it was ove one of the saddest ever eted in that that the mourners mour nera followed three hearses aea the first one conveying tle the bodies of the two children and the second and third the murtal burtal remains remaina of 01 wile wife anu husband respectively |
